Meadow Class will be learning about the topic of ‘Summer Fun’. The children in Meadow Class really love having a topic book read to them, so in the first week, we will be focusing on the first of our topic books in this area; “Splash Day” by Nick Sharratt. The class will explore the summer-based activities mentioned in the story as well as reenact some of the fun scenes as hopefully the weather improves! In the second week, we will be thinking about the different types of summer fun we can all do which include swimming, riding bikes and camping, and we will be using our first topic book to refer to this in topic sessions. The class will also use real world toys and sensory materials to reenact different parts of the story to understand it in more depth while carrying out some role play.

Moving on into the third week, Meadow Class will continue onto our next story, “The Dot” by Peter H Reynolds and complete some making based on this story. We will be photocopying different pages from this book to support the pupil’s understanding of characterisation as well as different fonts and independent word/sentence writing.

Then, as we move into the fourth week the class will be looking at the last story for our topic which is “Hello Summer” by Jo Lindley. We also have our whole day community visit on the Wednesday this week, so please look out for letters in the next week or so about this. As we move into the last few weeks of the half term, Meadow Class will be doing some practising for our Sports Day on Monday 29^th June and looking forward to Papillon Summer Fun Day on Thursday 16^th July. The last few topic lessons will be based on what we have learnt about in this topic and will ultimately conclude “Summer Fun”. The class will also be carrying out some exciting summer-themed lessons throughout the term which I’m sure they will enjoy.

This half term, we will be aiming to visit Knights Garden Centre in Betchworth, Banstead Library (to visit the amazing Magic Table) as well as Leigh Playpark on our community visits. This half term, Meadow Class will also have the exciting opportunity to visit Dorking Leisure Centre for swimming lessons on Tuesday mornings which I know the class are very excited about, so please send in swimming kits on Tuesdays. Additionally, the children will also be going on a whole day class trip later in the half term based on our topic of “Summer Fun”.

In our maths lessons, Meadow Class will start exploring “To 20 and beyond” topics as well as using their skills to subtract numbers share and group numbers. During English sessions, some children are continuing to trace unfamiliar words, write independently using a pencil grip and slant (for specific OT targets), match words as well as use the summer-themed topic books as stimulus for role play experiences. Additionally, other children will be continuing to work on communicating with peers, choosing a preference from two/three options and showing pride in their work. As usual, we will continue to send new books home this half term every Friday with each child’s reading records.

The class will continue to carry out the Jigsaw PSHE sessions in class and our topic for PSHE this half term is ‘Changing Me’ where the children will be looking at thinking about the future and the idea that change happens but that it can be a good thing. For science sessions, Meadow Class will be starting some animal and physics-based sessions and our topics for these sessions this half term will be ‘From City to Sea’ and ‘Look All Around’.

Additionally, the class will be cooking different foods in cooking sessions on a Wednesday based on our “Summer Fun” topic with Teresa, which will include fruit ice lollies and a summer fruit skewer. The class will also have a chance to try out our new food curriculum from the “Food a Fact of Life” scheme of work during the half term. 

Alex and the Meadow Class Team