Bumblebees                    Ladybirds

               YR/1                            YR/1

                  Mrs A Miles                           Mrs S  Redding

Support Staff

               Mrs M Zammit                               Mrs T Smith

               Mrs Lima-Leal                          Miss L Stanley

Welcome to Early Years

We love reading! We use Read, Write Inc to support our teaching of phonics and reading and our children are taught in small targeted groups each day. We assess children each half term so as we are always confident that their phonics learning meets their needs. Every child takes home a Read, Write Inc reading book each week to show off their wonderful reading skills, that they have worked so hard on all week, at home. 

Please explore our English curriculum pages to find out more about how we teach phonics within our school.

Summer 1 half term theme- 'Amazing Animals'

This half term we will be exploring stories with the theme of 'Amazing Animals'.  This half term, we will be learning through the stories Handa’s Hen,  Three Billy Goats Gruff  and Gecko’s Echo. The children will be working on their individual writing targets during drawing club. We will also be learning to write a recount linked to our trip to the farm.

RE - Easter

Why is Easter a time for hope and joy?In our RE lessons, we will begin with the unit of Easter.  We will be learning about the resurrection of Jesus and why it is not a time of sadness.  We will be thinking about how we can bring hope and joy to others too. 

Reading and Writing 

As well as following the phonics scheme Read Write Inc we will be doing lots of writing for purpose to help engage the children in their learning and promote a love of writing! The children will be writing lists, making cards, writing captions, making signs and learning to write their names. 

Maths

We will be beginning the half term exploring addition (How many now?) and subtraction (How many are left?). We will be understanding this concept use - first, then , now maths stories.

 We will be exploring the concept of sharing and grouping practically with objects. Alongside this we will continue embed key subitising and number composition skills

Key Information

PE - Wednesday 

School library book change - Books will be changed on a Thursday and children will change their reading choice books from out of the class libraries.

RWI book change  - Children to have reading books in book bag everyday to allow for 1:1 reading with an adult in school. Books will be changed after completion of book in school.  The day will vary each week.

North End Library

As part of our drive to promote reading for pleasure across our school, all classes visit our local library each half term.

Library visit dates:

TBC