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, Miss Brown, Mrs Schofield and Miss Young!

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 'How To Train Your Dragon' by Cressida Cowell. 

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 and Thursday. Children need a full PE kit in line with the school uniform policy. As PE in our class is on a Monday and a Thursday, children should come dressed in their PE kit both days each 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 complete some times tables challenges each week to earn dojos! 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 'Earthquakes and Volcanoes!' We are so excited to where and how they happen and the impacts they can both have! After we have completed this unit, we will be moving on to look at 'Our Local Area!'

Science

In Science we are learning all about living things and their habitats! We can't wait to explore a range of living things and search many environments! After, we are moving on to look at rocks and can't wait to inspect different rocks and find out all about their properties! We will continue to look at the areas of 'Working Scientifically' and each week we are so excited to see who will be the two chosen Super Scientists! 

Ukulele:

Every Thursday, 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!

We will also complete Maths and Literacy daily throughout targets, lessons and interventions. Within Maths, we will endeavour to tackle problems, challenges and use reasoning and justification for our answers, building on our fluency and counting each day. Within Literacy, we will write for a range of audiences and purposes and include a variety of features to wow our audience by using all of the features set out in our success criterions! 

We are also so excited to complete many other fun lessons; RE, PSHE, Art, DT, Music and French!