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
2022/23
Curriculum Overviews
Term 1 and Term 2 - 2022/23 Terrific Tales
Term 3 and Term 4 - 2022/23 Dangerous Dinos vs Amazing Animals
Term 5 and Term 6 - 2022/23 Come Outside!
Home Learning
We will post weekly home learning here if and when it is needed.
Blackbird News
Congratulations to all the children in Blackbird class! You all behaved exceptionally well on both the cricket festival and visit to Small brook Meadows! We are pleased to hear you enjoyed these experiences and enjoyed the learning of new skills and knowledge.
Summer Term
We hope that you have had a wonderful Easter break. We are excited to share more learning with you this term!
This term we have a new topic called Come Outside! We will be reading some lovely books linked to the topic, fieldwork to explore our local surroundings and investigations in science to learn more about plants and animal habitats.
Please look at our curriculum overview for more details about what we will be doing in class and scroll to the bottom of this page for homework reminders to help your child to practise and remember their learning.
If you have any questions, please ask, so that we can do our best to help your child have a safe, happy, and productive time at school.
Best Wishes,
The Blackbird Team
Autumn Term 2022
2021-23
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 4
It is important to positively support your child to complete their 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 celebrate completed homework with house points in class and with certificates in Friday's Celebration Assembly!
Please complete homework by Thursday morning ready to receive house points.
If you have any questions, please ask.
Y1 and Y2 Reading: Read at least four times a week. Record this in the reading journal to achieve weekly reading champion stamps, which build up into reading certificates. Re-reading books help your child develop quick recognition of tricky words and build reading fluency. Book will be changed twice a week. You could use the suggested comprehension questions to develop your child's understanding of what they are reading.
Y1 Phonics and spelling: Pease see your homework book for your weekly homework.
Y2 Phonics and spelling: Please log into Spelling Shed for your weekly 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: Counting forwards, backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s. Challenge: Include missing numbers,
Y2 Weekly Maths test: 2x, 5x and 10x tables in any order. Challenge: Try 5 x ? = 35 and ? x 2 = 24
User guidance for IXL and Spelling Shed.
www.phonics play.co.uk
For how to pronounce letters and sounds click: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=rwi+phonics+pronounciation&&view=detail&mid=54EA7B7926CF5F8FACB754EA7B7926CF5F8FACB7&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Drwi%2Bphonics%2Bpronounciation%26FORM%3DHDRSC3
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
Learning Resources
Phonics and reading support Phase 3 phonics sound mat Phase 3 tricky word mat Phase 4 tricky word mat Phase 5 sound phonics mat Phase 5 tricky word mat
100 High Frequency Word Mat 200 High Frequency Word Mat Ideas for practicing spellings Handwriting - lower case letters Handwriting - uppercase letters VIPERS Guided Reading questions
