Our aim is to provide as many different stimulating and thought provoking experiences as we can for your child. These experiences are based on the Seven areas of the Foundation Phase.
Throughout the year we study three topics; Ourselves, Materials, Plants and The Environment respectively. We provide as many cross curricular links to these topics as possisble. Below is a brief outline of what we cover throughout the year, for further information or any enquiries please contact your class teacher.
Miss E Martell or Mrs H Giles.
General information:
Miss Martell:
Indoor PE on a Thursday and outdoor games on a Monday.
Reading afternoon on a Tuesday, please return your reading book on this day.
Mrs Giles:
Outdoor games on a Friday and indoor PE on a Tuesday.
Reading afternoon on a Thursday, please return your reading book on this day.
Homework:
Homework will be sent home weekly, please help your child to complete this and return on the following Monday.
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Autumn Term
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Spring Term
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Summer Term
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Personal and social development and well being
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Circle time/Philosophy-giving opinions and reasons. Listening to others. Looking at celebrations associated with Harvest. What does it mean to belong? Signs of belonging - Baptism/ Christening.
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Use of circle time/philosophy to encourage children to talk about their feelings and promote good social skills.
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Use of circle time/philosophy to encourage children to talk about their feelings and promote good social skills.
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Language, literacy and communi-cation
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*Topic related books with accompanying written work e.g Handa's Suprise, Runaway Pizza.
*Recount writing through news. Dictionary work. Initial letter sounds work and handwriting practise.
*Written instructions - christmas lists, letters, recipes, shopping lists.
*Phonic work - short vowel sounds, blends and word building.
*Ginn reading scheme. Guided reading.
*Word processing on Tizzy’s First Tools.
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*Big books - 'Three Friends Together' and 'The Bear that wouldn't share'.
*Narrative and non-narrative writing.
*Handwriting practise - cursive style.
*Sequencing stories writing sentences.
*Role play corner - Library.
*Phonic work - short vowel sound a. e. i. o.u. Various multi-sensory activities to develop knowledge of word families.
*Identifying phonemes, digraphs, trigraphs, consonant clusters, vowel clusters.
*Ginn reading scheme. Guided reading with year six reading 'buddy's'.
*Recount writing through news, dictionary work, initial letter sounds work.
*Word processing on Tizzy’s First Tools.
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* Big books - 'How to grow a sunflower' and 'Yum Yuk'.
*Introduce grammar, punctuation and spelling.
*Handwriting practise - cursive style.
*Role play corner - Garden centre and Puppet theatre.
*Phonic work - word family endings 'ack, ash, ess and est etc'.
*Developing comprhension skills.
* Recount writing through news. Dictionary work.
*Ginn reading scheme. Guided reading Year six 'Buddy' scheme.
*Word processing on Tizzy’s First Tools.
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Mathema-tical Development
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*Abacus scheme of work. Mental maths development and problem solving.
*Counting, recognising, writing and ordering numbers to 20, understanding + and -, recognizing all coins to £2.
*Recognizing 2D and 3D shapes.
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*Continued development on the topics from last.
*Ordering, capacity, measuring height, weight, length.
*Symmetry
*Odd and even numbers
*Position, time.
*Block graphs
*Sorting and place value
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* Exploring all the topics of last term in more detail.
Plus . .
*Counting, recognising and writing numbers to 100.
*Sorting
*Pictograghs
*Data handling.
*Structured practical maths activities.
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Bilinguali-sm and multicult-uralism
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*Daily practice of incidental welsh through Helpwr y Dydd.
*Food related vocabulary. Topic related songs, verses and poems.
*Y Tywydd - the weather-recorded vocabulary.
*Christmas vocabulary and written work.
* 'Ga i...'
*Graph work on favourite fruit. 'Dw i'n hoffi afal' etc.
*What means to belong – to our families, school, communities and the world.
*Being aware of different cultures.
*The Christmas story.
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Welsh –
RE – What is a Holy day? Special days for worship.
*What is an artifact?
*What is a leader?
*Responsibilities/ qualities
*Festivals – Chinese New Year; Eid; Diwali; Easter; Hannukah. The stories told by Jesus.
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Welsh – Daily practise of incidental welsh. Reading simple words and phrases. Introducing basic sentence constructions. Class guided reading sessions.
RE – To learn about the Jewish faith. Things we can learn from visiting a church.
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Knowled-ge and understand-ing of the world
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Science Changes - we can mix things together and change them. Food can be changed by heating and cooling. Some changes can be reversed.
Geography- to compare and contrast Mexico with Wales. Understanding that the world extends beyond their own locality. To make maps and plans.
ICT - Write their names using textease. To save and retrieve work. To develop an understanding of the different keys on a key board and what they are used for. To use a picture bank.
*Draw Ouselves/fruit/vegetables/ christmas pictures using Tizzy and use a range of tools within Tizzy to enhance their picture.
*To estimate lengths of non-standard units using roamer. To program a robotic toy to move.
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Science – Materials. *Looking at things that are made from materials. Materials are grouped by their properties, changing materials can make them useful.
ICT – Communicating information; Introduction to modeling – adventure simulation; Saving and retrieving work.
Geography – Learning the directions left and right.
*Studying the journey to Bala made by Mary Jones to collect her bible.
*Barnaby goes to Dublin. Identifying Wales, Swansea, Ireland, Dublin and Bala on a map of the United Kingdom.
History *Study of famous people in welsh histiry.
*Mary Jones and St David.
*Visit to St Fagan's Museum of welsh life to compare and constrast what materials were used in the past and now.
*Comparing and constrasting toys from past and present.
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Science – Plant life - practical experiments to discover that plants need air, water and light to grow. Plants can make new plants. All plants have a life cycle.
The Environment - Discover all living things can be sorted into groups. Talk about the word habitat and what it means.
ICT – Word-processing; Using a database program to interpret data.
Geography – On going adventures of Barnaby Bear. Gerry’s story - learning mapping skills.
Tally of traffic passing outside school - link to graph work.
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Physical developm-ent
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Outdoor Games *Developing basic skills –throwing, catching, running, skipping, dodging etc.
Dance
*Balance and spatial awareness. Books 'The magic toys' and 'Life Cycles'
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PE Outdoor games - competitive and team games ball skills.
Gymnastics - floor work. Movements and sequences to include a variety of shapes, heights, directions and speeds.
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PE – Outdoor games - continue developing basic skills and team games.
*Athletics - developing skills for school sports/activity day.
*Parachute games.
Gymnastics - use apparatus to develop childrens skills.
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Creative Develop-ment
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*Shape and Form Looking at drawing fruit and vegetables using a variety of media.
*Looking at portraits by famous artists. *Completing a self portrait and a portrait of their friend. *Making collages of food.
*Introducing a variety of musical terms and instruments
*Making a pizza
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Art – Texture.
Music – exploring pulse and rhythm; exploring pitch.
DT – To design a object that can be used from recycling or reusing a bottle.
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ART – Line and Tone; Visit to plantasia; Van Gogh art.
Dance –Learning welsh folk dance.
Music-Exploring pulse and rhythm.
DT – Designing a jar in the style of Van Gogh 'Sunflowers'. |