Class Groups
Fantasia (Nursery)
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.
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
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.
Helpful Links
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.
Dalmatians
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.
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.
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.
Summer Term
During the summer term, some of the texts that we will be focusing on in class are shown below.
Summer 1: Who can I ask for help?
We will be focusing on the texts shown below.
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Burgler Bill
- Cops and Robbers
- Heroes Who Help Us
- Superhero Like You
- All through the Night
Our ESB rhyme during Summer 1 will be 'Billy Goats Like Grass so Green'.
Summer 2: Should Goldilocks say sorry?
Some of the texts that we will be focusing on in class are shown below.
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!
You can also help your child at home by clicking on these useful links:
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
Dinosaurs
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 1
This summer 1 half-term, our topic will be:
‘Which birds and plants would Peter Rabbit find in our park?’
The children will be scientists observing the changes across the four seasons; they will observe and describe the different types of weather associated with the seasons and how the day length varies. The children will be identifying and naming plants; working scientifically to observe and contrast plants and their changes over time, within an additional unit in science focusing on plants. Here, they will name a variety of common and wild garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees. They will also identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.
In English, we will be completing lots of fun learning activities based on the stories of ‘Handa’s Surprise’ by Eileen Browne, and ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’ by Jonathan Langley‘. 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 and exclamation marks 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 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 onto 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
Phonics screen information
In June, all Year One children across the country will sit their National Phonics Screen. To find out more about what's involved, watch this short video:
Learning to read at home - Ruth Miskin Literacy
In Maths, our clever Mathematicians are learning all about:
Multiplication, division, halves and quarters, position and direction.
You can support your child at home by encouraging them to count in 2s, 5s and 10s, as well as completing 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 have 5 groups of 2? Can they count them 2, 4, 6, 8, 10? etc. Don't forget to log into your child's TT Rockstars account to practise their times tables too!
You can use the vocabulary of 'share, equal and groups' as we start to teach the children about the concept of division, and how we divide quantities equally between a given number of groups. Conversely, you could try dividing a quantity into a specific number. For example, if you have 20 peas, could you share them equally into 4 groups? How many would be in each group? Or, could you arrange the 20 peas so there are 4 in each group? How many groups would you have then?
You can continue to support your child at home by sustaining their understanding of numbers to 50; counting up to these numbers, finding one more/less, recognising and writing the numbers - ensuring numbers are formed correctly - and being able to order number cards correctly. Can they also identify how many tens and ones are within that number?
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/
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 pe number counted).
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.
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/12tWVgOk/tcX9xiNp
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/3bN4dVDI/JiOzk4fL
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/UdW8NBwF/s4zFjvru
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/SRnQOSa5/fnKinoLC
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Iyj8gTN0/56FgvypN
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/8MbHCXl8/gRjSMa8X
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/zcSbANeY/WA1P1nde
If you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to speak to the Year 1 team.
Incredibles
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.
Summer Term 1
For the Summer 1 half-term, we will be enjoying the topic:
‘Where would you prefer to live; England or Kenya?’
In this topic, we will be inquisitive geographers. We will understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country. We will identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles. To enhance our learning of geography, we will also use world maps, atlases and globes.
In Art, we will be using clay to create 3D houses. We will focus on shaping and decorating clay. We will create a pinch pot and design and make a clay tile with house features. This unit will help to emphasise children’s skills in working with clay and applying artistic techniques in a structured project.
In English, we will be completing lots of fun learning activities based on the stories of ‘Hansel and Gretal’ by Antony Brown and ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ by Roald Dahl. The children will be retelling and later innovating these stories. They will also use story maps and differentiated texts to help them write these narratives. We will be learning to plan our writing, breaking it up into beginning, middle and end, as well as correctly using their just do it rules! As well as going on a journey into the world of narratives, the children will also
explore non-fiction texts and write a non-chronological report, comparing Kenya and the United Kingdom. We will use the text ‘If You Were Me and Lived in…Kenya’ by Carole Roman to enhance our learning. We can't wait to see what the children achieve!
Click on the images below to listen to the stories:
In Maths, our clever Mathematicians are learning about position and direction. They will also be developing their knowledge of time, weight, volume and temperature. The children will also use concrete, pictorial and abstract methods to solve questions and challenges, using methods efficiently to solve problems. If you need any support with helping your child at home, please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher via Class Dojo.
We will also be learning about making music using computers. They will listen to a variety of pieces of music and consider how music can make them think and feel. Learners will compare creating music digitally and non-digitally. Learners will look at patterns and purposefully create music.
Do you love to listen to stories? Click on the image below to take you to a fabulous website where you can listen to a variety of stories read by different authors.
How can you help your child at home? Check out our useful links… But be prepared to use your MAGIC learning behaviours to help you to tackle tricky problems!
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 Incredibles team!
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!
"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare."
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."