Willow Class (EYFS)

Welcome to Willow Class

Staff

Class Teacher: Miss Mason and Mrs Challoner

PPA Cover Teacher: Mrs Challoner

Teaching Assistants: Miss Powling, Miss Keeley, Miss Lawlee and Mrs Underwood

Term 4 Key Information

No Forest school this term.
We have PE on Friday mornings, please ensure your child wears their PE kit with their school jumper to school.

Term 4 Curriculum

This term in English, we will be reading The Pirates Are Coming! which links closely with our exciting new topic: Pirates! To celebrate our learning, our topic will culminate in a Pirate Day on Friday 27th March—look out for more details coming shortly!

Maths lessons will focus on comparing numbers and exploring how numbers are composed.
Alongside this, Phonics sessions will continue to introduce new phonemes and build blending skills to support fluent reading. Your child will read in their group three times a week at school, and we kindly ask that you also share a book with them every night to help strengthen their reading confidence.

As part of PSED, children will explore Understanding the Law—thinking about how rules keep us safe, why we follow them, and the important role the Police play in our community.

Our RE learning centres around the big question: “Why do Christians put a cross in an Easter garden?” We will also discover the Easter Story and consider its importance to Christians.

Key Texts

Home Learning

Please try to read every day and write in the reading record diary. Your child has a 'Treasure Book' that you can share together (your child is not expected to be able to read this alone) and a reading book which they have read three times at school, the aim is they should be reading this book fluently by the time they return it to school on a Wednesday.

Tricky Words

Tricky Words Basics 2

Tricky words Basics 3

Websites

Listed below are some useful websites that you may wish to look at with your child. Please do not feel the need to complete activities on them, they are purely listed as suggested ideas you may wish explore with your child.

Oxford Owl for Home https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

You need to register for an account, but it is free to join. This site has lots of free e-books, activity sheets and maths games.

Literacy Trust https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/

This site is free to access and contains videos, links to stories online and activity sheets.

Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org

You need to register for a free account and then create an account for your child. This site is American, but if you choose courses/ early math at the top there are some interactive Maths activities that are appropriate.

ICT Games https://www.ictgames.com/

This site has free Maths and English Games. There is no need to register and you can adapt the games to suit your child’s knowledge.

Classroom Secrets https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/

You can create a free account for this site and it contains Maths activities. (Just select EYFS tab at the top).

Hammond Education https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5f9v0bDywz0UKkJW3Ik1EQ

This YouTube site has ideas of Phonics games you could play with your child.

Mr Thorne's Phonics: Geraldine the Giraffe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sW4j8p7k9D_qRRMUsGqyw

There are lots of videos on here about different sounds the children have learnt in Phonics. The children love Geraldine!

Mystery Science www.mysteryscience.com

You need to register for a free account. This is another American site, but the Mystery Science units for Grade K have some nice videos and activities. The ‘Plant and Animal Secrets’ unit may be of particular interest, as the children have been learning about plants and growth.

DK Find out https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/