Year overview:

Overview for Reception

Overview for Year 1 and 2 children

Our class:

Our aim is to create a happy, safe, welcoming environment where the children enjoy exploring, learning and are encouraged to be independent and use their individuality in all that they do.

We will continue to place our school values at the heart of everything we do. Our curriculum reflects the interests of the three cohorts to ensure children are engaged, focused and enthused with a love of learning. We have lots of exciting activities planned for this year for all children to enjoy and develop them both personally and academically.

We are looking forward to working in partnership with you.  

General class information:

Children need to bring a coat with them each day as we access the outdoor provision throughout the day and in all weathers. We also ask when the weather is hot, suncream is applied at home in the morning and the children can reapply later in the day, if needed. In addition, they will need a sun hat and a water bottle.

When the weather is cold, children will need a coat, hat and gloves to keep them warm and dry at school each day.  All items of clothing must be labelled with your child's name, so items can be returned.  

Home learning: 

Read at least 4 times a week at home (Reading record to be signed by an adult). 

Spellings - (Yr1 and 2 children)

TTRockstars (Yr 1 and 2 children)

Active Learn Phonic activities (Reception children)

PE:

PE will generally be on a Tuesday afternoon. However, we ask for PE kits to be in school every day and we will send them home to be washed at the end of each half term or when we feel necessary. PE kits should include:

- PE top and jacket or jumper

- PE shorts / trousers

- PE footwear dark coloured trainers

- Socks only if your child wears tights

Hair should be tied back and any watches taken off.

Forest school:

Forest school will be running every Monday afternoon for Reception children. Please provide a waterproof, wellies, wellie socks and appropriate clothing for the weather as children attend Forest school in all weathers. Children attending forest school can come to school wearing non-uniform on forest days so you can layer more easily. We aim to keep forest kits in school for the half term however, we will send them home if they need drying out or cleaning ready for the following week.

Reception spellings:

Reception will be given tricky words (exception words, words that don’t fit a phonic pattern) these will be sent home in children’s bookbags. Once we feel your child is secure with reading and writing these independently, we will provide the next set.

 

Year one and two spellings:

Each half term children will be given spellings. Your child will bring home a set of spellings for each week of that term. These are for children to practise at home. Children will also have their tricky words (exception words, words that don’t fit a phonic pattern). Please practise these words at home; reading and writing them. We will be focusing on tricky words and any key words we feel the children need support with.

Active Learn:

Your child's login details are stuck in the front of their reading records. We use active learn during the school day so we ask that your child practises at home how to log themselves into Active Learn.  When using Active Learn you need to allow pop ups as the e-books open in new window. Each e-book has a small picture of bugs and these are where the children will click on and a question will be provided about the book for your child to answer. Please ensure your child answers the bugs.

Reading: 

Your child will bring a reading book home each night these will be changed regularly in school. We encourage re-reading books to allow for questions to arise to ensure a better understanding. We advise parents to read at least 4 times a week with your child. Please ensure you record when your child has read and to who in their reading record. We also advise a mix between e-books and physical books. Your child will bring home a book of choice as well from our class library which will be changed once a week to share with you at home if they wish.

The purple stage / picture books: These books are to encourage your children to look at the illustrations and infer what is happening in the story and what might happen next. There is support and example questions in the inside cover of each book.

WOW moments: 

If your child has a WOW moment please record it and inform Parks’ class staff of the WOW moment and any photos you may have of it. These moments can be shared via the class email or reading record. WOW moments can be things like riding a bike, baking a cake or achieving something they had found difficult. We want to share these with the class.

Reward systems in class:

Rubber ducks – Children and adults have the ability to nominate others to have a special rubber duck to sit on their desk for things like being a good friend, being polite, trying their best, having a go, being brave etc…  

Stickers and smelly stickers - Given when appropriate to individuals. 

Class rewards - The class is able to vote on a class treat when, as a class, they have earned it such as an extra playtime.

Star, merits and VIP -We also have merits and a star of the week which is shared with the entire school on a Friday during Collective Worship. The children will then have a gold or blue sparkly rubber duck to sit with them for the week.

Derek the Duck – Derek is our class pet he is a Mallard duck who loves to go on adventures and has the highest seat in the classroom to watch over all of us and see who has tried their best to then go home with them on a Friday for the weekend. Children will take him home and fill in the diary to then share with us at school on the following Monday. Derek is very excited to see you all!

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