Welcome to Year 1 and Year 2!

Croeso!

Our staff:

Year 1 - Mrs Petty (Mon-Weds), Miss Poole (Thurs-Fri) and Mrs Chandler 

Year 2 - Miss Pelech, Mrs Buxton and Miss Hurley

Key information:

• P.E. is every week on a Thursday. Please can all items be labelled.
• Outdoor learning - please can all children bring in wellies and leave them in school as they will need them everyday to access the outdoor provision.
• Forest school - our next forest school session is on the 21st March. Please ensure children bring in full wet weather gear that can get muddy on this day. A message will go home if they need to bring their wet weather gear in at any other point.
• Please use BoomReader to log your child's reading at home.

Enthralling Earth

In our topic, Enthralling Earth, we will be discovering all about dinosaurs, rocks and fossils. We've started off our topic with some exciting visits from Dinomania and the Mad Scientist. We also had a fantastic (sunny!) trip to the beach where we got to be real-life paleontologists and find our own fossils. During this topic we will be carrying out our own science experiment and exploring Expressive Arts through Dance, Music and Art. The children have already come up with lots of fantastic pupil voice ideas that will be used in our explore tasks, such as making our own dinosaur bones, creating a habitat and researching to find our more information about dinosaurs.

AOLE Main Focus Overview

Literacy Language and Communication - explanation texts, poetry (acrostic), reapplication of story writing, prayers

Maths and Numeracy - money, multiplication and division, shape, length and height, position and direction, mass capacity and temperature

Science and Technology - fossil experiment  investigation, planning, predictions, observations and evaluation, matter

Heath and Wellbeing - physical and mental health, movement, healthy relationships

Expressive Arts - Impasto art, soundscape with percussion instruments, Dance, Violin (Y2)

Humanities - RVE - natural world and how it changes, enquiry, rights respecting work

Spring term Key Dates:  

7.2.25 – Dydd Miwsg Cymru

11.2.25 – Internet Safety Day ‘Too good to be true!’

6.3.25 – World Book Day (details to follow)

7.3.25 – Eisteddfod (details to follow)

21.3.25 – Y1 & 2 outdoor learning (please have outdoor learning clothing in school this day)

How to help at home.

-Daily reading at home will support your child's learning, talk about the story.  Here are some questions you could ask when you are reading together...

What do you think this story will be about? What might happen in the story?  Which part of the story is your favourite / least favourite? Why? • Would you change any part of the story? How? • Would you change any of the characters? How? • Which part of the story was the funniest, scariest, saddest, and happiest? Find some evidence in the text to support your opinion.  • What might happen next? • How do you think the story might end? • Who is your favourite character? Why? • Who is the character you like least? Why? • Find 2 sentences, which describe the setting.

Please update Boomreader regularly. 

Opportunities for children in Y2 to practise spellings and times tables on SpellingShed and Times Table Rockstars.

Snacks and Water

• Please can children bring a healthy snack to school for playtime.
• Please can children bring a clearly labelled water bottle. They will always have access to their water bottles and we can refill throughout the day.

What will Literacy look like? 

• Home/school reading books will be changed when the book has been completed and this will be recorded on Boomreaders.  Please listen to your child read as often as possible.  
• As part of our teaching of literacy we will be teaching a variety of genres over the course of the year.  
• We will continue to use Oracy 21 to continue to develop different strands of our speaking and listening skills.

What will Maths look like?

• Maths sessions will be a variety of practical and written tasks. 
• Over the course of the week we will look at problem solving and reasoning tasks. 
• We will be using Times Tables Rock Stars and Mathletics during the week in Year 2, to support the learning and recall of times tables.