St Patrick
Our All Saints family shall ARISE and shine for the light of The Lord is upon us
Welcome to St Patrick!
We are a class of year 1 pupils.
Our teacher is Mrs Kotamo
Our class teaching assistant is Mrs Younis
Class Teacher's email - kotaa042@mastacademy.co.uk
Keep In Touch
If you would like to talk to Mrs Kotamo you can email her directly via the email address above or talk to her at the end of the day once all other children in class have been collected.
Below we have listed some helpful things about our class that we thought you might find useful to know.
Our Learning
Our curriculum
We are using a curriculum for our non core subjects that has impacted well on children’s attainment and motivation nationwide. This curriculum is published by Cornerstones. Our curriculum is based on inspirational learning activities which take place in a classroom environment and allow children to learn in a way that motivates and interests them. 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 will experience 3 Imaginative 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 in our children a curiosity and love of learning / school, that it will develop their levels of mental health and wellbeing and ultimately will provide opportunities for each of them to achieve their full potential.
Core Subject Priorities
Our school priorities this year are maths, writing and challenge.
Children will be given opportunities to complete a maths challenge each day during their maths lesson.
Children will be given at least one designated writing session each week to develop this skill and their ability to write for long periods of time. Three times a week children will have a handwriting lesson following the Letter-join whole school handwriting scheme, they can also login at home using the schools unique code practice at home.
Children are also encouraged to complete termly curriculum challenges.
This Term our topic is called Childhood.
To start off the children's year 1 journey they will be learning about our topic Childhood. In Childhood the children learn about the six stages of life, baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult and Elderly. The children will also learn about our wonderful world in Geography and the countries in the United Kingdom. In Science we will be learning about the parts of our body and our five senses. Within Art we will learn the primary and secondary colours, paint a colour wheel and explore how to create self portraits.
The children will be given a Knowledge Organiser to help support their learning at home which you can read to them regularly to refresh their memory.
Maths
Year 1
Our topic focus for this term...
Number - Place Value and addition and subtraction
The children will focus on place value to 20 and how to write the numbers in both numerals and words.
English
The children have daily spelling tests in their Read Write Inc group but any extra support you can give them would be fantastic. The children also do a termly independent write.
Knowledge Organiser
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. The information on these sheets should be easily recalled by the children once the topic is completed.
Other exciting games to play
https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/
Behaviour
St Patrick class are expected to follow the school’s Golden Rules at all times and are encouraged and rewarded for being ‘green to go’.
The Golden Rules are:
- We respect and follow our school values.
- We work hard to achieve and shine brightly.
- We listen carefully and follow instructions.
- We are kind, gentle. inclusive and supportive.
- We look after property.
- We are safe and honest so everyone can enjoy school.
If, after a reminder, a child continues to break a rule, their name will be moved on our class traffic lights. Each colour (yellow, orange and red) has a number of possible consequences, such as loss of play time. If a child has to move their name, they are given the opportunity to earn their way back to green by sticking to the golden rules and showing “green to go” behaviour. If your child does not follow the school rules you will be asked to take them home for lunch and bring them back for the afternoon lessons.
Rewards
We use ClassDojo in Saint Patrick class. During each day, children are rewarded with Dojos. Daily Dojo winners pick a prize from the class prize box. Each term, the children choose a treat and work as a class to move their class star up to 10. This term they are working towards the class prize of cakes.
Homework
Homework for English and Maths will be sent home each week on Fridays, it needs to be returned by the following Thursday. We would also like children to be practicing reading and writing the Year 1 common exception words. Please also use the read write inc portal videos on the website to practice set 1, set 2 and set 3 sounds with your children.
Challenges
We love a challenge in St Patrick’s class. Every lesson has a challenge and every piece of homework does too.
The homework challenge and the class chocolate challenge are optional but we encourage children to complete them.
Children are also given the chance to enter the termly curriculum challenge for the chance to win a reward.
PE
PE takes place on a Wednesday and Thursday.
We will be outside on Thursday.
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 please remove them before school.
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.
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.
Supporting learning at home
Where possible, we encourage children to learn at home through everyday experiences. Linking family days out to our theme is a brilliant way to do this and children love coming into school and telling the class what they’ve learnt.
If your child is registered with the school as having specific special learning needs, please look at the home learning links to meet their requirements attached to this link. Thank you.
