Welcome to Rabbit Class!

We hope you all had a restful half term. We are looking forward to the changes that come with Spring and taking more of our learning outside again. 

In English, we are going to be reading 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers for the first three weeks. There will be opportunities to describe characters, write letters and instructions and the children will then write their own version of a 'lost and found' narrative. We will then go on to read 'Yeti and the Bird', by Nadia Shireen, a beautiful story about friendship. The children will be creating their own versions of the narrative. 

In Maths, we will be completing our unit on measure, looking at capacity and volume and exploring this practically with standard and non-standard units. We will then begin an introductory unit on multiplication an division. The children will practise counting in multiples, using arrays to multiply and sharing amounts in to equal groups- finding halves and quarters of both amounts and shapes. 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 Hisotry, with the topic, 'How Explorers Have Changed the World'.  We will be learning about some important historical figures and their great discoveries. We will also have topics covering DT, RE and Science. The DT topic is all about cooking and nutrition, and we will be having a go at designing and making our very own smoothies! In RE we will focus on the religion of Judaism and some of the faith's religious festivals. In Science we will begin looking at plants, exploring their life cycles as well as how food is grown. 

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.