Autumn 1 2025
The children in Year 1 and 2 have had a super start to their new School Year. They have been busy practising their handwriting in a fun and therapeutic way - using dots, gems, sequins, playdough and chalk pens. They have been focusing on their formation in print in Year 1 and beginning their cursive Letterjoin journey in Year 2.
Our topic this half term has been 'All about Me' and the children have enjoy learning about their locality in Geography, their senses in Science and their own personal time-lines in History. One of the children's particular favourite Science investigations was when they had to identify different smells from blind testing pots. The children thought that Cinnamon smelt of Christmas and they loved the smell of bananas. Lots of children correctly identified the smells concealed within the smelling pot and had great fun doing so!
In Maths, the children in Year 1 have been consolidating their skills across all areas of Maths - focusing on counting to 100, number bonds to 10, shapes and measuring and weighing different objects. The Year 2 children have been focusing on their place value and have used the foam tens frames to begin learning their addition and subtraction strategies.
In English, the children have been focusing on grammar, we have been learning what makes up a sentence, looking at different types of nouns and understanding both doing and action verbs.
We have celebrated Mental Healthy Day in October by wearing yellow and undertaking numerous mindful activities in classes. We have also enjoyed our PE lessons with Miss Rogers, our fabulous Forest School activities and earning lots of marbles towards our class rewards.
We look forward to the next topic of Pole to Pole and specifically our Pingu themed immersion day.
What are we learning about this half term?
Cycle A
Cycle B