This Term
Summer 2 - On the Stage!
We are so excited for our last topic this year - "on the stage"!
The purpose of this unit is to develop children’s creativity, imagination and communication skills through music, dance and drama. They will listen and respond to a wide variety of music and songs from different cultures, sharing their opinions about what they hear. Children will learn simple dance sequences, through modelling and copying, which they will perform to music. They will begin to understand the concept of telling a story through dance and music and will become increasingly expressive when performing.
We are really looking forward to all learning some songs to perform in our own concert, with our grown ups as the audience! Look out for the performance date coming out soon!
The books that will support our learning this half term are:
Story Snuggle Time:
Developing a love of reading at an early age will support your child's listening and attention skills, vocabulary development and understanding of the world around them. Your child will be bringing home a book from our 'library' for you to share together at home. This could include talking about what you can see in the pictures, other books that have similar characters, or what you and your child liked or didn't like about the story. We also hold Stay and Read every Friday from 8:45-9am, please join us for this, if you are able, to share in stories with your child.
Drawing Club:
Drawing Club is a special club that promotes confidence in mark making, imagination and writing skills. We use our focus books (as shown above on the page) to teach elements of writing.
The structure drawing club follows is:
Moment 1: Vocabulary Development
Moment 2: Listening to the story
Moment 3: Modelled drawing
Moment 4: Drawing Club. This aspect may be linked to the main character in the book, the setting or adventure time.
If you would like some more information about drawing club, or would like to see your child's work, just ask a member of staff.
PE:
PE will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please come to school wearing your sports leggings or trousers. This half term, we are very lucky to have 2 PE sessions a week. One will be with our talented teacher Miss Mullins, who will be teaching us Dance. We will also have a session with our sports coach Gemma, who will be supportin us to build up our body management skills.
Forest School:
Every Friday we attend Forest School with Mrs Walker, who has worked at Victoria Primary School for a long time! She is excited to help the children explore our wonderful forest school space, and introduce them to Candy the guinea pig. Our children learn the importance of looking after our environment, alongside lots of knowledge about the world around them.
Phonics and Reading:
We follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds scheme at Victoria Primary School. All children will bring a reading book home with them. This will begin as a wordless book, that are used to encourage language development first, and then move onto books with simple words and phrases in for the children to decode on their own. Please speak to staff if you have any questions or would like any support with phonics.