Ladybirds
Welcome to Ladybirds Class
Curriculum Newsletters
2025 - 2026
We've had a busy Spring term and had lots of exciting days!
We had a fun Science Day at school! Everyone got involved in different experiments and activities, trying new things and learning along the way.
We had World Book Day where we all dressed up as all our favourite characters!
We celebrated Chinese New Year !
This term in English we've been exploring lots of different classic poems
PSHE-This term in PSHE, the children loved learning all about People Who Help Us! We explored important jobs such as doctors, firefighters and teachers, and talked about how they help keep us safe and healthy. The children had great fun trying on costumes, role-playing different jobs and acting out real-life situations.
Maths- This week in maths, the children had lots of fun exploring shapes through exciting, hands-on activities! They enjoyed playing with sensory trays, building with concrete resources and taking part in interactive games to discover all about 2D and 3D shapes.
English- we are learning about classic poetry. We have been exploring activities linked to the rhyme 'Humptey Dumptey'.
Christmas Art- We have all taken part in a range of Christmas art activities over the last few weeks!
Getting festive! We all helped decorate our class Christmas tree. We selected which decoration we wanted to add and took turns to put them on with support.
Christmas Play- we all enjoyed taking part in 'Higgledy Piggledy' Nativity- here are some picture of in our costumes adding our Christmas baubles to the tree!
Saint Andrews day!
Children in Need!
Phase 2 Phonics
We have been exploring sounds and letters through a variety of different practical activities including computing.
Long and Short
We have been exploring long and short in our environment. We have found different natural materials that a long and ones that are short.
One More One Less
Today we have enjoyed a number song called Wiggly Worms. We added one more from 1 to 5 and showed this on our fingers and then did this with one less. We then enjoyed sensory trays and exploring numerals together.
Fossils and Rocks in Explanation Texts and Science
In Science we have been thinking about rocks and in particular fossils linking our learning together. We have been thinking about what we could find in fossils e.g. footprints, animals and patterns.
Number
Here are a few of the number activities we have completed this term
Managing Feelings
We have explored managing our feelings in a variety of different ways including sensory and practical. We have enjoyed making colour monsters using salad spinners and explore how colour can be associated with emotions and feelings.
Caveman Drawings
We have been looking at the book The First Drawing and within our English lessons and History lessons we have been thinking about the marks that people have made on caves. We have been role playing some of these characters and making different marks in different areas of the classroom.
2d Shapes
We have been exploring shape within our mathematics lessons. We have been looking at 2d shapes and describing what we can see. Our favourite activities have been the messy ones!
Jeans for Genes Day
Today (19th September 2025) we celebrated Jeans for Genes Day. We got to wear jeans or our own clothes to school. We explored a jeans fine motor tray, designed our own pair of jeans and also decided things that make us unique e.g. clothing, size, eyes, hair and personality attributes.
Shape Hunt
Today we have been on a shape hunt. We looked through the maths magnifying glasses to help us look for shapes in the environment. Look we what we found!
What makes a good leader ? (RE)
In our RE we have been exploring Christianity (The Church) and what makes a good leader. We have been exploring appropriate religious artefacts of what is important to Christians. We enjoyed a role play tuff tray of the people in our homes and what makes them leaders and important to us. We then had a very fun messy tray on a love potion of all the important leaders that we love eg. fathers, mothers, vicars, imam, rabbi etc.
Movement and Balance
In our PE lessons this week we have been looking at balance. We have been using our cores to practise balancing on scooters and bikes and trying to balance on the balance bikes. In MATP we have been practising balance in mobility and dexterity to knock over the skittles.
Bronze Age in History and Early Art
We have been looking at the Bronze/Neolithic age and Early Art. We have been making our own cave man for our display and making cave drawing artwork together. Ladybirds class have thought about colours and how they mix for new colours and this helped us to think about what they would have used in these times for their paintings.
Cave Baby
We have started our story today called Cave Baby. We thought about where the story was set and how a cave is a dark space. We had a cave set up inside and outside the classroom and explored cave drawings and props within this.
Managing Feelings
In PSHE we are focusing on managing feelings. To start with we have distinguished four feelings of happy, sad, angry and excited. We enjoyed listening to different music that represented this feelings and painted alongside this with green, red, blue and yellow.
France
We have been exploring France in our French lessons and learning about what is important to them as a country. We have made our very own flag and explored important items to people in France.
Fine Motor Skills
Today we have enjoyed a fine motor and writing lesson. We have been making marks with line patterns and writing our name in preparation for cave drawings.