Rowan Class, (home to our reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children), is taught by Mrs Sophie Lowde.  Our teaching assistant is Miss Bex Brown.

Aiming High

This half term in PSHE, we will explore concepts such as self worth, self esteem and celebrating our successes!  

 Maths

We follow the White Rose Scheme. This term, our focus in Year One and Year Two is Place Value, addition and subtraction and shapes.  

In Reception, our focus this term is to create and understand numbers to and beyond 20. We complete lots of engaging activities to help support us with our learning.

Literacy

In Literacy, we are looking at the text The Magic Bed. The Year 1 children are continuing to build stamina within their writing and building on their independence. Our main focus throughout Year 1 is to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops within sentences without needing to be reminded.
Reception’s focus this half term is to write simples sentences using full stops and capital letters.

Phonics

We use Little Wandle as our phonics scheme. Phonics is taught daily in Reception and Year One. Year Two have a daily reading session. We also give extra support to children needing it using the keep-up and catch-up sessions. 

Little Wandle provides resources for parents to support phonics learning at home on their website.

For parents

The children have phonics books in Year One and a folder in Reception. 

Children will take home decodable phonics books which will match their knowledge of sounds and tricky words. We read these books 3x a week in school with a different purpose each time. 

Decoding – reading the book and sound out unfamiliar words.

Prosody – reading with expression, attention to punctuation, making reading sound more natural.

Comprehension – understanding what is being read, talking about the story and asking questions. 

Topic

Our half term topic is Kings and Queens.

In art this term, we will be focussing on our drawing and mark making skills.

In Science we will have been learning about ‘What is Science?’ Exploring different Scientific skills such as testing, observing, recording and gathering data and identifying and classifying.

Forest School

We are looking forward to getting outside and enjoying Forest School sessions this half term.

Up in the forest school area we have a mud kitchen, den building and gardening equipment and loads of lovely trees and shrubs to explore and find minibeasts within!