Welcome to Hedgehog Class

I hope you had a relaxing half term break and I'm looking forward to you telling about the things that you have been busy doing.

In English, we are going to be reading "Lubna and Pebble" by Wendy Meddour.  During the three weeks exploring this text, we will be writing thank you notes, using speech bubbles to show our understanding of the characters' feelings and use imperative verbs to help us write instructions. We will then write our own versions of the story.  Later in the half term we will explore the book "Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish" and focus will then be on writing a non-fiction report.

In maths, we are going to be looking at how numbers to 50 are made up of tens and ones (place value). We will focus on grouping into tens to help solve problems, partitioning the numbers and working on a number line. We will then move on to focus on measurement. The children will be learning about measuring length and height as well as mass and volume. 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 will start with Geography, where we will be learning about the countries that make up Great Britain and their capitals before we focus on exploring London.  In DT we will be making models of bridges, using our knowledge of some of the London bridges to include moving parts in our own versions.   In science, we will be learning about animals. We will be exploring what makes something living and then go on to identify and clasify animals into their correct groups. Our RE learning will be based around Christianity. We will be learning about the importance of the events that lead up to Easter and the ways in which Christians celebrate and mark events that are special to them.

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.