Welcome to Yellow Class Years 1 and 2

Yellow Class teachers are Mrs Harris and Mrs Richardson

🌟Welcome back to another exciting term! We are looking forward to exploring our new topics 📚 and continuing our learning journey together 😊.

✏️ English

This term in English our learning will be centred around the exciting theme of Dinosaurs! 🦕We will be exploring a range of genres including writing instructions, letters ✉️ and poetry 📝. The children will enjoy creating their own dinosaur-themed pieces of writing and developing their vocabulary and sentence skills along the way.

🔢 Mathematics

This term in Mathematics:

🟦 Year 1 will be:

• Exploring numbers to 50 and developing their understanding of place value 🔢
• Learning about length and height 📏
• Investigating mass and capacity 🧪

🟩 Year 2 will be:

• Continuing multiplication ✖️ and division ➗
• Moving on to length and height 📏
• Learning about mass and capacity 🧪

🌍 Curriculum

We have lots of exciting learning planned across our wider curriculum:

🔬 Science – Continuing Animals including Humans
✈️ History – Learning about The First Flight and why it was such an important event
🙏 RE – Exploring creation stories and learning about beliefs and traditions from different cultures 🌎
🔧 Design & Technology – Investigating and creating mechanisms using levers

We also have some exciting events coming up:📚World Book Day☕ Mother’s Day Tea Party🐠Skegness Aquarium Trip

📚 Reading

Your child will be sent home with:
📒 A yellow reading diary
📖 A reading book

Please read with your child as often as possible and record each reading session in the yellow diary ✍️.
Each time your child reads, they will earn a raffle ticket 🎟️!

📘 Phonics books will come home on Wednesday and be collected in on Monday.
Please ensure your child brings their reading diary and current reading book into school every Monday so we can monitor progress throughout the term and year.

⚽ Physical Education (P.E.)

This term, P.E. will take place on:

📅 Monday – with JB Sport
📅 Thursday – with Mrs White and Mrs Evison

Please ensure your child comes to school wearing a suitable P.E. kit 👟.
Some sessions may take place outside, weather permitting ☀️🌧️.

🧥 Extra Housekeeping

Please ensure:
🏷️ All uniform is clearly labelled
🚰 Water bottles are in school daily and named
⌚ Watches are simple time-telling watches only (no games, voice recording or cameras)

This helps us keep everyone safe and organised 😊.

📩 Questions or Support

If you have any questions about your child’s progress, or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact the school office or arrange a meeting with us.

Thank you for your continued support 🙏