Owl class
Twittwoo! We’re Owl Class. We’re a really creative and enthusiastic bunch of friends who are exploring all the skills needed to become life-long learners.
Our teacher is Miss Edwards, and our teaching assistant is Mrs Graham.
Together, we are aiming to REACH our potential by becoming Resilient, Engaged, Ambitious, Creative and Healthy. Every one of us is unique and we all have different ideas, strengths and personalities, but we are all capable of great things and these are the learning powers that will help us achieve them.
Learning is an adventure and the EYFS classroom is set up to inspire and create experiences that promote a love of learning. The children are the explorers full of adventure and the adults are the compass, helping them navigate their way.
Meet the teachers
Miss Edwards
Mrs Graham
Useful Information
In Spring 1 we are exploring space.
We’ll be chartering our own space missions in our rocket and reporting our findings to mission control; we’ll find out how many times we’ve orbited the sun in our lifetimes; we’ll learn what stars and planets are and we’ll discover why life is most successful on Earth. Our topic will help us learn the different sounds the ‘oo’ digraph makes as we whoosh in our rocket and zoom to the moon.
At Little Sutton we use Jolly Phonics to teach the letters and sounds.
We teach the children that letters have a name and a sound. Aa has the name ‘ay’ and makes the sound ‘a’. We learn to identify sounds at the beginning, middle and end of words. We use sound buttons to segment a word into individual sounds then blend them together to hear the word e.g. s.a.t. sat, p.i.n. pin. As each letter or sound is introduced, the children explore reading and writing words using those letters.
This year is all about inspiring a love of books as we get ready to read indpendently. Reading isn’t the act of learning to say 
the words on the page; reading is interpreting those words to escape, to learn, to discover, to imagine, to experience and to wonder. We want our children to experience lots and lots of great quality books. Though we as adults may be saying the words on the pages for them, the children can engage in the ‘reading’. They can talk about what’s happening, predict what might happen, place themselves in the book by saying what they’d do, join in repeated phrases or complete rhymes, and they can see us as readers, pointing to words we say and using expression in our voices.
As we move through the phonics phases, we’ll support independent reading with simple books of sentences made up of the letters and sounds they have covered. These books lack story, character and wonderment as have very limited vocabulary. They serve to allow the children to see that they can ‘read’ and build their confidence as they practise decoding.
It is really important that children continue to experience wonderful texts with rich language and that they see this sharing of stories as READING.
We lay the foundations for maths through exploring grouping, matching, sorting and ordering before we introduce the numbers. Numbers are then introduced very slowly. This is purposeful. We learn that a number can be a value as well as a quantity. We learn to estimate quantities by sight as well as counting individual items in a set, we explore more or less as well as looking at how we can make the numbers e.g 4 can be made with 0 and 4, 1 and 3, 2 and 2. By building these relationships between number and value, we set the foundations for confident mathematicians who are later able to manipulate numbers and calculations in problem solving as they move through the school.
Tapestry is the online platform we use to create each child’s ‘Learning Journey’. Both home and school can add pictures, videos and comments to share the learning and experiences of our children. Children, particularly at this young age, find learning opportunities in every experience – adults are there to guide, extend and capture this learning.
Families are welcome to share freely on the platform, but each half term we’ll give you some areas of learning to focus on.
