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.
Time spent on homework is more effective if completed ‘little and often.'
Studies show that primary age pupils that regularly
complete homework tasks make an average of three months extra progress over those that do not.
- Read your school book (5minutes 4x week)
- Spelling Shed - to practice phonics and spellings (5minutes 5x week)
- Practice counting in 2s, 5s, 10s (5minutes 4x week)
Year 1 times tables tests this term will be: Counting forwards in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Year 2 times tables tests this term will be: Counting forwards and backwards in 2s and 10s including missing numbers.
- IXL - to practice the maths we are currently learning
- Year 2 - Times Tables Rock Stars - currently optional, until we learn multiplication later this year
- Additional weekly home learning. (10 minutes 1x 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'.
Excitingly, during the first 6 weeks of this term we will be having forest school sessions!
Remember that completing homework helps you to share, practise, and consolidate your weekly learning with your family.
Good efforts with your homework are rewarded with a mix of house points, stamps and certificates.
