Otters (year 1) - Miss C. Wilkins
Rabbits (year 1) - Miss P. Sparkes
Hedgehogs (year 2) - Mrs S. Bennett and Mrs L. Jones
Squirrels (year 2) - Mrs F. Smith and Miss E. James

We are looking forward to an exciting and inspiring Autumn term.

Our topic for the Autumn Term is People who help us and throughout the term we will be developing skills in Science, D.T, Geography and History. We will start the term with some PSHE lessons which will focus on our school rules, following rules and friendship.

In Geography, we will use ariel photographs to look at human and physical features. We will use our school grounds to develop our knowledge and understanding of the environment around us and hopefully the weather will be kind to use and we will be able to get out and about to explore!  In Science, we will be learning about everyday materials, identifying everyday materials and their uses. We will carry out some scientific enquiry to investigate materials and their uses, Year 1 will also become season detectives and hunt for signs of Autumn! In term two we will be learning about a significant person in History. We will be studying Neil Armstrong and comparing him to the modern day astronaut Tim Peake. We have a fantastic surprise for the children to immerse them into space life at the beginning of term two! In D.T we will continue the space theme and will be designing and making some moving rocket pictures using sliders.

You will not need to bring your PE kits to school but you can wear your PE kits on our PE days. Some PE lessons will be outside and hopefully the weather will stay dry, but please make sure the children are wearing appropriate clothing. Please remember children should be wearing stud earrings to school and these need to be covered or taken out for PE lessons.

Homework will be sent home on Mondays to be completed by Friday. On Seesaw there are links and websites which the children can access. Children can upload any homework they complete on Seesaw or they can keep a record in their Reading Link book. Any homework children complete will be rewarded.

You can support us by listening to your child read regularly and support them with their phonics. An R1 and a tally will be given each time your child reads at home. This can also include books read at home which are not your child’s reading record. At the end of term, a raffle will be drawn based on the tallies and the winner will get a small prize. Please remember to sign children’s reading records to let us know they have read so they can earn their raffle tickets. As well as this you could watch Numberblocks, play Maths games on the White Rose app, practice phonics using the Phonics Play website and practice reading and spelling the red words from your child’s colour bookmark.

We look forward to a fun and exciting Autumn Term.