Bushmead Primary School
Year 1 - Alder and Holly
Welcome to Year 1
Welcome back!
We hope you have all had a great Easter holiday and are looking forward to the Summer Term!
New Spellings
On Tuesday 14th April 2026 all children will be given their new spellings for the half term. The first test will take place on Friday 17th April.
Year 1 PE Days
Tuesday- outside
Friday – inside
English learning
This half term we continue to enjoy Curious Quests. The children will take on many new quests given to them by the faithful friends and delivered from Professor Klunk through the portal. The children will write a variety of codes using a range of punctuation, adjectives, and simple connectives ‘and’ ‘but’ ‘so’ and ‘because’.
This half term’s text link to our topic- Fit Kids!
Funny Bones
The Enormous Turnip
Find Your Happy
Vlad and the Florence Nightingale Adventure
All The Nonsense in my Teeth
Amy gets eaten!
Maths learning
Over the half term we will be covering:
Length and height
Mass and weight
Multiplication and Division
Fractions
Our new topic this term is – Fit Kids!
Please see the attached topic map for details of the foundation subjects that will be taught this half term.