Welcome back, everyone! We hope you have had a fantastic summer holiday and are looking forward to the new school year! We are so excited to getting to know you all and getting stuck into some super-learning opportunities. 

Year 1:

Our first class book this year is called The Bridges by Tom Percival.

Mia feels alone; so alone that it's as if she lives on a small island, far out to sea. But then one day, Mia is given a book - the first she has ever been able to call her own. As Mia reads the book, bridges appear and her island fills with colour and life. And the more Mia reads, the stronger the bridges become, opening up a world of connection and hope...

Because a book can take you anywhere...

We will be exploring the magic of reading and all the places it takes our main character, Mia. During our writing lessons, we will be focusing on our basic EGPS skills to ensure we have everything required to thrive as authors throughout the year. We will be doing lots of practice to ensure capital letters, finger spaces and full stops are included in our writing.

In maths, we will be getting stuck into number and place value within 10, which includes recognising numbers as words, counting forwards and backwards from given numbers and ordering objects and numbers on number lines. We will also begin to look at addition and subtraction within 10.

In History, we will be looking at the ‘Revolutionary Railways’! We will look at how the railway evolved during the Industrial Revolution and some key figures from our local area that supported this.

Our Geography topic will be all about ‘Our Amazing Country’! We will be focusing on the countries that form the United Kingdom, the capital cities in these countries and some exciting landmarks within each one.

Our science topic will see us exploring the different seasons, including how we know the season is changing, what the weather is like in each season and how the changing seasons affect us.

F2:

Our topic this term is ‘Ourselves’. In this topic, we will learn about what makes us, us! We will be talking about ourselves, our friends, our families and how we have changed since we were babies.

Throughout this topic, we will be learning to recognise and write our names, a wide range of new vocabulary to use in day-to-day conversations and recognising similarities and differences between ourselves and others. Each week, our learning will be centred around a different fiction or non-fiction book.

The first stories in our ‘Ourselves’ learning journey are “You Choose”, “Super Duper You” and “A Superpower Like Mine”.

We will use these stories to help us discuss and recognise features of texts. We will have lots of fun practically exploring these stories as well as designing a front cover to a book all about us.

Please have a look at our Autumn Term Curriculum Map to see what we will be covering throughout the term.

 

Important Information:

• Our PE day is: Monday.     *Remember to remove earrings*
• Homework will be given out on a Friday and is due the following Thursday.
• Our Rhino Readers and library books will be changed every Friday.

 

How can I help my child at home?

Make sure you read with your child at least 5 times per week

Help your child to complete their weekly spelling and handwriting homework to develop key skills

Ensure your child completes their maths fluency activity every week.

Please make sure you complete your homework weekly, five reads every week, arrive in the correct PE kit and have an attendance of 96% or above to be ‘In It To Win It’!

We are looking forward to a fantastic year together in F2/1P, and we hope to continue to be...

'Be the Best we can Be'.