Writing – Must Dos
In Writing, we have been focusing on our ‘must dos’. These include making sure that each sentence we write has a capital letter at the start and punctuation at the end. We have also been making sure we use capital letters for proper nouns.
This has been important to remember in our Geography topic too when labelling our maps with the names of countries, cities and seas.
Help at home by writing a sentence with deliberate mistakes for your child to correct – playing teacher is always fun!
Science-The Human Body
We have begun our biology topic: The Human Body. We have been able to name many parts of our body and learn some new ones. This week we were working scientifically by investigating the question: ‘Do the oldest children have the longest feet?‘ After comparing our feet, we drew around them and put them in order of birthday month. Here are some of our findings:
No because some of the youngest children have big feet.
Some older children have big feet and some have small.
We all grow at different times and will be different sizes.
Help at home by naming and talking about different body parts, bones and their function.
Geography – We are Georgraphers!
This half term, our Geography topic in KS1 is ‘Where in the world am I?’ We have started our learning off by learning the names and location of7 continents. A fantastic way to remember each of the continents is to learn the continents song.
We’ve loved learning this song and have listened to it lots of times.
‘We live in Europe’. (AJ – 1A)
Each class spoke about how a continent is the largest piece of land. A country is smaller than a continent and a city is smaller than a country.
‘We live in England’. (LS – 1/2B)
We have also been learning about the 4 countries that make up the UK. We listened to another educational song that tells us all about the countries in the UK and what sorts of things you can find in each.
“United Kingdom Song” with signing | By Al Start | Primary School Geography
We placed or wrote labels on a map of the UK, adding each country in the correct place.
Help at home by listening to the songs above!
Please note these are on YouTube and we cannot be responsible for any videos that may follow. Please watch your child on YouTube.
Welcome to 1A!
What a fantastic week we’ve had in 1A! The children have settled very well into their new classroom and we are all getting to know each other. I am very impressed at how quickly the children have adapted to their new environment and routines.
We have practised some of our sounds in phonics and practised our handwriting. We’ve written our full names every day this week using a whiteboard pen! We are going to do this every morning when we come into school.
It is also important that we strengthen our fingers, so we’ve done some ‘dough disco’ to practise our fine motor skills.
In Maths, we’ve been counting all the way to 10 (forwards and backwards). We’ve also been practising writing our numbers the right way around in books. Today, we worked together to identify and order numicon from 1-10.
All of the children have been super brave and resilient this week. We’ve talked about our emotions, what makes us happy and how we can recognise emotions in others.
In PE we played a co-ordination game called ‘Heads, shoulders, knees and cone’. We even had fun balancing the cone on our head and walking from one end of the playground to the other without dropping it!
Well done 1A for a brilliant start to the year. I can’t wait to see what the year brings.
Living and learning: school rules
We have been talking about our school rules this week and how it is important to follow them so we make our school a happy and healthy place to learn.
Help at home by asking your child if they can tell you are school rules.
Living and Learning – I follow the school rules
This week, we have thought about our school rules:
- we’re respectful
- we’re ready
- we’re safe
We have discussed why we have rules and how they keep us safe.
Help at home by asking your child if they remember our school rules. Why are they important?
Welcome back!
There were mixed emotions this week when we returned to school. There was some worry, excitement and happiness. The over riding feeling is that it’s all ok though. Getting to know our new classes and routines made everyone feel better. Below is some information about PE days and other useful things that you’ll need in Key Stage 1 (year groups 1 and 2).
Below is some information about your child’s new class and some of the day-to-day things that will help your child settle into their new class and routine. Please name everything your child brings into school – 90 children share the KS1 corridor!
- 1A PE days are Monday and Friday
- 1,2B PE days are Monday and Friday
- 2C PE days are Thursday and Friday
PE kit, following the school uniform policy, can be worn all day, on both days. Ensure your child can fasten their own shoes if they wear laced shoes.
In Key Stage 1, swimming will now take the place of the Friday PE lesson and be shared throughout the year for the three classes. We will notify you when it’s your child’s turn to swim.
Reading eBooks allocation day – Friday. Please bring reading records in on Thursday to be sent home on Friday.
Library/love of reading book – bring in on Friday.
Spare clothes – can be kept in a small bag on their peg, if required (we have limited spares).
Lunch menus – on the Class News/Year 1 & 2 page of the website.
Playtime snacks – bring fruit or vegetables only, please, but there is a fruit/veg bowl in each class for playtimes.
Water bottle (clearly named) – should be in school every day, can be emptied and refilled in school or taken home each day. Please no overly large bottles or Stanley-type cups.
Children will have their own tray for sun cream, tissues, hats/gloves, snack.
Coat – please send one every day as we may be learning outside and for lunchtimes and playtimes (including in the rain).
Collins Hub (eBook) username and password will be stuck on the back of reading records.
Numbots/TTRockstars username and password will be stuck on the back of reading records also.
Homework and spellings are posted weekly too :
- https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/category/homework/
- https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/category/spelling/year1-2spelling/
Teacher email for minor or non-urgent questions or notifications:
- 1A : kateyoung@spherefederation.org
- 1,2B : vickylatham@spherefederation.org
- 2C : joannapaterson@spherefederation.org (Monday-Thursday), lydiawilkins@spherefederation.org (Friday)
Please call the office for urgent queries or questions 0113-3649149
Lunch menus September 2025
Goodbye for now and introducing Key Stage 1 in 2025-2026
We said goodbye to our current classes on Friday. We hope you all have a happy and healthy summer holidays.
We’re looking forward to welcoming new Year 1 children in September and our returning Year 2 children. The new staff for each class can be seen below.
Over and out 2C!
What a fantastic year we’ve had! THANK YOU so much to my wonderful class for a year full of brilliant learning and memories I won’t forget. It has been an absolute pleasure. Here are some of my favourite memories of our time together.
Good luck in Y3, you’re going to be amazing!
Miss Young x 🙂