Team Earth 2025 - 2026
Mrs Simpson
Welcome to Team Earth
2025-2026
We hope you had a fantastic summer break and enjoyed some quality time with your families. As we start a new term, we wanted to take a moment to update you on a few important matters. We are thrilled to inform you that this term is packed with lots of exciting learning opportunities for your children. We have been hard at work creating engaging lessons and activities to ignite your child’s curiosity and deepen their knowledge across the curriculum. We can already feel the buzz of excitement as your children return, eager to reunite with friends and embark on their learning journey once again. We are all ready to have limitless dreams and endless opportunities as Team Earth!
Maths
Throughout this term we will be focusing on the following knowledge and skills in Maths; Place value within 10 being able to develop their ability to group and sort objects using different criteria. This will progress to using concrete representation of counting both forwards and backwards recognising ‘one more’ and ‘one less. We shall then focusing on one of the most important aspects of children’s learning, to be able to break down a number into parts and recognise the parts of a whole number. Then supporting there addition and subtracting skills within 10. We shall then finally end the term exploring and developing children’s understanding of 2D and 3D shape and their properties.
English
This term we will be using the well-known children’s book ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers to act as a stimulus to write an adventure story about their own choice of animal. It will focus on the development children’s use of Capital letters and full stops including names of people and the ‘pronoun ‘I’ and start to use some story language to describe and explain events in order. In the second half of the term we will explore the book ‘Nibbles, The Book Monster’ who is a mischievous monster who loves to chew on books so much that he end up chewing his way through classic fairy tales . The children will use the book to spark their imagination to write a diary entry based on Nibbles adventure. Skills learnt will be to use ‘and’ to join words and continue to consolidate use of capital letters and full stops in their sequenced sentences.
Reading
We put a high emphasis on reading in school with daily reading activities. It’s our expectation that all children read at least 3 times per week at home. We ask that parents read with their children and sign the home school journals at least 3 times a week (ideally every night). “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go!” (Dr Seuss)
Learning Adventure – ‘If toys and animals could talk what adventures would they tell us?’
In Science we will be learning about animals exploring what a herbivore, carnivore and omnivore is. We will then look at how we can group animals through their similarities. In history we will investigate the toys of the past and present. They will become historians using sources of information to answer questions about the past and relate their findings with our present day experiences. Children will then use their design skills to make their own more modern versions of the cup and ball game.
PE
Our PE lessons are Mondays and Wednesdays every week. Please can PE kits be in school and labelled with your child’s name.
Homework
Will be set/given out on a Friday and is to be completed be the following Wednesday.
Maths – Games on EdShed every other week.
Grammar/ English - Games on Edshed every other week.
Spellings- Given out on a Friday with reading books
Numbots- 10 minutes a week.
Reading - If your child reads with you throughout the week, please write in their journal to let me know.
Communicaiton
If you wish to deliver a message to me, please use the journal or Seesaw as a form of communication. As always, we encourage open lines of communication between school and home. If you have any questions or concerns throughout the term, please do not hesitate to contact me through the school’s administration team.
Remember to ensure you have set up your seesaw account so that you can see what your child has been engaged in. If you need the login details please as at the office.
Useful links:
English- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/words-and-spelling
Phonics- https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/
Edshed - https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/login?redirect_uri=%2Fen-us%2Fmenu
Numbots - https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login-type?
We hope the children are looking forward to the new topics and don't forget if you have any questions please ask, We are always happy to help!
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Simpson and Mrs Taylor
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