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. 

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.