F1 Welcome

Welcome to summer term in F1 – we hope you have all had a fantastic spring break with your lovely families and are ready to come back to our class for a fresh new term full of fun and learning. We have a great term planned, full of exciting activities and lots of brain growing!

We are starting the term off with Holy Week, where we will explore the story of Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem (known as Palm Sunday) ready to have his ‘last supper’ with his friends before he has to go away for a little while. When we return after the Easter weekend, we will then celebrate Jesus’ return to his friends. We will be taking part in lots of singing, Easter crafts and exploring in all the different areas of our classroom. We are also looking forward to inviting our own grown ups in for our Easter Stay & Play session, on Wednesday 15th April, we hope you can all make it!

We will then be exploring the season of Summer through our class books ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and ‘Walter’s Web’. We will be learning all about planting, growing and all things outdoors - which is our favourite place to be in F1! We will also be looking at different minibeasts, what they eat, where they live and why they are important to us. We are getting very good at writing our names so we will be applying this to all areas of our learning.
We have been really growing our brains so far in maths, learning to recognise and write our numbers from 1-6 and we cannot wait to continue developing the skills we have already learnt. We will also be learning about sequencing, positional language and shape. Lots of new and interesting learning ready for most of us to move on to F2, in September.

 We love going outside, in EYFS and we are still enjoying our amazing new outdoor area and all it has to offer, so we will be learning outside come rain or shine. As we enter the summer months, we are hopeful that this will be more shine than rain and so we ask that you please provide your child with a sun hat or cap to be left in school. We also ask that when sun is forecast, you please apply and provide suncream for you child. Children’s skin is fragile and can burn even when it doesn’t feel overly hot outside.

Please ensure your child also has a water bottle each day.

We will continue to use the Tapestry app as our main communication link – please ensure you have activated your login and that you check regularly as there will be pictures and key dates and information regarding upcoming events. Please ask us if you need any support with this and we will do our best to help you.

We can’t wait to continue working with your wonderful children and watch as they learn, imagine, wonder and grow each day.

Our door is always open so please pop in if you have any questions.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs O’Hanlon and Mrs Barber

F1 Team