Spring Term (1st) 2025
Spring (1st half) term 2025
English
This half term we will be writing to entertain in the form of narrative writing about other people’s experiences and introducing the story ‘S’. We will focus on the story Jack and the Beanstalk intially and then look at the story ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’ by Raymond Briggs.
For our spellings we will focus on a pattern each fortnight linked to common exception words. The children will be asked to find them in their reading, use them in their writing and practise them at home.
We ask that you hear your child read 5 times a week. I know how difficult this is – but there are often little slots of time when they can read to you – while you are cooking/ironing/ washing up or of course snuggled on the sofa or in bed.
The children have a yellow reading record where their reading must be logged everyday. This can be logged with a comment or just a signature. Dojos will be rewarded for children who read at home on five separate occasions.
Maths
In Maths we use Mastering Number, aimed at strengthening the understanding of number, and fluency with number facts, among children in the first three years of school and Maths No Problem. Please make sure your child plays on Numbots (all children) and TTRockstars (for Year 1 Summer term onwards) five times a week for 10 minutes – the more regularly they play, the better they will get.
Y2 - subtraction, pictorial representations e.g. part, part, whole models, place value grids, time
Y1 – addition and subtraction within 10, time
Geography – Why could a giraffe and a Polar Bear never meet?
Science – Seasonal changes, Living things
P.E - Gymnastics
Developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities.
Art and Design – Be An Architect
Exploring architecture and creating architectural models.
R.E. - Islam
How do some Muslims show Allah is compassionate and merciful?
Computing - E-Safety
(create algorithms to achieve a specific goal, implement them and debug code)
Design & Technology – Seasonal cooking
Wooden sculpture – Whittling sticks
RHE - Physical health and wellbeing
Medicines and safety, Fair and unfair/ right and wrong/ rules, Keeping clean,
Food practice and choice
Music – What Does Music Look Like?
Y1: Graphic scores Y2: Graphic scores and writing basic notation
Topic: Once Upon A Time -
Traditional nursery rhymes and songs (There Was A Princess..., When Goldilocks Went...)
Composition based around fairy stories creating ‘sound effects’ and telling the story through sound.
Phonics
Here at Bury we follow Sounds Write phonic programme. We teach 30 minute phonic session daily.
Y1 – spelling families – first spellings /ee/,/oe/, /er/
Y2 – spelling families – more spellings /i/, /oe/, /n/
- INSET - Monday 6th January
- 'Everybody Read' - Tuesday 14th January - 8.45am-9.00am
- Wassail - Thursday 16th January
- Splash Assembly - Wednesday 29th January - 2.45pm
- HALF TERM - Monday 17th February until Friday 21st February
- Parent Evenings -
- Monday 24th February - 3.30-5.50pm
- Wednesday 26th February - 3.30-5.50pm