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KS1 Newsletter – Autumn Term 2025

Reminders for Autumn Term 2025

Summer Term 2 Highlights: This term we have had lots of brilliant experiences. We all went to Clumber Park and enjoyed building a den for stickman and hunting for minibeasts. Year 2 took part in a Football competition and had a lovely time demonstrating their football skills. Year 1 participated in Walk Safe and Year 2 participated in Pedestrian Training, where they learnt about road safety. To end the term, all of KS1 had a variety of visitors during Careers Week and were lucky enough to have some time with a range of animals from Alpacas & Friends.

Please can you make sure your child has a coat and a sunhat at school every day. We like to take advantage of our lovely outdoor area and encourage the children to explore and investigate in the fresh air as much as possible whatever the weather (within reason!).

Please ensure your child has a named bottle filled with water with them each day.

Reading diaries will be sent home, and new eBooks assigned, on Fridays. Please return Reading Diaries to school on Mondays as these are needed during reading sessions. Reading diaries are for recording comments about your child’s reading.

We will be sharing our favourite stories on Mondays, and on Fridays we will be celebrating children’s out of school achievements, so please send any trophies or certificates in on Fridays.

On P.E days children need to come to school on these days in their P.E kit.

Robin: Monday and Thursday

Rabbit: Monday and Friday

Squirrel: Wednesday and Friday

Updates will continue to be uploaded to ClassDojo, so please remember to check for updates. If you need to get in touch with me, please message me directly on ClassDojo. If you would prefer to email, my email address can be found using the contact box on our class page on the school website.

Curriculum Focus for Autumn Term 2025

Maths – In Maths Year 1’s will be learning about previous reception experiences and counting within 100. Year 2’s will be learning about numbers 10 to 100 and calculations within 20.

English – We will be writing to entertain. We will be developing our use of noun phrases, question marks, commas and exclamation marks.

Science – In Science we will be exploring what our bodies can do and what bodies need to stay healthy.

History – We will be learning about how Florence Nightingale changed nursing.

R.E – We will be exploring the questions ‘what do stories from religious traditions teach about God?’ and ‘what can we learn from other stories?’.

P.E – In P.E, Rabbit and Robin will be doing Sending and Receiving with the P.E Teacher and Fundamentals. Squirrel will also be doing Sending and Receiving and Fundamentals.

Art - We will be exploring how different colours are made.

Music – We will be exploring the question ‘how can we make friends when we sing together?’

Computing – In Computing we will be learning about what technology is.

PSHE – We will be learning about how we can keep our minds and bodies healthy.

Autumn Term Key Instant Recall Facts

Year 1 – I can read and write numbers 1-10 in numerals and words.

Year 2 – I know number bonds for each number to 20.

Diary Dates for Autumn Term 2025

Diary Dates for Autumn Term 1 2025

Thursday 4^th September – First day of Autumn Term One.

Friday 26^th September – Macmillan Coffee Morning, 10 – 11:30am

Tuesday 30^th September – Key Stage 1 reading event for parents, 9:00 – 10:00am

7^th October – Individual and sibling photographs

Tuesday 21^st October – Parents Evening

Wednesday 22^nd October – Parents Evening

Thursday 23^rd October – Last day of Autumn Term One.

As we have learnt, the best made plans sometimes need to change. The above dates may need to be altered but we will do our best to communicate any necessary changes as soon as we are aware.