Saints Peter and Paul

Saints Peter and Paul

Foundation Stage

Summer Term: June – July 2017

Look at what we will be learning – Holidays

• Knowing all letters of the alphabet, the name of the letter and the sound it makes, capital and lower case e.g. matching pictures to letters, singing the ABC song.
• Recognising both upper and lower case letters e.g. A, B, C and a, b, c.
• Revisiting/learningsh, ch, th, igh, ng, ay, ee, air, ir, oo, ar,or, ow sounds & words with these sounds in.
• Tricky words that you are unable to sound out e.g. the, here, was, what etc.
• Saying the beginning, middle and end sound in words.

• Attempt to write simple words by sounding them out, including keywords, in a variety of contexts e.g. birthday cards, invitations, shopping lists, stories and using a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop when writing sentences.
• Reading – use pictures, sounding out and finger pointing to help reading. Asking questions to check they have understood what they have read.
• Handwriting – practising correct letter formation then moving onto cursive when ready.

• Maths
• Counting in ones, twos, fives and tens.
• Doubling and halving e.g. double 5 = 10. Half of 12 = 6.
• Number bonds to 10, e.g. 7+3=10, 4+6=10.
• Addition facts to 10 and then 20 and corresponding subtraction facts e.g. 8 + 2 = 10, 10 – 2 = 8 and 14 + 6 = 20, 20 – 6= 14.
• Finding one more and one less than a given number to 20.

• Reading, writing and ordering numbers 1 – 20 firstly then beyond.
• Problem solving – e.g. I have 7 how many more do I need to get to 10? Which coins could I use to make 12p?
• Looking at patterns, with shapes and colours and number sequences.
• Positional language, such as on top, under, behind, in front, next to and in between.
• 2.D and 3D shapes –Focusing on their properties e.g. counting how many sides, corners, faces and edges.
• Use of comparative language – faster, fast, slower, slowest etc and ordinal numbers e.g. 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

• Looking at past and present holidays & comparing holiday destinations.
• Knowing what clothes would be needed for a hot or cold holiday.
• Focusing on learning about different countries and how they are different to England –
• Things needed to go on holiday e.g. packing a suitcase, beach bag.
• EURO 2016 – link with countries

• Working in pairs and groups using balls, bats, hoops & beanbags. Practising dribbling, balancing, skipping skills etc.

• Throwing, catching, rolling and bouncing different sized balls e.g. tennis, football, rugby and basketballs.
• Observing the effects that exercise has on their bodies.

• Sports day activities – running race, obstacle race, potato and spoon race and shuttle race.

• Have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings, and be sensitive to the needs, views and feelings of others.
• To negotiate and solve problems.

• Sun safety, talking about the importance of wearing sun cream and hats.
• Transition – preparation for moving to Year One.

Expressive Art and Design

• Making a seaside collage, sketching shells.
• Looking at art sculptures from different countries and making some of our own.
• Music making-changing sounds of instruments and copying repeated patterns.
• Making different countries flags, World cup trophies, football kits and pitches to play our own world cup matches.