Year 1

Welcome back after the Easter break. We hope you had a good Easter Holiday (without eating too much chocolate!) and are refreshed and ready for another busy half term. We have lots of exciting things planned connected to our topic, including working with an artist.

Just like last half term, the classroom door will be open at 8.55am and will close for school to begin at 9.00am. Please ensure your children arrive on time each day so they can have a speedy, focussed start to learning. Anyone arriving after 9am needs to come in through the office rather than the classroom door.

This term, we will be starting a new topic of “What’s up the Beanstalk?” This will feed through our Science, Geography, Art and Literacy.

Literacy

This half term we will be looking at Traditional Tales, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, but we will be taking a twisted approach to looking at the stories.

We will then be writing instructions linked to science as we plant our own beanstalks.

Year 1 will also be looking at Spring Poems to link with their science work connected to the Seasons.

Maths

Year 1 will be learning about:

• Addition and subtraction to 20
• Place value to 50
• Multiplication and Division
• Weight and Capacity

Year 2 will learning about:

• Division
• Fractions

Science

Year 1 will be:

• identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
• identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.
• learning about the different senses

Year 2 will be:

• learning animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults.
• Describing the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.
• observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants
• find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

Topic

In Topic we will be completing a range of different activities related to our Plants topic including:

• Researching different plants, flowers and trees.
• Art related to plants. Reading books and records

Thank you for your continued support.

Year 1 – Miss R Holyoak, Mrs H Street & Mrs M Richardson
Year 2 – Miss C Gibson & Mrs J Wood