Welcome to the Fantasia class page!

This page is to introduce you to the staff who will be working with your child and to keep you informed of the exciting and magical things that we do in Nursery. Nursery as a whole is called Fantasia class and has 2 key worker groups: Green Mickey and Yellow Mickey Group. 

Nursery is where your child starts their magical learning journey. 

Meet the Nursery Team

Miss Shingler - (Class Teacher)   

Mrs Bromage 

Please take time to explore our page, where you will find lots of important information about your child's learning.

In our class, we encourage the children to be: 

Ready

We are always ready to learn.

We are patient, and we pay attention so that we can be super learners!

Respectful 

We look after each other and the school property.

We take care in all that we do.

Safe

We listen carefully so that we are safe at all times.

We use our kind hands, and we follow the instructions all the time.

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Summer Term

This term, the children will be learning about what bugs they may find in their garden and what makes a flower grow.

The children will be exploring minibeasts in the garden and developing a love of nature. They will be enhancing their observation skills and gain an understanding of lifecycles.

The children will be caring for caterpillars and watching them transform into butterflies.

In Forest School and outdoors, the children will be learning about parts of a plant and sowing different kinds of seeds.

The children will be observing changes and growth, gathering a deeper understanding of the natural world around them.

At the end of term, children will be having an Ugly Bug Ball, dancing and dressing up as their favourite minibeast.

Books the children will be using this term are:

Fran's Flower

Jasper's Beanstalk

Mad About Minibeasts

Superworm

Oi Frog

What the Ladybird Heard

Songs we will be singing this term are:

Incy Wincy Spider

There’s a tiny caterpillar on a leaf.

There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden

Five Speckled frogs

Here is the beehive

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Communication and Language

Working on building your child’s communication and language is at the heart of everything we do in Nursery.

We are working hard in Nursery to improve communication by developing our speaking and listening skills. We will be continuing to share and learn different action rhymes, stories and songs.

Each week, we will set homework on Class Dojo. Our story and rhyme of the week will be set as homework to help develop their communication and language at home too. We love to see homework completed each week!

If you do have any queries or need any further support, then please don't hesitate to message your child's class teacher via Class dojo.

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Helpful Links

Dough Disco 

More Dough Disco!

Dough Disco Funky Feet

Phonics Play

Education City

Top Marks

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How can you help your child at home?

• Support your child to use their cutlery.
• Encourage them to put on their own coat and shoes/wellies.
• Encourage your child to use the toilet independently and show them how to wash their hands.
• Read your child a story at bedtime and discuss what is happening in the picture.

Welcome to the Dalmatians class page!

Here you can find up-to-date information about the MAGIC learning that your child will be taking part in during our topics. We have lots of fun learning in Dalmatians and have many MAGIC moments every day.

To strengthen our links between home and school, we have included some useful links below to provide key information and opportunities for children to continue their learning at home. Share them with your child and ask them to show you all the fabulous learning that we have been doing in school. 

'Spotacular' Staff:

• Mrs Harrison
• Mrs Whitehead
• Mrs Prime

In our class, we encourage the children to follow our school rules; 

Ready

We are always ready!

We are patient, and we pay attention so that we can be super learners!

Respectful 

We look after ourselves, each other and the school property.

We take care in all that we do.

Safe

We listen carefully so that we are safe at all times.

We use our kind hands, and we follow the instructions all the time.

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Here is a copy of a generic timetable of the Reception class to give you an idea of what your child's day may look like. 

This page is all about the learning that we do in the Dalmatian class.

We hope that you find the information useful and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask a member of staff.

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Homework

In Dalmatians, we really value parental support with homework as it is an extension of children’s learning in school. 

Your child will also be set weekly homework online via ClassDojo. This is usually set on a Monday to be completed by the following Monday.  

Don't forget to read with your child at home daily and join in with the Star Reader Challenge.  

You can click on the image below to take you to the Oxford Owl site where you can log in.

Scroll down the page to get an insight into some of the topics we will be covering each term in class. 

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Summer Term 

During the summer term, some of the texts that we will be focusing on in class are shown below. 

Summer 2: Should Goldilocks say sorry?

Some of the texts that we will be focusing on in class are shown below.

• A Chair for Baby Bear
• Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas
• National Geographic Kids - All About Bears

Our ESB rhyme during Summer 2 will be 'When Goldilocks goes to the house of the Bears'. Click here to listen.

Learning at Home

Does your child love hands-on learning? Check out the 'Science Sparks' YouTube link below by clicking on the image! Here you will find lots of fun, practical science experiments that are easy to complete at home too! 

• Science Sparks 

You can also help your child at home by clicking on these useful links:

• Phonics Play
• Top Marks
• Class Dojo

If you are a City Songbird or even if you just love to sing, click on the image below to take you to the City Songbirds YouTube channel. Here you will find lots of videos to listen to or sing along with. Here

Welcome to the Dinosaurs class page!

This page is intended to help you feel involved in and informed of everything we do.

Please take the time to explore our page where you will find lots of important information about your child's learning.

In our class, we encourage children to be: 

Ready

We are always ready to learn.

We are patient, and we pay attention so that we can be super learners!

Respectful 

We look after each other and the school property.

We take care in all that we do.

Safe

We listen carefully so that we are safe at all times.

We use our kind hands, and we follow the instructions all the time.

Here you will find all the fun learning that the Year One children are completing.

You can also find more on our Class Dojo page!

Come and meet our ROAR-some team!

• Miss Williams (Class Teacher)
• Mrs Robertson 

Summer Term 2

This summer 2 half-term our topic will be:

‘What do aliens think of life on planet Earth?’

The children will be scientists, distinguishing between an object and the material from which it is made; identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock; describe the simple properties of a variety of everyday materials; compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties.  They will also enjoy two D&T units wherein they will make a moving storybook, and then learn about healthy eating when making a fruit smoothie.

In English, we will be completing lots of fun learning activities based on the stories of ‘The Way Back Home' by Oliver Jeffers, and 'The Three Little Pigs'. The children will be creating a class story map for each story and using it to retell the story, and later innovate it, including lots of super story language! They will be writing sentences based on their story, ensuring they include their ‘Just Do It' rules (including capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, Fred talk to spell, and ensuring they read and check their work makes sense). Year One children will also be taught how to include appropriate adjectives (describing words, eg. 'enormous', 'scary') within their writing, as well as conjunctions (eg 'and', 'but'). In addition to this, they will be taught to correctly use question marks (Who was that?) and exclamation marks (Bang!) within their writing.  After learning to retell each story, we will spend some time innovating it; amending our story map accordingly and writing new sentences based on our innovated story. We will also be learning to plan for our writing; breaking each story up into a beginning, middle and end.  

We can't wait to see what the children achieve! 

Click on the images below to watch and listen to the stories:

As always, we will be working hard on our phonics.

At Co-op Academy Hamilton, we use the RWI phonics scheme. Please watch the videos below to help explain what this is and how you can best support your child. 

Learning to read at home - Ruth Miskin Literacy

To support your child further with their reading skills, please click on the links below to watch Read, Write, Inc's engaging phonics videos for children to watch when learning set 3 sounds. Your child will already be familiar with the routines used in Read, Write, Inc. 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/A5lC5Eme/3Z19wug4

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IXnzUL3i/6QESpbDh

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/FXP2gLs4/d0XGYnEy

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/QHNweNxW/TU8voOz0

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/uVXFd2g8/ujObd09r

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/vxthcy9b/ZJIm2P3r

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/4iFDQxOl/czL2mbVO

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/mlb2lMpl/AebdzrZd

In Maths, our clever Mathematicians are learning all about:

Numbers to 100, Time, and Money. 

You can support your child at home by encouraging them to recognise, count to and write numbers up to 100. Can they identify how many tens and ones are in that number? For example, 48 has 4 full tens and 8 ones. Support your child's learning of time by referencing it throughout the day. Use vocabulary such as before/after/first/next/finally/morning/evening. Finally, it would be of great benefit to your child if you could expose them to money - allow them to handle and use it. Help them to identify the different coins and notes, and to pay with money when out and about. 

You can also continue to count in 2s, 5s and 10s, as well as help to complete their 'Big Maths' multiplication quizzes, which they bring home each week. Could they group count their peas at dinner time and see how many they have if they had 5 groups of 2? Can they count them -  2, 4, 6, 8, 10 etc?

Check out these fun videos and games to support your child's maths:

Paint the Squares - Interactive Number Charts (topmarks.co.uk)

Caterpillar Ordering - An Ordering and Sequencing Game (topmarks.co.uk)

Helicopter Rescue - Mental Maths for 4 to 8 Year Olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Range Arranger || Ordering non-consecutive numbers on a Jenga theme (ictgames.com)

Toy Shop Money Game (GBP) - Topmarks

Coins Game for 4-10 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Teaching Clock (topmarks.co.uk)

At school, we offer children a range of strategies to choose from when calculating: concrete (using counters or physical items to count/subtract with), pictorial (drawing dots then adding more/taking some away by crossing them out), or abstract (using a number line and counting forwards/backwards along it, ensuring one jump per number counted). 

Don't forget to log into your child's TT Rockstars account to practise their times tables too! 

You can further support your child's maths through the new '1-minute maths' app, from White Rose Maths. Click on the link below to find out more... 

Check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOigCd4nFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/doggyDivision/index.html

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/arrayDisplay/index.html

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/dogs/

You can further support your child's maths through the new '1- Minute Maths' app, from White Rose Maths. Click on the image below to find out more... 

Thank you for taking the time to read our class page.

If you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to speak to the Year 1 team.

Here you will find all the fun learning that the Year Two children are completing. Let's meet our 'Incredible' staff...

• Mrs Willis (Class Teacher)
• Mrs Keeling
• Miss McCue

This page is intended to help you feel involved and informed of everything that we do.

Please take the time to explore our page where you will find lots of important information about your child's learning.

In our class, we encourage children to be; 

Ready

We are always ready to learn.

We are patient, and we pay attention so that we can be super learners!

Respectful 

We look after each other and the school property.

We take care in all that we do.

Safe

We listen carefully so that we are safe at all times.

We use our kind hands, and we follow the instructions all the time.

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To support your child further with their reading skills, please click here to watch Read, Write, Inc's engaging phonics videos. Your child will be familiar with the routines used in Read, Write, Inc.

Don’t forget to complete learning activities on:

• https://www.educationcity.com/
• https://www.purplemash.com/sch/northwoodhamilton
• https://ttrockstars.com/

Here’s a list of educational websites that you might want to use with your children at home. These websites include a range of curricular activities:

• https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
• https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
• www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
• https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
• https://www.tate.org.uk/kids
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
• https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
• https://www.pawprintbadges.co.uk/
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio
• http://www.treetoolsforschools.org.uk/
• https://www.redtedart.com/
• https://toytheater.com/
• https://www.twinkl.co.uk/
• https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html
• https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
• https://www.brainpop.com/
• Phonics Play
• Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
• Forest School
• Top Marks

Finally, thank you for taking the time to visit our incredible class page. We take pride in the children and their work, and we hope that you feel the same way as we do about our magical school!