Welcome to Kingfisher Class

Class teacher: Miss McCormack

Class email: kingfisher.class@rawreth.essex.sch.uk

Miss McCormack can be reached on this email address. This inbox will be checked at least once each day between Monday to Friday.  Please still contact the office for urgent matters including absence, school lunch orders, change in home time collection arrangements etc. 

Welcome back! I hope you have all had a wonderful summer break and are ready to go again for year 1 and 2!

Please ensure your child brings with them their water bottle and PE kit for the first week back. We will send out the date for parents meeting where I can give an update to PE days. 

Maths - we will be looking at place value, focusing on numbers up to 20 and finding different ways to represent these, finding more and less and comparing and ordering numbers.

English - we will be focusing on the story' The way back home' by Oliver Jeffers. We will learn the story using actions and story maps. Then we will collect information about the story and begin to plan our own version before writing our own story based on the book. We will then spend a week focusing on grammar and sentence structure; planning and writing setting descriptions and character descriptions.

Science - We are focusing on micro-habitats, classifying mini-beasts and going on mini-beast hunts.

RE - Our big question for this half term is 'How do my sense tell me about the world of religion and belief?' We will be looking at the Hindu religion and how they use their senses to fully experience their religion.

Music - We will be practising keeping the pulse to music in a block call 'Our favourite things'.

PSHE - Year 1 - We will be looking at how to recognise our emotions and how these feel within our body. We will be looking at how we can look after our emotions.

Year 2 - will be looking at how they can look after their bodies.

Art - We will be learning about paint and brush control.

PE - mondays - we will be looking at teambuilding skills including speaking, listening and following instructions. 

Thursdays - we will be focusing on the fundamentals of PE including jumping and landing safely.

Geography - We will be looking at where we live, the features we have noticed and where we fit in the wider world.

PE Days - Currently Monday and Thursday 

Please could you ensure children have the appropriate clothing for the weather and they have a top, trousers/shorts and appropriate footwear in their PE kits.

Please remove any earrings before school. Children cannot participate with earrings even if they are taped over.

Hair should be tied up - especially on PE days.

Homework

Login details for homework will be stuck in the back of reading records.

Daily reading - please log their reading in their reading records. Please be aware that children's books will be changed once per week. If your child has read lots at home that's fantastic, please use the questions in the books to discuss the story so we are also building on their comprehension as well as their reading and fluency. Please also allow them to read their own materials - this could be magazines, books, poems, songs, etc. to help encourage a love for reading rather than just reading for homework. 

Maths - Please encourage your children to explore the numbots website for five minutes per day. There will be dojos up for grabs for time spent using numbots.

Phonics - Children will receive a blue folder with the sheets for the year, this can be kept in their book bags and bought into school. Once your child is secure with the sound and words at home please could you highlight/mark this. 

Handwriting - Please spend time focusing on letter formation ensuring the letters start and finish in the correct places. This is to help ensure a smooth transition when they move through the school and begin to join their handwriting. I have uploaded some more resources below to help support handwriting at home. There is a worksheet for both lower and upper case letters as used in the Monster phonics scheme. There is also a document which details the handwriting rhymes used in Monster phonics to help the children remember how to form each letter.

Spelling - Using the spelling shed website, children have assigned tasks set for each week. Please spend five minutes per day playing the set games. Year 2s will have their spelling tasks assigned according to their group.

Thank you!

Phonics resources:

Pure sounds: https://youtu.be/oJGDN5p-Kvg 

Letter formation: https://vimeo.com/909204231?fl=pl&fe=vl

The children have a phonics book to read and an additional book from the library to share with someone at home. The library book is to be read for pleasure so they may need help to read this. Both books need to be returned to school each week. 

Year 2 pupils in Kingfisher class have been very excited to start quizzing on their accelerated reader book and have so far been amazing!!