In The Meadow, the class teacher is Mrs. Berry. The Meadow are supported in their learning by Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Purkiss in the morning and Miss. Stott and Mrs. Purkiss in the afternoons.

If you have any questions, please come and speak to Mrs. Berry. If she is not around at the beginning and end of the day, you can contact the school office and request an appointment. 

Keep referring back to this page for regular updates about the children's learning. 

Throughout each half term, we cover 2-3 key texts that drive our learning and give us opportunities to read, write, learn new language and concepts, and experience the wider world.

Keep your eye out in your child's bag for the vocabulary cards linked to our key text that come home each week. These cards are designed to be shared together daily and support understanding and language development.

This half term we will cover the following brilliant books:

• Owl babies by Martin Waddell
• Penguin by Polly Dunbar
• Shhh! We have a plan by Chris Haughton

Along with each text comes a new engagement curriculum centred around the story and its characters. An engagement curriculum begins with the child's interests and focuses around a key text. From there, we plan activities that excite and engage attention and provide learning through play-based and sensory experiences.

We have incorporated English, maths, expressive arts and design and knowledge and understanding of the world through our engagement curriculum. Through the craft and writing elements we have been working hard on our fine motor and scissor skills.

In addition to the engagement curriculum, we have an overarching topic. Our current topic for the next 3 weeks is:

• Dangerous dinosaurs.

Our core word/s teaching functional language this week is :

• W/B 26th January 2026: 'see'.
• W/B 2nd February 2026: 'up' and 'down'.
• W/B 9th February 2026: 'in' and 'out'.

Please support your child at home by learning some of the signs and modelling the words in context. the more opportunities children have to see, hear and use new language, the more learning takes place.