Class teacher- Miss Holliss

Class teaching assistant- Mrs Hoffman

Welcome to Milky Way's class page. Here we will keep you updated on what is happening both in school and within our class. However, if you have any questions about anything, please feel free to catch up with us at the beginning or end of the school day.

Book changing and Maths Passport

Pupils will have the opportunity to change their books twice a week, on a Monday and a Thursday. We encourage pupils to read each night and to read the Phonics Read Write Inc books 3 times before they change them to consolidate their knowledge of sounds and build fluency and expression. Your continued support at home with reading and Maths passport practise will help your child progress further and develop more confidence with reading and number knowledge. If you would like an update on your child’s maths passport target, please send in your home copy to be updated.

PE 

On PE days, if your child has their ears pierced, can they remove them if possible or bring tape to cover them for safety reasons. If children are taking their PE kits home to wash on Fridays, please can you make sure they are back in school on Mondays. Our PE sessions are on Wednesday and Thursday.

Additional Information 

Children are able to access and drink water throughout the day. With the weather getting colder, it is important that children bring in a clearly labelled  jumper or cardigan as well as a coat if it rains.

If your child requires any medication, please could you make us AND the office staff aware. For any medication, a medical form is required to be filled in. You can get this from the school office.

Term 1

Topic

This term our topic is called 'Fantastic Females' and we will be looking at 4 very important women who helped change their respective fields of interest and pave the way for more people to follow in their footsteps. We will be focusing on Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Emily Davison and Amelia Earhart. We will be mainly having a History focus and looking at when they were born for our class timelines as well as learning key facts about them. We will look at how their lives changed their areas of expertise, which were science, health, women's rights and air travel. We will also be looking at some science about materials, road safety in PSHE and some DT just before the Christmas break. We will also be learning and performing our songs for the Christmas Nativity in December.

English

Learning to read is a life-long skill and a key thing your child will learn at our school. Everything else depends upon this skill, and so, at Bourton we put as much energy into ensuring that every single child not only learns to read but learns to love reading!

Phonics is the key to unlocking reading and writing, and it is why we have chosen to use the Read Write Inc (RWI) phonics and writing scheme at our school. Children have daily RWI lessons, which includes an English lesson (made up of reading and writing) and a Phonics session (made up of sounds, words and spelling). Children are assessed termly to identify their progress. Learning to read is a life-long skill and the most important thing your child will learn; we encourage you to embrace your child's journey with phonics, and have included Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3 sounds below:

Those who have completed the RWI scheme and have moved to the literacy group will be using high quality texts to support both their reading and writing. 

As always, there will be regular reading and handwriting practise throughout the term.

Maths

Children will be split a little bit this term with regards to their Maths learning.

Mrs Gainford's maths group will be learning a number a week. They have already covered 11-14, so will start at number 15 after half term. They will be; representing, comparing and exploring the numbers, looking at one more and one less, doubling and halving numbers to 10 and addition & subtraction within 20. They are also incorporating learning the value of different coins to be able to represent these numbers.

Miss Holliss' maths group  will be  looking at 3 different units; multiplication & division, money and properties of shape.

Important dates:

Monday 4th November – School starts again

Friday 8th September - Year 1 and 2 Amaze Day (Children can dress up as 'crazy scientists' if they would like to or bring a prop - but no expectation to buy anything!)

Week beginning 18th November: Oracy Competition Class heats

Friday 29th November - FOBS Christmas Fair (please send in clean 1lbs jam jars with screw lids to KS1 class teachers by Wednesday 20th November)

Monday 16th December - Nativity Dress Rehearsal at 2pm in St. Lawrence's Church

Tuesday 17th December - Nativity Performance at 2pm in St. Lawrence's Church (please do not arrive earlier than 1.45pm)

Friday 20th December - Break up at 2pm