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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Summer Term 1

This term, the children will be exploring what minibeasts live in their garden and what a plant needs to grow.

Gross Motor – Use and remember sequences and patterns of movements which are related to music and rhythm / core strength

Physical – Fine motor, developing scissors skills and holding a pencil between thumb and finger, with good control

EAD – Respond to what they have heard, expressing their thoughts and feelings/create a song using sounds they know

Writing – Write some or all of their name

UTW – Understand the key features of the life cycle of a plant and animal and planting seeds and bulbs.

Maths – Compare quantities using language ‘more’, ‘fewer than’. Experiment with their own symbols and marks as well as numerals. Solve real world mathematical problems with numbers up to 5. Shape of the week: cube, triangular prism, cuboid, sphere. Talk about and explore 3D shapes using informal and mathematical language

Communication, Language and Literacy – The children will be exploring letters and developing vocabulary through 'Talk Though Stories', song and rhyme.

Books we will be using this term are:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Super Worm

The Enormous Turnip

Mad About Minibeasts

Oliver's Vegetables

Songs we will be learning are:

Incy Wincey Spider

There's a Tiny Caterpillar on a Leaf

Five Speckled Frogs

There's a Worm at the Bottom of the Garden

Ladybug, Ladybug.

 

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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Summer Term :

During the summer term, our topics will be:

Summer 1: Who can I ask for help?

Summer 2: What bears can you find around the world?

Some of the texts that we will be focusing on in class are;
The Little Red Hen
Farmer Duck
Cops and Robbers
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldyluck and the Three Pandas

Our ESB rhymes will be:

Summer 1 - ‘Miss Polly had a Dolly’

Summer 2-‘When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears'

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!

Summer Term 1:

For the summer 1 half-term we will be enjoying the topic '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 story book, and then learn about healthy eating when making a fruit smoothie.

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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, and 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.

Click on the images below to listen to the stories:

 

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

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.

Summer Term 1:

For the Summer 1 half-term we will be enjoying the topic ‘How Old are the Trees Around us?’

In this topic, we will be super scientists. We will identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees. We will observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. We will also use our scientific enquiry skills to complete an experiment. We will find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

In art, we will be learning primary and secondary colours, colour mixing and creating textures using different tools. We will also explore collage techniques, experimenting with materials and evaluating their artistic choices. This unit of art aims to develop children’s understanding of colour, texture and composition in art – we can’t wait to get started!

In English, we will be completing lots of fun learning activities based on the stories of ‘The Disgusting Sandwich’ by Gareth Edwards and ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ 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 instructions on how to make their own sandwich! We can't wait to see what the children achieve!

Click on the image below to listen to the story:

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. The children will listen to a variety of pieces of music and consider how music can make them think and feel. Children will compare creating music digitally and non-digitally. Children will look at patterns and purposefully create music.

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

Summer Term 1:

For the Summer 1 half-term we will be enjoying the topic ‘What Makes Plants and Flowers Grow and Flourish?’

This half-term, we are scientists! Children will explore the fascinating question, “What Makes Plants and Flowers Grow and Flourish?” through hands-on investigations and outdoor learning experiences. They will discover what plants need to survive, including water, light, nutrients, and space, while learning about the different parts of a plant and their functions. Pupils will observe how water is transported within plants, investigate how light affects growth, and explore the life cycle of flowering plants. Through planting, measuring, and recording changes over time, children will develop their scientific enquiry skills and a deeper appreciation for the natural world, encouraging curiosity, responsibility, and care for living things.

In English, we are exploring 'George’s Marvellous Medicine' by Roald Dahl, 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 persuasive instructions about how to make magic potions – we can’t wait to get started!

In maths, we are learning about fractions and time. We will develop our understanding of fractions, including how to find parts of a whole, recognise equivalent fractions, and solve fraction problems. We will deepen our knowledge of time and will learn how to tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII. We will also use 12 hour and 24 hour clocks. In addition, we will estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute, record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours and will use key vocabulary such as; o’clock, am, pm, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight. These topics help us build important skills for everyday maths and problem-solving.

This half-term in Art and Design, children will explore the fascinating world of prehistoric art through “Prehistoric Paintings.” They will learn about how early humans created art using natural materials, such as charcoal and pigments made from plants and minerals, and discover the purposes these paintings may have served. Pupils will experiment with different textures, tones, and techniques to recreate cave-style artwork, developing their observational skills and creativity. Throughout the unit, children will also study famous prehistoric sites and use these as inspiration to create their own imaginative pieces, building confidence in expressing ideas through art while gaining an appreciation of history and early human culture.

This half-term in Computing, we are learning about ‘Creating Media’ with a focus on ‘Desktop Publishing’. Pupils will learn how to create and edit digital documents using desktop publishing software. They will explore how text and images can be combined to communicate information effectively and creatively. Children will also develop skills in formatting text (such as font size, style, and colour), inserting and positioning images, and arranging content using templates or layouts. They will learn how design choices can impact readability and the overall appearance of a document.

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!