Welcome to Rabbit Class!

We hope you all had a restful half term and enjoyed the beautiful weather. Amazing that we are in our final half term of Year 1 already! We have lots of exciting things in store as we bring our time in Year 1 together to a close. 

In English, we are going to be reading 'Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish' by Michael Foreman for the first three weeks. There will be opportunities to describe settings, write letters and make posters. The children will then create their own pamphlets about how to look after the planet – all to help the man in the story. We will then go on to read 'The Magic Bed', by John Burningham, a beautiful story about magical adventures that a little boy's magic bed whisks him away on. The children will be creating their own versions of the narrative. 

In Maths, we will be starting with our unit on describing positions, looking at half and quarter turns, as well as the language of left, right, above and below. We will be doing lots of practical exploration of these. We will then move on to a place value unit of numbers up to 100. This will build on all of their practise of place value from across the year, just with higher values. We will partition numbers into tens and ones, use number lines, find one more and one less than values, and compare numbers with less than, greater than and equal to symbols. Towards the end of the term, children will be having an introduction to telling the time to half past and o'clock, and recognising and using coins and notes. Further practise of this at home will greatly help your child's understanding. 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 Science, with the topic, 'Making Connections: Investigating Science Through Stories'.  We will be consolidating knowledge of plants and animals through picture books and practical investigations. We will also have topics covering Art, RE, Computing and Geography. The Art topic is about learning fibre art skills such as plaiting, threading, knotting and weaving to create three-dimensional woven artworks inspired by artist Cecilia Vicuña. In RE we will focus on the religion of Judaism and the faith's place of worship. In Computing we will be developing creativity and imagination through planning a miniature adventure story and capturing it using photography techniques. In Geography we will be continuing to look at human and physical features but by exploring the geography of Shanghai and comparing it to our country and local area. 

Important dates:

KS1's Sports Day is on Wednesday 24th June, and will run from 1.35pm - 3.05pm. We look forward to seeing you on the field! 

On June 26th we will be going on our school trip to Wisley Gardens. We will let you know about parent volunteers shortly; thank you very much to everyone who volunteered to help. Please feel free to talk to us before or after school on the playground if you have any questions. 

Miss Benn 

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 to school every day - we will normally change them on a Monday.

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

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