RS Spring term

Spring 1

It has been a busy start to the year for pupils in RS. Check out what we have been learning in Spring term!

A visit from a penguin!

Reception pupils had a very exciting start to the term as they received a letter about a missing penguin. The letter was from a boy who needed help to find the missing animal. The children quickly got to work making posters to help find him! Luckily, the penguin was later captured on CCTV and he even came in to visit!

Our Reception pupils thoroughly enjoyed learning about Antarctica and developing their geographical knowledge. Children learnt how to use maps and atlases to locate both polar regions and even began to discuss what it would be like to live in the South Pole!

Orin the penguin

Phonics and Reading

As well as reviewing sounds learnt in the autumn term, pupils in reception have been learning lots of new graphemes! This half-term, we are learning lots of new digraphs and trigraphs. This is where two or three letters go together to make one sound.

Reception pupils have also been busy practicing how to add and use sound buttons to support their decoding and reading.

Writing

There have been lots of exciting opportunities for writing this half-term! After reading Lost and Found and learning all about Antarctica, pupils in reception thought about what they would need to pack for an Antarctic trip and wrote their own packing lists. We even went on a special imaginary trip!

As we later moved on to read Meet the Oceans, reception pupils enjoyed describing and writing about different animals which live in the sea!

Writing

Wanted poster
Antarctica
Labelling sea creatures

Maths

In Maths, we have been learning all about different types of measurement. We began by looking at mass and weight, before moving on to decribe and measure capacity. We had lots of fun in the water area using different containers to describe, measure and compare capacity.