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  • Infant School

    Term 6, Week 5

    Key dates 

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

    • Thursday 2nd June - Buttercup school trip (revised date). 

    • Thursday 9th July - Open classrooms. This is a chance for you to look at the writing your child has done this year and visit their new classroom with them after school.

    • Wednesday 22nd July - Last day of Reception

    • Thursday 23rd July - First day of the summer holiday

    • Thursday 3rd September - Inset day.  School closed for children

    • Friday 4th September - Inset day.  School closed for children

    • Monday 7th September - Start of Year 1

    Tapestry observation 

    If you didn’t get a chance to complete the ‘home learning’ DT lesson, please complete that and add photos to Tapestry. 

    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 and next week. 

     

    Book:

    Wonderful World of Things That Go by William Bee

    Vocabulary focus:

    useful, fuel, soot, perfect, amphibious, crane, rescue, spare, vehicle

    At the end of the week, children will know:

    • the names and uses of a range of different trucks
    • that trucks play an important job in the world
    • some of the dangers that trucks can present. 

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

    • explain the different uses of different trucks
    • describe a range of different trucks
    • ddiscuss why trucks are important and helpful to humans and how they can also cause problems

    Next week’s learning

     

    Subject 

    This week’s learning objectives

    Communication and language

    • To offer explanations for why things happen and how things work.

    Personal, Social and Emotional development 

    • To work together as a group to overcome challenges and communicate effectively with others.

    Physical development 

    • To follow instructions and move safely when playing tagging games. 

    Phonics

    • Phase 4 mastery - adjacent consonants: bl, br, cr, sk, ct, pt.
    • CEWs: were, there

    Writing

    • To compose sentences about the vehicles from our key text Things That Go. 

    Maths 

    • To recall and apply knowledge to a range of verbal problems 

    • To use make comparisons of measurements

    • To solve problems

    Understanding the World

    • To know about one significant inventor and one significant explorer through stories

    • To know the effect of simple push and pull forces.

    Expressive Arts and Design 

    • To use graphic notation to illustrate pitch.

    • To describe the features of a Native American Indian music.

    • To use voices expressively and creatively to sing songs and chants.