Spring Term 2026
Spring 1. Useful information- PE will be on Monday and Wednesday each week. Please have a PE kit in School. Wednesday is Dancing with Dance Lobo.
Please read with your child a minimum of 3 times a week.
Your child will receive 2 phonics reading books every 3/4 days. These will be at a suitable phonics level for your child.
Your child will also receive a home reading book of their choice each week - this is to be shared with an adult as may have trickier words for your child to decode.
Spring 1 Our focus will continue to be phonics learning and reading for fluency. We will also be sending spellings and maths number bonds home this term. Please practise these with your child.
WC 26th January 2026.
In English, we’ve had a busy week writing lots of super sentences all about Gran Gran’s journey to England. We have impressed everyone with our clear writing and correct punctuation.
In Maths, we have enjoyed ordering numbers. We have proved we are correct by using maths equipment and a number line. We have recapped our number bonds to ten and started to learn about about addition within twenty. What a busy week!
In RE, we have thought carefully about the creation story within the Muslim Faith. We have improved our own personal scores in PE - tri golf - successfully aiming and hitting a short target.
We all did a fantastic job completing our spellings and number bonds test. Your child’s scores were sent home in their home reading folder. They have also received new spellings to practise.
WC 19th January 2026.
In English, we have been watching a CBeebies TV animation called Jo Jo and Gran Gran. We are learning all about Gran Gran's voyage from St Lucia to England. We have worked hard writing dictated sentences and sentences using our own ideas. We really enjoyed discussing the special objects she brought with her from St Lucia and shared our ideas about our own special, treasured objects.
In Maths, we have used number lines accurately to find and record numbers to twenty. We have started to estimate where numbers should go on blank number lines - great job.
In Art, we had lots of fun using our tracing skills and impressed everyone with our cool dance routine in PE. We have compared town and countryside in Geography and continued to learn about Isaac Newton:The man who discovered gravity in History. Did you know he was born in Lincolnshire? We enjoyed trying out and thinking about the force that makes an apple fall!
WC 12th January 2026.
This week we have enjoyed a lovely story called ‘The proudest blue’ - it is all about a young girl who proudly wears her hijab to school for the first time. We enjoyed looking at a hijab and came up with some super vocabulary to describe how it must feel when worn - joyful, respected, admired, delighted. Good ideas and sentences!
In Maths, we’ve spent the week exploring the numbers 11-20. We have used lots of different representations to count the ten/s and ones. We are recording these numbers accurately and also starting to read and write them! Great work!
In Geography, we have continued to learn about the countryside and the human and physical features we may see there. In History, we have learnt all about the significant person Isaac Newton. In PSHE we have continued to think about our own goals and how we can best meet them. In Art, we have used tracing skills and in PE we have continued learning a dance routine.
Please find your child’s spellings and maths number bond homework in their home learning folder. Please practise these with your child at home.
WC 5th January 2026.
Welcome back for our first Spring term! Great to have everyone back.
We started our learning with our new story, 'How to Catch a Star' by Oliver Jeffers. We have written about how the little boy could try to catch a star of his own to play with. We tried leaping and springing up to grab one but just couldn’t reach! We made our own sparkly star and wrote about how our stars glistened and shimmered! As the story moved on, we realised the fallen star was actually a reflection. Everyone was relieved for a joyful ending where we wrote how our little boy finally found his very own star washed up on the sand.
In Maths, we have really enjoyed counting to 20. We have been looking in more depth at these numbers; starting with numbers 11, 12 and 13. We have split our numbers into tens and ones using different maths equipment. We have matched numerals with number words and accurately counted amounts.
In PSHE, we are thinking about dreams and goals this term. For Geography, we have started to think about the differences between town and countryside.In Science, this term's learning will be all about different materials - we started this week by thinking about the different properties of objects. We played a game trying to identify objects in a bag by our sense of touch - describing what we could feel eg:bumpy bubble wrap and a smooth cold spoon.
In PE, we doing games (tri golf) on Mondays and we are dancing with Dance Lobo on Wednesdays. Please have PE kit in School each week.
