Foundation 2 2024 - 2025

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Spring Term 2025

We are on our second full term already and the children are working hard to remember and follow our school values.  They show an amazing growth mindset working and playing hard inside and out.

This term the Big Question we will use to link lots our of learning and thinking is...  

How Could We Help?

We are using stories and the changing seasons to think and talk about how we could help in different ways; from helping animals in winter, pets, and pond animals to helping other eachother be the best version of ourselves.  Lots of our learning will be done through our key texts:

We will continue to revise all the letters abd sound we have been introduced to so far to read simple words and sentences and to write words and simple sentences.

The Curriculum page on the website helps you find out more about each subject. Please familiarise yourself with the document "Foundation 2 at Brookdale"  which can be downloaded at the bottom of this page and provides more information about our curriculum and our approach to learning in F2.

Supporting learning (and playing) at home.

Teach Your Monster To Read is a great resource to support those literacy skills

Monteray Bay Aquarium Live webcams of all sorts of animals including otters, jellyfish and the coral reef.

Nature School Some lovely activities - you will recognise some that you have completed already.

RSPB Also offers some lovely nature related activities.

Learning Through Landscapes Even more outdoors activities! Let's hope for good weather.

Whiterose Maths continue to keep maths ideas flowing based around a book. You can usually find someone reading the book online if you search around.

Most of you have accessed Oxford Reading Owl which has a free library. Aim for Phase 2 or 3 books from Letters and Sounds in the pulldown menu.

Starfall is a new website I found recently. Although American it has some good resources matching UK curriculum.

Most of you have found Mr Mc  for phonics videos. Love him or hate him, we can only applaud his efforts of keeping phonic teaching going through lockdown.

Phonics Play are giving free access to their games - Phase 2 and 3 are where you should aim for. 

Phonics Bloom as above.

Ace Early Years have lots of ideas for English, maths, outdoors and funky finger type activities.

Don't forget the Oak National Academy offers structured lessons on video for English, Maths and across the curriculum (Foundation) activies.

You can also look out for virtual days at Chester Zoo, Longleat Safari Park and I might have seen Knowsley too.

Some good websites for keeping active and fit...

Cosmic Kids Yoga  5 - 20 minute workouts.

Andy’s Wild Workouts 

Just Dance clips e.g. Gummy Bear 

Go Noodle e.g.  Dinosaur Stomp

Just For Fun Supermovers