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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.

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.

Miss Edwards and Mrs Graham

Meet the teachers

Miss Edwards

Mrs Graham

Useful Information

Starting School

school-readiness-booklet

EYFS Framework

Baseline

Jolly Phonics Guide

Little Sutton Phonics Meeting

TopicPhonicsEnglishReadingMaths

In Summer 2 we are exploring ‘Superheroes’.

We’ll enter the world of comic strips and channel the resilience and ambition of Batman and Supergirl, to further develop our superpowers of reading, spelling, doubling and halving.  Then we’ll be meeting and learning all about the real life superheroes in our community, including police officers, nurses and firefighters.

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.

Summer Term 2:

  • we are revisiting the trickier phonemes: ph, ow, ew, ear, air, are,
  • we are building our bank of site words with a focus on tricky words
  • we are focussing on improving letter formation

Summer Term 2

Supertato is taking us on a mission: a mission to write sentences with a capital letter and a full stop.  We will use our phonics knowledge to sound out and spell words and the Evil Peas will not steal our finger spaces.


Across our whole school, we use Pathways to Write to inspire a love of story and language and to engage our children in writing.  In EYFS, it is no different.

Pathways to Write is a proven methodology built around units of work which develop vocabulary, reading and writing skills through the mastery approach. The units are linked to high-quality texts to ensure engaging and purposeful writing.

Reading in Class

Story and storytelling through play is a huge part of Owl Class and that love for a good story, inspires children to read.  Throughout the day there is lots of storytelling: acting stories, listening to stories, telling stories and READING stories.

  • Every day, we have a whole class guided reading session where we gather together and ‘follow the pointy stick’ to read a big book or interactive book together.  It’s a great chance to learn from each other and discuss the mechanics of reading.  It’s one of our favourite times of the day.
  • Children also have a reading session each week in a small group where we focus on comprehension skills.  We predict missing words in sentences, we reorder words so sentences make sense and we talk about how to make sense of words when the sounds don’t follow the rules.
  • Auntie Gwen visits us on Tuesday mornings for some one to one reading time.  Have your book in on Tuesdays and you could be a lucky reader.

Reading at Home

Reading is an incredibly complex skill, especially when reading the English language.  Children need lots of short, focussed reading sessions.

  • Listen to your child as often as possible.  Short, daily sessions are best but make reading work for your family routine.
  • As well as reading books, ask your child to read signs when on daily travels, read labels on items
  • a great tip is to put subtitles on when they are watching the tv – without knowing, they’ll start paying attention to the written words on screen and be reading without knowing they’re reading.

Home-School Partnership

The class work together to earn a reading treat – a ‘Secret Reader‘ who comes to read to them.  Each week, children with comments from their grown ups in their journals, win a petal for our reading display and we watch our reading garden bloom.  When the flowers are in full bloom, a ‘Secret Reader’ will visit the class.

The decodable books the children are reading lack story, character and wonderment as they have very limited vocabulary, but 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, so keep sharing language rich story books the children love too.

Summer Term 2

Remember to check your School Jam app for your weekly activity which will support the learning we’ll do in class.  The objectives below will be our focus this half term so get the children involved in games and activities which support them.

We will be:

  • continuing to add and subtract within 20 by counting on/back on number tracks
  • mastering the ‘super powers’ of doubling and halving
  • exploring volume and capacity using the language of full, nearly full, half full, half empty, nearly empty and empty

Our address

Little Sutton C of E Primary School
Berwick Road
Little Sutton
CH66 4PP

Tel: 0151 312 8338

Email: admin@littlesutton.cheshire.sch.uk

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