Armstrong class

We are made up of children from Year 1 and Year 2.We have two teachers sharing our class.

Here is an overview of your child’s week.Please send a bag to school every day with the home reading book in.Where we can, we’ll try to read with them ourselves over time and see how they’re doing and we need their books and reading records in for that.

Our lessons

We balance our learning for both year groups in class but for Maths and Science we split into separate year groups.Mrs Harding/Mrs O’Rourke teach Year 2 Maths and Mrs Kelly teaches Year 1 Maths.

In Maths lessons, Year 2 will be learning to count, order, compare and calculate with numbers to 100 as well as beginning to use times tables more formally to solve problems.

Year 1 will be learning to count, order, compare and calculate with numbers to 10 and 20.

Number formation (how children write their numbers, is crucial in Year 1 – please follow these guidelines:

Our English books this year are very exciting.We’re starting in the Autumn term with Cave Baby, Sidney, Stella and the Moon and Dragon Post.We learn about nouns, verbs and adjectives within our language and work hard to add detail to our writing while remembering those capital letters, finger spaces and full stops!

Phonics lessons happen every day. Children move to different groups for this so their lesson is at the right point of learning for them.

Please support your children’s reading and phonic learning at home by using their home reading book as often as you can – there are a list of sounds at the back for you to test your child and see what they recognise.Your child should read to you out loud and break down any words they’re not sure of into the sounds to blend them into a full word.

Here’s a great video explaining how we use phonics to help children learn to read: https://youtu.be/Nw6_g8ouKK0

Children must read at least 3 times a week at home.The more times they read the book, the more the words will stick in their memories as sight words.Little and often is best!

You don’t need to write lots in the comments section – just a quick note of the pages and if there’s anything we need to know 😊 Otherwise you can just sign to say you have heard them read.

In Science, Year 2 are learning about habitats and microhabitats this term and Year 1 will be finding out about seasonal changes and everyday materials.

In History, we’ll be learning about how school has changed over time.This is a great topic for us as our building is from the Victorian times! Can you spot any old features as you look up from the playground at home-time?In Geography we’ll be studying mapwork and our place in Europe and the wider world.

Supporting your child:

We want your child to be confident and happy in their learning and it would be great if they could share this with you.Please find the time to read at least 3 times a week and sign their reading record.

Homework is sent home on a Friday and to be brought back by the Wednesday after.Children who bring it in on time get a raffle ticket to win prizes.

We’ll also be sending home logins to Reading Eggs and our new spelling games, Emile, soon so keep an eye out for these! We hope the children will love playing these educational games on their devices at home.

Home-time

We leave school from the top yard.We’re always happy to speak to you after school but please wait until all children have been sent to their grown ups before coming to talk to us so we can check everyone has gone safely.If someone else is collecting your child, please ring the school office earlier in the day to let us know in advance.