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Welcome to Daisy Class
Your class teacher is Miss Lane.
Our class TA is Frances.
Hannah, Gerry and Jean will be working with us and also with Sunflower class.
We have PE on Thursdays.
The children should wear their PE kit to school on PE days.
🌼 Welcome back to the Spring Term! 🌼
Welcome back to the spring term in Reception. We hope you all had a wonderful break and are ready for an exciting new half term of learning, exploring, and discovering together.
❄️ Our Topic – What Is It?
This half term, our learning will be centered around the question “What is it?” as we explore the world around us through stories, investigations, and hands‑on activities.
📚 Our Focus Books
We will be enjoying a range of wonderful texts, including:
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- Jack Frost
- The Polar Lands
- Materials
- The Great Race (linked to Chinese New Year)
These stories will help us build vocabulary, spark curiosity, and deepen our understanding of the world.
🧊 Learning About Winter
The children will be finding out all about winter —what it is, how the environment changes, and how animals adapt to different habitats. We will also explore simple geography by looking at countries with colder climates and comparing them to where we live.
Materials and Investigations
This term we will be exploring different materials and their properties. The children will take part in investigations and simple experiments to test, sort, and describe materials, helping them develop early scientific thinking skills.
🐉 Chinese New Year – Year of the Horse
As part of our celebrations for Chinese New Year, the children will learn about the Year of the Horse. We will be watching The Great Race, listening to traditional Chinese New Year stories, making dragon masks and puppets, exploring themed activities, and even taking part in some exciting food tasting.
Read Write Inc
The children will also continue to make progress in their Read Write Inc groups, building their phonics knowledge, blending skills, and early reading confidence through daily practice.
Maths Learning
In maths, we will be exploring numbers 5, 6, 7 and 8, developing a deep understanding of what these numbers represent. We will also be learning about 3D shapes and using everyday objects to spot them in our environment. Later in the term, we will investigate length and height through practical activities, comparisons, and hands‑on measuring.
I’m really looking forward to another wonderful half term together.
Miss Lane
Please ensure your child has all their uniform, coats, P.E. kit and bags labelled clearly. Thank you.
School lunch
All children in Year 0 are entitled to a free school meal and it is a good social and learning experience for the children, as well as saving you making a packed lunch every day!
The menu is designed and cooked from fresh by our experienced catering staff every day. The menu runs on a 4 week timetable and can be found here.
The Early Years staff have lunch with the children to encourage tasting and eating a variety of foods and good table manners.
Please come and ask any member of the Early Years staff anything you are unsure of. Every morning there is a member of staff at the gate that you can speak to. If it is something more detailed you can make an appointment to see the teacher after school.
