In Centipedes Class we are supported by Mrs Marston, Miss Allan, Miss Griffiths and Mrs Martin. In Year One, we know that children learn best through play and practical activities, therefore activities are both adult- and child-led and each session allows children to enhance their learning through a range of play and/or practical activities.
We have an overarching theme each term to help us to bring our learning to life;
Autumn – Our Local Area;
Spring – Toys, Old and New;
Summer – At the Seaside.
We enrich this learning with local area visits, historical visits and workshops, and a ‘seaside day’ in our lovely outdoor area.
We aim to foster a love of reading through sharing books throughout the day, including our own ‘favourites’, and encouraging reading at home with all children accessing books appropriate to their own stage of learning.
We begin the day with calm ‘funky fingers’ activities to develop fine motor skills. Soft background music helps us settle as we greet one another before coming together to look at our visual timetable and begin with Worship, Talk Time or phonics. Talk Time allows children to share photographs and experiences from home using the Seesaw platform.
As a church school, daily worship is an important part of our routine, celebrating our faith and school values of love, respect, faith, resilience, and integrity through stories and songs.
We learn phonics through a sequential programme using Active Learn Bug Club, supporting children to develop reading skills so that they become confident in segmenting, blending and reading. Our maths learning trajectory provides a journey of small steps to enable children to become confident and curious mathematicians who want to explore and ask questions. We also follow the Mastering Number programme to ensure children are secure in their understanding of the composition of number and are fluent in number facts.
We follow Greg Bottrill’s Drawing Club in the first half of the Autumn term, and Curious Quests from then on, both of which provide children with exciting opportunities to invent, explore and write.
PE this half term will be on Mondays. Please remember to come to school dressed in PE kit on PE days.
After lunch, we integrate relaxation and story time before exploring Science or one of our Foundation subjects. From the Spring term onwards, we will also have a fortnightly session of Forest School allowing children time to explore their outdoor environment and nurture the living things within it. This encourages love and respect for their surroundings.
Children also access Continuous Provision where they choose activities to ignite and follow their interests, such as junk modelling and construction, and enhance their learning through engaging with each other in activities to consolidate and enhance specific topics and/or lessons.
If you would like to enquire about places, require anymore information, or would like to arrange a tour, please do make contact with school.
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