Welcome to Summer Term 1!

Welcome back to Hedgehogs for the first exciting half of our Summer Term! We're thrilled to be diving into a prehistoric world where magnificent creatures once roamed the Earth. Our topic this half-term is DINOSAURS! Get ready for a journey back in time as we learn all about these amazing reptiles, their names, their habitats, and what made them so special.

Throughout the term, we'll be encouraging the Hedgehogs to ask questions and be curious about the world around them, develop their communication and collaboration skills, use their imaginations and be creative, and build their confidence and independence.

We are looking forward to a fun and engaging half-term filled with exciting adventures! Keep an eye on this page for updates and photos of our learning journey.

Some of the texts that we will be reading and exploring are: 

- Mad about dinosaurs

- Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs

- My first book of dinosaurs

- The dinosaur that pooped a planet

- Maisie Jones and the Dinosaur bones

- The Fossil Hunter

Phonics

During this half term for phonics we will be learning new digraphs and trigraphs from Level 3 of our phonics scheme. We will learn 2 new sounds a week from this list in this order ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or. We also learn 2 new tricky words a week on a Friday and have a go at using these words in our sentence writing. Tricky are words that we have to know by sight because they are words that we can't sound out. 

Maths

This half term we will be looking at an array of topics from our scheme that we follow as a school called White Rose Maths, including: 

- To 20 and beyond

- How many now?

- Manipulate, Compose and Decompose

PE

This half term for PE we are looking at fundamental skills including skills of balancing, changing direction, running, jumping, hopping and different ways of travelling. 

RE

For RE this half term our topic is "Story Time" where we will be looking at different stories from the bible and seeing what messages we can take and what we can learn from them. 

PSHE

Again we will be using our Jigsaw scheme for our PSHE lessons and this half term we will be learning about "relationships" and learning about different relationships we may have and how we treat eachother and how we make friends and be kind to our friends.