Toy Time Travellers - Spring Term 2

This term we are finding out about Toys in the past!  We will be exploring how toys have changed and what they were made from.  We are looking forward to talking to our mummies, daddies, grandparents and friends to find out more about the toys they enjoyed playing with when they were little!

Stories we will share include:

* Old Bear

* Unplugged

* Lost Toy Museum

* When I was a Child

In our maths lessons, we will be:

* Comparing, representing, sorting up to 9 and 10

* Ordering numerals to 10

* Composition of 9 and 10

* Number bonds to 10 (partitioning)

* Counting forwards and backwards to 10

* Singing 10 rhymes

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This half term we will be helping the children to think about how they can be an IMPORTANT Parklands Person. This will be discussed in class, in assemblies and as part of our PSED (personal, social and emotional development). Please ask your child what they are doing to become an IMPORTANT Parklands Person.

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Spring Term 1 2024

This term, we will be starting our new topic, ‘Winter Wonderland’. We are looking forward to exploring the following stories and finding out all about animals in winter:
• ‘Here Comes Jack Frost’ – ice experiments
• ‘Nanooka’s Magical Garden’ – the Northern Lights and Inuits
• ‘Cuddly Duddly’ – penguins and keeping warm in the South Pole!
• ‘Ridiculous’ – animals that hibernate
• ‘Polar Bear, Polar Bear what do you hear?’ – poems
• ‘Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring’ – Topic Celebration

We continue to celebrate achievements in class each week. As well as children
chosen for our Achievement assembly, we will also be sending out certificates for

our ‘Star Writer’ and ‘Champion Reader’. Please continue to share stories with
your child each day. They will now be demonstrating further confidence in
spotting the sounds that they know and using their Fred Talk (saying the sounds) to
blend and read the words.

This half term we will be helping the children to think about how they can be a SAFE Parklands Person. This will be discussed in class, in assemblies and as part of our PSED (personal, social and
emotional development). Please ask your child what they are doing to become a SAFE Parklands Person.

Autumn Term 2 2023

Celebrations

We will be exploring the different celebrations of Diwali, Birthdays, Hanukah, St Andrews Day, Advent, Christingle and Christmas. 

This half term we will be helping the children to think about how they can be a KIND Parklands Person. This will be discussed in class, in assemblies and as part of our PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education work. Please ask your child what they are doing to become a KIND Parklands Person.

Autumn Term 1 2023

'Marvelous Me &

Autumn Explorations 🍂'

This term we will be finding out all about our new friends, our families and share things we like to do.  We will be settling in to our new routines and making lots of new friends.  We will go for a nature walk and explore and learn about all the different changes that happen at this time. Look out for our Autumn themed Friday Challenges on Tapestry to complete together at home.

The key books we will be reading this term are:

‘The Colour Monster goes to School’ by Anna Llenas

‘When I Grow Up’ by Melanie Joyce

‘This is our House’ by Michael Rosen

‘Hello Autumn’ by Jo Lindley

‘We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt’ by Steve Metzger

‘Christopher Pumpkin’  by Sue Hendra

This half term we will be helping the children to think about how they can be a RESPECTFUL Parklands Person. This will be discussed in class, in assemblies and as part of our PSHE (personal, social and health education) work. Please ask your child what they are doing to become a RESPECTFUL Parklands Person!

WEEKLY HOMEWORK

🌟Friday Challenge🌟

To help support your child’s learning at home, we share a weekly challenge on Tapestry to help consolidate the skills that they have been learning in school.  Please ‘like’ the post so that we know it has been seen by you, and upload photographs of your child completing the challenge at home.