The Meadows
Primary School
‘Play Together, Learn Together, Achieve Together’
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Promoting HONESTY
Building RESILIENCE
Developing RESPONSIBILITY
Nurturing COMPASSION
Encouraging REFLECTION
WRENS - Year 1
Welcome to the Wrens' Class
Welcome to our class page.
Teacher - Mrs Jeukens
Teaching Assistant
Miss Brookes
Spring Term 2026
To Market! To Market!
The topic this term is ‘To Market, To Market.’ The children will use a variety of methods (e.g. maps, Google earth, globes and internet research) to find out about Oswestry as a market town. They will also prepare questions to ask people (such as a Grandparent) about their memories of Oswestry markets a long time ago. The children will create a ‘Then’ and ‘Now’ picture showing Oswestry market and will consider why Oswestry was chosen as a market place a long time ago. They will explore local weather patterns as well as different climates all over the World. They will match fruit and vegetables to each continent on a World map. In Art, the children will use and recognise different types of lines when drawing shapes. They will use shapes to draw a face, using different pressures to make colour lighter or darker. They will choose lines and shapes inspired by Brianna McCarthy’s artwork. In Design Technology, the children will explore, design, make a healthy vegetable soup and then evaluate their product. In Music, they will learn about myths and legends and will create a rhythm, learn to show structure on a graphic score, write a graphic score to show texture and compose a piece of music with a given structure. They will perform a group composition. The children will learn to program a robot and use laptops and iPads to group data. They will learn how to stay safe when using the internet, by following the SMART rules.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding anything, please feel free to send us a message via the Seesaw app, contact the office to pass on a message or speak to one of us at the end of the day after 'pick-up time'. Over the year, we will be using this webpage to post lots of useful and important information, such as home learning activities, useful websites and photos.
Here is a useful list of our regular class activities. (Please note that these may change on occasions)
Mrs Jeukens and Miss Brookes
PE: All children need to make sure they come to school wearing their PE kit on Wednesday and Friday.
Navy tracksuit bottoms are optional to wear during colder days when outside for PE. These should be worn over shorts just in case PE is in the hall.
Swimming: This will take place this term. There will be 10 lessons. Swimming days will be Wednesdays, starting the 2nd week of term
Homework: Reading and spelling:
Reading: Please listen to your child read as often as you can; daily is recommended. Your child will bring home a bookmark to collect your signature every day which they read; only one signature per day, even if your child has read twice. Hopefully, they can 'travel around the world' with our reading challenge.
Spelling: Your child will bring home a spelling booklet which holds all the weekly spelling lists for the term. Please help your child to look at the spelling rule, and learn to spell the words in each list. They will have a spelling quiz every Thursday. Week 1's spelling test will be on the first Thursday we are back. Week 2s spelling test will be the following Thursday, and so on.
There may be homework sent home once the children have settled. I will try and make sure that these tasks are fun and practical where possible.
Spelling Test: Thursday - Children will be given 10 spellings to learn every week. They will follow the LOOK, COVER, WRITE, CHECK method to help them learn their spellings. You will be notified about their score via their bookmark.
Many Thanks
Mrs Jeukens and Miss Brookes
At the bottom of the page I have added some useful websites for the children to play on. Please let me know of any websites that you would like me to add to this page. Enjoy!