Understanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design    

The children have had a fantastic start and settled in well with their new friends and teachers. They are starting to understand our school rules, teamwork, and class routines and to be comfortable in their new environment. This term's topic is ‘Who am I’, and we have been using our communication skills to talk about ourselves and our families. We explored colour mixing and mixed skin tones to create our self-portraits. We have read some amazing books to explore our topic and we can’t wait to read more!

Communication, Language and Literacy

We had fun developing our literacy skills this term by mark-making in class using different media. We also worked on recognising and writing our names using lowercase letters. We have started exploring some phonics sounds by playing games during our sessions, and we have begun to practise blending the sounds. We enjoyed listening to different books about feelings, skin tone and families.

Maths

The children have been singing number nursery rhymes and learning to count objects in maths. This term, each week, we have focused on one number. We have learnt to recognise the numbers 1-5, count the amount and do the correct amount of action to match the number. During our maths, we have built resilience when learning to match amounts to numerals, count and subitise.