Class News

Happy New Year

I hope you’ve all had a wonderful and restful break.

Here are some important information for the Spring term:

Things to remember each week:

PE – Wednesday and Friday

Reading records – Friday

Spelling test – Friday

Arithmetic check – Friday

Important dates this half-term

Watch us while we work – Wednesday 14^th January 9.00 – 9.30am. The focus of this session will be Feelings First and Reading.

Staying Safe Online (parents’ Zoom meeting) – Monday 19^th January 6.00 – 6.30 pm.

Parent-Teacher Meetings – Tuesday 10^th February and Thursday 12^th February.

Our learning this half term

• Reading – Our class novel this term is Viking Boy by Tony Bradman
• Writing – Persuasive writing and Discussion.
• Spelling – See the weekly homework sheet for details of the words we will be focussing on.
• Maths – We are focussing on multiplication and division. Leading into fractions later in the term.
• History – We’ll be exploring the key historical concepts of trade, invasion and innovation through our study of the Vikings and the Early Islamic Civilisation.
• PE – Dodgeball.
• RE – Our topic is How do Buddhists live a meaningful life?

Reading like Historians!

This week in class we have been reading like historians using the book A Street Through Time. The book shows how one street changes over time, helping us to think carefully about the past and how life has changed.

Although the book has limited written text, the detailed illustrations gave us lots of information to retrieve and interpret. We looked closely at the pictures, asked questions and made predictions.

This linked perfectly to our history topic as we are beginning to learn about the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons. The children loved spotting clues in the illustrations and discussing what life might have been like in different time periods. It has given us lots of excitement and curiosity as we start our history learning journey.

We also talked about how picture books are still an important part of reading at all ages. They help children develop vocabulary, inference skills and deeper understanding by encouraging them to think carefully about images as well as text.

Help at home:

• Share picture books together and talk about what you can see in the illustrations

• Ask questions such as “What do you notice?”, “What might be happening here?” or “How is this different from today?”

• Encourage your child to explain their ideas using evidence from the pictures

• Link reading to real-life experiences, museums or history topics you are learning about

Fire and ice

Sharp teeth and claws

Welcome Back!

I hope you’ve all had a restful break and have enjoyed a positive start to 2026.

As we start the Spring Term, I thought it might be useful to let you know what’s coming up.

Things to remember each week

Important dates this half-term

Our learning this half term

• Reading – We’re looking forward to finding out what happens at the end of our class novel and will continue developing our inference skills in our daily reading sessions. We will continue to explore the work of different authors in our weekly Book Club.
• Writing – We’ll start the term exploring what makes a good recount before writing our own.
• Spelling – See the weekly homework sheet for details of the words we will be focussing on.
• Maths – We’ll be consolidating our understanding of rounding before looking at some more challenging addition and subtraction problems.
• Times Tables – We start our ‘Going for Gold’ sessions and focus on two key facts each week (see the homework sheet for the facts of the week.)
• History – We’ll be exploring the key historical concepts of power, invasion and innovation through our study of the Romans.
• PE – The class will be very excited to know that our game focus for this half-term is dodgeball.
• RE – We’ll be thinking about how people (of different faiths and no faith) express spirituality.

I look forward to another action-packed and fun-filled half-term.  If you have any questions or I can help at all please do let me know.  You can grab me at the end of the day at pick-up or by calling or emailing the School Office.

Mrs Poole

Happy Christmas

What an amazing term we have had in Year 6. The children are making lots of progress and enjoying what they are learning. They are making me proud, each day, with the hard work they are putting in.

Thank you for all your support since September and I wish you all a happy and healthy Christmas and 2026.

Best wishes

Mr Kilner

That’s a wrap!

As we reach the end of 2025, it’s hard to believe how quickly this term has flown by! It’s been a lovely, festive finish this week, packed with special moments and lots of smiles.

One of the biggest highlights was a visit from Father Christmas who spread plenty of cheer and excitement. The Christingle service was another memorable moment, bringing our whole school family together to celebrate and reflect on what we value about this time of year. There was also the Christmas party – a perfect way to unwind and enjoy each other’s company – and a jolly Christmas lunch!

Thank you for all of your support and positivity in 2025. I hope you all have a relaxing, joyful holiday and I look forward to seeing you in 2026! 🎄✨

An Autumn Term to Remember

We’ve reached the end of the Autumn term and what an amazing 15 weeks it’s been! We’ve already come such a long way. It’s been a real pleasure getting to know the children and seeing how much progress they’ve made in such a short space of time.

Our phonics journey has been particularly exciting, with the children embracing their learning enthusiastically and growing in confidence each day. We are developing as skilled transcribers and flexible mathematicians, showing increasing independence and resilience in our learning.

This term, we’ve been busy wearing many different hats – geographers, artists, gymnasts, angels and shepherds. We’ve enjoyed reading about Flat Stanley, Hermelin, Bernard, Katie and Dasher – stories that have inspired curiosity and imagination. Alongside our learning, friendships have continued to grow stronger (even if a few jumpers have gone missing along the way!).

Thank you to all parents and carers for your ongoing support at home. It really does make a huge difference and your hard work is greatly appreciated.

We’re very much looking forward to the Spring term and all the excitement and learning that lies ahead.

Help at home by enjoying a well-earned rest (and daily reading, of course).

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and Happy New Year to everyone. We look forward to welcoming you back soon.

Mr Nash and the Year 1 team

Merry Christmas

We have had a lovely last day of the term in Year 2 . We loved our Christmas party and did some crafts.

I have really enjoyed teaching and getting to know the year 2 children this term. Whilst I will miss them, I will look forward to seeing them around school.

Merry Christmas 

The year 2 team

A Cosy Afternoon

We have had a lovely Christmassy afternoon watching a virtual pantomime in our pajamas!

The children gave a big “Merry Christmas” as I took their photo!