Welcome to Blackbird Class
We are a mixed age class with Year 1 and Year 2 pupils. On this page you will find information about our curriculum, the year group expectations, our class timetable, topic overviews, celebrations and photos of fun and super learning.
Timetable
Curriculum Overview
Home Learning
We value the support of families, parents and carers in encouraging the children to complete homework.
Read your school book (5 minutes 4x week)
Spelling Shed - to practice phonics and spellings (5 minutes 5x week)
Practice counting in 2s, 5s, 10s (5 minutes 4x week)
Year 1: Counting backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Year 2: Counting forwards and backwards in 5s, 2 times tables.
IXL - to practice the maths we are currently learning
Year 2 - Times Tables Rock Stars - currently optional.
Additional weekly home learning. (10 minutes 1x week).
This week:
With your adult/carers permission, take photos of one object to compare which creates the best effect. E.g. landscape. portrait, zoomed in, zoomed, out, person/plant centre of the image or to one side. Bring two printed photos to show your comparisons to class in the first week of term 4 to receive more house points.
All homework is to be completed by Thursday evenings, as rewards in the form of praise, house points, stamps and certificates are given on Fridays.
The total per week is 90 minutes. (Averaging of 12 1/2 minutes per day).
Please see our Homework policy for more information including: expectations, roles, responsibility of pupils, staff and parents.
News
Spring term 2026
Our topic for Terms 3 and 4 is 'Our World'.
In the run up to the Easter holidays we will be learning about and comparing Beijing and London. Please see our Term 4 timetable to see the additional 'Wow' days and visits we will be experiencing!
Show and Tell this term will be:
Blue house group 3rd March
Green house group 10th March
Red house group 17th March
Yellow house group 24th March
