Class One Chapel Haddlesey CE Primary School

Spring 2022 Class 1 Newsletter

Here is our Class Newsletter which shares with parents our learning for this term.

Learning about Paul Klee with Ms Hargreaves

Friday afternoon saw our Class 1 children learning about art by Paul Klee, a swiss-born artist. The children had a go at ...

History in Class 1

This week, we have been exploring what our homes were like many years ago using how the telephone has changed through the ...

Our EYFS Outdoor Area

Our children love to play outside and we have a new outdoor area for them to explore.

Our New Discovery Room

Our Nursery & EYFS children have been so excited to explore in our new Discovery Room, designed by Miss Ducat.

Teaching Staff

Teacher(s):

Miss Northway

Assisted by:

Miss Ducat, Mrs Russell, Mrs Bowmer

About Class One

Welcome to Class 1! Our teacher Miss Northway teaches us every day of the school week. We are very lucky to have three Teaching Assistants - Miss Ducat, Mrs Russell and Mrs Bowmer - to help us with our learning across the week.

Class 1 is where the fun happens! Every day is set up by our teachers to make sure we enjoy our learning and make the most of the exciting indoor and outdoor learning space at our disposal!

Nursery:

In Nursery, we love to lead our own learning, choosing how to plot our path through each day and how to explore the amazing setting that our teachers have provided for us. This means: building and creating with sand, water and playdough, dressing up and making our own stories in the home corner, going on adventures every day outside, whatever the weather, and telling our own stories with small world toys and construction materials. We also love to create our own models and artwork at our craft table and we have displayed our finest creations in our very own art gallery inside the classroom!

We learn to communicate with one another, including learning Makaton as a class to make sure everyone can access our classroom. All of this sets us up to believe that learning is fun and this means we leave our Nursery year confident, resilient, fascinated by the world around us and ready for anything!

Reception:

In Reception, the fun continues as we enjoy plenty of space and time in our school day to carry on adventuring. Alongside our choosing time, Miss Northway helps us to develop our core skills in reading, writing and maths. We have daily lessons in phonics, handwriting and maths, where we begin to link sounds to letters, read and write meaningful sentences and apply our counting and number work in real-life scenarios. As the year develops, we then begin showing off our new skills in our play, ending Reception as confident and independent readers and writers! Alongside all this, we develop as well-rounded children, able to solve problems, try out new things without fear and form close bonds with our friends and teachers.

Year 1:

By the time we reach Year 1, we are very keen to learn more formally and tackle the National Curriculum with enthusiasm. Miss Northway and the other teaching staff enable us to work in a practical, hands-on and collaborative manner to make sure that learning is still fun and engaging. We move onto learn about alternative pronunciations of graphemes in phonics which helps us in turn to read fluently and spell accurately and we are given plenty of opportunity to apply our maths skills to problems and real-life scenarios. Alongside all this, we tackle the wider curriculum through our topic, which is always inspired by our own interests, observed by the teachers the previous term. As the oldest children in Class 1, we are given plenty of responsibility to take care of our environment and lead the smaller children in their learning.

In Class 1, we know that it is really important for our mums, dads, grandparents and carers to be as involved as possible in our learning, so that Mr Marshall can build an accurate, holistic picture of where we are up to. Miss Northway communicates regularly with grown-ups through our ‘Marvellous Me’ programme and all our 'wow moments at school' are put onto our online learning journal, ‘Tapestry,’ so that our mums and dads can see what we have achieved during the school day.

Every term parents receive a curriculum newsletter which explains the focus for the term and a little bit more about how our families can support this at home.

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