Spring Term 1 2022-2023

Splendid Skie

Welcome to Spring Term 1 2023

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and are fully rested and rearing to go.

This term our topic is Splendid Skies. We will be learning  about space, the earth, the moon, and our sky. We will learn how the sun is a star and how it impacts our planet through night and day, the  seasons and our weather. We will learn about our moon, gravity, the tides and about the first people to explore it. We will learn about our planet and what it is like to live on it. We will  be doing lots of creative activities to help us understand and appreciate our skies more.  

In English  we will be enjoying lots of wonderful stories such as Whatever Next – Jill Murphy, Roaring Rockets by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker, Beegu by Alexis Deacon, Man on the Moon (a day in the life of Bob) by Simon Bartram, Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Court, I’m Coming to Get You by Tony Ross, Here Come the Aliens by Colin McNaughton, We’re Off to Look For Aliens by Colin McNaughton Laura’s Star by Klaus Baumgart, How to catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers. We will also use non fictions texts to find out facts, information and answers t questions we have. If you have any books that will help us in our topic, please send them in so we can share and enjoy them. Please name them first.

 For more specific information about our learning please see the Holistic Plan overleaf.

Forest School will continue to be on a Friday afternoon and P.E on a Monday.

Please could I ask you all to try to read with your child every night and practise the flashcards and homework sheets that come home. 

If you have any questions please ask.

Thank you very much for all of your help and continued support.

Kind regards

Miss Crombleholme

Click the links below to view the Reception Holistic Plan and see how it links to the Early Years curriculum.