Welcome to Hedgehog Class

Welcome back to the final half term of the school year, the time seems to have flown by. We have lots of fun things happening this half term including our trio to Wisley Gardens, a fun morning of practically solving fraction problems and of course Sports Day.

In English, we are going to be reading "Dadaji's Paintbrush " by Rashmi Sirdeshpande.  During the three weeks of exploring this text, we will be practising sentence writing, including writing compound sentences. The children will also be using apostrophes and practising using verb endings correctly when writing a factfile and also using a variety of sentences to write their own naratives.    Later in the half term we will work with the book "The Magic Bed" by John Burningham.

In maths, we will be focusing on position and direction before revisiting Place Value, but this time looking at numbers up to 100. We will finish the term by focusing on money and then time. As the children complete a unit of work from White Rose, we assess them to gain their overall understanding of the unit.  The data collected from that is then used to plan future consolidation sessions to ensure all gaps are covered.  The assessment they complete is sent home with them so you can see how they got on.  The assessments are done in small groups, and the children enjoy showing off what they can do!

In Year One, our foundation subjects are usually taught in the afternoon, and we block teach our subjects.  Music, PSHE and PE are all taught weekly.  Our afternoon learning this half term will start with Science, where we will be learning about our pollinators and we will use our visit to Wisley Garden to consolidate the work we will do in school. We will also be be learning to programme the Beebots in computing, looking at the local area in Geography, revisiting our learning about Christianity in RE and finishing the term with an art project about minibeasts.

Please catch me in the playground if you have any questions.

Mrs Salter

General reminders:

Our PE lessons are on Friday afternoons. We will also be visiting the Library on Friday's and the children need to bring their library books in then so that they can choose a new book.

Please bring reading books to school every day - we will normally change them on a Monday.

Now that the weather is going to be getting warmer please can you ensure your child has a water bottle in school every day and that their jumpers and cardigans have names in them to assist us in returning them to the correct child.

Have a look on the photos page to see photos from our fun fractions morning