Understanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design    

                

The children have had a amazing start to the term and have settled in beautifully with their new friends and teachers. They are becoming familiar with our school rules, learning to work as a team, and adjusting well to classroom routines. It's been wonderful to see them growing more confident and comfortable in their new environment. Our topic this term is ‘Who am I?’ We've been developing our communication skills by talking about ourselves and our families, helping the children build a strong sense of identity and belonging. As part of our creative work, we explored colour mixing and experimented with blending different skin tones to create thoughtful self-portraits.

Communication, Language and Literacy  

We had fun developing our literacy skills this term by mark-making in class using different media. We also worked on recognising and writing our names using lowercase letters. We have started exploring some phonics sounds by playing games during our sessions, and we have begun to practise blending the sounds. We enjoyed listening to different books about feelings, skin tone and families.

Maths

The children have been singing number nursery rhymes and learning to count objects in maths. This term, each week, we have focused on one number. We have learnt to recognise the numbers 1-5, count the amount and do the correct amount of action to match the number. During our maths, we have built resilience when learning to match amounts to numerals, count and subitise.