Croeso i Blwyddyn 1 – Turtles!
Spring Term 2024
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break and feel rested and relaxed. I am very much looking forward to the new term, and wanted to update you with some information about what your child will be learning in the spring.
Our spring term topic is ‘Toy Story’. In literacy, we will start with a focus on the book ‘Dogger – a story about a boy who loses his favourite cuddly toy, which will focus on the themes of loss, gratitude, family and friendship. We will then move onto the book ‘Lost in a toy museum’. In maths, we will focus on 2D and 3D shape, place value, addition and subtraction to 20 and measures. For humanities, we will learn about old and new toys and how and why the things we play with has changed since our grandparents were small. In science, we will look at properties of materials, what materials different toys are made from and how this has changed over the years. We will then design our own puppet. The children have been a part of the planning for our new topic and they have input their ideas of what they would like to learn about.
Here is the spring term topic web: Y1 Spring 2024 Toy Story
READING
Reading is very important at this age and I ask that you support your child in their reading by regularly listening to them read, and also by reading to them at home. Please continue to send the reading book and record into school on the designated day with your child so I can listen to them read and update their books. If you do forget to send the book to school, please send it the following day.
P.E.
P.E will continue to be on a Wednesday (starting Wednesday 10th January) and will be football skills for this half term. Please send your child into school dressed in their P.E kit every Wednesday. As we are hoping to be outdoors, please ensure your child has a jumper or zip up jacket, trousers and trainers. Please label all PE kit with your child’s name.
OUTDOOR LEARNING
At Hendrefoilan, we are so lucky to have our wonderful forest area- Coed Cadno. We try and utilise the area as much as we possibly can.
Outdoor learning will continue to be on a Monday (starting Monday 15th January). If you have not done so already, please provide your child with a waterproof coat /all in one, and wellies. These can be sent into school in a bag and can remain in school. Please ensure that any items of clothing / shoes are labelled with your child’s name.
SNACKS / WATER BOTTLES
I believe that children should have access to water and if you wish, you can provide your child with a labelled bottle that they can use throughout the day. Children may also bring a healthy snack in a small container that they can enjoy at morning break. The snack will be kept in the pupil’s bags until break time. Please label any snack boxes with your child’s name. Our cloakroom is limited on space, so please put the snack and water bottle in your child’s main school bag, which will be kept on their peg with their coat. If your child has a packed lunch, this can be brought in a separate lunch bag, which will then go onto a trolley.
IMPORTANT DATES
Friday 15th March 2024 – Class visit to St Fagan’s National Museum of History.
If you have any worries, questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me,
Kind regards,
Mrs Tidy