KS1 Newsletter – Summer Term 2024

Reminders for Summer Term 2024

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: Wednesday and Thursday

Rabbit: Wednesday 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 Summer Term 2024

Maths – In Maths Year 1’s will be learning about position and direct, coin recognition and time. Year 2’s will be learning about position and direction, multiplication and division and sense of measure (capacity, volume and mass).

English – We will be writing to inform. We will be developing our use of capital letters, noun phrases, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, conjunctions and adverbials.

Science – In Science we are exploring the question ‘Are all animals the same?’

Geography – We will be comparing localities, looking at weather all places around the world are the same.

R.E – We will be learning about thankfulness and exploring the question ‘Do you only have to say thank you if you believe in God?’, with a focus on Judaism.

P.E – In P.E, Squirrel will be doing athletics with the sports coach, as well as running, jumping, throwing.  Rabbit and Robin will also be doing athletics and running, jumping, throwing.

D&T - We will be designing and making puppets.

Music – We will be exploring the question ‘How do I identify and play percussion instruments?

Computing – In Computing we will be learning how to create, run and debug a simple program for a robot.

Diary Dates for Summer Term 2024

Diary Dates for Summer Term 1 2024 

Monday 3^rd June - Children return to school

Tuesday 11^th June – Year 2 Pedestrian Training

Week Beginning 17^th June – Careers Week

Friday 21^st June – Year 2 Dealing with Emotions Session

Monday 24^th June – Sports Day

Friday 28^th June – Transition Morning

Monday 1^st July – Sports Day Reserve Day

Monday 8^th July – Trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Monday 15^th July – Reports out

Friday 19^th July – Last Day of Term

All Year 2 children have completed Pedestrian Training! They had an indoor session, learning all about road safety, including the different vehicles that may be on the road and different road signs. In the outdoor sessions, we went on a walk in Scotter, putting what they had learnt to practice!

The children:

• Showed what their body language might look like when feeling different emotions. 
• Ordered the emotions in order from most to least important. 
• Completed some work on when they feel these different emotions. 
• Practiced some breathing techniques and other things that they can do when they're feeling a particular way.

The children went on a History Walk around Scotter, led by Meg. It was very interesting to hear about the history of buildings within Scotter and events that used to take place, particularly that King John had visited Scotter!