Robins

Welcome to Robins, our reception class and Year 1 class for pupils aged 4-6 years.

The class teacher is Mrs Carver. She is assisted by Mrs Edgar our HLTA.

We are lucky to be able to extend our classroom area immediately outside and use it all year round. Both the inside and outside learning environments are set up specifically to encourage independence in the way the children learn.

Inside our fully equipped classrooms we have a bank of computers, a reading area and, probably the most fun for the children, the role play area. Our role play area changes regularly to incorporate the children’s interests and the topics that we are working on, to reinforce their learning.

The children love the outside area and they can be found planting or weeding in the garden, on the climbing frame or designing games and adventures. The wild area, the unique climbing frame and the playhouse become the basis of games and stories that give free reign to their imaginations. We often find tigers and monkeys in our 'jungle', or explorers testing their physical prowess and the playhouse changes its role in life from a palace to a florist and beyond - even a hospital!

If you would like to know more, click here to read about our Robins classroom, here to read about how we learn outside, or here to read about our Robins curriculum.

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September 2024: Welcome back!

Here are a few pieces of information for you:

PE

PE will be on a Tuesday afternoon for everybody. Mr Brown will be taking the Year 1s and 2s and Mrs Brown will be taking the reception children.

Please send the children to school in their PE kit on a Tuesday. Reminder - no jewellery and earrings should be removed.

Reading

Your child will come home with a yellow reading record book and a book from the coloured band scheme. Please read regularly with your child at home and record any comments in this book. The teachers will take this book in every Friday to read comments and check how much reading has been done. Children can change their books independently in the mornings when they come in. Please feel free to supplement the reading with any books/magazines/comics from home and record these too. Don't forget reading to your child is just as important.

Home Learning

Reception will bring home a purple home learning book with sounds in every Friday. Please can you help your child to practice and send the book back the following Thursday so that the teacher can check it and stick in new sounds.

Year 1 and 2 will bring home a spelling book with a set of spellings each Friday. We would like the children to learn these using Spelling Frame, writing, sentences, saying them out loud and playing games (be creative). We will allocate some time on a Friday to complete the spelling test on Spelling Frame. Your child will come home with a Spelling Frame log in stuck in the front of their books soon. Spelling Frame is a great way for the children to learn their spellings and it helps with typing skills and reading.

Year 1 and 2 will also have an IDL log in stuck in their spelling book. This is an online programme designed specifically to help children with spelling, reading and typing. We will be completing lessons at school but feel free to use this at home as often as possible. The aim is for your child to be able to log on to IDL and Spelling Frame independently so please help initially but encourage independence.

Just to clarify, Miss Beadle is working with Year 2 until her maternity leave when Mrs Ollier will take over. Mrs Carver and Mrs Edgar are working with Reception and Year 1 in the mornings and will be looking after everybody in the afternoons. In the mornings, Phonics, Literacy and Maths will be taught in year groups and topic such as History and Geography will be taught combined in the afternoon. Work will be adapted to the needs of the children.

Jumpers and Coats

Please send your child to school with a coat especially on rainy days as we will be outside in all weathers.  Remember to label all items of personal belongings.

Kind Regards,

Miss Beadle, Mrs Carver and Mrs Edgar