Reception and Year 1 (Willow Class)
Autumn Term 1 2025
What a fabulous start to the new academic year we have had. Our topic of Superheroes has shown that the children in Willow are the real Superheroes! They have ‘wowed’ us with their learning and their maturity this term.
We have read some fantastic fiction books about Superheroes. Supertato, Super Daisy and the class favourite My Mum is a Superhero. Using these books as a base the children have written some amazing sentences about the characters. The year 1’s showed great learning by using capital letter, finger spaces and full stops independently.
In Maths Year 1’s have learnt about place value within 10, where they were great at comparing numbers, ordering objects and numbers. They have become experts at counting forwards and backwards and impressed us with their knowledge of greater than and less than. Reception have learnt about comparing, sorting and matching items and have become proficient at repeating patterns.
During science this term we have investigated seasonal changes in Autumn and naming pa rts of our body and how we take care of ourselves.
In Geography we have learnt about the United Kingdom and what countries are in it along with where Somerby is in England.
Willow class have learnt about belonging in RE and had great fun acting out a Christening and a Wedding. Music has been enjoyable with the children learning lots of new songs and they have begun to understand about beats and rhythm in music
In Design and Technology this term the children made their own Superhero capes. They designed and made their own Superhero emblem and thought about how to attach them onto their cape. We think they look out of this world!!
This term Willow class have had Bikeability and loved whizzing around the playground on the balance bikes learning how to be safe. They also attended a Gymnastics afternoon where they had super fun learning gymnastics moves and how to use the equipment. We have had a couple of sessions at Forest School which the children just loved. We have also had a great Harvest Festival where we sang ‘I’m a Dingle Dangle Scarecrow’ and we finished the term off with a fun filled Superhero Day.