Children attend the ARP from Key Stage One (years 1 and 2). Therefore the ARP curriculum incorporates both topics from across these year groups as well as incorporating skills from EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage), where appropriate.

Welcome to the ARP- Hazel Class

Summer Term 2 2024

This half term our new text will be ‘The Great Explorer’ by Chris Judge. We will retell the story using pictures to help us and we will follow instructions to create our own hot air balloons! We will try to name all the different kinds of transport Tom uses to complete his incredible journey! We will then read ‘Rapunzel’ and look at different versions of the story and say why we do or don’t like them. We will use the story as a model to help us to create our own tower stories.

In phonics we will continue working on our Phase 3 sounds. We will say the sounds for the graphemes ‘or’ and ‘ow’ and revisit the trigraph ‘igh’. We will practise our oral blending and segmenting- saying t-or-n and then blending it to make ‘torn’, or saying ‘down’ then segmenting it to say d-ow-n.

In maths we will be exploring position and direction and using vocabulary like ‘on’, ‘under’, ‘above’, ‘below’, ‘behind’ and ‘next to’. We will partition numbers into a ten and ones and begin to recognise and use coins of different values.

At home, please encourage your child to practise counting out loud to 20 and beyond. Don’t forget to tell them to go backwards as well– and to try starting from different numbers! When they are confident at this, try counting with them in 2s to 10 then 20! Please keep using Bug Club to support our learning in phonics too.  

Mrs Tweddle