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Term 3, Week 5

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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