Welcome to Willow Class (Designated Provision 2)
Teachers:
Mrs Welsby - Monday, Tuesday, Wed morning
Mrs Bonser - Wed afternoon, Thursday, Friday
Teaching Assistants:
Miss Van den Hoek
Mr Boulter
Mrs Welsby - Class Teacher
Miss Van den Hoek - Teaching Assistant
Mrs Bonser - Class Teacher
Mrs Vero - Teaching Assistant
PE
PE is on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Your child needs a full named PE kit including:
- Blue Dallam PE Top
- Black Shorts
- Trainers
- Black jogging bottoms
- Black hooded top / jumper
Please note: school no longer allows children to wear pumps for PE.
Click on the link below to visit our NEW online uniform shop.
Messages Home
Seesaw will be used for daily messages home and whole class notices as well as recording your child's learning and progress towards their personal targets.
Seesaw will be checked throughout the day and messages responded to within school hours.
Thank you for your support so far with this.
Snack
Children can bring in a healthy snack each day or they can buy toast for £1 a week. Please send £1 into school in an envelope with your child by 9.30am each Friday morning to pay for toast for the following week.
Alternatively you can pay for the term by bank transfer direct to school. Please use your child's name and 'TUCK' as the reference.
Account Number: 43836550
Sort Code: 01 - 09 – 17
Each child also needs a named water bottle that can remain in school. If you would like your child to have squash, please send in a named bottle.
Useful Maths Websites
Below are some games that you may find useful when practising times and division facts.
Hit the Button:
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Moon Maths:
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/moonmaths.swf
Times Tables Rockstars:
Numbots:
Outside Play
We are very fortunate in Willow Class to have our own large outdoor area. So that we can use it every day, we ask that you send your child into school with a named pair of wellies that can remain here in school and make sure they have a waterproof coat with them each morning.
You may also feel your child would benefit from a bag of named spare clothes to keep in school such as spare trousers, socks and underwear.
Reading
Reading books need to come into school everyday so that adults in the classroom can read with the children. Books will be changed on a TBC.
Your child will bring home two books; one at the level they are currently reading at and we ask that you hear your child read as many times as you can during the week, and a second book for you to share together.
Reading and sharing the same book can greatly improve reading fluency and sight vocabulary.
Please remember to sign your child's reading records so they can work towards a Reading Champions mention on the weekly newsletter.
Our learning this term...
Science
In the autumn terms, our science topics are:
Light
Rocks and Soils
We will be learning
- How shadows are formed
- How shadows are changed
- How light is reflected
- The three types of rock - igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
History
Our learning question is:
“Who were our prehistoric ancestors?”
We will be learning about the Stone Age and Bronze Age. We will be finding out about life as a hunter gatherer, early farming and cave art and comparing it with our lives today.
Geography
Our learning question is:
“What are the different types of settlement in the UK?”
We will be learning about the UK. We will explore the different types of settlements (hamlet, village, town and city) and how land is used. The children will begin to name some of the England’s 48 counties.
Art
This term out focus will be on Drawing.
We will be exploring mark making and line; working and experimenting with different materials through observational and collaborative pieces.
Design Technology
The children will learn about different food groups and a balanced diet before planning and making their own sandwich or wrap.
Newsletter - Autumn Term
English
In English, we will be consolidating our phonic knowledge, sentence building and letter formation. We will work on our comprehension skills and fluency when reading and explore spelling rules.
Our writing tasks will be based on
‘The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth’
by Ellie Hattie & Karl James Mountford.
We will be exploring the text and learning to use ‘and’ to join clauses, add suffixes, punctuate sentences in different ways and use story language.
We will be writing our own adventure story!
Maths
This term we will be focussing on:
- place value
- addition
- subtraction
The children will be learning to:
- partition numbers to 100 / 1000
- find 1 more / 1 less
- find numbers greater / less than
- use a numberline
- compare and order numbers
- use column addition and subtraction
Other Curriculum Areas
