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Summer 1

Our New Topic for Summer Term 1 is ‘Foods of Birmingham and the UK’.

Over the coming weeks, the children will be exploring a range of themes each week to explore different foods and how these link to the varied cosines and cultures we may experience in our local area of Birmingham and across the UK. 

We will be using the book ‘Which food will you choose?’ to help us explore different types of foods, colours and shapes. We will be talking about food in our city of Birmingham and trying new foods. The themes include: Colour and Shape, Fruit and Vegetables. We will then be hopefully ending our half temly topic with our Birmingham food related 'dining club'.

To start this half term we have the exciting opportunity to take part in our Orchard Pathway Art Project with 'Common Grounds Art'. This will be  great opportunity for the children to explore colour and shape as part of our learning and produce a final piece of art to be displayed locally in the Birmingham MAC.

All of our learning will linked to the themes above to help us create an immersive learning environment. We will also working on our long term and individual weekly learning targets every day.  

We will continue to have swimming on Wednesday mornings and PE every Thursday afternoon. This half-term we will continue to focus on body management. We will also continue with our wonderful Jo Jingles sessions on Friday afternoons.  

Please keep checking our Class Dojo page for any updates or changes. 

Spring 2

Our New Topic for Spring Term 2 is ‘Birmingham and the UK’. Each week will have a different theme to support our learning journey. We will be using the book ‘Birmingham Boy’ to help us explore our local area and talk about Birmingham as a city in the UK. The themes include: Transport, My House / My Family and Road Safety. 

Our learning will link to the themes to create an immersive learning environment. We will also work on our individual learning targets every day.  

We will continue to have swimming on Wednesday mornings and PE every Thursday afternoon. This half-term we will be focusing on body management. We will also be having Forest School every Friday morning this half term (we will remind you on Dojo when this is!) followed by Jo Jingles in the afternoon.  

Please keep checking our Class Dojo page for any updates or changes. 

The children have loved looking at different maps and pictures during our 'Birmingham and the UK' topic. We have been using claps and rhythm to help us remember the name of our city Bir-ming-ham. The children had the opportunity to explore different types of houses, the 4 different countries of the UK and their associated flags, anthems and national flowers. To help the children understand the size of the UK we also explore different vehicles used to get around the UK and incorporated these into our play. During the final weeks of our topic we explored more of our local area by having a look at our own front doors to see if we could identify them. A key part to exploring is staying safe so the children carried out a week of road safety sessions to experience the traffic light system (Green for go, yellow for wait or slow down and red to stop!) and how to walk and cross the road safely - Stop! Look. Listen. Cross.

We then ended our wonderful topic by celebrating Easter with our lovely Easter bonnet parade where the children got to show off their wonderful creations both from home and in school. Well done crickets! 

Spring 1

Our New Topic for Spring Term 1 is ‘Snow White.’ We will be theming our learning weekly, to learn about different aspects of the story. The themes include: Emotions, Stranger Danger, Friendships and Differences.

Our learning will link to the themes to create an immersive learning environment. We will also have a live performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by M&M productions.

We will have swimming on a Wednesday morning and PE every Friday morning. This half-term we will be focusing on gym.

Please keep checking our Class Dojo page for any updates or changes.

The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring our Snow white theme throughout the half term. We had lots of opportunities to explore our emotions with the help of 7 dwarves as well as counting up to and beyond 7. The children learnt about forest animals, friendship and differences and had great fun using their art skills to create a woodland wonderland for out Let’s Connect afternoon.  

 Our Let's Connect event was a huge success! Across the Orchard pathway, we created an immersive Snow White experience which included a music room, an enchanted forest and a breakout sensory space. In Crickets class, we created a wonderful woodland for Snow white and her friends. There were forest animals, sticks, leaves and messy soil for the children to experience a woodland walk within our classroom.  

 

Autumn Term 

Welcome to Crickets class. We are a class of 10 children and we follow the Orchard pathway.

Mr Lee is our class teacher and our wonderful teaching assistants are Michelle, Daxa, Taekia and Cameron.

On Tuesday (AM) and Thursday (All day), Miss Guest is our class teacher.

Autumn 2

Our topic for Autumn 2 is 'Victorian Christmas'. Over the next 7 weeks we will visit a number of Christmas themes. These will include Christmas trees, black and white and food. At the end of Autumn term 2 we will have a Christmas Victorian market where the children will make a number of different items to sell.

Throughout the term, the children will have swimming lessons on a Wednesday morning and PE on a Monday afternoon. 

Autumn 1

This half term we will spend the first 2 weeks getting to know each other, our new environment and making new friends and relationships. For the remainder of the half term our topic is ‘Painters'.

We will share our learning journey through daily updates via Dojo and half-term updates on the website, so keep a look-out!