Spring Term
We are investigating ‘ What do we know about where we live?‘
The aim of our curriculum is to support its learners to become:
Ethical, Informed Citizens Ambitious, Capable Learners Healthy, Confident Individuals
Enterprising, Creative Contributors
Here are some of the learning opportunities we have planned with the children.
| Languages, Literacy and Communication (Eng) | Mathematics and Numeracy | Health and Well-Being | Languages, Literacy and Communication (Welsh) |
| Phonological and phonic structured teaching daily Books – What did the tree see? The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Folk tales – Merlin’s Tree Instructions Story writing | Addition Subtraction Shape Direction Map work Daily enhanced and independent activities developing daily number work. Different shops to understand and using and handling money. Buying items and giving change. | PE – Games PE skills coordination, movement and multi skills sessions. Circuits. Daily Mile Daily check ins and understanding feelings and emotions. How to make a choice when I am not feeling calm. Empathy. Rights of the child Enhanced provision developing making choices and working with others, making mistakes and developing resilience. | Welsh vocabulary – We will be exploring our Welsh language and culture through stories and Welsh tales. Houses and Homes Welsh games St David’s Day Santes Dwynwen |
| Science and Technology | Expressive Arts | Humanities | Other Learning Experiences |
| Materials and their uses. Different building materials and how can we create an ecological friendly building. Living things – homes for others. Bug Hotels – following instructions and using a range of tools safely to create. | Investigating the different buildings in our locals area. Observational drawings. Shape in Art – Paul Klee Helen Elliot. Paintings of homes and our local area. Dance Music composition and appreciation. | Different houses and homes The physical and human features of our area and of our twinned town. How our area has changed. | Visits from members of the community. Visit an Estate Agency Welsh artist Visits to the local area. Special places / Religious buildings |
Whilst developing skills in the Areas of Learning above, we will also be ensuring that your child develops skills in LITERACY NUMERACY DIGITAL COMPETENCE
Above all else, we want your child’s school experience to be happy, with engaging activities which will inspire them. This works best when school and home work together.
Here are some ways that you can help:
READING – the key to everything in school is the ability to read and to foster a lifelong love of it. Please read to, with and also make listening to your child read an enjoyable time and as often as you can. Reading books should be brought to school every day. However please share all ways to read such as leaflets and magazine and log into our Giglets where there is a wide range of books to read and listen to.
HOMEWORK – Reading, times tables and spelling practise through the week. Spelling checks take place on a Monday and new spelling patterns are given. Spend time together to go through these new patterns and words.
PE KIT – PE kit can be worn to school instead of uniform, on your child’s PE day. PE day is Wednesday.
FRUIT – being a ‘Healthy School’ we promote eating fruit as a playtime snack. Fruit can be brought in from home.
JEWELLERY – may we remind parents / carers that for safety reasons, jewellery must not be worn to school.
UNIFORM – we enjoy a sense of belonging by wearing our school uniform every day. Please label all items.
ATTENDANCE – excellent attendance of 95%+ is essential for progress. Please give your child the best chance of making progress by being on time every day.
COMMUNICATION – classroom staff use ClassDojo to keep parents / carers up to date with class news. Please check our app regularly and stay in touch with school throughout the term. We also use X / Twitter to celebrate our learning.
