Welcome to the Spring Term.
Happy New Year! Welcome back to our exciting Spring Term with lots of new topics to learn about.
This term, our topics will be, 'Into the Wild,' (animals) and 'Once upon a time.' (focusing on Jack and the Beanstalk)
This term we will start to become more independent in our work. We will still have focused group lessons but are making a move towards whole class learning. We will continue to learn creatively and hands on as possible. Children are encouraged to share, be resourceful, imaginative and be able to respect the resources and tidy them away.
In English, we will be looking at a variety of books including 'Lost and Found' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk.' We will be writing poems, diaries, stories and posters. We will be continuing to work on punctuation, using adjectives in our writing and using joining words like and, so, but. We will make sure we read back our work for sense. We will continue to try to write neatly, holding the pencil correctly and forming the letters the correct way.
In Maths we will be following Active Learn focusing on numbers up to 20. We will be counting, making, adding, subtracting, finding one more and one less and comparing numbers. Continue to log on to Active Learn at home to play some of the Maths games to support your learning.
In Science, we will look at animals and then move on to plants in the second part of the term. We will be planting a variety of seeds in our Year One area. In Geography we will start to compare our local area to Shangai. We will be making animal puppets in DT and collecting and representing data in computing.
We have lots of fabulous learning throughout our subjects throughout the Spring Term. We aim to make learning practical as possible and we expect Peacock class to always try their best, making 'every second counts.'
Please ensure ALL clothing, coats and shoes are clearly named.
PE days are Mondays and Fridays. Please come to school with appropriate PE clothes, hair tied back and no earrings (staff are unable to remove earrings for the children).
Please make sure shoes, including PE shoes, do not have laces unless your child can tie them independently.
Children are expected to read each day and are expected to change their own books independently. Keyrings will be collected in and practised at school, please practise as much as you can at home too.
Spellings will be set on a Monday, with spelling tests to be carried out the following Friday
Homework books will be handed out on a Monday and are due back in the following Friday
Phonics is key to year one learning. Practise reading as much as possible at home, including your home books too
We look forward to teaching your children this year.
The Peacock Team
