Wren Class

Autumn Term 2025

Welcome to Wren Class. We are a mixed class of Year 1 and Year 2 children

WREN CLASS STAFF:

Mrs Berkley - Class Teacher  

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Coduri-Dunn, Mrs Warnes, Mrs Kent, Mrs Knight, Miss Knights

LEARNING: 

We hope that you’ve had a lovely summer holiday and were able to enjoy some relaxing family time. We are delighted to welcome you all back to the start of our new Autumn Term and are excited about the learning that will be taking place.

This term, I will be teaching Wren class alongside Mrs Coduri-Dunn and Mrs Evans. We can be contacted via Dojo at any time and will respond during the school day to any messages sent, any messages sent after school hours may be read but not actioned until the next day.

We have a fun term ahead of us with lots of exciting lessons planned.

This term, we will be learning about how we communicate and the history of communication and investigating famous explorers in our topic lessons.

In science, we will be investigating the animals around the world, including humans. We will be thinking about animal behaviours and diets and exploring how our own bodies work. With will begin using scientifical vocabulary and skills more fluently this year, and will gain an understanding of how to follow, and being to plan, our own science experiments.

In Art, the children will be investigating spirals through drawing, collage and utilising sketchbooks to record their work. In DT the children will be designing and making a storybook using levers and linkages.

In RE, we will be learning about the Jewish religion and investigating Teshuvah and how and why Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are celebrated. In the second half of the term, we will be learning about why Jesus was given the name saviour and alongside this, the children will be able to celebrate the birth of Jesus through our Nativity play (more details of that to come later in the term).

In maths, both year groups will be revisiting place value and number during our first few weeks. The children will continue to improve their skills and knowledge this term by using objects and pictures to consolidate their learning. Our maths lessons will be largely practical with a written task included to check understanding. The children will be learning how numbers and maths fit into our world and how we can see maths everywhere.

In English, both year groups will be developing their English skills through texts selected from the Write Stuff scheme, particularly benefiting from the vocabulary rich learning it provides. The first book of the term that we will be using to support the children’s creative writing is called ‘Ruby’s Worry’s’ followed by ‘How To Catch a Star”. In addition, all children will be either learning new phonics sounds, recapping on those learnt before or be learning spelling patterns to help them to remember these in their writing.

In music this term, we will be linking our learning with our topic by exploring animals and story time. The children will be exploring pitch and sounds. We will think about the timbre of a variety of instruments and begin to learn musical terms for different pitches.

PE will now be on a Wednesday afternoon, and children should come into school in PE kits on that day. Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for these lessons as Mrs Coduri-Dunn hopes to be outside with them when possible.

PSHE will continue to follow the no-outsiders scheme will some reflected education sessions to give children an insight into their own development and emotions.

I have put our class timetable on Class Dojo which gives you information about all lessons and who will be teaching them!

Reminders for this half term: Homework is sent home on a Friday. Please could this be completed and back in school by Wednesday. Reading books should be brought into school every day but especially on Friday for Year 1s, when they will be changed.

We look forward to helping the children through their learning journeys this term.

Kind regards,

Mrs Berkley