Welcome to Class One!
The Class One Team
Class Teacher: Mrs Everett (Mon, Tues & Wed)
Mrs Hemsley (Wed, Thurs & Fri)
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Doyle (Mon-Fri)
Mrs Waring (Wed-Fri)
Welcome to Class One! We hope you all had a wonderful Summer holiday! We are really excited for all of the wonderful things we have planned and will learn about during the Autumn Term.
During the Autumn Term our class topics are 'All About Me' and 'Toys Then and Now'.
This term our topic is All About ME! and we will be learning all about ourselves. We will learn about our five senses, name different parts of our bodies, find out about who is in our family and what makes us special. We will be reading the stories Funnybones and learn how to draw story maps, describe the main characters and write a class story together and much more!
In maths we will be securing our knowledge of numbers to 10 before extending our learning to numbers to 20.
In geography we will be using maps to find out where we live. We will be learning how to write our own address and will even post a letter home!
In history we will be exploring the passing of time by identifying how we have grown and changed from a baby. We will look at toys today and toys that belonged to our grandparents and talk about how they have changed. We will also be learning about how are lives have changed in the last one hundred years by exploring artefacts and photographs from the past.
In art we will be drawings self portraits and portraits of our friends.
In DT we will be design and make a moving picture based on our class story.
In music we will learn a variety of songs about taking care of myself and our bodies.
Homework
New reading books are given each week. Please ensure that your child has their book bag in school every day so that we can change their reading book. It is very important to read with your child for at least 10 minutes every night and sign their reading record to let us know they have completed their homework.
We will also send home links for your child to watch and participate in 'Virtual Classroom Phonics lessons' which mirror our phonics lessons in school. Please support your child by ensuring the complete this homework activity and that they join in with the session.
At The Grange we believe that it is crucial to work in partnership with parents and carers. There is an expectation that you will support us by ensuring that your child completes the tasks that we set as homework.
Obviously the level of your engagement will depend on your child’s age but we expect you take an active part in all aspects of homework and, where necessary, indicate that you have monitored the completion of it (e.g. by signing the Home/School Reading Record Book.)
The routines of reading every day, learning spellings and multiplication tables etc. can be great fun and very rewarding for all concerned. Best results are achieved when homework in not done at the last minute but has a fixed time in a child’s established home routine. Short, sharp periods of activity are preferable to prolonged periods of study where concentration can be lost.
Effective learning and consolidation of learning cannot happen in an environment with lots of distractions (e.g. television etc.) Please give some thought to where your child works at home.
Please see below the extensive list of websites that your child can visit to consolidate and extend his/her learning.