Year One - Autumn Term 2

A very warm welcome back to Term 2!  Can you believe we’re nearing the end of the year already? The Autumnal weather has brought not only rain but also the beauty of colourful leaves falling all around us, which has particularly interested and excited the children this year.

Perfectly, our new topic this term is ‘Autumn and into the Woods’. We have already started to build our environments with Autumnal art as we have enjoyed using our new skills of colour mixing our own colours, tints and shades of paint.

You have probably already heard that we have been learning all about why we celebrate Bonfire Night, with Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. The children have then thoroughly enjoyed creating their own firework pictures with paints and chalk pastels.  

In our learning journey afternoons, we will be looking at different artists ‘work with nature’, one of which is Andy Goldsworthy who we will take our inspiration from, creating our own artwork using nature. In D.T, we will be using the book ‘Moon’ by Britta Teckentrup to create our own animal textured moving picture.

In Geography, we will be learning all about nocturnal animal habitats and how they survive during the cold winter months.

In English, we will be using the wonderful story and text of ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler using our story telling skills to put some actions to the story.  These actions will help us when we come to retell the story in our writing.

In Maths we will be continuing to build a strong foundation of the concept of number, using a range of helpful resources such as Numicon, number lines and Tens and Ones. We got off to a great start this term and have already been learning our number bonds to 10 with the help of the number bond song and are now going to be introducing addition, doubles and 2D shape.

The children are thoroughly enjoying using the computers this year and are becoming very good at logging on independently. Many of you have said how much your children are enjoying using the Purple Mash online platform. If you haven’t yet, you can use your child’s individual log in to find educational fun and games in their free time.

Our wellbeing focus is to be kind and considerate to each other and to work as a team, to help and support each other.

Thankyou to those of you who were able to come to our parent consultations. It was so lovely to meet with you all and share how well your children have settled and are growing in their learning and independence.  

Thank you for your continued support and encouragement.

The Year One Team.