Summer Term 2

Communication, language and literacy

There will be lots of opportunities for Gruffalo to develop their

sentence writing during role play, at the ‘message centre’ and during

daily phonics lessons. Children will have opportunities to

tell and perform stories in our daily helicopter story sessions.

We will begin looking at Fairytale, which will include hooks for writing, such as a beanstalk growing in our classroom.

Physical development Children will continue to develop

their gross motor skills by exploring wooden planks, tyres, crates and

sheets Our PE lesson will take place on a Friday afternoon, with a focus on

‘ball skills’ and preparing ourselves for sports day.

With the introduction of woodwork in our classroom, we will learn how

to safely use the tools and equipment.

PSED We will begin to look towards life further on from Gruffalo Class. We

will spend time getting to know Miss Simkins Year 1 teacher and she

will spend some time getting to know us too.

Knowledge and understanding of the world

We will continue to follow children’s interest to determine

exactly what is taught in Gruffalo Class, but we will have an

umbrella topic of fairytales. We will grow our own beanstalk

plants in the classroom.

Expressive arts and design We will continue to encourage

children to express themselves in a variety of ways across the

classroom. The children will consolidate their woodwork skills

which will allow them to create their own models.

Mathematics In our daily Maths lessons, we will

continue to practise and consolidate these key skills:

- Subitising (instantly recognising small quantities).

- Counting forwards and backwards to 20 and beyond.

- How different quantities are can be represented and that all quantities are composed of smaller quantities.

- Comparing and ordering quantities and measures

- Recognising similarities and differences in sorting and matching objects in new contexts.