Summer Term 2025

Communication and Language

This term in Oak Class, children will continue to use conversation to solve various problems while engaging in a range of activities. They will be encouraged to organise their thoughts through open-ended questions and explain their observations by discussing how things work and why they happen.

Children will also respond to a variety of questions about their learning through timely questioning. Additionally, they will be encouraged to respond to questions in complete sentences to support them in organising their thoughts.

Reading and Writing

In Reading this term the children will be learning a range of digraphs and trigraphs to aid them to become independent readers. The children will be encouraged to blend sounds together in order to read unknown words. To develop a lifelong love of reading the children will have regular story time and be encouraged to bring home a library book of their choosing to share at home.

In writing this term the children will be responding to a range of stories and poems about ‘Dinosaurs’ and ‘Minibeasts. The children will continue to be encouraged to segment words and use phonetically plausible spelling. Support will be given to encourage the use of capital letters, punctuation and finger spaces for writing short sentences and phrases.

Physical Development

This term the children will be experimenting with changes in speed, direction, and agility. They will have the opportunity to further grow their skills within dance and creating movement to music. Also, in Oak Class the children will continue to build on their foundations of a cursive handwriting style and be encouraged to correctly form the letters in their daily writing. Whilst outside, the children will have the opportunity to develop their gross motor skills using the bikes and large-scale obstacle course resources. There will be continual access both outside and inside to activities which support the development of fine motor skills.

PSED

Children will be exploring the Amport school values – courage, compassion and respect alongside the expectation of pupils to be ready, respectful and safe. They will be discussing what each of these words means and how the values can be demonstrated both in school and outside of school. There will be a continued focus on perseverance, resilience and independence in everyday life.

Maths

As mathematicians this term the children will be exploring numbers up to 20 through representing them in different ways, by comparing them, and by looking into the composition of numbers. They will also be investigating the concept of addition and subtraction through the use of the terms ‘more’ and ‘less’. Later in the term, children will be exploring the composition and manipulation of 2D and 3D shapes, taking a closer look at patterns and thinking about positional language and mapping.

Understanding the World

Throughout the term, children will be considering science and nature, along with job roles within these fields. They will learn about palaeontologists, museum curators, entomologists and the importance of their roles in helping people to understand the evolution of the world. In RE the children will be learning about special clothes within the Christian, Jewish and Sikh religions, when they are worn and why. Later in the term they will be learning more about the sacrament of baptism.

Expressive Art and Design

The children will be finding out about the artist Andy Goldsworthy, an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. They will experiment with different materials and create pieces of art similar to those of Andy Goldsworthy. Music will heavily feature this term with units based around being under the sea, minibeasts and rhythm. Children will continue to have access to arts and crafts materials in continuous provision.