Spring Term 2026

Welcome to Dosbarth Daffodils class page.

During your child’s early years, developing their independence is essential. It promotes confidence and self-esteem as well as motivation and perseverance in school. Children love to take on responsibilities. Please encourage them to communicate, make choices and carry out some parts of your daily routine. Eventually they’ll be able to carry out tasks by themselves. Start with hand washing, toileting, getting dressed, putting on their shoes and zipping up their coats. Teach them to take care of pets at home. There are lots of other practical things that you can do to help prepare your child for school. If your child is not yet as confident in some of these things then please use this time to practice these important skills.

Home link: Can your child name their main body parts? What different ways can they move around the room? Can they run/jump/skip/hop/roll? Moving to music is a great motivation for the whole family. Enjoy action songs together! There are many number songs and rhymes which are fantastic for developing early counting skills.

Our concept this term is ‘Community’, this will help the children to make sense of the world they live in. The children are naturally curious about the people around them, how things work and where they belong. The concept ‘Community’ will begin to help the children to understand that they are part of something bigger than their immediate family. Learning about our community will help them practise sharing, cooperating and recognising the needs of others. These are the foundations of empathy. The children will learn about how people and places are connected. They will be talking about who they help, who helps them and the people who help in our community providing the children with rich languages experiences through stories, activities and role play. They will be finding out about the places they can visit in Neath and what they can do in there. The children will be describing their favourite local place and learn to give reasons why it is special to them. Together we will discuss which materials were used to construct buildings in our local area and question why these materials were chosen. We will explore both natural and human-made materials to find out about the different properties. The children will be working together to create a small world models of places of interest, beginning to develop an understanding directions and maps. We will talk about how humans can have a positive or negative impact on our area and what we can do to help. Artwork will be produced to remind people in our community to keep our local area litter-free.

Home link: We are very lucky to have so many places to visit in our local area. We would love to have photographs of your child out and about exploring the different places to visit for our class display this term. Please email any photo’s you have of your child enjoying; the Gnoll Park, Victoria Gardens, the Gwyn hall cinema, Neath Library etc to stjosephsprimary@npt.school. Many thanks for your continued support! Mrs Edwards

Your child will take part in nature activities through our Forest School sessions where they will observe seasonal changes, watching the weather, trees and wildlife around them as winter changes to spring.

Please click here for our termly plan.

Through our RE scheme the children will explore, ‘Ways of Knowing’, with the children’s learning being driven by the questions;

What will I see and hear to help me understand?
How will I discover more?
What can I do now?

Please click here for our termly RE plan.

The children will hear and see the words and actions of the Sign of the Cross: “In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.” They will join in with our class and school prayers and take part in services and celebrations in Mass.

Our Class Prayer

Dear Jesus,

Thank you for my friends,

Thank you for my classroom,

Please help me to share, look after the toys and listen to my teachers.

Amen.

TenTen

TenTen is a resource that we use for Religious Education in school. Please click the links below for their latest newsletter and links to daily prayer.

http://www.tentenresources.co.uk/prayers-for-home/parent-newsletter/

We follow the Read Write Inc programme to learn letter sounds and blends and begin to word build. Please support your child’s learning by revising sounds, blends and word building at home.

Please click on the links in blue to access activity sheets:

Letter formation

Number formation

Pencil control

How can I help to prepare my child for school?

Enjoy singing nursery rhymes together. How many can you learn?

Weekly Reminders

Please provide your child with a drink bottle daily. Fruit can be brought in to school, or school will provide fruit daily for a cost of £1 per week.

Monday: Whole school assembly. £1 fruit money. Forest School afternoon.

Tuesday Infant assembly. PE kits – All full time pupils must bring a kit to school. Kits may be left in school until half term.

Wednesday: Music session with Mrs James (fortnightly).

Thursday: Library session with Mrs Adams. Please return library books by the following Thursday.