F1 Welcome

Spring 2

Welcome back to our F1 class page!

We hope you have all had a fantastic half term and are ready to come back to our lovely class. We have a great term planned, full of exciting activities and lots of brain growing!

This half term, we will be exploring the season of Spring, new life and growth through our class books ‘I Went Walking’ and ‘Daisy and the Egg’.

We will be learning about life on the farm and investigating animals and their babies. We will also be going on a spring walk around our school grounds and investigating what things we notice about the season of spring- what can we see? what animals can we hear? what is different from our winter walk?
In Literacy - our main focus will be to continue to practise our pre-writing shapes and the letters from our name. We will be exploring the characters from our class stories, joining in with the story and creating our own story maps.
In Maths - we will be continuing to consolidate the numbers from 1-5, as well as learning the number 6. We will then be exploring size, weight and capacity by using mathematical vocabulary such tall, short, heavy, light, empty and full.

In Understanding the World - we will be learning all about life cycles through a very special, real life, hands on experience. We are expecting some very special visitors in mid-March and we cannot wait for you to meet them! Keep your eyes peeled on Tapestry and our school Facebook page :)

In RE ‘The Vine and the Branches’ - we will be continuing with Jesus’ story and following his journey from ‘desert to garden’. This half-term, our RE lessons will help children explore the season of Lent and the celebration of Easter. We will introduce them to simple but important ideas: Lent is a time to care for others, and Easter is a time of joy because Jesus is alive. Children will learn that Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday, which is a sad time, but on Easter Sunday, He rose again, and we celebrate His new life. Through storytelling, discussion, and creative activities, we will explore signs and symbols of Lent (purple, ashes, growing seeds) and Easter (white, crosses, palms, Easter gardens).

We will continue with our daily Phonics lessons through listening for rhythms, patterns and rhyming in Nursery Rhymes. We will also continue to follow our ‘My Happy Mind’ framework - learning about our brains and our different character strengths.

 We love going outside in our EYFS and we have an amazing outdoor area so we will be learning outside come rain or shine! Unfortunately, our Great British weather is unpredictable so the children will need a raincoat and wellies every day and hopefully, a sun hat! These can be left in school, alongside a spare change of clothes - play can be messy and the children will have access to water, sand, playdough and paint, amongst other things :)

Please let us know if your child develops any new allergies or conditions, so we can keep our records up to date and your children safe. Thank you!

Please ensure your child also has a water bottle each day - busy minds and bodies need lots of hydration :)

We will be using 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. We really love to hear about what the children get up to home and we share weekend stories every Monday morning as part of ‘Communication and Language’ sessions. Please share any activities that you get up to at home - this can be something super exciting like the beach or the park or something simple like reading a bedtime story and having a family dinner! Please ask us if you need any support with this and we will do our best to help you.

We can’t wait to get to know your wonderful children and watch them make their brains 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