Welcome to Robins Class! We are very lucky to have wonderful Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children in our class. Our classteacher is Miss Reid, assisted daily by Mrs Sedgbeer.
We will be good listeners.
We will respect our school and the things in it.
We will try our best but if something goes wrong we will try again.
We will be in the right place at the right time.
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Curriculum Children in the Reception year follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and children in Year 1 and 2 follow the National Curriculum. This means that, although we will come together as a whole class at various points of the day, the children will be taught the appropriate content for their year group in two different spaces. Reception children are taught in Dippers classroom, playing alongside Pre-School's Little Dippers and Year 1 and 2 are taught in Robins classroom. Miss Reid and Mrs Sedgbeer structure the day to ensure that all children get the teaching time they need as well as the independent practice that allows their learning to develop. We learn through direct teaching, child-led and adult-led activities, all wrapped up in lots of play and fun in a supportive environment.
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Phonics and Reading Reception and Year 1 children have daily 20-minute phonics lessons and lots of opportunity to practise what they have learned during focused activities and during independent play. Guided Reading with an adult takes place once a week for all children in Robins. Year 1 and 2 children will also have the opportunity to read independently for 20 minutes every day in school. Year 2 children will work on comprehension quizzes using our Accelerated Reader program. Story time is a very important time of our day and we will come together to foster a love of stories and reading for pleasure. Please see the homework section below for ways you can help at home with this.
Writing, handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar. Reception children concentrate on letter formation and segmenting words into phonic sounds for a large part of the year. Later on in the Reception year, they start to write sentences and sequences of sentences. Year 1 and 2 children will explore a wide range of text types to link their writing during the year and their reading and writing skills will be developed and extended through studying these texts in depth. The children will be expected to write independently, editing and improving their writing as part of the process. Year 2 children will also have a daily 20-minute Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar lesson every day focusing on important tools to help improve their writing. Handwriting sessions take place several times a week for all year groups, starting at basic letter formation in Reception to joining in Year 2.
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Maths In Maths, the children will develop their skills through a mixture of direct teaching, including formal written lessons, investigations, practical activities and games. Reception children are taught separately to Year 1 and 2 children but even within these groups, children are supported in their own maths journey and will receive the help they need to become secure in place value, calculations, shape, space and measure including time, and additionally for Year 2, basic fractions. In Year 2, children are introduced to the multiplication tables and will become fluent in the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables. Please see the homework section below for ways you can help at home with your child’s Maths learning.
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Understanding the World and Topics In Robins class we delve into Science, History and Geography topics. Please see the Curriculum Map above for this term.
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P.E. & Forest School PE will be held on Thursday with Mrs Bamber and our other session will be held on a Monday. Children need to wear navy shorts and a pale blue polo shirt or tracksuit bottoms and tops in colder weather. They also need to wear trainers. PE kits should be worn to school on the days that PE is timetabled. All kit should be clearly named please.
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Miss Ali Reid
Class Teacher