Welcome to Class 1 – Spring Term 1!

This half-term, our Class 1 children are embarking on an exciting new term full of curiosity, creativity, and discovery!

In Key Stage 1, we’ll be inspired by Little Red Riding Hood in English, using the story to write our own “defeating the monster” tales. We’ll continue developing grammar skills, including conjunctions, speech, and suffixes, and enjoy reading a range of traditional tales leading up to a fairytale ball. In Maths, Year 1 will focus on numbers to 40 and comparing height and length, while Year 2 will explore mass, temperature, pictograms, and word problems. Our Science topic, Everyday Materials, will help us investigate objects around us, learn why materials are chosen for different purposes, and explore their properties.

We’ll travel back in time in History, learning about schools in the past and comparing classrooms from different eras. In RE, children will explore what it means to belong to a faith community, learning about Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and how people celebrate weddings and other special occasions. In DT, children will explore mechanisms and wheels to design, build, and evaluate escape cars for Little Red Riding Hood, applying their Science knowledge on materials. In Music, children will develop their understanding of call-and-response, patterns, and dynamics using animal sounds. In PE, we’ll focus on the fundamentals of dance, practising travelling actions, balancing, and counting to music. During PSHE, children will explore money, including earning, spending, and safe ways to keep it. In Computing, we’ll build word-processing skills, learning to format text, insert images, and edit our work effectively.

In Early Years, our Reception children will continue developing communication, confidence, and independence. We’ll focus on two-step instructions, asking questions, and speaking in full sentences using conjunctions. Children will explore numbers to 10, addition, and comparing sets, while in English they’ll enjoy traditional tales, write short captions, and continue with the Sounds-Write Phonics Scheme. Through Understanding the World, children will explore schools in the past and begin to understand what it means to belong to a faith community, including different celebrations. Physical Development will focus on fine motor skills, like holding scissors and pencils correctly, as well as gross motor skills through dance and construction activities. Reception children will also enjoy Expressive Arts & Design, creating their own cars and experimenting with different tools and materials.

It’s going to be a wonderful term full of imaginative storytelling, hands-on learning, and creative exploration!

Warm regards,
The Class 1 Team

Mrs Stockport, Mrs Davis, Mrs Robinson and Miss Bailey