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  • Term 4, Week 1

    Published 13/02/26, by Becci Wise

    Key dates 

    • Week commencing 23rd February - To encourage sustainability we will be facilitating a costume swap ahead of World Book Day on 5th March. This will involve families donating pre-loved costumes. The first week back after the half term holiday a box will be located in the entrance hall for your donations. These costumes will then be available to take on both Parents Evenings from the entrance hall. 

    • Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th February - Parents evenings

    • Tuesday 24th February 2026 - 100 day. We are taking part in a themed Maths day. We have chosen this day as it will mark reaching 100 on our daily counts.We are asking for your support in enabling your child to come to school with one thing you can find at home that represents 100.

    • Thursday 5th March - World Book Day. More details to follow but advance warning of dressing up as a book character 

    Tapestry observation 

    The focus this week is D&T. 

    If you are making pancakes over half term, or doing any other cooking at home with your child, we would love to see some photos.

    You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers. Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices. 

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    Key text

    The objectives below will be covered over the four ‘Structured Story Times’ this week.  

     

    Book:

    Mr Wolf’s Pancakes

    Vocabulary focus:

    neighbours, nearby, politely, borrow / lending, chorused, drifted, greedy, gobbled, bulging  

    At the end of the week, children will know:

    • some well-known fairytales and nursery rhymes (and the characters) 

    •  that sometimes it is hard to forgive people 

    •  that we all have things we find hard but we should keep trying. 

    At the end of the week, children will be able to:

    • explain why helping others is important  

    • understand why the neighbours might not have wanted to help the wolf 

    •  talk about how greedy the neighbours were in the story.

     

     

    Next week’s learning

    Our learning this term will be focused on location and place. 

     

    Subject 

    This week’s learning objectives

    Communication and language

    • To re-tell short stories they have heard in roughly the right order and using language that makes it sound like a story.

    Personal, Social and Emotional development 

    Our PSED topic this term is ‘My Wellbeing’. We will be learning about the importance of exercise, relaxation, road safety and healthy foods. 

    • To learn about the importance of exercise.

    • To explore how exercise affects different parts of the body.

    Physical development 

    Our PE lessons will be focusing on dance this term.

    • To copy, repeat and explore actions in response to a theme.

    • To use a whisk. 

    Phonics

    • To revisit Phase 3 mastery ai ee igh oa

    • CEW revisit: was, you

    Writing

    • To write dedicated sentences with a focus on using a capital letter and full stop

    Maths 

    • To find 9 and 10

    • To compare numbers to 10

    • To represent 9 and 10

    • To subitise to 10

    Understanding the World

    • To know that a clock / watch tells us what time it is / when to do things.

    • To learn why and how some people celebrate Shrove Tuesday.

    • To name and describe human and physical features of the places they have visited and places from stories, e.g. beach, island, fields, mountain. 

    Expressive Arts and Design 

    • To name an increasing number of instruments, describing the sounds they make and what they might be used for.

     

     

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  • Term 3, Week 6

    Published 07/02/26, by Becci Wise

    Key dates 

    • Tuesday 10th February - Safer internet day

    • Friday 13th February 2026 - Open morning 8:50-9:20. You are invited into your child's classroom to look at their writing book ahead of parents evening.

    • Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th February - Parents evenings

    Tapestry observation 

    The focus this week is Expressive Art and Design. We would love to see your doing something creative this week. We have left this open-ended so that you can share something creative your child enjoys. It could be drawing or artwork, building something or playing a musical instrument. 

    You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers. Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices. 

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    Key text

    The objectives below will be covered over the four ‘Structured Story Times’ this week.  

    Book:

    Chicken clicking 

    Vocabulary focus:

    crept, tiptoed, browse, blamed, amazed, online, preened, appeared

    At the end of the week, children will know:

    that the internet can be used to purchase

    things and also to communicate with other people

    that what Chick did was not right and was not safe

    that people can easily pretend to be someone else online.

    At the end of the week, children will be able to:

    understand that we need to be safe online

    understand that we should not buy things online before checking with a trusted adult

    discuss why we need to be open and honest with trusted adults

    explain that we should never arrange to meet someone we have met online.

     

     

    Next week’s learning

    Subject 

    This week’s learning objectives

    Communication and language

    To use language to predict. 

    Personal, Social and Emotional development 

    To plan a party to celebrate the special friendships within the class.

    Physical development 

    To create sequences using apparatus.

    Phonics

    To master phase 3 phonemes:  ch sh th ng 

    Writing

    To write a dictated sentence using correct letter formation

    Maths 

    To talk about time 

    To order and sequence time

    Understanding the World

    History: 

    To name people who help others in the community and talk about their different roles.

    R+WV:

    To explore how some Muslim people celebrate Ramadan.

    Expressive Arts and Design 

    To perform different rhythm patterns in unison as a class ensemble.

    To maintain a pulse within a group performance.

    To follow a musical structure.

     

     

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  • Term 3, Week 5

    Published 31/01/26, by Becci Wise

    Key dates 

    • Friday 13th February 2026 - Open morning 8:50-9:20. You are invited into your childs classroom to look at their writing book ahead of parents evening.

    • Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th February - Parents evenings

    Tapestry observation 

    The focus this week is Maths. We would like you to go on a hunt around your home for objects that you can order by length. Collect at least 5 and order them from shortest to longest. Can you find any items that are the same length? Please send us a photograph of them in length order. We will ask your child to talk through what they found and use the language short, shorter, long, longer and the same length.  

    You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers. Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices. 

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    Key text

    The objectives below will be covered over the four ‘Structured Story Times’ this week.  

     

    Book title:

    Shu Lin’s Grandpa

    Vocabulary focus:

    satchel, silent, dipped, splodges, surrounded, properly, strokes, scales 

    At the end of the week, children will know:
    • how important it is to make people feel welcome
    • that we should respect different cultures and learn from them
    • we can communicate stories and ideas through art. 

    At the end of the week, children will be able to:
    • engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary
    • talk about a character’s feelings, assigning the correct vocabulary to emotions
    • empathise with characters (starting school, different families).

     

     

    Next week’s learning

    Subject 

    This week’s learning objectives

    Communication and language
    • To link statements and stick to a main theme or intention.

    Personal, Social and Emotional development 
    • To learn how to help, listen to and support others when working in a team.

    Physical development 
    • To explore travelling around, over and through apparatus.
    • To travel with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.

    Phonics
    • To master phonemes y z zz qu
    • To revisit Common Exception Words we and be 

    Writing
    • To write a dictated sentence using correct letter formation

    Maths 
    • To explore length.
    • To compare length.
    • To explore height.
    • To compare height.

    Understanding the World
    • To know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities, cultures and traditions.
    • To recognise that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways.
    • To name, locate and talk about one other country.

    Expressive Arts and Design 
    • To maintain a pulse within a group performance.
    • To rehearse as a group (ensemble).

     

     

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  • Term 3, Week 4

    Published 20/01/26, by Becci Wise

    Key dates 

    • Friday 30th January – Inset day. School closed to children

    Fairytales

    • Over the next week (w/c 26th January), we are going to be learning about fairytales. If you speak another language and would be happy to come into school and read your child’s class a fairytale in another language, please speak to your child’s class teacher. 

    • We would love to read lots of different fairytales in school. Please bring in any named copies of fairytale books you have at home. Alternative versions also welcome!

    Tapestry observation 

    The focus this week is Literacy. We would love to see your child using their phonics to write some labels for things in your home (could be a photo of an object with their writing on a piece of paper or post-it note, or labels written on a whiteboard) eg box, chair, shelf. 

    You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers. Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices. 

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    Next week’s learning

    Subject 

    This week’s learning objectives

    Communication and language

    To understand that describe sequences such as “first we are going to the shop, next we will play in the park”.

    Personal, Social and Emotional development 

    To consider why it is important to support each other by being kind.

    To know that most friendships have ups and downs, and that these can often be worked through so that the friendship is repaired or even strengthened, and that resorting to violence is never right. 

    Physical development 

    To develop rocking and rolling.

    Phonics

    Phase 3 Mastery: j v w x 

    Revisit CEW: me

    Reading

    Guided reading groups 

    Writing

    To write a dictated caption or sentence. 

    Maths 

    To make pairs. 

    To find doubles.

    To make a double. 

    To combine 2 groups

    Understanding the World

    To compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.

    Expressive Arts and Design 

    To play rhythms accurately as group.

    To rehearse as a group (ensemble).

    To tap out simple repeated rhythms. 

     

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  • Term 3, Week 3

    Published 20/01/26, by Becci Wise

    Key dates 

    • Friday 30th January – Inset day. School closed to children

    Fairytales

    • Over the next 2 weeks (w/c 19th January and 26th January), we are going to be learning about fairytales. If you speak another language and would be happy to come into school and read your child’s class a fairytale in another language, please speak to your child’s class teacher. 
    • We would love to read lots of different fairytales in school. Please bring in any named copies of fairytale books you have at home. Alternative versions are also welcome!

    Noticeboard 

    • Please bring in clean cardboard boxes of all sizes for our Design and Build area (junk modelling). No plastic please. 

    Tapestry observation 

    The focus this week is Communication and Language. We would love to see a video clip of your child reciting a rhyme they know off by heart.

    You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers.

    Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices. 

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    Next week’s learning

     

    Subject  This week’s learning objectives
    Communication and language To link voice tone and volume to emotion.
    Personal, Social and Emotional development  To understand the characteristics that make a good friend.
    To think about why it might be difficult for others to be a good friend all of the time.
    To understand how important friendships are in making us feel happy and secure, and how people choose and make friends.  
    To understand that healthy friendships are positive and welcoming towards others, and do not make others feel lonely or excluded. 
    Physical development  To develop jumping and landing safely from a height.
    To jump off an object and land appropriately using hands, arms and body to stabilise and balance.
    Phonics Individual class targets, mastering previously taught phonemes. 
    Reading 1:1 reading
    Writing To write a dictated caption or sentence independently and accurately. 
    Maths  To know 1 more and 1 less within 8.
    To know the composition of 6, 7 and 8.
    Understanding the World History: To develop an understanding of how houses, clothes, transport and toys have changed over time.
    To comment on images of familiar situations in the past.
    Expressive Arts and Design  Music: To listen to, perform and internalise rhythms.
    To identify instrumental timbres (sounds) of non-European music.
    To maintain a pulse through movement.
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