Welcome to Summer Term- Jellyfish Class 

 

Please do not hesitate to come and see me after school, or give me an email if you have any questions. My email address is b.bramhill@consortiumtrust.org.uk

       

Important information:

• Your child needs their own named plastic water bottle to keep in class, which they can access and top up during the day.
• Please bring wellies, labelled for wet weather and muddy ground.
• Please also ensure your child brings trainers every day to change into for the Golden Mile run round the field to help keep our carpets mud-free.
• They may also wish to bring a healthy snack (fruit or veg/crackers etc) for morning break which they can eat at the beginning of play time. They also will have the option to have a school-provided snack (fruit or veg) and milk in the afternoon. 
• Please label every part of your child's uniform so that if they misplace it, we will know it's theirs.
• Feel free to join the Class 1 parents Whatsapp group if you want to- ask other parents to add you in. This can  help to find missing bits of uniform at the end of the day if the wrong children take them home!
• I will send you a class newsletter every week with any reminders and information you need as well as updates on the children's learning that week. I will only send pictures of your child(ren) if they have got consent for this via Arbor. 
• Please encourage your child to bring in something or have a song ready to sing/a joke ready to tell/ a picture they have made every Monday for 'show and tell' with Mr Barlow. Thank you.

Our exciting learning this term...

Morning activities: Reception will be practising our motor skills such as pencil grip, cutting, painting, writing skills through a number of activities like squeezing, rolling, poking using play dough, tweezers, weaving string, using sand to mark-make in preparation for writing. 

Phonics: 

This term, we are learning blue level words which are polysyllabc (more than one syllable) and words with consonant-vowel, consonant, consonant like 'handstand', 'lunchbox', 'sandpit' and 'splat', 'paint'. We will carry out a phonics assessment as and when needed this term and will be updating flashcard and book levels accordingly. We will be grouping children according to their ability too.

Please encourage your child to engage in listening to story-telling and joining in with key events, explaining what has happened so far, predicting what might happen next every day. 

Eventually, your child will be able to move onto library level books that are on our 'Accelerated Reader' system. This usually happens in Class 2. This means that they can take a comprehension quiz on a tablet at school to see their understanding of what happened in the book; the children find this very exciting! They can then move on to another book. 

See below the early learning goal and our rhymes that we use to teach the children each sound and the saying we use when we are forming each letter. For example the letter 'm' looks like two mountains so when we are doing each arch of the letter we say mountain.

Literacy:

We will be looking at The Hungry Caterpillar, The Sleepy Bumblebee (Pie Corbett Talk for Writing). 

We will also be learning rhymes and poems to expand our vocabulary and consolidate our communication and language skills. Towards the end of the year, the children will look at how to create simple sentences that include capital letters, full stops and interesting words like adjectives.

Whole Class Reading: 

We will be looking at a variety of high-quality books and enjoying them together. We will be developing our reading VIPER skills: vocabulary, inferencing, predicting, explaining, retrieving and sequencing. This will be done through lots of discussion, drawings and roleplay at the end of everyday before home time. We will read a range of non-fiction and fiction books as well as watching some story animations on videos like The Gruffalo's child, Stick Man on BBC iPlayer. 

Maths:

This term, reception children will be looking at numbers 9&10, how they can be composed and partitioned, e.g number bonds 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5, 6+4, 7+3, 8+2, 9+1, 10+0. We will also be looking at 3D shapes, looking at numbers up to 20, sharing and grouping objects from a bigger group, adding more and taking away up to 10, patterns and maps.

Science/Understanding the World:

In EYFS we will be doing lots of outdoor learning. 

The Natural World •

Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.

• Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.

• Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of matter.

Topic: 

 

Music: We will be learning lots of nursery rhymes, enjoying listening to different genres of music, beginning to identify the beat and discuss if we like the music.

We are also helping KS2 to learn some Oliver Twist songs for their summer production and really enjoying singing along.

 

Art: We will be using clay to create ammonite fossils and dinosaur remains! We will draw step by step dinosaur pictures.

 

RE: We will be looking at some different religions and beliefs.

We will look at other cultures through festivals and celebrations.

 

Welcome to Seahorses - Year 2

 

Science

This term we will learn about animals and will develop our knowledge of different classification groups of animals such as reptiles, mammals, amphibians etc. We will also consider what  environments are best for these animals to live in and which animals will be ideal pets for a range of enviroments.

Reading

Each afternoon in school we spend half an hour developing our reading skills. We learn skills such as identifying vocabulary in the text, making inferences based on the text we've read, predicting what is going to happen, retreiving information from the text, explaining about what we 

Maths

In Maths lessons we follow the White Rose Scheme of learning. This term we are going to learn place value and addition.

PE

Year 2 children do PE on a Wednesday afternoon with Mr Hopkinson.

Computing

Mr Barlow teaches Computing on a Wednesday afternoon.

Your child needs their own named plastic water bottle to keep in class.

• They may also wish to bring a healthy snack for morning break which they can eat at the beginning of play time. They also will have the option to have a school-provided snack in the afternoon and some have milk.
• Please also label every part of your child's uniform so that if they misplace it, we will know it's theirs. Please also bring wellies labelled for wet weather and muddy ground.
• Please ensure your child brings trainers every day to change into after the Golden Mile to help keep our carpets mud-free.

Please speak to Miss Way if you have any questions.

Welcome to Dolphins Class (Year 3 and 4)                                    

Mrs Townshend and Ms Jary teach in Class 3 with Mrs Ponton and Mr Barlow as class TAs. Please do not hesitate to come and see us after school if you have any questions or queries.

Your child needs their own named plastic water bottle to keep in class, which they can access and top up during the day and a small pencil case which will fit in their tray. They may also wish to bring a healthy snack for morning break which they then eat at the beginning of play time. 

Class News

In Maths we will continue to follow the White Rose scheme of work and use Times Tables Rockstars to help with learning times tables. All children are required by the government to know their times tables up to 12x12 before they reach Yr 5. We have a Rainforest display so that the children know which times tables they are learning next, please feel free to ask more about this system. Times tables tests are on Fridays. On completing a times tables test successfully, the children then move onto the next number, but the tests each week also cover numbers previously learnt to constantly consolidate the children’s learning.

Class information 

Spellings

Spellings will be learnt in school and will be tested at the end of each unit. We will be revisiting the words regularly in class in order to embed the spelling rules and patterns.

Reading
Please listen to your child read as often as you can. Just ten minutes every night can really help your child to progress in their reading. (Even fluent readers may need help with difficult words.)

When you have listened to your child, please sign and date the pages read. Reading diaries will be checked weekly by Mrs Ponton and a raffle ticket will be awarded if your child has read five times or more in a week.

Independence
One of the important roles in Class 3 is to develop your child's independence. Being ready for lessons with the appropriate equipment in their own pencil case and having appropriate clothes for the weather that day is all part of this.

PE/ICT timetable

Monday ICT with Mr Barlow

Wednesday PE with Mr Hopkinson

Please make sure your child has:
1. A book bag/ folder to protect school library books and reading diaries.
2. Sports kit
3. A pencil case with a selection of HB pencils for writing and drawing, a few coloured crayons, ruler, rubber, pencil sharpener etc. Please make sure that the pencil case is small enough to fit in your child's drawer in the classroom.
4. Wellies.

Please make sure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled.

 

 

 

Welcome to Barracuda Class

Mr Hempenstall and Mrs Dod teach Barracudas. Please do not hesitate to come and see us after school if you have any questions or queries.

Reading

Every child in Barracuda Class is asked to read every night. They will receive raffle tickets for every week they can show that they have read for five nights. The more raffle tickets they receive, the greater chance they have of winning the end-of- term prize. 

Reading allows us to access new, imaginary worlds as well as inform and educate us about the wondrous world we live in. Reading is vital and so I encourage every child in my class to read every day both in school and at home.

Spelling

In school, we use the spelling scheme of syllables and sounds to help children to become competent spellers. When writing at home, please encourage your child to split the word into syllables and then focus on the sounds they can hear in each syllable. They can identify the tricky sounds that they hear and use their sound mat for support to choose the correct sound. When writing at home, children should be encouraged to use a sound mat that will be sent home.

Upcoming Events

Rehearsals are underway for our summer production of Oliver with a Twist on the 9th and 10th July. The performances will be at 6:30pm at Henley Community Centre. We hope to see you there! 

 

 

 

P.E lessons are on Wednesdays. Children are permitted to come to school in the correct P.E kit on P.E days. 

In school, we have set up a reward system which celebrates the effort, behaviour and resilience of children in school. These are given to children for using good manners, looking out for their friends, helping others, helping visitors etc. Children earn points which then in turn can be exchanged for prizes from the reward cabinet. Prizes have been donated by the Friends of Henley School and are updated regularly to keep up with trends and fads, maintaining the interest of the children.

The behaviour points are also added together for the house totals every half term, together with house points which are awarded for achievement and attainment in class. House points are awarded for academic achievement in school and at home for improvements to work quality, outstanding presentation etc.

As well as these reward systems, staff use sticker charts in class, celebrate with certificates and notes home and our Head Teacher certificates are awarded in assembly each week. Other certificates in school include Accelerated Reader and Maths timetables achievements.

We also have a WOW! Board in the school corridor which celebrates achievements beyond the immediate school environment. Children can bring in photographs of their activities and awards to share their successes at clubs outside of school. These have previously included karate competitions, scouting, ballet and dance shows, beekeeping experiences and music awards.

We really like to see what the children accomplish outside of school and share in their successes and achievements.