Infant School
We have some exciting news for you! We are taking part in Big Walk and Wheel, the UK’s largest inter-school cycling, walking, wheeling and scooting challenge. The challenge runs from 16 – 27 March 2026. It’s free to take part and we would love everyone to be involved.
What do you need to do?
Encourage your child(ren) to walk, scoot or cycle to school on as many days as possible during the event.
Week commencing 23rd February - To encourage sustainability we will be facilitating a costume swap ahead of World Book Day on 5th March. This will involve families donating pre-loved costumes. The first week back after the half term holiday a box will be located in the entrance hall for your donations. These costumes will then be available to take on both Parents Evenings from the entrance hall.
Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th February - Parents evenings
Thursday 5th March - World Book Day - advance warning of dressing up. Year 2 have been invited to Henleaze Library for an author event so please ensure costumes are suitable for walking to the library! We will need helpers for this walk so please let us know if you are free to help between 12:45 and approximately 2:30.
Tuesday 24th February 2026 - 100 day. We are taking part in a themed Maths day. We have chosen this day as it will mark reaching 100 on our daily counts.We are asking for your support in enabling your child to come to school with one thing you can find at home that represents 100. More details and ideas will be sent out directly.
Phonics: Revisiting as needed in each class
Spelling
Lesson 1: To add the suffix -ed to words ending in e
Bake → baked
Move → moved
Live → lived
Name → named
Lesson 2: To add the suffix -ed to words ending in y. Rule - remove the y, add an i, then -ed.
Carry → carried
Reply → replied
Tidy → tidied
Spy → spied
Lesson 3: To add the suffix -ed to words, doubling the final consonant. Rule - if there is a short vowel sound, double the next consonant before adding -ed.
Slam → slammed
Shred → shredded
Skip → skipped
Writing
We are going to be building up to writing a recount from our personal experience of World Book Day. To do this well, we are going to practise the skills we will need.
We will write sentences using adjectives and expanded noun phrases.
We will practise using the first person - eg. I, me, my.
We will revisit how to write sentences in the past tense.
We will then bring all of these skills together and write sentences using adjectives, expanded noun phrases, first person and past tense.
In handwriting we will practise these letters:
Reading
We will begin our new class text ‘The Rhythm of the Rain’.
In maths, we will be revisiting addition and subtraction this week.
We will look at how to solve addition and subtraction questions using the line and dot method to represent the tens and ones.
We will start with questions not bridging 10 and move onto bridging 10 which will involve exchanging a ten for ten ones.
We will apply this to word problems and missing number problems.
PSHE: Safety and the changing body -Secrets and surprises - knowing the difference between unhealthy or unkind secrets, and fun, exciting surprises.
Music: Combining rhythm and timbre
Geography: We will begin a new unit of fieldwork and mapskills and consider how we describe places.
Science: What’s the most absorbent material?
PE: Shine PE, Class PE: Gymnastics
Art: We will create a printing block out of styrofoam using negative space.
Friday 13th February 2026 - Open morning 8:50-9:20. You are invited into your child's classroom to look at their writing book ahead of parents evening.
Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th February - Parents evenings
Phonics
Revisiting as needed in each class
Spelling
We will focus on 2 spelling rules this week - Adding the suffixes -er and -le.
Lesson 1: To add the suffix -er to root words
Eg.
Greater
Player
Speaker
Reader
Lessons 2 & 3 To add the suffix -le to a range of words including words with adjacent consonants and words with double letters.
Eg.
Bangle
Twinkle
Sparkle
Battle
Rattle
Cuddle
Writing
We will write up and publish our non-chronological reports in our best handwriting. We will include a colourful, creative heading, subheadings and 2 pictures with captions.
Reading
We will continue with our new class book - ‘The Street Beneath my Feet’.
In maths, we will be finishing off our learning about multiplication and division.
We will revisit our 10 times tables and focus on how this links with dividing by 10.
We will starting to learn our 5 times tables and dividing by 5.
We will be exploring the links between the 5 and 10 times tables and using this to solve problems.
We will be learning that multiplication and division are inverse operations.
We will also be carrying out assessment of this unit
R+WV: Who are God’s messengers? Focus on Abraham and Moses.
Music: Reading graphic scores.
Geography: Comparing the UK to Kenya and carrying out assessment of this learning
Computing: We will be using the skills we have learnt in coding to write our own code, including a timer function and collision detection command.
Safer Internet Day 2026: We will be marking this with an assembly on Tuesday on good uses of AI (focusing primarily on smart speakers as a type of AI) and what might be the problems of using AI.
Science: What’s the right material for the job?
PE: Shine PE and Class PE is Gymnastics
Friday 13th February 2026 - Open morning 8:50-9:20. You are invited into your child's classroom to look at their writing book ahead of parents evening.
Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th February - Parents evenings
Phonics: Revisiting as needed in each class
Spelling:
You can help your child with spelling at home by practising the word lists below each lesson objective.
Lesson 1: To use the long ‘o’ sound to spell words like in:
no
no
so
most
only
piano
solo
Lesson 2: To read and spell common homophones. Homo - same, phone - sound. Words that sound the same but have different meanings.
Lesson 3 Spell words using /ir/, /ur/ and /er/.
Rule - /er/ usually comes at the end of words but can sometimes come in the middle if followed by b, m or ve.
Eg. swerve, verb, germ.
Writing
We will be using the skills we have learnt in the last week to begin to write our non-chronological reports about materials. We will practise using the present tense correctly in simple sentences because non-chronological reports use the present tense. We will then move onto understanding the difference between statement sentences and question sentences. We will then move onto planning and writing the beginning of our non-chronological reports.
In handwriting we will be practising these letters:
Reading
We will start a new class book - ‘The Street Beneath my Feet’.
We will read the text as a class and then try and summarise key parts of the text. We will use retrieval skills to ‘go and get’ information from the text. This book is really special, it is a double-sided fold out book. One side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the city, whilst the reverse side shows the ground beneath the countryside. The underground scenes include tunnels and pipes, creatures' burrows, layers of rock and the planet’s molten core, and run seamlessly into the next.
In maths, we will be learning about multiplication and division.
We will starting to learn our 2 times tables and dividing by 2.
We will be identifying that dividing by 2 is also halving.
We will be revisiting odd and even numbers and recognising that even numbers are divisible by 2.
We will be learning that multiplication and division are inverse operations.
PSHE: Safety and the changing body - Communicating online
DT: This week we will be making our moving monsters
History: We will be learning about Neil Armstrong.
Science: What happens when we squash, bend, twist or stretch a material? We will be carrying out a science experiment to investigate which material is the stretchiest.
Term 3, Week 1
