Roe Class - Reception Early Years

Dear Parents and Carers of Roe Class

Welcome to the Summer Term!

We hope that you all had a restful Easter break and are refreshed and ready for the final two terms of the year. The Summer Term is always busy with many exciting events and preparations for the end of the school year, as well as looking forward to making the transition into year one.

This term our curriculum theme is ‘World Outside my Window’. It begins with a close look at our immediate environment and the plants and animals that live there. Of course, there will also be many more opportunities to use our fantastic outdoor area, including bug hunting and growing plants of our own from seeds and beans. Look out near the beginning of term for some tiny visitors to our class!

To help us observe the environment more closely, we will be sketching, painting and making sculptures of different features of habitats and the creatures that live there. A little later in the term, we’ll be learning about mobile sculptures too through the work of Alex Calder. The text ‘The Snail Trail’ will also support us to understand more about the work of Matisse and to make links with our mapping skills in maths.

As we move into term 6, we’ll be taking a look at the wider world and comparing our environment with that of a seaside area. Be sure to bring some wellies for lots of sand and water investigations and also for a morning down at the river Kennet exploring a habitat near our school.

Through stories such as ‘Rainbow Fish’ we will learn about life in oceans and rivers, as well as developing our understanding of kindness, friendships and our Christian value ‘love’.

In phonics, we will begin phase 4 of our Unlocking Letters and Sounds programme. This phase teaches the reading and writing of words with adjacent consonants. We’ll begin with words that have short vowel sounds, for example: - hand, went, pond, slug, frog then move onto words with long vowel sounds, for example: - toast, green, crown, snail.

In maths, we’ll be looking for patterns as we learn about teen numbers and numbers beyond twenty. We’ll also be learning about the composition of ten and practising our automatic recall of bonds to five then to ten. In term six, we’ll explore the use of a rekenrek (a counting frame) that will support our understanding of number, including addition and subtraction.

During terms 5 and 6, RE will focus on ‘What we can Learn from Stories’ and ‘Special Places’. Hopefully, we’ll be able to take a walk down to St Mary’s Church, but if not we’ll make a virtual tour to support our thoughts and reflections on what makes the church a special place for Christians. Ideas and understanding from all units of work will be extended to compare and reflect on how love is shown in the Bible and through our everyday lives.

Our PE day will remain on a Friday and the children should still come to school dressed in their PE kit for the summer term. As we approach our sport’s day, we may ask you to leave your child’s PE kit in school, so that we can take advantage of any good weather to brush up on our skills. We’ll write to you again if we need to do this.

Please do come and ask a member of the team if you need any further information or just want to chat about how your child is getting along. Also, look out for dates and times of any upcoming events.

With thankfulness, courage, and love, we strive to improve heart and mind.

Happy learning everyone,

Team Roe

World Outside My Window Curriculum Map Summer 2025 I Wonder Curriculum Map Spring 2025

Marvellous Me Curriculum Map Autumn 2025

You will also find these Early Years Curriculum documents very useful too.

Early Years Curriculum Early Years Long Term Plan Early Years Continuous Provision Maths Early Years Curriculum Themes Early Years Continuous Provision Small World Roe Class Reading River