Welcome to Ash 1 2025-26

Class Teachers: Miss Blay and Mrs Reynolds

Our Autumn 1 theme is 'To Infinity and Beyond!'

One of our core books is Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram, it introduces readers to Bob the astronaut, who keeps the Moon nice and tidy. Who knows, maybe it will encourage the children to clean their bedrooms?!?

Alongside this, the children have been learning about explorers. We began thinking about what we mean by chronology, the past, and what an explorer is. We looked at Christopher Columbus, the 'Space Race' between Russia and the USA, and also learn about various astronauts and what they did in space... ask your child if they can tell you who Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong or Tim Peake are!

Continuing with space and exploration, we have now moved onto our next core book, Beegu by Alexis Deacon. Beegu is a little creature who gets lost on earth and wants to find her mother, along she finds some friends, the small ones (children) being the best! It has been lovely watching the childrens' compassion show as we have discussed Beegu's journey.

In science we have been learning about plants! We have taken part in some fantastic plants hunts around the field, identifying different plants and their parts too. Tying into Tim Peake's plant experiments that he did on the ISS!

We have also been working hard in maths and english (writing journey) to ensure that we have strong foundations for the rest of the year.

PE Lessons

Our PE lessons will take place on a Monday (with Mrs Reynolds) and Thursday (with the Charlton coach).  Please ensure that the correct indoor and outdoor PE kit is in school at all times. 

PE kits will be sent home at the end of each half term to be washed.

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