Year 1 & 2

Welcome to Year 1 and 2

Meet the Staff

Mrs Edwards – Class Teacher

Miss Glover - Teaching Assistant

Our Class Saint

St. Micheal the Archangel

The Archangel Saint Michael is one of the best known Angels. He is an Archangel, which is a Chief Angel. He is honoured in the Christian faith for his bravery and devotion to God. The name ‘Michael’ means ‘who is like God’.

After the creation of the heavens and earth, there was a battle in Heaven. Lucifer, the "light-bearer", the "morning star", who was the chief amongst angels, rebelled against God. Because of Lucifer's envy, pride, and desire to sit upon God's throne, he did not want to be subject to God or to serve Him. He took a third of the angels into revolt with him. Michael however, was loyal to God, and declared he would serve God. With the other two-thirds of the angels, he defeated Lucifer and cast him and his supporters out of heaven. Lucifer now became called Satan and those angels who supported him became devils. As a reward for his loyalty, Michael was made the chief angel. Due to this leadership role, the Church named the Archangel a Saint.

St Michael the Archangel’s feast day is celebrated on 29^th September.

Feast Day - We will celebrate this in school on Monday 30th September.

Spring 2

This half term we will be focusing on two really exciting new texts. We will begin our term reading ‘The Snail and the Whale’ by Julia Donaldson. We will be using this text to develop our character writing. Next, we will be reading ‘The Day the crayons Quit’ by Oliver Jeffers. We will be using this text to write an informal letter. We will look at the conventions of informal letters and use this to write a letter from one of the crayons who quit!

R.E.

The first unit we will be looking at in RE this half term, is forgiveness. We will look at how forgiveness is a gift we receive and how it is a way that we can show love to others. We will also look carefully at the choices we make and when we need to say sorry for our actions.

The second unit for this half term is Lent. We will look carefully at how Lent is a time of change and growing to be more like Jesus by following his example. The children will also have the opportunity to take part in Lenten liturgies as we celebrate our growth towards becoming like Jesus.

Homework

Reading diaries – Children are encouraged to read at home daily (for at least 20 minutes) and are expected to have their diaries signed by an adult at least 3 times l

Y2 will have swimming on Monday afternoons. Please see the school website for details on swimming kits.
Y1 will have PE with Mrs Sigley on a Monday PM.
Y1 and Y2 will have dance with Mr Case on Thursday mornings.

For more information on what we will be looking at across the curriculum in Spring 2, please see the information sheet below.

KS1 Curriculum Information Sheet - Spring 2