Willow Class

Teacher - Miss Batchelor

Teaching Assistant - Ms Stannard

Teaching Assistant - Ms Atif

Teaching Assistant - Ms Duijker

Chestnut Class

Teacher - Miss Loades

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Vohra

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Patel

Teaching Assistant - Ms Duijker

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Nikolaeva

Reminders

Please check Classdojo

Please do not put your child's drinks bottle in their bag as it sometimes leaks.

PE                                                              

Please ensure your child comes to school dressed in their PE kit every Monday. PE will begin on Monday 29th September.

Children should be dressed in either the Scotts tracksuit or shorts and t-shirt, depending on the weather. 

Book Bags and Reading Books

Your child will receive a book weekly. Please look at the back page to see what your child should be working on. This will include a decoding session, a prosody session and a comprehension session. Please sign your child's reading record 5 times a week. 

Homework

Your child will be given homework every Friday. Please support your child in completing this homework to help them consolidate their phonics learning. Homework is due in the following Friday. However, your child can return their homework as soon as it is completed.

Uniform

Please can you ensure that you label your child’s clothing, this includes their shoes. All children should come to school with a green book bag.

Special Person

On a Friday, one child in class will be chosen as our special person. When it is your child’s turn, they will come home with a note to say they are the special person. Please collect five special things that are important to your child and discuss why they are special to them. It could be a teddy they have had since they were a baby, a certificate that they have been awarded or a photo of a family party. Once you have discussed them, please take a photograph and upload it to Class Dojo by the following Thursday, to enable the child to talk about why these items are special to them.

Termly curriculum overview

This week in Literacy, our focus is on Rainforests. We will be researching the different animals that live there and looking at how they move and survive in their habitat. The children will explore the different layers of the rainforest to see which animals live at each level, from the forest floor up to the canopy. We will also discuss why plants are such a vital part of the rainforest and the planet as a whole..

Information for parents can be found on Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. Please click on the link below.

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised

We will learn the sounds:

This week we will be revising all the phase 3 sounds and applying our phonic knowledge to blend and segment.

Reading longer words:  farmer  market   finger   towel   cornet   marching    farming     singing      chatting      rooftop    popcorn

Tricky words: is  I  a  to  do  no  so  has  go  she  he  me  be  we  you  my  by  they  was  all  into  sure  

Our Topic is 'The Great Outdoors'

In maths we will:

• • • practise identifying when 2 sets are equal in number. 

    • identify when a double is shown and explain why.

    • say what the whole is when there are 2 equal parts. 

    • use objects to make doubles patterns and describe what they can see.

    • show doubles patterns on their fingers in response to being given the whole

    • use positional language to describe spatial arrangements of objects

    • visualise doubles patterns to 5 and 5

• Online safety

We will be learning to make new friendships.

Useful Websites:

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?AgeGroup=1

Our Learning:

Autumn 1

Autumn 2