EYFS Newsletter Summer 2 2025

Welcome

Please find our curriculum information for this half term, along with ways you can support at home.

Maths

We will be learning;

Sharing and Grouping

• Sharing into groups, discussing if the groups are equal and fair or not fair.
• Exploring groups. How many groups are there? How many in each group? Is the group equal?
• Even and Odd groups. How do you know if the group is odd or even?
• Exploring doubles. What is a double? How do you know?

Visualise, Build and Map

• Identify repeating patterns. Create own pattern rules
• Replicate and build scenes and constructions. What will you use to build? Why have you built it like that? How will you create the scene eg a town using bricks.
• Visualise from different perspectives. What can you see and how do you see it?
• Describe positions. Use vocabulary such as in front, behind, next to, under, over, on, in
• Explore mapping. What can you see on the map? Where is___? What do you notice?
• Create maps from familiar places. Go straight until you get to the ___? First, I need to ___ Where does you map take you? What is on your map? Describe the route.

Make Connections

• Deepen understanding. What can you see? Explain how you see it. What number story can you make? How many ___ do you have? What strategy did you use? Did it work? Why do you think that happened?
• Patterns and relationships. How do you know? What do we need? How can we check? What can you see? Is there another answer?

Literacy

• We will use the story “Supertato” to start our topic learning about people who help us.
• Using the story “The Hungry Caterpillar” we will learn about mini beasts and life cycles..
• We will spend 2 weeks on the text “Little Red Riding Hood”” and will learn to retell the story using words and actions. We will innovate the story by changing parts to make our own version and then retell our new version using words and actions.
• We will continue to write for different purposes writing simple sentences that can be read by ourselves and others using known phonics sounds and red words.

Phonics

We will learn these digraphs (2 letters that make 1 sound) and trigraph (3 letters that make 1 sound) and write words with those sounds;

air ure er

We will learn these red words (words than cannot be sounded out and have to be learnt by sight)

once one your love little house full

There are 3 phonics assessments this half term. One in week 1, one in week 5 and one in weeks 6 and 7. The last phonics assessment assesses the children on everything they have learnt throughout the year. Please help your child to learn all of the red words in their wallet by sight to help with their reading fluency.

During our daily handwriting part of phonics we will continue to learn to form letters correctly and will now move on to writing sentences using the weeks taught sound and red words.

PSED

Jigsaw - Changing Me. 1 lesson per week

• Piece 1 - My Body. Parts of the body
• Piece 2 - Respecting My Body. Being healthy
• Piece 3 - Growing up. Changes from a baby to adult
• Piece 4 - Fun and Fears part 1. Moving to Year 1, what do I want to know about year 1?
• Piece 5 - Fun and Fears part 2. Moving to Year 1, answering questions from previous session.
• Piece 6 - Celebration. What have we enjoyed during our year in Reception? Looking back and celebrating all we have achieved.

Knowledge and understanding of the world

Through our topic about People who help us we will;

Go on a school trip to the national emergency services museum at Sheffield to learn;

• About the lives of people and their role in society
• Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now
• What an emergency is and who can help you.

In class we will;

• Learn about Firefighters and their role.
• Learn about the Police and their role.
• Learn about dental health and hygiene

We will learn about the season Summer by going on a Spring walk within the school grounds and;

• Explore the natural world around us.
• Describe what we see, hear and feel whilst outside.
• Understand the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around us.
• Refer back to prior learning about the seasons and build upon this.
• Recall a familiar route to be able to draw a class map.

As part of our work on mini beasts we will;

• Learn about the life cycle of a caterpillar.
• Complete Geography fieldwork looking for mini beasts in the school grounds.

Expressive arts and design

• Painting - Develop colour mixing and explore printing in symmetry
• Collage - Make paper plate characters from the story Supertato practicing cutting and joining techniques.
• Designing and making - Design and make a new cape for the character Supertato
• Music - Chranga topic “Reflect, rewind and replay” Looking back at the songs learnt over the year and consolidating playing the glockenspiel.

RE

Special People

• Special people to me
• Christianity - Vicar
• Islam -Iman

PE

Gymnastics topic- Rocking and Rolling

• Learn how to rock on different body parts
• Learn how to travel from a rock to a roll. Learn log roll and egg roll technique.
• Learn how to leap and scissor kick.
• Learn varieties of pencil rolls.
• Learn a rock and roll sequence with a partner.
• Demonstrate 3 different ways of rolling and move from one roll to another by rocking.

Outdoor Learning

We are very excited to harvest the vegetables we have been growing and looking after. before the summer holiday’s

The children will have access to our outdoor learning environment every day and in all weathers! Please make sure they bring a coat to school every day and have a pair of wellingtons that stay at school.

The children will be developing language and communication as well as learning to work as a team, taking turns and negotiating plans using the outdoor resources. We will be using not only our outdoor area but schools’ extensive grounds including the wilderness area.

How you can support at home

As discussed during your parents evening meetings last term your support with hearing your child read at home is crucial to them developing fluency. Please aim to read their new book at least 3 times a week, if not more and remember to write in the reading record.

Continue to use the digraph and trigraph flash cards and red words in your child’s wallet to help your child quickly recognise them in their books.

Please make sure your child has their book bag in school every day.

Thank you for all your support throughout the year, we have enjoyed working with you. We will provide Summer Holiday home learning packs to help your child prepare for Year 1 before school closes in July.

The EYFS Team

Mrs Benson, Mrs Wilson, Miss Price and Mrs Foster