Welcome to Hedgehog Class

The children have made a brilliant start to Year 1. We hope you have had an enjoyable half term break and are pleased to welcome them all back and hear about their holiday news. 

This half term in English we are beginning the year reading 'Dragon Post' which began by finding a mystery creature's tail in our very own school!  Whilst reading 'Dragon Post' we will be learning about how to use adjectives and will put these into simple sentences. Our work will culminate in creating our own care guides for a dragon should you ever come across one. We will then be reading 'The Odd Egg' where we will be learning how to correctly writing character descriptions and creating a factsheet. 

In Maths this half term we will be focusing on addition and subtraction within 10 and having a first look at 2D and 3D shapes.  We will be building on our knowledge of number bonds to 10; trying to make these instant recall facts. We will be using part whole models, tens frames, cubes and number lines to solve addition and subtraction problems. We will then sort shapes and learn their names, as well as making and continuing patterns with them. 

In Year One, our foundation subjects are all 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, 'What is it like here?'. We'll create our own maps and look at aerial photographs. We will be learning about mechanisms in DT, and create our own moving pictures to tell a story. We will also be covering Science, Computing and RE. The Science will be about everyday materials and their properties, and we will get to perform some experiments to explore these practically. In Computing we will be having an introduction to algorithms and explore these practically through familiar contexts such as getting dressed and making a sandwich. In RE we will continue thinking about Christianity and explore the Christmas story. 

Please keep an eye out for any lines to be learned or costumes/clothes needed for the KS1 nativity this half term! 

Important dates:

13th November- 4th December: We will have a PE coach teaching us ball skills in our PE sessions for 4 weeks.  

13th November- Children in Need

8th December- KS1 nativity performance- Rabbit parents invited. 

9th December- KS1 nativity performance- Hedgehog parents invited. 

11th December- Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner

17th December- Class Christmas parties

18th December- End of term, finish at 1.10pm

General reminders:

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

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

Please send your child in with a labelled bottle of water each day. 

Please ensure your child's name is in all of their uniform. 

Kind regards,

Mrs Millgate

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!!