Welcome to Penguins Class!
Penguins Staff:
Mrs Wiles is our class teacher
Mrs Alsford is our teaching assistant
Our class charter
SUMMER
We had lots of fun in the spring term completing our Quest 'You've Got a Friend in Me'. See below for a summary of our learning!
This term we are starting a new Quest 'Let it Grow!'. We will be learning lots in science, art and geography along with all of our other curriculum subjects. You can view the Quest overview below:
Class info
PE days:
This half term our PE days are on Wednesdays and Fridays - please make sure your child has a full, named PE kit in school on these days. The PE kits will be kept in school on pegs and sent home at the end of each half term to be washed and checked. Please make sure any ear piercings are removed on PE days.
Homework expectations:
Reading
- On Fridays the children will be set the online book version of the story they have been practicing during their RWI lessons. This can be found on the Oxford Owl website using the password and username found in the front of your child's reading records. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/login?active-tab=students
- On Fridays the children will also bring home a special RWI 'book bag book' that links to the one they have been reading. This is an unfamiliar text and will therefore test the skills they learnt the week before to read it.
- Ideally the children should be reading 5 times a week. These can be books you may have at home or a book they have brought home from school from our class or school libraries. It also includes the online RWI books that are set every week.
Maths
Occasionally we may set some maths work to follow up what the children have been learning that week. This will be set on Teams in the assignments but we will let you know on our class boards outside our rooms for when we do this.
- it is always helpful to practise counting. In Year 1 we will be counting in 1s forwards and backwards to 100, in 2s forwards and backwards to 24 and in 10s forwards and backwards to 120. Practising speedy knowledge of number facts such as number bonds (to 10 or 20), doubles and halves is also beneficial.
Spelling
In the Summer Term we will be setting spelling practise for the children. These will be 6 new common exception or 'red' words each week to learn and practice. They will be set via our class teams page each Friday afternoon, so please be sure to check this each week.
Other
We will keep you updated on our class Teams page for any other homework set later on in the term.