Welcome to Willow Class 2024 - 2025!

We hope you all enjoy your class! :) The adults in class are:

Class Teacher - Miss Stone 

LSAs - Miss Hendry, Mrs Saxton-McCabe, Mrs Crawley, Mrs Caudwell and Miss Brown

Key Information

Reading:

Reading is a huge priority at our school and we want the children to be confident, fluent readers finding pleasure from a wide range of texts! 

We encourage children to read as much as possible! They will read daily to themselves in school and they will also read to an adult at least once every couple of weeks. Reading is a huge focus and children are encouraged to read texts often to work their way through the reading stages! Let's see who can achieve there Bronze award first! Our current class book is 'The Song For Everyone' by Lucy Morris. 

Remarkable Readers

Reading at home is one of the most important ways in which you can help your child. Children who read with their families develop these skills much more quickly and develop a love of Reading that can last a lifetime. Being a confident reader supports children in all areas of the curriculum and beyond school.

Our new Reading recognition system, Remarkable Readers, aims to ensure that all our children are remarkable with their Reading throughout the year.

Each time a child reads they achieve a ‘Reading Point’

Reading Points are cumulative and will be added up weekly throughout the year.

35 points = Bronze Award (Certificate and a message home)

70 points = Brilliant Bronze Award (Certificate, message home and prize)

105 points = Silver Award (Certificate, message home and prize)

140 points = Super Silver Award (Certificate, message home and prize)

175 points = Gold Award (Certificate, message home from Mrs Clifford and book prize)

210 points = Glittering gold Award (Certificate, message home and an Afternoon Tea in The Reading Nook with our Reading Ambassadors)

PE:

PE will be every Monday. Children need a full PE kit: t-shirt, shorts and pumps or trainers in line with the school uniform policy. PE kit should be kept in school from Monday until Friday when it can be taken home and washed in case we are able to complete anymore PE activities in the week. Some children also take part in PE during their creative curriculum time on a Friday, and so for this reason it is important it stays in school all week. 

Homework: 

Homework will be sent out every Friday. Children should complete one activity from the Homework Menu each week and return it to school on a Wednesday. Children must complete work to a high standard, in their neatest handwriting. 

Children should also practice their list of 10 spellings as they will be tested the following week, and also complete the times tables challenges that will be sent home. This is very important to get children ready for the times tables check they will have to take part in whilst in year 4!

Topic:

Our current topic is 'Our World'. We are so excited for our learning linked to Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough and how to tackle climate change! 

Ukulele:

Every Friday, we are lucky enough in Willow Class to have an hour long ukulele session! At certain points during the year, we perform songs we have learnt to an audience of children and friends from school, as well as staff and our parents and carers!