Brinsley Primary And Nursery School - Foundation 1
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Miss G Standring
Class Teacher
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Miss L Maule
Teaching Assistant
Who’s in the class
Class Name: Owls
This term our topic is:
What Do People Celebrate?
We will follow themes about:
- Similarities / differences
- Celebrations
- Bonfire Night
- Birthdays
- Weddings
- Diwali
- Anti-bullying Week
- Christmas / The Nativity
- Baking – Gingerbread men
- Outdoor learning – Winter
Some vocabulary we will be learning and using: Me / my/ I, same/ similarities, different/ differences, celebrate/ celebrations, Birthday, party, decorations, invitations, guests, bonfire, fireworks, Diwali, Christmas, nativity, God, Jesus, Church, worship, season, winter.
Some books we may look at are The Gruffalo, The Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Man, Sparks in the Sky and The Scarecrows Wedding as well as a range of non-fiction texts.
In Maths, we will focus on number and pattern. This will include counting, numeral recognition and subitising as well as repeating patterns.
In Phonics, we use the Twinkl scheme. For the majority of this year, we will be focusing on Level one which involves recognising rhythm and patterns of sound through learning about environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body percussion, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally blending and segmenting letters and sounds.
All children will continue to learn about our School values. These will be explored further during our SCARF PSED sessions. This half term our unit is 'Valuing Difference'.
We endeavour to get outside as much as possible and our outdoor learning will be complimented by our Friday welly walks.
We will visit the Library on Thursdays to ensure that we are developing our love of books through reading for pleasure.
Please keep looking at Class Dojo for any dates and information regarding what is happening in our class and in the whole school.
Welcome to Foundation 1
We hope you enjoy your time in our class. Please see below for links to helpful websites.
Some online stories:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/login/ Username: brinsleyowls Password: hoot
The place to find our nursery rhymes and clips:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-songs-index/zhwdgwx
Join in with some calm yoga for children:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Physical Education
This half term we will continue to develop gross motor and fine motor skills during planned and child-initiated activities both indoors and outdoors. We will also continue with regular 'Squiggle While you Wiggle' and 'Dough Disco' sessions.
Library books
Every Thursday your child will choose a new library book from the school library. This is for both you and your child to enjoy and read together. Please remember to return the book every week so they can choose a new book to ensure they are developing a positive attitude to a wide range of texts.
Wow Moments
We would love to hear about any recent achievements, news, or exciting activities that you and your child have been up to at home. In the cloakroom area is our WOW board. Please let us know any exciting things you would like to share about your child. Please let us know when you need more!
Rhyme of the week
We are continuing to sing nursery rhymes each week, and would encourage you to sing these at home with your child. We have a small display and table close to the carpet area, that shows our current rhyme. The following website has animations, words and the tracks for lots of great nursery rhymes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/schoolradio
Speech and Language
Alongside the singing of Nursery Rhymes and sharing different books, we would encourage you to talk to your child regularly about the things you are doing and what they have done at school. This will really support their development with speaking and listening and increase their vocabulary. If you need any ideas, please have a look at our speech and language display and ask if you need any support. We do also have leaflets and support information to help with potty training and moving on from using a bottle and dummy.
We are here to help!
British Values
This half term, we will be focusing on Tolerance as part of our Brinsley Values. The children will be talking about what these words mean.
Class Dojo
We use Class Dojo to keep parents and carers informed about the things that we are doing and events that are coming up. If you haven't registered let us know and we can give you the sign up information.