Buttercup. Bluebell and Daffodil Blog 5th June 2026

 Happy Friday, everybody! 

Welcome back to our last half term in Year 1 or Year 2!

And what an exciting first week it has been. The children have written some fabulous instructions about how to make a jam sandwich, after learning how important it is to add detail, time connectives and 'bossy verbs'. Then on Friday, we followed our instructions to make our sandwiches and enjoyed eating them.

Next week we will be looking at the history of our seaside and will be creating timelines to show how our visits to the seaside have changed over the years.

Next Friday 12th June is Times Tables Rockstars day. The children can come dressed as a rockstar for a day of fun-filled Maths activities!

Please see note below from Miss Harvey about our book fair competitions!

Book Fair Competitions

To be in with a chance to win a £5 voucher for the Book Fair, we are holding some competitions for you to enter.

There are 5 vouchers up for grabs so 5 competitions are running.

They are:

Competition 1: Everyone - Design a new wand and include a description explaining what it is made from.

Competition 2: EYFS/ KS1 - Design a new front cover for your favourite book.

Competition 3: KS2 -  Design a new front cover for your favourite book.

Competition 4: EYFS/ KS1 - Design a bookmark.

Competition 5: KS2 - The most words read on Accelerated Reader the week before (these will be checked by Miss Harvey in school).

These can be done on paper and given to Miss Harvey or you can even use Google Drive to create your entry digitally. You  can enter more than one competition as long as it is for your phase.

All competition entries to be in by Friday 12th June and the winner will be announced in assembly on Monday 15th June

Winners will receive a £5 voucher for the book fair and everyone who enters will receive 5 Dojos.

The Book fair is running from Monday 15th to Friday 19th June and there is a 3 for 2 offer so please come along to support the school.

**There will be no book fair on Thursday 18th June due to the Father’s Day sale**

Miss Harvey

Homework

Year 1 - Maths: Please complete pages 56 and 57 (Days of the week)

Year 2 - Maths: Please complete pages 64 and 65 (Shape symmetry)

Both year groups have their spellings or reading practice sheets and new Animaphonics books in their bags. 

Don't forget to keep up all your fantastic efforts with your reading at home - it will make a huge impact on your child's reading development. Keep using the range of questions and guidance in the back of the books as well.

The children are nearly at the end of another school year, Please support us in encouraging their independence by allowing them to walk into school by themselves. They manage to walk to the classroom on their own after break and lunch each day, so we know that they can do it. Thank you!

If you have any issues or questions, please come and see us at the end of the day - we would love to see you then!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Best wishes

Mrs O'Connor, Miss Langley, Mrs Holmes, Miss Bridges and Miss Smith x

Bluebell, Buttercup and Daffodil Blog 22nd July 2026

Happy half term everybody!

The children have worked really hard this half term and deserve a well-earned break. Let's hope the beautiful weather continues!

After the holiday, we will be continuing with our 'seaside' project and looking forward to our visit to the beach. 

We would like all the children to have a relaxing week off, so we are not sending homework books home this week, but if you can keep up the reading little and often this will have a hugely positive effect on their progress. It would also be good if those children that cannot yet tie their own shoe laces, could learn to do so.

Have a lovely break and for those of you fortunate enough to be going away, have a wonderful holiday.

See you on Tuesday 2nd June

Best wishes

The Key Stage 1 Team xx

Buttercup, Bluebell and Daffodil Blog 16th May 2026

Hello Everybody!

We have all been very busy this week creating our shape poems and are now learning the story 'A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea'. Our apologies if the children drive you a little crazy this weekend singing the song. We have been learning it to help us to sequence the story, which is also an ocean food chain! We will be adding our own sea creatures to the story next week.

Homework this week is English comprehension.

Early Comprehension books - page 5

First Comprehension books - page 7

The children also have their new Animaphonics books in their bags along with their spelling sheets (Year 2 children) or Phonics check words (Year 1 children).

Swimming was cancelled this week for 1 group of children in Daffodil Class and all of Buttercup Class due to the impending stormy weather. All chidlren that missed their swim this week will swim NEXT THURSDAY instead.

Have a great weekend!

Love The Key Stage 1 Team x

Bluebell, Buttercup and Daffodil Blog 8th May 2026

Happy Friday everybody! 

This week the children have been planning their sea creature shape poems in preparation for writing them next week. They have also been multiplying, grouping and sharing in Maths.

The Maths homework this week reflects the learning that has taken place in class. 

Maths Year 1 - CGP book pages 32 and 33 Multiplying

Maths Year 2 - Multiplying in any order sheet. This will help to embed the childrens knowledge of multiplication number sentences and that the multiplication can be written in either order to get the same answer.

The children also have their spellings in their bags or their phonics check practise sheets, along with their Animaphonics reading books.

Don't forget that Key Stage 1 children will be swimming every Thursday up until half term!

If you have any questions or concerns at any time please come and speak to us at the end of the day. We will always do our best to help.

Have a fabulous weekend!

The Key Stage 1 Team x

Buttercup, Bluebell and Daffodil Blog 1st May 2026

Dear Parents,

Happy Friday! 

This week the homework is English Comprehension:

Early Comprehension book - page 4

First Comprehension book - pages 6-7  

The children also have their spellings in their bags or their phonics check practise sheets, along with their Animaphonics reading books.

Don't forget that Key Stage 1 children will be swimming every Thursday up until half term!

If you have any questions or concerns at any time please come and speak to us. at the end of the day. We will always do our best to help.

Have a fabulous weekend!

The Key Stage 1 Team x

Buttercup, Bluebell and Daffodil Blog 24th April 2026

Dear Parents,

Happy Friday! It is hard to believe that we are at the end of our second week of this term already. The children have settled so well and are working hard.

This week the homework is Maths:

YEAR 1 - Have a tens and ones worksheet to complete that matches the learning that has been taking place in school this week.

YEAR 2 - CGP book p50-51

The children also have their spellings in their bags or their phonics check practise sheets, along with their Animaphonics reading books.

Don't forget that Key Stage 1 children will be swimming every Thursday up until half term!

If you have any questions or concerns at any time please come and speak to us. We will always do our best to help.

Have a fabulous weekend!

The Key Stage 1 Team

Buttercup, Bluebell and Daffodil Blog 17th April 2026

Welcome back everybody!

We hope you all had an enjoyable Easter break and got to enjoy some of the lovely weather that we had.

This term our project is 'At the Seaside'. We will be learning all about life on, under and near the sea. The children have shared their knowledge of the project with us and have discussed what they would like to find out. This will be incorporated into our lesson plans to ensure that their questions are answered. We are hoping to end the term and the school year with a trip to the seaside in July!

We will be setting homework a little differently this term. We will be alternating between reading comprehension and Maths homework, so as not to overload the children. The reading comprehension will be in the form of a booklet where we will set a page to complete each week, the same as we often do with the Maths homework. Reading comprehension is an essential element of understanding and enjoying reading. It goes way beyond decoding words to read them and requires the children to read a piece of text and answer questions about it to check their understanding. 

This week the homework is reading comprehension:

EARLY Comprehension book page 3

FIRST comprehension book pages 4 & 5

The children also have their spellings in their bags or their phonics check practise sheets, along with their Animaphonics reading books.

Don't forget that Key Stage 1 children will be swimming every Thursday up until half term!

If you have any questions or concerns at any time please come and speak to us. We will always do our best to help.

Have a fabulous weekend!

The Key Stage 1 Team