Our All Saints family shall ARISE and shine for the light of The Lord is upon us

Welcome to St Christopher!

We are a class of Year 1/2 children.

Our teacher is Miss Daly

Our class teaching assistant is Mrs Toms

I know that your children will shine brightly and enjoy this year in

St. Christopher class.

If you would like to talk to Miss Daly you can email her directly via the email address below or talk to her at the end of day once all other children in class have been collected.

Teacher Email

janel014@mastacademy.co.uk

Our Curriculum

We use an online live curriculum published by Cornerstones. English and all foundation subjects: History, Geography, Art, DT and Music are taught through our termly theme. Cornerstones will provide our children with a good level of challenge, giving them opportunities to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding across the full range of National Curriculum subjects.

Year 1/2 will experience three Learning Projects in a year. Each individual project is split into sections, which see children progress through four stages of learning: Engage, Develop, Innovate and Express. We are confident that our curriculum will instil a curiosity and love of learning in our children. It will help them maintain their well-being and provide opportunities for each of them to achieve their full potential. 

This term our topic is called 'Wriggle and Crawl'

This term we will grab our coats and pooters as we’re going out and about on a minibeast hunt. We will sweep our nets in ponds and lift up logs to see who’s home. We will be setting up a minibeast laboratory to observe their every move. During lessons we'll add notes and labels and ask research questions, just like a real entomologist. We'll study bees and worms and butterflies too. Children will make a food chain to show who eats who? Carry out investigations to find out more, like how far a snail travels in a day and how a spider catches its prey. Then animate to show how their favourite bug transforms from one form to another, perhaps a caterpillar to a butterfly or a maggot to a fly.

So St Christopher class - On your belly, legs at the ready, it’s time to wriggle and crawl.

Core Subject Priorities

Our school priorities this year are mathematics, literacy and extending our students’ knowledge with challenges. Children will be given opportunities to complete a mathematics challenge every day during their mathematics lesson. Children will be given at least one designated literacy session each week to develop their writing skills and their ability to write for long periods of time. 

Maths this term is all about Time and Problem Solving.
 

PE

PE days are on Thursdays and Fridays. We will be outside on Friday.

Please ensure your child brings their kit into school.

P.E. kit: White t-shirt, dark shorts or jogging bottoms, plimsolls or trainers. T-shirts must be plain with no logos or patterns. Long hair must be tied back. NO jewellery. 

PE bags can be stored in school on pegs through the week.  Children must be able to take out their earrings before the lesson and are responsible for looking after these. If your child is unable to remove their earrings, they must come to school with tape on their ears, no earrings or you can show your child how to apply the tape themselves before the lesson.

Homework (Year 1)

Homework will be sent home on a Friday.

There will be a mathematics and literacy for the children to complete. Homework should be returned to school the following Thursday. In addition, children are expected to read their book, and to practise reading and writing the year 1 common exception words every night.  They should also be reading their Knowledge Organisers and learning key facts from it daily.  

Homework (Year 2)

Homework will be sent home on a Friday. There will be a maths and literacy task for the children to complete. Homework should be returned to school by the following Thursday. In addition, children are expected to read their book sent home from school, and to practise the 2, 5 and 10 times tables every night. They should also be reading their Knowledge Organisers and learning key facts from it daily.   Children will have a daily spelling test in their RWI group.

The list of year 1 and 2 common exception words are pictured below:

Knowledge Organisers

Please remember to look at your Knowledge Organisers each night at home and quiz your child on the different interesting facts on both sides! The information on these sheets should be easily recalled by the children once the topic is completed. Children may also wish to extend their learning beyond the knowledge organiser if they have a specific interest in the topic. Please use the knowledge organiser as a starting point for any extra study.

Behaviour Expectations

St Christopher class are expected to follow the school’s rules. 

These rules are: 

Rewards and Prizes

The children are rewarded in class by getting stickers, goodies or awards for following the Golden rules or for producing beautiful work. During each day, children are also rewarded with Dojos.  The daily winner of the Dojo pick a prize from the class treasure chest! Our 'value' award and the 'Arise and shine' award are nominated weekly and announced in worship on a Friday morning. The year one and two children can also receive a whole class reward each term! The children choose a treat and, working as a class, they aim to fill their jar with stars.

Attendance & punctuality

The school is committed to ensuring a high rate of attendance for all. We want all of our children to have a 97% attendance rate over each school year. We ask all parents to inform the school before 9.30am on the first day of absence and to send a letter to the class teacher on the day their child returns from absence. The school will phone/contact parents on the first day of absence if the parent has not contacted the school. If contact cannot be made with the parent then the child's absence will be marked as unauthorised. Ten sessions ( 5 days ) of unauthorised absences can lead to the local authority issuing fines. The fine will be £120 per parent per child, but if paid before 21 days, it is reduced to £60 per child, per parent. This money goes to Medway council not the school. Repeated or unexplained absences will be followed up with more phone calls, letters home, requests for medical certificates and a home visit from the School Family Support Worker - so it is important to keep the school informed. All contact with families regarding pupil absence is logged systematically to show the lengths the school are going to, to get the children into school. Children are asked to be punctual.  The registers will be taken at 8.55am.  Lateness and absence will be noted on the child’s Annual School Report. 100% attendance is rewarded regularly at the end of every term and year.

Uniform

Our uniform consists of:

• a white shirt or polo shirt that must be tucked in.
• grey skirt, trousers or pinafore dress- black is acceptable
• a navy blue sweatshirt or cardigan 
• blue and white checked dresses can also be worn in the summer.
• Long hair tied back.
• No jewellery apart from religious or small studs. 

If your child is registered with the school as having specific special learning needs, please look at the learning links below for further support. Thank you.