Welcome to the Panda Class

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Welcome to the Panda class. What a fantastic first term we have had! We really enjoyed learning about our class animal, writing labels, captions, instructions and letters in literacy and mastering some new tricky skills in maths.

Our topic for the first half of the Spring Term is ‘Caring for Ourselves and Others’. We will be learning about how to stay healthy, different parts of the body and the five senses, the lives of significant people such as Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell, and we will be exploring the question ‘How should we care for others and the world, and why does it matter?’

In literacy we will continue to use our love for stories and poetry to inspire our writing. We will write instructions explaining how to be a good dragon, based on the teachings of Madame Dragon in the book ‘Zog,’ and we will write a character description of Evil Pea from the ‘Supertato’ stories.

In maths we will consolidate place value to 20 and add and subtract numbers to 20.

Please click here to look at the Y1 Medium Term Planning 

Important Information

Our P.E days will be Monday & Wednesday. Please make sure your P.E kit is in school on these days and labelled with your name and class.

A spelling test will take place every Monday. New spellings will be handed out after the test.

Dates for your diary

Creative morning – TBC

Learning showcase - TBC

Home Learning

Each half term we will send out a home learning bingo grid with tasks for you to complete at home. Here are the first challenges for you to try. 

Other home learning activities for Spring 1 are -

Read to an adult at least 4 times a week.

Practise your spellings.

Practise counting forwards to 20 and backwards from 20.

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.