Welcome to Class 1

Summer Term 2

Welcome back everyone. We hope you have all had a relaxing half term break and are ready for what we can't believe will be our last half term together. Where has the year gone?!

Our main English focus will be based around a beautiful picture book entitled, 'Goldilocks and just the One Bear' by Leigh Hodgkinson. This funny and clever fairy tale is based on the familiar story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Many years have passed since Goldilocks caused chaos at the Bears' house in the woods, but what happens when Little Bear wanders out of his fairytale and into the big city where Goldilocks now lives? A fabulously funny book that is 'just right' for children aged 6! The rich, descriptive language in the text and wonderfully detailed illustrations will hopefully inspire some fantastic work.

Phonics will continue daily and sounds covered will be sent home weekly for practise. Our Phonics Screening Check will take place w/c 9th June. Home reading books will continue to reinforce sounds learnt and recognition of tricky 'red' words, alongside devloping comprehension, vocabulary and love of story.

In Maths, we will continue looking at place value, recognising 2 digit numbers as tens and ones. We will work on addition and subtraction, including crossing 10, identyfiying 1/10 more or less than any number to 100, and recognising number pairs to 10/20. We will develop recall of number facts, including doubles and halves to 10, and use these to solve simple word problems. We will look at simple multiplication and division, patterns in number, counting in lots of 2, 5 and 10, and repeated counting. We will measure and compare length, record information on pictograms and bar charts and look at time to the quarter hour on an analogue and digital clock.  We will look at coins and notes and their value and wil create repeating patterns using 2D shape.

Topic work has a Geography focus this half term. We will be considering the question 'Why do we love being beside the sea so much?' The primary objective of this enquiry is to enable pupils, as young geographers, to identify and begin to understand the key physical and human geographical features of the seaside as one example of the broader concept of ‘coasts’. We will learn about our wonderful local area, the things we love to do at the beach and the potential human impact on our environment. More details and a useful vocabulary list can be found in the Geography Knowledge Organiser below. 

In Science our topic focus is 'Seasonal Changes and Plants'. The children will look at the different type of weathers, weather reports and different ways to record and monitor the weather.  We will explore growing our own seeds and the conditions they need to grow well. The children will also look at the names of common plants, flowers and trees. The Science Knowledge Organiser contains more details in the link below.

In our Religious Educuation (R.E.) lessons, we will be finishing Branch 5: To the Ends of the Earth before moving on to Branch 6: Dialogue and Encounter. In this unit we will look at two other religions; Judaism - looking at the people, Passover and the book of Exodus; and Islam - where we will be looking at the links and connections between our religions. There will, as always, be lots of discussion and reflection.

Children will all be given 2 reading books per week and would all benefit from reading every night. Little and often is best! Homework and spellings will be sent out on Fridays to be handed in by the following Tuesday. We really appreciate your support in this matter. 

P.E. for Class 1 will be each Monday (tennis) and Wednesday (Athletics) and the children should come into school wearing their P.E. kits on these days. 

Fruit snacks are available daily free of charge. Fairtrade cookies are sold by Year Six children on Wednesdays for 40p and toast is for sale on Fridays for 20p.

Please check the class page regularly for updates and photographs of what we have been getting up to in class. 

Each child should have their own login details for both Purple Mash and Active Learn. Both online learning platforms offer a great range of learning activities that children enjoy in school.

Remember if you want to contact us, please use the email address [email protected]

-Many thanks 

Mrs Blair and Mrs Dennehy

If you need an extra link to reading activities. The Learn Live Read Channel will feature one Live read every week day at 10.00. Here's the link! https://learnliveuk.com/learn-live-read-channel/

Useful links

Active Learn Login

Purple Mash

Music Links

Mini Music Makers

RNSO music challenges

Stomp Style Body Percussion

Mental Health links:

• Children's Mental Health resources - for parents
• 5 minutes of fun
• Partnership for Children
• Family Togetherness
• Relax with Hollie
• Cbeebies Mindful Garden

Please also visit the school's dedicated mental health and well-being page for more information on where to get support.

Welcome to the Class One Learning Hub!

Click on the icons below which will take you straight to the website. The website will give you ideas and activities for their age related learning journey. We will add to this over time. Don't forget to look on Google Classroom for your latest activities!