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                              Miss King                              Miss Hydes                             Miss Langham                           Mrs Davis                                                                                                                                       

Welcome back to Year 1- Spring  2025

A  warm welcome back to the second half of the spring term! We have many more learning opportunities planned for the next six weeks, as we launch into our new topic:
'Where Des My Food Come From?"  

Our main English text we will be focusing on during the first three weeks is the traditional tale 'The Little Red Hen.' The children will start with orally performing the story using the 'Whoosh' drama technique then they will move on to creating story maps, shafed writing and then orally creating and writing their own narrative version of the tale. We will be sending home copies of story maps that we have created, as a whole class, to support with learning the structure of the story and repetitive text. This will help the children to make simple changes to the story, to make it their own.

The final three weeks will be centered around our DT and Geography topic of 'Where Dooes My Food Come From?' The children will be making bread as well as funky fruit salads. They will be introduced to instructional writing, writing up their own instructions for how to thr bread and fruit salads. 

Vlad and The Great Fire of  London- It is 1666 and Vlad the flea and his friend Boxton the rat, love eating and biting their way around London.
But one night in Pudding Lane they are caught up in a fire that threatens to destroy them, along with most of the City of London.

 Over the half term, we will also be learning:

• • Maths–  Number: Place Value (Within 50), Measurement: Length and Height/ Weight and Volume 
  • Science- Plants and Seasonal Change
  • Computing –  Grouping Data
  • RE – Special Books
  • DT -  Cooking- Making bread and Fruit Salad
  • PSHE – Health and Wellbeing
  • Geography- Where Does My Food Come From?
  • PE - Gynmnastics and Cricket.
  • Music- Singing and composing.

 Knowledge Organisers:

Key Dates for Spring 2-TBC

PE and Outdoor Learning

In the Spring 2, PE takes place every Monday and alternate Thursdays (along with Outdoor Learning). 

 PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL WITH THEIR PE KIT FROM MON 24th February. PE kits will remain in school until the end of term To promote independence in dressing and for hygiene reasons please DO NOT send your child to school in their PE kit. Outdoor PE kit are also needed as our PE lessons will take place outside weather permitting. 

PE kit consists of a plain white t-shirt, black shorts, black jogging bottoms/leggings, trainers/black plimsols, jogging jacket.
EVERY ITEM MUST BE NAMED

 The children will take part in Outdoor Learning every other week and they will need wellies, warm clothing and a waterproof coat. Outdoor Learning kit will need to be brought into school (see timetable below) in a named bag.

  Please see PE/OL timetable for this half term below: 

                          Homework in Year 1 - Take Care of My Work.

Reading - Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week. This could be any adult or an older sibling or friend. Please ensure that reading at home is recorded in the communication diary and signed by an adult. Every little bit of reading really does help children on the learning journey. Children who read at least three times a week will be 'levelled up' on our whole school Good to Be Green system on a Friday.

Spelling - We send home spellings every Friday, which are linked to the 'graphemes' and 'harder to read and spell words', that we have taught that week. We ask that you could spend some time reading and spelling these words at home. We test on the following Friday. Feel free to send in any work you do at home to support with this as we love to celebrate this in the classroom!

 Maths - Your child's login details for Numbots and TTRockstars is in their communication diary. Spending 5 mins each day on these applications each week will support your child to develop their number fluency. 

TTRockstars Login -  https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

Numbots Login - https://play.numbots.com/#/account/search-school 

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