TERM 6, 2024-25 

Phonics

Scottish Owls are star readers and we have been so proud of the progress that they have all made throughout the phonics sessions this year. Children are showing incredible confidence in both their reading and their writing as a result of the incredible enthusiasm they have shown throughout the sessions.

English

Seaside stories and poems have been our focus this term. Children have had the opportunity to write in different styles and for different purposes including creating their very own acrostic poems about the beach. Some of the books that we have used throughout our learning ‘Rainbow Fish’ ‘Come away from the water Shirley’ and ‘Commotion in the Ocean’. Our learning has been vibrant and colourful this term and these stories have also formed the basis for much of our artwork and creations during the term.

Maths

In Mathematics this term our learning has taken us above and beyond 20. We have explored number patterns and composition including tens and ones, odd and even numbers and doubling and halving. Children have become incredibly competent in recognising numbers that are one more and one less than each other as well as being able to count to 100.

Topic

Our big event for this term has been going to the historic dockyard in Chatham, which linked with our theme ‘On the Beach’. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves. They were able to meet a real pirate and boarded the ship and were fully able to immerse themselves in life on the sea. It was a day that was thoroughly enjoyed by all, children and teachers alike. Throughout our topic sessions the children have also become fully aware of the sea life they may come across on the beach and they have been able to represent this through some of their scientific drawings that included labels.