Welcome to Years 1 and 2

Yellow Class teachers are Mrs Hall and Mrs Richardson

🌟 Autumn Term 1 🌟

A very warm welcome back to school!

We hope you have all had a wonderful summer break and are ready for an exciting new school year. Whether your child is beginning Year 1 or moving into Year 2, we are really looking forward to welcoming everyone back, settling into our new routines and beginning another year of learning together.

We look forward to continuing to work closely with you to support your child throughout the year.

Our Learning This Half Term - Autumn Term 1 – Superheroes! 🦸

Our first topic is Superheroes! Our English learning will begin with All About Me before exploring some fantastic texts and characters, including Supertato, Juniper Jupiter, Even Superheroes Have Bad Days and The Boy with Flowers in His Hair.

The children will have lots of opportunities to develop their speaking, vocabulary, reading and writing. We will describe heroes and villains, create wanted posters, invent superheroes and sidekicks, explore feelings and discover that qualities such as kindness, courage and friendship can be superpowers too!

Across the curriculum, we will also be busy:

• 🌱 Science – Learning about plants, including parts of a plant, wild and garden plants, deciduous and evergreen trees and seeds.

• ⏳ History – Exploring What is History?, looking at our own chronology and investigating holidays in the past and how they have changed

• 💻 Computing – Exploring technology around us, developing mouse and keyboard skills and learning how to use computers responsibly.

• 🎨 Art – Exploring Sculpture and 3D: Paper Play, creating structures and developing our skills with paper.

• 🎵 Music – Learning through our Hey You! unit and exploring old-school hip hop.

• ✝️ RE – Exploring the question How are stories and celebrations linked?

• ❤️ PSHE – Learning about road safety, jealousy and mental wellbeing, helping children understand their feelings, stay safe and build positive relationships.

⏳ History – We Need Your Help!

As part of our What is History? learning, the children will explore their own lives and memories, using words such as past, present, before, after, now and a long time ago. We will also be thinking about holidays and special memories and how holidays have changed over time.

📸 Please send into school:

• One photograph of your child from any point in their life – perhaps as a baby, toddler or at a special event.
• A photograph from a holiday or day trip, if you have one.
• Children may also bring in a small, named holiday souvenir or memento to share – nothing valuable or fragile, please!

These will be used to help the children talk about their own timeline and memories. 

Please send photographs/items into school by Monday 7^th September.

📸 Sending Your Photos

Photos can be sent into school as printed copies. If you are unable to print them, please email them to the school office [email protected] and we will happily print them for you.

🔤 Phonics & Reading

Children will continue to develop their phonics and reading skills through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, with teaching and reading matched carefully to their individual stage.

📚 Reading books will be sent home every Wednesday and collected back in on Monday. Please enjoy reading regularly with your child at home. Re-reading books is incredibly valuable for developing fluency, confidence and understanding.

🔢 Maths

This half term, our main focus will be Place Value, helping children to develop a secure understanding of numbers and how they are made.

The children will practise counting, reading, writing, representing, comparing and ordering numbers, with activities carefully matched to the expectations for Year 1 and Year 2.

At home, you can help by counting everyday objects, spotting and reading numbers when you are out and about, and playing simple number and dice games. Little and often makes a big difference!  1-minute maths app | White Rose Education

⚽ PE Days – Wednesday and Thursday

Our PE days will be Wednesday and Thursday, with our JB Sports session taking place on Thursday. Our first PE lesson will beginning on Wednesday 9^th September.

Please send your child to school wearing their PE kit on PE days and make sure that all items, including shoes and jumpers, are clearly named.

🏡 How You Can Help at Home

Regular reading makes a huge difference, so please continue to share books and read with your child as often as possible.

You can also support learning through everyday activities – practising phonics and spellings, counting and using maths in real-life situations, encouraging independence and simply talking to your child about what they have been learning at school.

Please ensure that all clothing, shoes, PE kit, water bottles and belongings are clearly named.

We are really looking forward to another fantastic year together and seeing how much the children learn, grow and achieve.

If you have any questions, queries or concerns at any point, please speak to one of us or give the school a call. We are always happy to help and look forward to working closely with you throughout the year.

Here's to a fantastic first half term!🌟

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