A huge welcome to Tawny Owls and Barn Owls!

We are so looking forward to an exciting year ahead.

Information for parents

PE days:  Tuesday and Friday. Please wear PE Kits to school.

Please make sure earrings are taken out or covered and long hair is tied up.

Homework

Daily Tasks

Reading and Keywords

Spelling practice

Counting forwards and backwards to 20

Purple Mash remote learning

Rocket Phonics Reading

Children also have Merton Missions set every half term. These can be found on our topic newsletters. 

Spring 2 - Fire! Fire!

Welcome back! We are starting the term of with a blaze, learning all about our new topic, the Great Fire of London! This is always such a fun topic and the children always learn so many historical facts.

With a focus on history, we are taking the children back to 1666 to when the fire started. The children will be comparing the materials we have available to us in the present day compared to what they had in 1666 to help put out the fire and have discussions about how difficult it must have been. We will also be having discussions on the cause and effects of the great fire of London.

In science we will be learning about plants and seeds and the children will have the chance to plant their own sunflower seed.

Soon we will be starting to rehearse our Year 1 Easter Play so please do keep practising those lines! We cant wait to see the play all come together before finishing for our Easter holidays.

The Hampshire Picture Book Awards 2026

We have been really lucky to join in with the Hampshire Picture Book Awards again this year where all Year 1s get to vote on their favourite of 4 different book titles, then their votes will be added to all the Year 1s in Hampshire to determine which of the book will be awarded with the title of Picture Book of the Year 2026.

It is always something we look forward to being apart of every year!

Spring 1 - We're on the move!

Welcome back to not only a brand new year but a brand new term with a brand new topic! We have started our new term off in a winter wonderland! The children had such an amazing time playing out in the snow.

Our topic is "We're on the move!" where the children will be looking at the different forms of transport and learning all about Amelia Earhart. The children will become scientists again this term, investigating how the different senses work by carrying out experiments into the five senses. Our artist of the term is Jackson Pollock and the children have already loved creating bright paper sculptures and recreating artwork using the marble and yarn paint methods for which he is famous. We will be ending our topic with a trip to Brooklands transport museum where the children will be able to see how airplanes, buses, bikes and cars have changed over time!

Just a little reminder that for this Spring term, our PE days will be on a Tuesday and Thursday with our library day remaining on a Tuesday.

Autumn 2 - Once Upon a Time

The children have come in very excited not only for our new topic but also the Halloween disco on the first day back! And how wonderful and scary they all looked! Well done to Daniel for winning the best dressed in Year 1!

The children have already become historians this week, looking at the history of the school, all the way back to when it was just a field!

This term we are looking at traditional fairy tales such as Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, Three Billy Goats Gruff, etc...Please share these with your children at home.

We will also be focusing on CHRISTMAS! The children have all been given their parts for the Christmas play and many children have got speaking parts. The lines that they need to learn have been sent home in their pink Home-School reading diaries.

Autumn 1 - Out and About

In this first half term we will be exploring our local area and using our geography skills to look at the human and physical features in Popley. We will also be exploring the history of our school comparing the school now to when it was opened in 1969. 

Our key text this term will be The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. In Science we will be looking at materials and learning about Charles Macintosh who was a Scottish  chemist who invented waterproof fabric.