Autumn 1 2025 - History Focus Fire, Fire! Why Did London Burn? What an incredible start to the year! The children in Year 1/2 have brought a fantastic attitude into the new year, making new friends, getting to know new classrooms, new routines and have really impressed the adults within the school. The foundations for what promises to be a fantastic year have well and truly been formed.
Over the half term, the children have been thinking all about how different numbers are made, their relationships to each other and the value of the digits within a 2-digit number. The children have been using amazing oracy skills, ensuring that they are able to clearly talk about their mathematical thinking, as well as finding the answer using concrete and pictorial strategies to help.
The children have been thoroughly immersed in our Great Fire of London topic, and it has been lovely to see this continue at home, with news reports, information booklets, artwork and even photos of how Pudding Lane currently looks now! Children have experienced what it would have been like back in 1666 when; quills were used for writing; lines of people passing buckets were used to help stop the fire; houses were made from wattle and daub - contributing to the fire spreading; and streets were significantly narrower with houses jutting out across the streets below. The children have looked at what an eye-witness account is and compared its reliability to pictures and reports that have been created more recently.
What impact did the Great Fire have on London today? Children have looked at the properties of everyday materials and thought about their everyday uses. They can also tell you what materials are now used to construct buildings and why this has changed because of the fire.

Autumn Term 2 2025 - Geography Focus

It was a freezing cold half term!

So cold that we had to huddle like penguins.

This half term, the children have been answering our big question ‘Where Would You Find an Emperor Penguin?”. They have learnt about the 7 continents and the 5 oceans and can confidently tell you them from biggest to small. The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring our vast array of maps, atlases and globes and can tell you interesting facts about the different continents.

Watch out for the scary hedgehog! The children discovered that not all predators have to be big and ferocious like a lion, but they do all eat other animals. The children found it interesting learning all about food chains and can now tell you all about how the energy from the producer is passed up through to the prey and then the predator.

How much do you know about a penguin? Do you know how many species there are and how they have adapted to survive in harsh climates? The children researched all about penguins and then created very informative non-fiction texts all about them. We’d definitely recommend having a look at them to learn all about penguins.

What a show! We have definitely got some born singers, dancers and actors in our classes. The children worked tirelessly to learn songs, dances and their lines so that they could perform their Christmas production of ‘Christmas Around the World’. There is definitely something magical about this time of year.

Spring Term 1 2026- Art and D&T Focus

This half term has been EXTRAordinary. In art, we have been looking at how we can make the everyday more extraordinary and have focussed on the artist Paul Cezanne and his still life compositions. The children have been making their own compositions and have made different subjects the focus in each of these. We’re sure you’ll agree that they are amazing. How can you change the tone of a colour? We can apply different amounts of pressure or use different grades of pencil to make our art work more interesting. The children have definitely moved on from colouring in and are thinking about where the darker areas in the shadows would be.

Pupils using Purposeful Provision. This half term we have introduced provision based learning into our classrooms. This still involves the children learning key facts and information and now they show this understanding by applying it in other areas. Children have created their own castles, labelled them and then used the characters from our English text to retell stories. There has been mountains of maths being practised in our maths areas with lots of fun, interactive games and puzzles. The children are really developing their oracy skills and working with a variety of children that they may not have worked with before.