Summer 1 EYFS

Date: 15th Apr 2026 @ 10:46pm

Welcome Parents and Children!

We are so excited to welcome everyone back for the Summer term. This term is packed with hands-on learning, curiousity, outdoor discovery, creativity, and lots of opportunities for the children to explore, question, create, and grow in confidence.

Our Topic: What’s in the Garden?

We will encourage the children to explore how living things grow and change, what plants need to survive, and where minibeasts like to live. There will be lots of opportunities for observation, discussion, practical investigation, and imaginative play looking at:

• Life cycles of a frog, butterfly and chick:
  - Planting and growing
  - Minibeasts
  - Minibeast habitats                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Books We Will Enjoy

Lola Plants a Garden
Jasper’s Beanstalk
Supertato
Errol’s Garden
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

These stories will help spark the children’s imagination, introduce new vocabulary, and support our learning across communication, understanding the world, literacy, and creative development.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will support children to:
- Identify and moderate their own feelings
- Manage their own needs
- Begin to think about the perspectives of others
- Develop confidence and independence

Physical Development

We will focus on developing the fundamental movement skills the children have already acquired. We will help them when:
- Developing body strength
- Improving coordination, balance and agility
- Preparing for future PE learning

Expressive Arts and Design

We will continue to nurture creativity by encouraging children to:

- Refine and develop ideas
- Explore music and dance
- Play instruments to express ideas and feelings

Looking Ahead

Across the term, children may be busy planting seeds, going on minibeast hunts, exploring stories, creating artwork, singing songs, moving in different ways, and talking about how they feel. 

We look forward to continuing to develop and support the children on this exciting adventure. Thank you for your continued support as we work together to make this a happy, inspiring, and successful Summer term for every child.

We cannot wait to see all the fantastic learning that grows from our garden topic.