Summer Term 

  Welcome Back to the Summer Term in Ladybirds and Butterflies!

We are delighted to welcome all our children and families back for an exciting Summer Term in the Ladybirds and Butterflies classrooms. We hope you’ve all had a wonderful break and are ready for a term full of curiosity, imagination, and learning.

For the first half of the term, we will be blasting off into Animals and Minibeasts! The children will explore a variety of animals and learn about their life cycles. It’s always an exciting topic that wows and intrigues them and we can’t wait to see their enthusiasm as they learn about different animals and how they change as they grow. 

In the second half of the term, we will journey into Under the sea, exploring marine life and how to look after our oceans and planet through stories, investigations, and creative activities inspired by the magic of the ocean.

We’re looking forward to a fantastic term packed with adventure, learning, and fun. Thank you for your continued support—let’s make it a brilliant Summer Term together!

Phonics

This Summer Term in Reception, children will continue progressing through the Unlocking Letters and Sounds phonics programme, building on the foundations they established in the autumn and spring.   In Phonics this term, children will move into Phase 4 of the Unlocking Letters and Sounds programme, where the focus is on becoming more confident and fluent readers and writers. At this stage, children are no longer learning new sounds but are practising how to read and spell longer words with adjacent consonants (such as trap, milk, sand). Some children will also continue to consolidate and revise Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, ensuring these sounds are secure and can be applied confidently. As they progress into Phase 4 Mastery, children will apply these skills with greater independence, reading longer sentences, improving fluency, and developing stronger spelling confidence. There is also a continued focus on recognising tricky words and understanding what they read, helping children to become confident, capable readers ready for the next stage of learning.

Maths

  This Summer Term in Reception, children will continue their White Rose Maths journey by  with a strong focus on building confidence and independence in early number skills. Children will deepen their understanding of numbers to 20, practise simple addition and subtraction, and secure their number bonds to 10. Alongside this, they will explore shapes, patterns, measures (such as length, weight and time), and begin to use mathematical language to describe what they see. Learning is practical, engaging and play-based, encouraging children to apply their maths skills in everyday situations while explaining their thinking and developing problem-solving confidence.

Ladybird class is taught by Mrs Irish (Mon,Tues, Wed, Fri) and Miss Coleman (Thursday). Mrs Sellick is the teaching assistant.

Butterfly class is taught by Mrs Sharma  (Thurs, Fri) and Mrs Sykes (Mon, Tues, Wed) and Mrs Lane is the teaching assistant.

The inclusion team is Miss Williams, Miss Gardner, Miss Field and  Miss Broom. 

Please see the presentation below for our year group expectations.

Unlocking Letters and Sounds Phase 2 and 3

Please enjoy learning the GPC
‘S(grapheme phoneme correspondences) with the Year 1 children.

Key Dates for your diaries:

Spring  

11/2 – Around the World Days 

12/2 – Around the World Days 

30/3 – Seasons assembly – FARMLINK 9.15am 

Summer 

27/4 – Lifecycle workshop FARMLINK  9.15am 

13/5 – Court Farm Trip (coach and farm booked) 

18/5 – Animal Detectives assembly – FARMLINK 9.15am

Seesaw

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This term we have two topics - 

No Outsiders Ethos

The aim in EYFS is to introduce the No Outsiders ethos using very simplistic language: we are all different and we are all friends. There is nothing more complicated in the EYFS plans than the message that it's ok to be you and you may be different to me, but that's ok too.

You Choose encourages children to choose their favourite place to live, favourite transport, favourite food etc and shows that we all like different things. This is explored further in Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly, where characters Nick and Sue are shown liking different things throughout the book, but conclude by saying they like each other. Hello Hello shows different animals with a range of shapes and colours who all say 'hello' and no one is left out. The Family Book shows children that there are many types of families - and then we draw our own family. Mommy, Mama and Me allows children to understand some families have two mums (or two dads); we talk about the things Mommy and Mama do with their child and ask if our own families do similar things (go to the park, drink juice, kiss goodnight). Finally, Blue Chameleon shows a lonely chameleon trying to make friends by changing shape and colour; he thinks you have to look like someone else to be friends. At the end, Chameleon realises you can be yourself and you don't have to change.

A mini tour of Eastover Primary School

Welcome to Eastover Primary School - this is a short tour, led by two of our Y6 pupils, of the main areas your child will experience in their first year at our school.

• School Readiness Here is lots of useful information to prepare your child for school.

Reception Baseline Assessment 2024

When your child starts school they will be asked to complete some activities linked to language, reading and maths. This is a national assessment for all 4 year olds. The activities are devised with children in mind and are completed with the teacher. All the information linked to this assessment is in the leaflet below. Any questions please see your class teacher.