Class Teacher: Mrs Hollinshead
Teaching Assistants: Mr Playfer and Mrs Khan
Welcome to Beech Class. This Class has a combination of Year 1 and Year 2 children and is part of Key Stage 1.
Please check this page regularly to see updates of what we are learning.
Daily Routine
Drop off time: 8.40am
Drop off/collection point: Gates to KS1 yard
Morning playtime: 10.15am
Lunchtime: 11.30-12.30pm
Afternoon playtime: 1.45pm
Collection time: 3.10pm
We strongly believe that all children should experience high quality books that enhance literacy skills and inspire them to read. We aim for children to develop a love of reading and this will help motivate them to write.
To help with this we are sharing a fabulous and highly recommended list of ‘100 Books to Read…’
Reading Spine takes place daily in every classroom where the children are read to. Each of the books help to develop the imagination of our children and equips them with language. We want our school to be a place where children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with high quality books. We use the Pie Corbett Reading Spine so that children have access to high quality texts and develop a love for reading!
Autumn 1
We will be learning the skills of reading and writing focussing on Poetry, stories with a familiar setting and information texts. The children will be looking at rhyming words and innovating the nursey rhyme Hickory, Dickory Dock. Reading Harry the Happy Mouse, looking at characters and how they feel, creating their own story, focussing on capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. The children will also create an information poster about and animal.
Autumn 2
We will be learning the skills of reading and writing focussing on Poems on a theme, stories by the same author and non-chronological reports. The children
will be looking at poems based on fire for example London’s burning. Reading stories by Oliver Jeffers focussing on characters and how they feel, creating their own story, focussing on capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. The children will also write a nonchronological report about penguins.
The PE Days for Beech are Tuesday and Friday. On these days, Beech Class pupils need to come to school in their outdoor PE kit. This includes a white top, navy tracksuit bottoms, navy jacket/waterproof coat and a pair of trainers.
Autumn 1
We will be investigating materials and looking at the best materials to help the Three Little Pigs build their houses. Children will identify and name a range of materials and they will then classify and group according to their properties.
Autumn 2
We will be investigating why it gets darker earlier in winter. We will be doing this by looking at the change across the four seasons and describing the weather associated with the seasons and how the day length varies depending on the time of year.
Autumn 1
In art we will be focussing on drawing. The children will be using to develop their ideas, experiences and imagination. They will be using different media in their drawings. The children will be looking at still life and how to turn a photograph into a painting.
Autumn 2
In DT we will be focussing on structures, looking at what the three little pigs used to build their houses and what else they could have used.
Autumn 1
We will be looking at e-safety and self-image, exploring the differences between online and offline identity.
Autumn 2
This term Beech class will be looking at how we can group and sort information and also different technology outside of school. Children will also continue with online safety and knowing its importance.
Autumn 1
We will be working on number and place value extensively this term to build on our existing knowledge. We will also be looking at addition and subtraction. This will include looking and recognise
different coins and their values. Children will also be learning their times tables.
Autumn 2
We will be building on our knowledge of number and place value this term. We will also be continuing to look at addition and subtraction. This will include looking at worded problems and written calculations. Children will also be looking at different shapes and learning some of their properties.
Autumn 1
We will be learning about God and reading and understanding parables. Children will also learn ways in which Christians show their belief in God as
loving and forgiving. Children will be asking lots of questions about the parables we will read to see if they can learn anything from them.
Autumn 2
We will be moving our learning focus to Christmas. By the end of the unit children will know why Jesus’ birth is important for Christians, Give examples
of ways in which Christians use the story of the nativity to guide their beliefs and actions at Christmas and decide what they personally have to be thankful for at Christmas.
Take a look below at our contribution to the Remembrance Day display.
