Happy New Year and welcome back to school! We hope you had a wonderful break and are feeling refreshed and ready to begin the new term. We are excited to see all of our Key Stage 1 students return and are looking forward to a fantastic year ahead.

This term promises to be filled with fun, learning, and many exciting activities. We will explore new subjects, build on our skills, and work together as a team to make the most of every opportunity. Our classroom will be a place of curiosity, creativity, and discovery, and we are thrilled to be on this journey with all of you.

We also want to remind our families that we are here to support you every step of the way. If you ever have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out.

Let’s make this term our best one yet. We look forward to seeing the amazing progress and growth in every student!

Once again, Happy New Year and welcome back to school!

Did you see all the amazing learning we completed last half term?  Don't forget to check our webpage and class dojo each week which will be updated with our new learning, important dates and messages.

PE Days (Sending and Receiving skills) - Monday- Indoor PE kit

Please no earrings

Homework -

Power Maths books will be sent home for children to complete at their leisure.  This is a useful resource and additional practise at home will be benefit your child's numeracy skills.

Reading books- 3 times per week- Please record this in your child's diary.

TT rockstars- Please play this weekly.

Picture News- Will be sent home weekly for you to engage as you wish.

Extra dojos will be awarded for completed homework tasks.

This half term our topics will include:

Literacy-     Traditional/Twisted Tales

Maths-        3d shape continued, addition/subtraction, Multiplication/ Division

Science-     Plants

RE-             Special People, meals

History-       Queen Victoria

Computing- Online Safety, Beebots

RHE-           Emotional wellbeing, life cycles

PE-              Sending and receiving skills, ball skills

Music-         Hands, feet, heart

Art-              Formal elements of art

Spring 1, week 6, w/c 10/2/25

Spring 1, week 5, w/c 3/2/25

In preparation for our Instructional writing in Literacy, the children have been learning all about the features of this text type.  They have enjoyed playing Verb and Adverb charades with their friends.

Spring 1, week 4, w/c 27/01/2025

Spring 1, week 3, w/c 20/01/2025

Past tense fun and games!

We played a game in pairs and trios to practise changing present tense to the past tense equivalent.  The person with the most correctly spelt past tense verbs at the end of the game won 3 dojo points!

Spring 1, week 2, w/c 13/01/2025

In history, the children have started their new topic, Queen Victoria.  We will be exploring the questions: 

What gives someone the right to rule?

What values make a good ruler?

Spring 1, week 1, w/c 06/01/2025:

Despite an unexpected extra day off due to the snow, the children have settled back into the new year and school life brilliantly. They have been extremely sensible during the indoor play time and we hope the ice will have thawed by next week so that we can get out in the fresh air and expel some energy and have lots of fun.

Literacy

In whole class writing, we are exploring the narrative 'Jim and the Beanstalk' by Raymond Briggs.  It is an unusual take on the traditional tale 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.  This week, we have been learning and retelling the story with pictures and in groups using Pie Corbett actions.  Over the next two weeks, we will be writing our own narrative based on this story.