A big welcome back to all the FS2 children. We hope that you have all had a lovely Christmas period, celebrating and spending time with your family and friends. It is lovely to see you enjoying your return to school. We are excited about all the fun we are going to have this term when we will be learning many new things.

This term the inspiration for our learning is traditional tales and, in particular, we will be looking closely at a traditional tale from the Indian subcontinent entitled No Dinner by Jessica Souhami.

We will have lots of fun exploring and learning about the Englefield Estate as our local environment during our Woodland Learning sessions and we will be comparing our local environment to what we learn about the Indian subcontinent. We look forward to seeing how seasonal change has affected our local environment. 

 Our R.E learning for the term will be about a variety of creation narratives and myths.

We will help the children sow the seeds for a flourishing future during their time at Englefield and beyond. The class will learn about and to use our school values which are all centred on love:

Love of God

Love of Others

Love of Myself

Love God's World

Love of Life

We hope that you are hearing more about these values and how they impact on life both at school and at home.

Please do feel free to come and see for yourself how these values work within school. We also very much welcome parent helpers if you have any time to spare. Any such help is invaluable in supporting learning within school and also helps to build relationships between home and school. This help is welcomed on a regular or ad-hoc basis.

Please do look at the Curriculum Web (below) to gain more detail about what we will have fun discovering this term.

Our phonic teaching has already started and is based on the Phonics Scheme 'My Letters and Sounds' by Schofield and Sims. 

Curriculum Overview

Timetable

Shared Learning

Woodland Learning - Friday mornings

We will be out and about again this term – exploring the woodland on the Englefield Estate and also enjoying completing outdoor activities based within the school grounds. Mrs Sheppard and Mrs Street will be looking for at least 5 parent helpers each week as we are a larger group. We do need parents to help with Woodland Learning as without the legally required number of adults, we are unable to take the children out onto the Englefield Estate. If you are able to help, either regularly or just occasionally, please get in touch via our class email. 

Children will need 'overs' or a puddle suit and wellington boots and as the weather gets colder please also ensure they have warm socks, gloves and a hat. 

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