• Planning
• Early Years Class Charter

 Welcome to Ladybirds

Welcome to your first year in school and we are really excited to have you here at Farndon. We have lots of amazing and exciting activites planned this year. 

Mrs Bayley (Mon - Wed) and Mrs Cottle (Wed - Fri) are your class teachers. 

Mrs Edmond is our Teaching Assistant within Reception . 

Summer Term

Our Summer Term starts with us participating in a whole school topic as part of our Get Set Go curriculum. The school will be using the book "Same, Same But Different" by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. We will look at how our country has similarities and differences to that of another country. 

Then, we move onto reading "Bee And Me" by Alison Jay. In the story, a little girl befriends a bee and together, they take off on a journey of discovery which introduces the children to the ecology of the natural world. Our pupils will explore the outdoor area and discover similarities and differences between the natural environment and contrasting environments. 

The children will be able to hunt for miinibeasts and learn about important processes and changes within the natural world. The children will develop their underatnding of how we can care for living things, plants and animals in the ntural world and of the effects of changing seasons upon the natural world. 

The children will also look at the story "Oliver's Vegetables" by Alison Bartlett and Vivian French. We will talk about how vegetables grow and the differences between vegetables. The children will carry out an experiment using celery and make pedictions about what will happen. 

There will be an opportunity for our pupils to go pond dipping in our school pond and to learn about different habitats whilst rembering how ee can keep ourselves and others fae near water.

We will also focus on how we can have a healthy lifestyle and we will discuss different factors that support our overall health and wellbeing including: healthy eating, toothbrushing, regular physical exercise and a good sleep routine. 

 P.E.

Our PE day is WEDNESDAY. Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE Kit on Wednesdays and make sure they have a labelled drinks bottle. Just a reminder that our PE Kit is a red t-shirt, black shorts/leggings/jogging bottoms and black pumps or trainers. 

Homework

Each Friday we post a class newsletter and a homework task onto Google Classrooms. This is usually a practical activity linked to the weeks learning. We also ask that you read or share a book with your child every day and we send home a book once a week from the class library. We follow Read Write Inc for phonics and during the year there will be activites and tasks linked to this.