Welcome to Class 1
In our class, we love to learn through active play and exploration both inside and out. We are lucky to have the support of Mrs Coe, our fantastic teaching assistant, she takes the class on a Tuesday afternoon.
Parental Support is very important and would love to hear from you if you are available to help in any way. We hope this page will give an insight into our busy class. The safety and happiness of your child is very important to us so please come and see us at any time if you have any questions or concerns - we're always happy to help.
Thank you for your continued support.
Miss Shawcross and Mrs Coe
Summer Term 2019
This term our topic is 'At the bottom of the garden'. This will include mini topics on the plants, growing, minibeasts, healthy living and recycling. Reception children will now focus on improving their reading and writing ability through daily practise and our Read Write Inc lessons. Children are encouraged to sound out words themselves and to write in full sentences. Maths will also continue to be important and children will begin complete addition and subtractions with numbers 1-20. Year 1s will be following the same curriculum as Class 2 and further topic planning for both Year 1 and Reception can be found below.
The following books will be used to enrich and structure literacy lesson for Reception children:
Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan and Janet Alhberg
Jim's Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs
Jasper's Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth
Jack and the Beanstalk
Oliver's Vegetables by Vivan French
Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Bad tempered Ladybird
Spinderella by Julia Donaldson
Cinderella
Oliver's Fruit Salad by Vivan French
Developing Confident Writers
In order to help children develop their pencil grip, we have added some suggestions for activities at home. Please download the documents below. We recommend everyone does a 'Dough Disco' as often as possible!
Key class information
* With the arrival of warmer weather please ensure your child has a sun hat, water bottle and sun cream in school. Children must be able to apply suncream themselves.
*PE day is a Friday for Year 1 and Reception- Please leave PE bags in school until half term and ensure your child is wearing something that they can independently take off/put back on. Occasionally PE days can change so PE kit must be in school daily. PE is often outside, please ensure your child has warm clothes.
*Ensure your child has a bottle of water in school every day - no squash please.
*Try to read with your child at least 3x week and make a brief comment in your child's book.
*Please encourage your child to go into the cloakroom on their own in the mornings as we are working on increasing their independence (as well as easing congestion!)
* Homework Year 1 - Year 1's get homework weekly. It includes spellings ( to be tested on Fridays), a maths activity, occasional phonics activities, handwriting and other 'one off' homework. All homework is to be handed in on a Thursday and is given out on a Friday.
* Homework Reception - Homework is optional for Reception children. They are given a homework book with a task to complete each week along with handwriting.
* Reading at home - children are given reading books and children are encourage to read a minimum of x3 a week. This includes Year 1 and Reception.