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

Welcome to St Peter's Class!

Year R

Our class teacher is Miss Williams

willl1161@mastacademy.co.uk 

Our class Teaching Assistant is Mrs Smith 

There are 20 children in St Peter's class, and we share our learning environment with the children in St Paul's class.

Mrs Geoghegan is the class teacher in St Paul's class, with Miss Mercer as their teaching assistant.

 The children will be in their class group for morning/afternoon routines, adult-led group times and story times.  Throughout the rest of the day, the children will all be together, taking part in their Child-Led activities, across both the classrooms and our outside area, come rain or shine.

Below we have listed some helpful things about our class that we thought you might find useful to know.

Our Learning

It is important that your children arrive at school on time and attend every day. Consistent absences/ lateness have a significant impact on their learning. Regular lateness and absences will result in fines and court proceedings.

Our teachers use the EYFS curriculum for our planning, and we base our learning around what we are interested in.

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We are using ideas from Cornerstones to give us an overall theme title, from which we then take ideas from the children about what they would like to learn about and discuss throughout the theme. 

We learn to read and write using the Read, Write, Inc. phonics programme. Parents can find out more here: Read, Write Inc. 

Literacy is very important to us, and reading and writing are school priorities this year. We love sharing and talking about stories, and developing our writing skills through a wide range of mark-making opportunities.

Our Mathematics curriculum focuses on numbers, shape, space and measure.  We use some elements from the White Rose program.  Our work is mostly practical, but we are also encouraged to record our own mathematical thinking in various ways.

We follow 'Understanding Christianity', a Religious Education programme from the Rochester Diocese. You can find more information on the Religion and World Views page.

We follow the Greenacre Sports Partnership P.E. curriculum.

Our topic for term 1 is 'All about me'

This term, we will be exploring 'All about me'.

Our main areas of learning will focus on discovering all about ourselves.

We will explore what we look like, our favourite things, who our families are, what our homes look like, who our friends are and what makes us special and unique.

Uniform

Our uniform consists of a white shirt/polo shirt, navy blue jumper/cardigan, grey or black trousers/skirt/dress/shorts and black shoes.

In summer, girls can wear a blue and white checked dress.

Hair to be tied up at all times.

No jewellery, only stud earrings and not on PE days.

Shirts to be tucked in at all times.

PE

PE is on a Tuesday.

We need to bring our PE kits into school and leave them on our pegs.  They will be sent home at the end of every term to be washed and must be returned the following term.

We need to wear plain dark shorts, a white t-shirt or white school logo PE t-shirt and plimsolls or trainers.

When it is cold outside, we cover up with a pair of plain dark tracksuit bottoms or leggings and our school jumper.

Our hair is tied back if it is long.

We take any jewellery off at home before we come to school.

Behaviour Expectations

Children in St Peter's class are expected to follow our rules that are implemented school-wide. These are:

Rewards

Individuals are rewarded in class with stickers for great work or participation in activities. 

Teamwork is something that we like to encourage within our class and we enjoy working hard in our class to earn different things. 

We collectively earn starts for our class jar, and once we have collected 10 stars in our jar, we choose an amazing reward to celebrate our class. This term, the children are aiming for a bubble disco!

Individuals are chosen each week to receive an award. These include our A.R.I.S.E award, a Shine award and our Values award. If somebody is awarded the Values award, they will receive a certificate during our celebration worship on Fridays... and excitingly will be able to take our class pet home for the weekend and keep an exciting duck diary of their wonderful adventures from their time together. Our class pet is called Quackers.

You may even receive a text message to tell you if we have done something wonderful. 

Homework

We will send out reading books for the children to share with you at home.

Homework activities will be set every Friday from term 2. This will either be a literacy task or a numeracy task. We ask that this be completed by the following Friday and that you send in completed work in your child's named homework folder.

Letter writing and number writing practice should be completed on alternate nights, and reading each night with your child will be sure to build on their reading skills and enthusiasm for learning. 

Partnership Power

We have an informal open-door policy in our Reception class.

You can speak to our teachers after school when all of the children have been seen off safely. Please be patient with us whilst the children are still settling in as this can be a very overwhelming time of the day for them.

If these times are not convenient for you, you can phone up the school office (01634 338922) and request that the teacher phones you back to arrange a more mutually convenient time. Or, you can write a note requesting an appointment and send it in your child’s book bag.

Alternatively, please email me at willl1161@mastacademy.co.uk

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.