Welcome to Hedgehog Class

We hope you all had a restful half term break. We can't wait for the weather to get brighter now that spring is on the way! Just waking up to hear the birds singing is enough to start the day with a smile! :)  

In English, we are going to be reading 'Iggy Peck-Archiect' by Andrea Beaty for the first three weeks. There will be exciting props opportunities to build and draw and the children will be writing their factfiles about buildings. We will then go on to read 'Lubna and Pebble', by Wendy Meddour, a story that encourages empathy and compassion. The children will be creating their own versions of the narrative. 

In Maths, we will be focusing on place value and moving on to numbers up to 50. The children will practise counting and representing numbers in their tens and ones. We will also begin to explore measuring length and mass or objects. At the end of each unit we will continue to complete end of unit assessments, which we will send home for you to see how they are doing in their learning. We are happy to discuss these if you have any queries or concerns. The children should be proud of the ones they have completed so far! 

In Year One, our foundation subjects continue to be taught in the afternoon. Music, PSHE and PE are all taught weekly.  Our afternoon learning this half term will start with Geography, with the topic, 'Let's Explore London'.  We will be learning more about maps and the countries and capital cities within the UK, as well as learning about famous London landmarks. We will also have topics covering Computing, RE, DT and Science. The science topic is all about animals, and we will have a variety of animals coming in to school for us to meet! We will continue our learning on landmarks in DT, as we will be creating our own bridges. In RE we will focus on the religion of Christianity and the Easter story. 

Please feel free to talk to us before or after school on the playground if you have any questions.

Miss Holloway :)

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.

With the weather now changing to be autumnal, please send your child in with a coat, with a waterproof one on standby!!