The Bumble Bees at The Hive Autumn 2025 Our learning this term In Autumn 1, our theme will be ‘All about me’. We will be focusing on these texts:
Autumn key learning My Communication
My World
My Personal Development
We will be exploring characters, setting and the theme of friendship. We will be looking at time travel texts.
We will be exploring our family and where we live and our locality. We will also learn about how homes were built and what homes around the world look like. We will apply our knowledge of what materials could be used to build our own homes.
We will be focussing on settling in, making new friends, our behaviour for learning targets and our personal independence targets.
We will be looking at sensory storytelling, sequencing activities, sentence writing, and creative tasks.
In Autumn 2, our theme will be ‘Toys and homes From the past’. These will be our focus texts:
We will also be learning all about what makes humans and plants grow and all about spiders.
We will be developing our footballing skills by learning to kick a ball, dribble and pass.
My Creativity
My Thinking
Special events
We will be learning songs about our bodies, making our own spiders, drawing self portraits, taste testing foods we like from home and making our own paper dolls.
We will be looking at early number skills, counting, place value and measurement (capacity & volume).
Bonfire Night Diwali Halloween Christmas
Phonics
We will be learning about rhythm and beat using sticks, stones and body percussion to make our own Stone Age soundscapes
In phonics, we will continue in our groups, with some pupils looking at Phase 3 sounds and some pupils looking at Phase 5.