Owl Class
Welcome to your first term in BIG school! We have an exciting term ahead as we explore what makes us uniquely US. I hope you’re all ready for an adventure.
Welcome to 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.
A Day in the Life
The EYFS class is a busy one. When they come home and you ask them what they’ve done today, and their response is ‘play’, it’s true, but there is structure and content behind that play. To keep you in the loop, here’s our timetable. We’ll also keep you updated with posts to Twitter.
New Timetable Here
The ‘tabs’ below will take you to information about some of our learning – these are updated half-termly to keep you informed and involved in your child’s learning journey. Learning is most effective and valuable when home and school support your little ones together. You’ll find information on topics, phonics, reading, writing and maths, so that together, we can help your child achieve their potential.
Expectations
- Children will need a bottle of water and one healthy morning snack each day. Fruit is provided.
- ‘Strive for Five’ reading sessions a week to support reading and always have their reading books in school.
- Children should come in their P.E. kits on Mondays and Tuesdays during Spring Term. Kit should be black bottoms and a white top, pumps or Velcro trainers. Please send uniform in on both days as the children will change after their session.
- Please ensure that ALL personal belongings, clothing and footwear are labelled with names.
- On sunny days, please ensure children have sun protection applied.
Let the adventure begin!
Miss Edwards and Mrs Graham
Get in Touch
jane.edwards@littlesutton.cheshire.sch.uk
Meet the teachers
Miss Edwards
Mrs Graham
Useful Information
Autumn Term 1: All About Me!
In our first term as a class, we’re going to have lots of fun getting to know each other whilst also finding out more about ourselves. We’re all amazing in our own way and we are going to discover just how amazing we are and explore the endless possibilities our skills and talents open up to us.
There’s so much to explore, we can’t list it all here, but here are a few highlights:
- we’ll become scientists as we explore the senses
- we’ll become sculptors as we study Anthony Gormley
- we’ll become historians as we look back at our lives so far and place milestones on a timeline
- we’ll become designers as we construct our homes and build towns
Autumn 1
- Week 1: s a t p
- Week 2: i n m d
- Week 3: g o c k
- Week 4: ck e u r
- Week 5: h b f l
Support documents can be found in the ‘Useful Documents’ column on the class page.
Autumn Term 1
As we read The Friendship Bench, we’ll meet Tilly who has just moved to a new house, by the splash and curl of the sea. She loves doing cartwheels in the sand and playing catch with Mummy and Shadow the dog. But when it is time to start her new school, Shadow and Mummy must stay outside. And inside is full of strangers. ‘Why don’t you try The Friendship Bench?’ says her teacher, when Tilly is playing alone. ‘It helps children find new friends to play with.’ But when Tilly gets there, somebody is already on it.
Autumn 1 Mastery Keys
- To understand the directionality of text
- To develop a comfortable pencil grip
- To write their name – start at the right place and with correct letter formation
- To hear and write initial phonemes in words to write a list
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.
Teaching of reading
Your child has three focussed reading sessions per week. These are run in small groups with a shared book, aligned to our Little Wandle phonics programme. Each session has a focus.
- Session 1: decoding
- Session 2: reading with expression
- Session 3: comprehension
Reading at Home
Your child will bring home a high quality book from our library and a Collin’s Big Cat reading book each week. The library book is a story to share to nurture a love of stories and reading. The Collins reading book is the decodable book they have read in school the previous week. Familiarity with a text helps the children build word recognition and fluency. It also helps them develop the expression and intonation needed to read for comprehension.
Children need lots of short, focussed reading sessions – we say ‘strive for five’ sessions a week.
- 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, spot known words within books at story time.
- 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.
Summer Term 1
This term, we’re continuing to explore patterns and relationships within the numbers 1 to 20 and thinking about how our knowledge will help us with numbers beyond. We’ll be counting on and counting back as we find new ways to solve addition and subtraction problems and we’ll be continuing to develop our mathematical language.
