Our Learning

In Foundation Stage we love learning through our children's interests and play. 

Autumn 1-All about me!

In the first term our learning is themed around the children themselves. The children will learn all about themselves and the people who are important to them. We learn through lots of play, being imaginative and LOTS of talking! In this term we will be reading lots of stories about feelings and emotions and how we can recognise them and also deal with our big feelings. 

Autumn 2- Seasons and celebrations!

In this term we learn all about different types of celebrations such as Bonfire Night, Diwali and Christmas. We have fun making our firework pictures, Rangoli patterns using coloured rice and Diva lamps. We celebrate the seasons by going on an Autumn walk and visiting the church to learn about the story of the first Christmas. 

Spring Term 1- Animals in our World!

In this topic we look at different animals in our world and the environments they live in. We learn about polar animals and their environments and farm animals and their environment. In this topic we do our first out of school visit to Graves park farm. Additionally, we learn about animals in The story of the great race and all about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated around the world. We also do chinese food tasting!

Spring Term 2- Planting and Growing 

In this topic we look at how plants grow and why it is important to grow and look after plants. The children have a chance to plant their own seeds and observe them grow. We will be looking at books such as jack and the beanstalk, jaspers beanstalk and /the enourmous turnip. We will have frequent walks upto our school garden to obseve plants growing and changing and observe the wildlife. We will also have a go at pond dipping in our school pond. In this term we speak a lot about spring and why our plants grow better in the spring.

Summer Term 1- Real-Life Superheroes!!We also look  learn about Easter and new life around us. 

In this topic we learn about real life superheroes such as Doctors,nurses,firefighters,police officers. The children learn all about the important jobs people do in the community and why everyones job is important.Children will talk about and write about what they want to be when they grow up and which real life superhero they want to be. We hope to conclude this topic with a visit from a real life superhero and to have a visit to Curious Kids Town.  

Summer Term 2- Pirates and the seaside.

In this topic we learn about pirates and reas the book pirates love underpants. We also learn all about seasides and sealife. We talk about seaside visits in the past compared to now and learn about different animals that live in the sea. We particularly enjoy having our sports day and family picnic so get your picnic baskets at the ready and get ready to cheer on the children as they take part in lots of sports day games. Our favourite part of the term is our end of year seaside day where the children get to bring their beach attire and a bucket and spade and spend the day at Norton Free by the Sea. We rent the children an icecream van, get our the sandpits and paddling pools and have seaside games for the children to enjoy!! 

Religious Education

As we are a Christian school we also teach a weekly RE lesson as a stand alone subject. The children learn about the Christian Faith and how it is similar and different to other religions. 

**IMPORTANT** RE curriculum is being updated we will update this soon!

Autumn 1- 

Autumn 2-     and Christmas 

Spring 1-  

Spring 2- 

Summer 1-       and Easter

Summer 2-