Oak Class - Reception 2024 - 2025

Welcome to the summer term.

Our class topic for the first half term of summer is Minibeasts. The topic will allow us to explore the natural world in more detail. We will be using our school grounds to look more closely at the habitats of the many minibeasts that inhabit it, making journey sticks and having lots of fun in the process.

The children, as part of their learning about the topic, will be nurturing some caterpillars in the classroom, observing their changes and following their metamorphosis into butterflies, we will release them into the wild.

In the half term, we will be reading the book The Extraordinary Gardener by Sam Boughton and the children will be writing instructions for how to plant a seed and look after it. To help bring their writing to life, the children are going to plant some seeds, care for them and at the end of the half term hopefully they’ll have a little plant or two for their garden or outdoor space.

At the start of the half term, we will be learning about 3-d shapes in maths before quickly moving on to learning to 20, securing and developing our recall of the mathematic facts and patterns that we learn. A more detailed overview of the class’s maths learning can be found on White Rose Education.

In the second half of the term, our class topic is Marine Life. We will reading the excellent book The Storm Whale by Benji Davies and carrying out lots of fun learning, such as designing and making our own boats and testing different materials to see those that float and those that sink.

We will be getting creative in the half term, drawing and painting pictures of marine life and hopefully joining textiles together to create our very own marine animals.

We have a term ahead of us that promises to be full of fun and exciting learning.

If in the term you have any concerns or want to chat to me about anything related to your child’s learning, it is best to have a chat with me after school or alternatively send me an email (gharley@stannesfulshaw.net).

Thank you,

Mr Harley