EYFS Newsletter Spring 1 2025

Welcome

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

Maths

We will be learning;

• Introduce 0
• Being able to find, represent, subitise (know how many without counting) and know 1 more and 1 less than each number 0-5 and how the composition of each number eg 5 can be 0 and 5 or 3 and 2
• Comparing mass using the vocabulary heavy and lighter and float and sink. Finding the balance when two items are the same mass.
• Explore capacity finding out how many of something a container holds and comparing the capacity of different sized containers.
• Introduce 6, 7, 8. Represent 6,7,8 finding different ways to show the amount and learn 1 more and 1 less than each number. Develop a deep understanding of the composition of each number 6,7,8 eg 6 5 is a part and 1 is a part. The whole is 6.
• Making pairs and introducing the vocabulary odd and even.
• Finding and making doubles to 8 1 and 1, 2 and 2, 3 and 3, 4 and 4

Literacy

• Linking our learning about Winter from knowledge and understanding of the world to the Percy The Park Keeper story “One Snowy Night”
• Retelling and innovating “How to Catch a Star” our key text for Talk for Writing
• Learning to recite the poem “Aliens from Planet Trouble” by Paul Cookson

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;

sh th ng ai ee

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

has no so her do my by

• There will be 1 phonics assessment this half term.

PSED

• Jigsaw- Dreams and Goals
• What is a challenge?
• Never giving up
• Setting a goal
• Obstacles and support
• Flight to the future
• What have I achieved?

Knowledge and understanding of the world

• Our Country
• Our Planet
• Space and Stars

Expressive arts and design

• Cutting skills-making snowflakes
• Weaving fabric for scarves
• Sculpture using dough and mod rock for stars and planets
• Drawing-Aliens
• Music- Learning to sing new songs and to play the glockenspiel in time to the music.

RE

• Special objects
• Special objects for our country
• Special objects for Christians
• Special objects for Muslims
• Our Planet is special

Outdoor Learning

The children will have access to our outdoor learning environment everyday and in all weathers! Please make sure they bring a coat to school everyday 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

Sharing stories daily, practicing letter formation, singing number songs/nursery rhymes and counting. Using the flashcards in your child’s reading pack to learn the sounds. Using the red word flash cards to help your child learn the words by sight. Writing in your child’s reading record each time they read their guided reading book at home. We can’t wait to give out more certificates for 50 reads at home and hopefully 100 read certificates.

Thank you for your continued support

The EYFS Team

Mrs Benson, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Robinson, Miss Price and Mrs Foster