We will practice sharing our ideas and opinions with one another. Making sure that when we do, we speak in full sentences and extend our thinking using words like, ‘and’ or ‘because’. For example, ‘I liked this story because it was funny.’ We will be building up our vocabulary, particularly around the theme of sustainable development, bees and plants using these new words to express our ideas. At home, you can encourage your child to talk to friends and family about the things they have learnt, seen or heard.

This term during PE, Reception’s focus will be gymnastics. Throughout the term we will learn how to move on, over and under equipment in different ways. We will be discussing the importance of using the equipment safely and importance of keeping our bodies healthy. We will discuss how our body needs to be warmed up and cooled down before and after exercise. Please ensure your child brings in their PE Kit at the start of the week, and ensure that they have plimsolls or trainers for PE lessons. 

We will be exploring texts to learn about sustainability and endangered animals, focusing on honey bees. We will use this information to write facts on how to save the honey bees.  We will reflect on our first hand experiences whilst learning about honey bees. We will retell the events of our learning journey about bees through storytelling. We will use story maps to orally rehearse our stories and hold sentences. We will use the story telling language of Once upon a time… Suddenly… Unfortunately… and Luckily… We will continue to use our sounds to write simple sentences, remembering to use a capital letter at the beginning, finger spaces and a full stop at the end.

As part of our learning, we will also be discovering the importance of sustainability and how to recycle.We are excited to explore different insects, with a special focus on bees, and to investigate various materials. Additionally, we are looking forward to a visit from the beekeepers, where we will learn more about the role of bees in our environment.