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  • Infant School

    Term 6, Week 3

    Key dates 

    • Lunches - Please make sure you tell your child in the morning what you have ordered them for lunch. 

    • In Term 6, we are hoping that we will be able to do PE outside. If you haven't already, please make sure your child has appropriate footwear in their PE bag. The children can wear their school shoes if they are trainer-like. Please make sure children have socks too.

    • Monday 15th June - Daisy Class trip

    • Wednesday 17th June - Sports day/morning. Parents invited to watch. Please make sure all PE kits are in school so that children can get changed into them on Wednesday morning 

    • Wednesday 24th June - Buttercup Class trip

    • Monday 29th June - Inset day. School closed for children

    Key text

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

     

    Book:

    The Story Orchestra 

    Vocabulary focus:

    majestic, echoes, hastily, lumbering, aviary, captive, chaos, collapse

    At the end of the week, children will know:

    • that music can be used to help us imagine things and create a feeling 

    •  a variety of animals and the way in which they move and the sounds they make

    •  where a range of different creatures live.

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

    • discuss the rhythm of different music 

    •  explain and recognise the different sounds different instruments make 

    •  describe the story setting and characters.

     

    Next week’s learning

     

    Subject 

    This week’s learning objectives

    Communication and language

    • To use past, present and future tenses consistently. 

    Personal, Social and Emotional development 

    • To follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

    • To persevere when things are difficult.

    Physical development 

    • To take part in Sports Day as a member of a team.

    Phonics

    • Phase 4 Mastery, adjacent consonants dr, cl, bl, lk, lp, st, sn, sm, fr, fl 

    • Common Exception Words: revisit; like, so and do. 

    Maths 

    • To identify units of repeating patterns

    • To create and explore pattern rules

    • To replicate and build scenes and construction

    • To visualise from different positions 

    Understanding the World

    • To carry out observations on changes, e.g. floating and sinking

    • To question why things happen, having their own ideas. 

    • To compare the uses of boats. 

    • To explore why mosques are special places to many Muslim people. 

    Expressive Arts and Design 

    • To follow simple dance patterns.

    • To experiment with different ways of moving.

    • To represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through dance. 

    • To initiate new combinations of movements and gestures in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.