Welcome to Red Class!

This year we have 31 amazing children in our class.     

Our topic this half term is 'Marvellous Me' and our following topics are based on the children's interests and observations.

In Red Class....

We love books and reading and read lots of books at school.  This could be in the classroom, at Forest School, outdoors or with our reading buddies.  Each child in Red Class, will bring home a reading book to share with an adult at home.  To begin with, they are not expected to read this, but to enjoy the book, track the text from left to right, talk about the story and begin to develop a love of reading.  When ready, each child will bring home a graded reading book, which they will start to read at home.   These books come home after the children have learnt to read some phonemes and have begun reading at school.  It is amazing, how many words the children can read!  The children also bring home a 'Super Blending' book, where they can practise reading the phonemes taught and blend these together to read the word.  We also send home 'keyrings' which contain common 'tricky' words, which can be practised at home, alongside the teaching of these in school.

As soon as the children are ready, we begin our synthetic phonics scheme, to teach the children to read and write.  After we have taught a phoneme (sound), the children will bring home a phonics book, to practise reading and writing that phoneme at home.  

Speaking, listening and vocabulary are extremely important to us and we love to spend time exploring new words and their meanings, taking time to chat and have conversations with each other.  

In Red Class our intent is to build a deep understanding, confidence and confidence in maths.  We do this through providing lots of engaging activities and many opportunities to develop and extend mathematical skills.  We enjoy activities involving the 'Numberblocks' and the children are encouraged to give explanations and reasons for their mathematical answers, furthering their understanding and deepening their leaning.  We send home maths games for children to share with their families and use 'Doodlemaths' to support learning. 

Each week we go to Forest School, where we are very lucky to have access to a beautiful local woodland.  We hunt for creatures, climb, create dens, play with our friends, name animals and plants, listen to the birds and share hot chocolate around a fire.  We spend a great deal of time outdoors and love learning in our indoor and outdoor classrooms, on our decking area, in the forest and on one of our fields.  

We are very lucky to have a set of balance bikes, which we regularly use outside to develop our balance, coordination and motor skills.  In addition, each week Mrs Marriage and Mrs Handley help us to develop our co-ordination and P.E skills, with lots of fun games and activities.