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 forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Year 2: 2, 5 and 10 times tables (3 times tables in Term 6)
IXL - to practise the maths we are currently learning
Year 2 - Times Tables Rock Stars - currently optional.
Additional weekly home learning. (10 minutes 1x week) - Please see reading journals/ this page.
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
Summer term 2026
Our topic for Terms 5 and 6 is 'The 1980s and Me'/'Game on!'
Show and Tell for Term 5:
Tuesday 21st April: Blue house group
Tuesday 28th April: Green house group
Tuesday 5th May: Red house group
Tuesday 12th May: Yellow house group
