This Term
Summer 1 - Globetrotters
Our topic for this half term is GLOBETROTTERS! Last half term we looked at "where we live" and we will now be comparing that to life in other countries around the world. The purpose of this unit is to develop children’s understanding of the wider world in which they live. Children will learn the names of different countries and will be able to discuss how these countries differ from the United Kingdom e.g. weather, languages, food. They will explore saying ‘hello’ in the languages of their class, and from other countries.
We love that Victoria Primary School has such a diverse community, and look forward to hearing children's experiences and memories from other countries. It would be amazing for our children to hear from adults who have visited or lived in another country, so if you would like to come and speak to our children about this, please do let us know!
These are the books and video clips that will be supporting our learning around "globetrotters".
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. Please come to school wearing your sports leggings or trousers. This half term, we will be revisiting and building on our gymnastics learning, from previous units of PE. We will be thinking more specifically about controlling our bodies to make different shapes, and safely move over, under and around equipment.
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.