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.
Timetables
Term 2 2021/22
Term 3 - 2021/22
Term 4 - 2021/22
Term 5 - 2021/22
Term 6 - 2021/22
Curriculum Overviews
Term 1 2021/22 Superheroes
. Term 2 2021/22 Arctic Adventures
Term 3 2021/22 Fire Fire!
Term 4 - 2021/22 Fire Fire!
Term 5 - 2021/22 Wonderful Weather!
Home Learning
If you are isolating at home and feel well enough to do some home learning, please see the below list and links. Please complete this in your homework book keeping it safe, so that you can bring it to school when you are ready to return. We hope you feel better soon!
- Reading Develop your comprehension skills with the VIPERS questions here or here.
- English
- Have you completed all the starred activities on IXL?
- Write an acrostic or sense poem about the weather or seasonal changes.
- Maths
- Have you completed all the starred activities on IXL?
- Practice addition and subtraction looking for patterns in numbers and how addition relates to subtraction.
- Learn with everyday routines or with BBC Bitesize for: Mass, temperature and capacity.
- Click on the math games links in 'other learning resources' at the bottom of this page
- Topic
- Keep a daily record of the weather. Remember to record the weather at the same time each day.
- Challenge: Can you show your results in a tally or pictogram?
- PE
- Make a list of exercises you can do in your garden.
- Warm up, then do one for one minute, rest for a minute, then do another exercise for one minute, rest and repeat. Remember to stretch out your muscles at the end.
- PSHE Make a list of the things that make you happy and then enjoy doing some of these things.
Blackbird News
Summer Term
Welcome to our summer term topic of Wonderful Weather! Fingers crossed we will have wonderful weather so we can enjoy more outside learning too! You can find out what we will be learning in our curriculum overview.
It is important to complete homework every week. This helps your child practice and remember what they have learned in school, helps with their future learning and creates an opportunity for them to share and celebrate their learning with you too. Homework is near the bottom of this page. We won't have Show and Tell this term but we will celebrate completed homework with extra house points as well as certificates in Friday's Celebration Assembly!
If you are isolating at home and feel well enough to do some learning, please see the Home Learning section on this page or email us with and questions. We hope you are ok and look forward to seeing you back in school soon.
We are looking forward to a fabulous term of sunny and happy learning!
Best wishes,
The Blackbird Team.
Weekly Home Work - Term 6
It is important to complete homework every week. This helps your child practice and remember what they have learned in school, helps with their future learning and creates an opportunity for them to share and celebrate their learning with you too. Little and often throughout the week is sometimes easier than doing everything in one go on one day.
We will celebrate completed homework with house points as well as certificates in Friday's Celebration Assembly!
Please complete homework by Thursday morning.
If you have any questions, please ask or email us so we can help you.
Y1 and Y2 Reading: Read at least four times a week to help your child develop fluency and quick recognition of tricky words. Use the comprehension questions to build your child's understanding of what they are reading. Record this in your reading diary to achieve weekly reading champion stamps and certificates.
Y1 Phonics and spelling: Pease see your homework book for this week's homework. We will give you a password for Spelling Shed when we use this later in the year.
Y2 Phonics and spelling: Please log into Spelling Shed for this week's homework.
Y1 and Y2 IXL English: Spend 10-20 minutes on the starred activities.
Y1 and Y2 IXL Maths: Spend 10 - 20 minutes on starred activities.
Y1 Weekly Maths test: Practice counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s, including missing numbers.
Y2 Weekly Maths test: Practice 2x, 5x and 3x multiplication and division facts in order and then in a mixed order.
Y2 Times Tables Rock Stars: Please log into this website for this week's optional homework.
User guidance for IXL and Spelling Shed.
www.phonics play.co.uk
For how to pronounce letters and sounds click:
www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
www.oxfordowl.co.uk Reading, ebooks, English and Maths
www.ictgames.com Phonics, English and Maths games.
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks
Other Learning Resources
Phonics and reading support Phases 2,3,4 tricky words mat Phase 3 phonics mat Phase 5 phonics mat
100 High Frequency Word Mat 200 High Frequency Word Mat
Ideas for practising spellings Handwriting letter formation VIPERS Guided Reading questions
