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. The nursery as a whole is called Fantasia 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
• Mrs Prime (maternity leave)
• Mrs Cooper  

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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Spring Term

This term the children will be exploring the topics:

Spring 1: What are colours used for? 
Spring 2: What do you find on the Farm?

Children will be exploring primary and secondary colours, using different media to create artwork. They will discuss how different colours make them feel, exploring emotions and completing lots of art and science experiments.

The books we will be reading in spring term 1 are:

    

Songs we will be singing this term are:

Spring 1:

Week 1.  Three Blind Mice
Week 2.  I Can Sing a Rainbow
Week 3.  Little Boy Blue
Week 4.  5 Little Ducks 
Week 5. 10 Green Bottles
Week 6.  5 Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed

Spring 2:

Week 1.   Old Mc Donald had a Farm
Week 2.   Hey Diddle Diddle
Week 3.  Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken
Week 4.  Baa Baa Black Sheep
Week 5.  Spring Chicken
Week 6. 10 Fat Sausages

This term, children will be learning about what you will find at the Farm.

We will be looking at what animals we may see at the farm and what their babies are named.
We will look at the types of machinery we might see on the farm and learn about what makes a tractor move.

We will be using initial sounds to say what each animal begins with and helping Fred Frog to orally blend to make a word e.g. p-i-g = pig or d-o-g= dog.

In maths, we will be counting farm animals using 5 frames, sorting, putting them in size order and describing where the animals are, using positional language.

In art, we shall be drawing and painting farm animals, making our own tractors with junk modelling, designing a woolly jumper, making various farm animals with collage materials and using different animals to make a music composition.

We will be inviting our 'Special Ladies' into school for an assembly and tea party and holding a fundraising Easter 'sing-a-thon'. Our grown-ups will be able to come into school to watch our Easter bonnet parade and listen to our lovely Easter songs. Children will also be learning how to stay safe on the internet and to speak out to stay safe with NSPCC.

Books we will be reading this term are:

    

 

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 (maternity leave)
• Mrs Cooper

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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Spring Term 2:

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

During this topic, the children will be learning all about space. The children will use the core text ‘Inside Space’ to learn all about space. They will watch a clip of a rocket launch and discuss what a star is. The children will finish the topic by learning about a day in the life of an astronaut.

Meg on the Moon

Whatever Next 

Aliens love underpants

Our ESB rhymes will be ‘Little Bo Peep’ and ESB: ‘Zoom Zoom Zoom, We’re Going to The Moon'

In maths this term, the children will be learning numbers to 10, comparing numbers within 10, addition to 10, measuring (length, height and weight), number bonds to 10, subtraction and exploring patterns.

Phonics

At Co-op Academy Hamilton, we use the RWI phonics scheme. See below for some top tips when reading with your child at home.

Ask your child’s class teacher if you would like further RWI resources to support your child’s learning.

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 Mondays to be completed by the following Monday. Don't forget to read with your child at home daily and sign the diary so that we can win Class Star Reader!

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.

Come and meet our ROAR-some team!

• Miss Williams (Class Teacher)
• Miss McCue 

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!

Spring Term 2:

For the spring 2 half-term we will be enjoying the topic 'Why are iPads more fun than my grandparents' old toys?'

For this topic, we will be super historians, as we will learn about changes within living memory and, where appropriate, use these to reveal aspects of change in national life.

Alongside this, our children will be amazing engineers in our D&T unit, where we will design, make, evaluate and use our technical knowledge to construct our own windmills! We will be designing and creating our windmill structures and testing which materials are most suitable to use in their build. We can't wait for the whirlwind of learning! 

In English, we will be completing lots of fun learning activities based on the stories of ‘Old Bear’ by Jane Hissey and the traditional tale of ‘Goldilocks and the three bears'.  The children will be creating a class story map for each story and using it to retell the story, being sure to include lots of super story language! We will be writing sentences based on the story, ensuring we include our ‘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, and well as conjunctions (eg 'and', 'but').  After learning to retell each story and writing narratives, 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 image below to listen to the story:                                                       

 

Our ESB poem for this half-term is 'Spring into Easter' by Sara Fox. Do please practise reciting this at home with your child:

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

At Co-op Academy Hamilton, we use the RWI phonics scheme.

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 the 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/GKXI2da1/r5U6BoCH

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/eduF3fbG/EQSpOjqd

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/DmAAO6cL/QYN1sz5J

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/KYCDdhkg/KGogJxS9

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/3ax0BlaA/kRy26s5N

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Q0HZNpsO/9g1Z93JH

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ebxLiD73/7koDOdW5

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/L3R2uUO4/nh3qukrF

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/zVHfKTjA/8GZCMYdo

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, click here to watch a short video.

In maths, our clever Mathematicians are learning all about:

Length and height, weight and volume, multiplication.

You can support your child at home in using units and language of measuring: cm, height, length, tall, short, longer, higher etc. There are some great online games to support this. Check out:

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

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/lets-compare

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/measuring-in-cm

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

https://pbskids.org/peg/games/happy-camel/

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, and playing on TT Rockstars weekly. 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?

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? 

Check out:

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

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

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

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? 

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! 

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

This page is intended to help you feel involved and informed about 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.

Spring Term 2:

For the Spring 2 half-term we will be enjoying the topic ‘How have people like Rosa Parks helped to make the world a better place?'

For this topic, we will be historians! The children will be learning about famous and influential people from history, for example, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and Josiah Wedgewood. The children will also be learning about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. The children will use their knowledge to compare aspects of life in different periods.

In English, we will be completing lots of fun learning activities based on the biography ‘I am Rosa Parks' by Brad Meltzer, and the story ‘The Ugly Duckling’. The children will be writing about what they have learnt about Rosa Parks, and they will be retelling and innovating 'The Ugly Duckling' story. They will also use story maps and differentiated texts to help them write. 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 write a winter poem!

We can’t wait to see the children’s amazing work!

Click on the images below to listen to the stories:

In maths, our clever mathematicians are learning about money, multiplication and division. The children will learn to use methods such as grouping, sharing, drawing tens and ones and using dienes to help them. 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.

This half-term we will also be learning to create a moving part in our Design and Technology lessons. The children will learn about pivot points, levers and linkages!

We will also be learning about digital photography in computing. The children will learn to recognise that different devices can be used to capture photographs and will gain experience capturing, editing, and improving photos. Finally, they will use this knowledge to recognise that images they see may not be real.

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

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Don’t forget to complete learning activities on:

• 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! 

Welcome to Aladdin NG class page!

Here you will find all the fun learning that the Year Three children are completing. So come and join us on a ‘magic carpet ride’ to find out more…

Y3 staff:

• Miss Grocott (Class Teacher)
• Mrs Robertson

This page is intended to help you feel involved and informed about 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.

Alongside our school rules, we teach our children the Co-op ‘Ways of Being’. These are core values and behaviours that help to develop a positive environment for all. The 4 ‘Ways of Being’ are:

• Do what matters most
• Be yourself
• Show you care
• Succeed together

Spring Term 2:

For the Spring 2 half-term we will be enjoying the topic ‘Who First Lived in Britain? (Prehistoric Britain)

This half-term, we are historians! In History, we are learning about the changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. We explore how people lived during these times, looking at the shift from late Neolithic hunter-gatherers to early farmers. We also discover fascinating historical sites such as Skara Brae, helping us understand how early communities built their homes, found food and developed new ways of life.

In English, we are exploring 'The Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitamura, using the story to inspire our own narrative writing and to practise innovating by adapting ideas in creative ways. We are also learning how to write a non-chronological report, focusing on a Stone Age animal. This helps us develop our skills in organising information and presenting facts clearly and confidently. We can’t wait to see the children’s amazing work!

In maths, we are learning about length and fractions. We explore how to measure and compare different lengths accurately and develop our understanding of fractions, including how to find parts of a whole, recognise equivalent fractions, and solve fraction problems. These topics help us build important skills for everyday maths and problem-solving.

This half-term in D&T, we are learning about cooking and nutrition, with a focus on eating seasonally. We explore how to choose and prepare ingredients that are in season, discovering why seasonal foods are healthy and sustainable. As we plan and cook our own recipes, we develop important skills in chopping, mixing and combining ingredients, while learning how to make tasty and nutritious dishes.

This half-term in Computing, we are learning about data and information, with a focus on branching databases. We will explore how to organise information by asking yes-or-no questions and sorting items into different categories. As we create our own branching databases, we develop our skills in collecting, organising and interpreting data, helping us to think logically and solve problems in a fun and interactive way.

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.

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 Aladdin team!

Don’t forget to complete learning activities on:

• 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 Aladdin 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!