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 Numbots/TimeTable Rock Stars

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 with their mental maths skills will help your child progress further and develop more confidence with reading and number knowledge. 

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 warmer, it is important that children's jumpers or cardigans are clearly labelled as these are often discarded in the warmer weather.

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 5

Topic

We are continuing our growing and cooking topic - 'Ready, Steady, Cook' for the rest of Summer term 1. We have already planted several things, but we will continue to water and look after them in the hopes they grow even more! We will use some of this produce in some healthy dishes we are going to prepare and cook. We are going to be learning about healthy and balanced meals, creating our own Pop inspired art work as well as typing up some menu's and posters for our restaurant in ICT. We are hoping lots of you will be able to join us in our Year 1 and 2 restaurant where we will have prepared and served some yummy dishes! We are looking forward to our trip to Cogges Farm to round up the topic.

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

Our Year 1 and 2 children will be split a little bit this term with regards to their Maths learning.

Year 1

In Year 1 we will be looking at place value to 100 and a unit about money.

Year 2

In Year 2 we will be continuing the unit on time as well as statistics and data handling.

Important dates:

Wednesday 30th April - Jazz Band performing in assembly.

Monday 5th May - May Day Bank Holiday (school is closed).

Thursday 8th May - VE Day 80th anniversary celebrations.

Monday 19th May - Rocket Class Mini Medics session.

Tuesday 20th May - Year 1 and 2 to have Music, French and PE.

Wednesday 21st May - Year 1 and 2 Restaurant (School hall in the afternoon, more details to follow).

Thursday 22nd May - Year 1 and 2 trip to Cogges Farm, Witney.

Friday 23rd May - Eclipse Class Mini Medics session. 

                                Break up at 3.15pm

(Milky Way Class to have Mini Medics after half term)