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Over the course of this half term the prime areas of learning still play a key role within the children’s learning.  

 

We will continue to develop their listening and communication skills. Within PSHE the theme for this half term will be changing me and this will cover the following areas. We will be looking at the body and naming body parts,, knowing what foods are healthy, understanding that we grow from babies to adults, expressing and sharing feelings about moving into year 1, sharing any worries but also looking back on reception and talking about our best bits. 

 

Within literacy this half term we will be acting out a variety of stories using Helicopter stories. We are delighted to be working with the Stephen Joseph Théâtre this half term which will be a great learning opportunity for the children.  We will learn a variety of different poems using poetry basket some examples of these are: A Little Shell and Thunderstorm. The children will continue to develop their phonics knowledge and be able to read most letter groups that each represent one sound and say sounds for them. They will gain fluency in reading simple phrases and sentences made up of words with known letter–sound correspondences and, where necessary, a most common exception words. Within writing the children will continue to build on knowledge of letter sounds to build words in writing. We will encourage and support writing in their play.

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The focus for number this half term will be  adding more, taking away, shape, doubling and sharing, we will begin to look at odd and even numbers.  The children will use their knowledge of smaller numbers to support their learning within these areas.  The children will explore this concept in a practical way using different objects. 

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