Spring Term 2
KS1 Newsletter – Spring Term 2025
Reminders for Spring Term 2025
Please can you make sure your child has a coat 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.
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: Tuesday and Thursday
Rabbit: Thursday and Friday
Squirrel: Monday 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 Spring Term 2025
Maths – In Maths Year 1’s will be additive structures and addition and subtraction facts within 10. Year 2’s will be continuing division structures, fractions and addition of two-digit numbers.
English – We will be writing to inform. We will be developing our use of noun phrases, question marks, commas and exclamation marks.
Science – In Science we continuing to explore different materials.
Geography – We will be learning about the continents.
R.E – We will be learning about which celebrations are important to Muslims and what practices are linked with these celebrations.
P.E – In P.E, Squirrel will be doing body and balls skills with the sports coach, as well as gymnastics. Rabbit and Robin will also be doing body and ball skills, as well as gymnastics.
D&T - We will be exploring how we can make a hot air balloon strong enough to carry a toy figure.
Music – We will be learning to recognise different sounds and exploring the question ‘How does music teach us about our neighbourhood?’
Computing – In Computing we will be exploring how we can use a computer to present data in different ways.
Spring Term Key Instant Recall Facts
Year 1 – I know number bonds for each number to 10.
Year 2 – I know the multiplication and division facts for the 2 times table.
Diary Dates for Spring Term 2025
Diary Dates for Spring Term 2 2025
Monday 24th February – First day of school.
Thursday 6th March – World Book Day – pyjamas to be worn.
Friday 14th March – Non-uniform day in exchange for chocolate for the Chocolate Bingo.
Wednesday 26th March – Parents Evening.
Thursday 27th March – Parents Evening.
Tuesday 1st April – Chocolate Bingo, 3:30 - 4:30pm
Thursday 3rd April – Chocolate Bingo, 3:30 – 4:30pm.
Friday 4th April - Last day of school.
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.
Science
We have considered features of different materials and we have looked at how some materials can change state by melting and cooling. We saw how chocolate could go from being a solid to a liquid and then back to solid again. The children worked together then to make rice crispy cakes.