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This term (Autumn 2025), our learning project will be:
'What makes a home?'
This term (Autumn Term 2 2025), we will be taking a historical approach to our topic of homes, to look at the Great Fire of London. We will start our unit by investigating when, where and how the fire first started in 1666. We will then sequence the events of the fire, exploring how it moved through the city with such force and the factors that caused it to spread so far. This will feed into our explorations of life in London in 1666, where houses were built out of timber and straw and the streets were narrow, making the houses very close together. Following this, we will look at individuals who had significant influence in the fire and who was to blame for it causing so much destruction. With so many lives displaced due to the fire, we will think about the problems that this caused and the things that the Government did to help people survive after the fire. Finally, we will look at how London was rebuilt after the fire and think about the changes that were made, to ensure that a fire as significant as this one, didn’t destroy the city again.
Below you will find our project planner with further details about this term's learning:
project planner elm fire of london.pdf
Our spelling overview for this term:
Phonic Screening Information
year 1 phonic screening slides.pdf
Important information
- We have PE on a Wednesday morning.
- Our library day is Wednesday.
- Please bring a filled, named water bottle to school everyday.
Home Learning
Please read with your child everyday from their Read Write Inc book and record the reading in their reading record. The children on Read Write Inc have a bookmark for their book band with tricky words to also practise reading nightly. Inside the reading record you will see that there are tasks to be completed to help develop your child's reading skills. Those children children who have finished the Read Write Inc programme have a gold band reading book.
There will be a maths and wrting task set for homework on a Friday, which will link to our work in class. The task will be sent home in a home learning book and should be completed in the book. It should be returned to school by the following Thursday, ready for the next task.
Each week the children will have some focus spelling words to learn taken from the Year 1 common exception word list. The common exception words are everyday words that break the phonic rules taught in Read Write Inc. They will need to be learnt and remembered, so the children can use them in their independent writing. If your child can already confidently spell the word, they should write it in a sentence. Sentences must start with a capital letter but could end with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark. Spelling practise can be recorded in the home learning book.
Teaching Team
Miss Lampard Mrs Nice & nMrs Johnson & Miss Sonnevald & Miss Lines
Teacher Teaching Assistants
