Literacy
This half term we are looking at stories with a familiar setting. To link with our creativity topic we are looking at books that are set at the seaside, such as ‘Sharing a shell’ by Julia Donaldson and ‘Lucy and Tom at the Seaside’ by Shirley Hughes. A target for this term is to improve punctuation, so children are able to write a sentence and use basic punctuation such as capital letters, full stops, speech marks and exclamation marks.
Please support your child by helping them learn their high frequency words and listening to them read for at least 10 minutes a day. A good way to help them with their writing is to give them short, timed writing tasks.

Maths
In maths we are looking at ordering numbers up to 100 and beginning to understand place value in 3 digit numbers. We are also looking at the mental strategies that we use to solve mathematical problems, which is a vital skill for children to develop.
Our focus for this half term is addition and a target is to be able to mentally add combinations of one- or two-digit numbers. Please support your child by relating mathematical problems to everyday life and encouraging your child to practise their addition. Please make sure your child is forming all the numbers correctly when they write them.

Science
Our topic is ‘Health and Growth’. We will be talking about eating a balanced diet and about how we grow. Please talk together with your child about which foods are healthy choices (fruits & vegetables). Take your child to the supermarket and look at the different types of foods, such as cheese, milk (dairy), bread, cereals (carbohydrates), meat/fish, lentils (protein). We will also be thinking about how babies grow and change. Hopefully we will be able to arrange a visit from a baby and a toddler so that we can compare the things that they can and cannot do. Finally we will be discussing how medicines can help to keep us healthy and why it is so important that they are used and stored safely.

ICT
Our main focus this term will be keyboard and mouse skills. Your child will learn how to use the keyboard for typing and how to control the mouse accurately. If you have a computer at home, please provide your child with opportunities to practise these skills at home.

Creativity
Our new creativity curriculum aims to provide a tailor made thematic creative curriculum that engages and inspires our children whilst ensuring National Curriculum coverage. Our topic for this half term is ‘We’re all going on a summer holiday’. We will be learning about holidays in the past and present. We will be identifying places children visit on holiday and locate them in atlases and on globes. We will also be carrying out a contrasting locality study, looking at the Caribbean. Our children will take on the project as if they are an imagined group of experts - they will become travel agents designing holidays for clients.

RE
We will be learning about ‘Special Days’ celebrated by different faiths. This will be particularly relevant to our Muslim children who will have celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr this half term and Christians will be celebrating Harvest Festival.

PSHCE
‘New Beginnings’ is our topic this half term. It is thinking about making a fresh start. We will be talking about how people feel about new beginnings and changes and how to cope with new situations.

PE
PE lessons will be on a Monday and Thursday. Please make sure your child has a full PE kit in school (white T-shirt, black shorts & black pumps that fit them) and please leave this PE kit in school for the whole half term. PE kits will be given out on the last day of each half term, to be taken home and washed during the holiday and then brought back on the first day of the new term. The children will be taught games with P.E specialist Mr Kendal on a Friday and Dance on a Monday with their class teacher. Please encourage your child to take part in any sporting clubs and activities, either after school or at the weekends.

Music
We will continue to encourage the children to use their voices as instruments, through singing and rhymes. If you know any traditional children’s songs or rhymes, please share them with your child.