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Parrots - Foundation Stage 2 & Year 1

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Our Teaching Assistants

Mrs Scotney is our class teacher. She loves making our learning fun and exciting! We also have two special friends in our class called Mr Parrot and Rosie. They help us with our learning but can sometimes cause mischief in our classroom! Mrs Scotney loves singing and dancing with us during our wake and shake sessions (although her singing isn't that great!) Her favourite author is Julia Donaldson and she has LOTS of her books which she enjoys reading to us.

Important Information about Parrot Class

P.E Days- All children have P.E on Fridays. Year 1 also have P.E on Wednesdays. Please make sure that your child is wearing their P.E kit to school and that any jackets/hoodies are labelled. If you have earrings please take them out or cover them with plasters and tie long hair up.

Labelling clothes- Please label all cardigans, jumpers, coats, hats etc with your child's name!

Homework- All children are expected to read 4 times per week. Reading rewards are also given at the end of each half term for children who have read 25 times or more over the half term.

Year 1 children will be set homework activities on Education City on a Friday to be completed by the following Friday.

Reading Books- Your child's reading book will be changed once a week on a Friday. Please make sure children bring their book to school each day.

Parrot Class is a Foundation 2/Year 1 class and we are all Superhero learners! We love a challenge and we always have a can do attitude. We always work as a team and help our friends when they need us. We enjoy our 'Rainbow Challenges' when we take charge of our own learning, deciding which challenges we want to complete first.

Our Learning this half term will be based around the theme of 'Under and Over the Ocean'. In Geography/UTW we will be visiting the seaside to compare it to where we live. We will look at both areas on Google Earth and also use Google Maps to plan our route. In Expressive Arts and Design the children will have access to the home corner where they will be using their imagination to recreate roles and experiences. Our outdoor role play area will be based around the seaside and we will create our own ice cream shop! In our focused EAD sessions the F2 children will practise a range of joining skills in prepartion for makig their own boat that they will then test in our outdoor water area to see if it floats. The Year 1 children will use their Design and Technology skills to creat a lighthouse. This is linked to our Hisory focus where we will be looking at the life of Grace Darling and what important event in history she was part of. We will continue to follow our Charanga Music scheme, tis half terms theme is Reflect, Rewind and Replay. In Computing the Year 1s will be learning how to use Scratch Junior. The F2 children will be learning how to use a range of apps on the iPads to support their learning. In RE the F2 theme is- Our wonderful world. The children will think about how we can care for living things and the Earth. The Year 1 children will look at- How and why are some stories important to Christians and Jewish people.

In English this half term our special stories are ‘What the ladybird heard at the seaside’, ‘Billy's Bucket’, No Nancy No, A Seaside Adventure’ and ‘The Odd Fish’. We will write a list of what we would need to pack in our suitcase if we were going on holiday. We will be creating some giant seaside pictures in the hall and using our phonics skills to label them. The children will also be writing a postcard to send to someone special! Finally, we will be designing and making an ice cream surprise. In our daily phonics sessions, F2 children will be recapping Basics 3 letter sounds and how to blend and segment these sounds in words to read and write. The Year 1 children will be continuing Basics 5 where they will learn alternative letter sounds.

We take a mastery approach to maths. Focusing on a number over 2 weeks to gain an in-depth knowledge & understanding of each number. We will be counting, recognising and ordering these numbers. We will be learning how to partition the numbers to help us to add and subtract them using a range of resources such as 10s frames, part-part whole templates and numicon to help us. We will also be measuring weight and learning how to double and half numbers and talking about the names and properties of 3D shapes. The year 1s will continue to focus on place value to 100, addition and subtraction of two digit numbers and recapping counting in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s. They will also be learning to multiply and divide numbers using a range of strategies.

In Science our focus this half term is animals including humans. The year 1 children will learn the names of different animals and how to sort them into groups. We will look at what the features of the animals are in each group. The children will also learn about animal life cycles with a focus on the life cycle of the frog. We will hopefully be looking after some tadpoles so that we can watch and observe closely to see the changes that occur over time. The F2 children will be focusing on sea creatures looking what features help them to adapt to their different environments. They will also be investigating floating and sinking. All the children will visit Vicar water to take part in some pond dipping.

In PE/PD we will be preparing for Sports Day by mastering basic movements including; running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination in range of activities. The F2 children will also be working in teams to create obstacle courses using a range of large scale outdoor equipment. They will the use their courses to practise moving in a variety of ways including; crawling, sliding, hopping, jumping. The Year 1 children will participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending with our Sports Coach. They will also take part in Gymnastic sessions where they will learn to use the large indoor apparatus.

In class we enjoy our daily wake & shake and Yoga sessions to help us to develop our balance, co-ordination, and core strength. The children also have access to a wide range of ourdoor equipment which they can access on a daily basis during free flow.

Our Jigsaw topic is ‘Changing me’ we will talk about our body, growing up, changes and all the fun and fears we might have as we grow up. We will talk about the change of moving classes and how we feel about that.

We will be recapping all of the British Values that we have learnt about this year.

We will continue to take part in our daily yoga and Well-Being Wednesday sessions to help us to learn how we can look after our well-being and mental health.

Our Forest School sessions this half term are-

Monday 12th June

Monday 26th June

Monday 10th July

Children need to come dressed in weather appropriate clothes that can get muddy. Please send children with wellies or old shoes in a named bag so that the can get changed into them before the session.