Miss Hamilton, Miss Murphy, Miss Harris, Miss Behan and Mrs Lane
Welcome to Squirrels class with Miss Hamilton. In Squirrels class the children will be supported by Mrs Birks, Mrs Lane, Miss Harris, Miss Murphy and Miss Behan. We are looking forward to learning about one another, discovering new things, making new friendships and settling into school life.
In Squirrels class we are friendly, and we take care of one another. We look after our classroom and take pride in all our work. Our term will start with us getting used to our new school layout and getting to know each other, using our talking toolkits.
Our half termly topics are ‘All about me’ and ‘Festivals’. As part of these topics, we will visit our local Library and St Mary’s Church. We will find out about the children, where they live, exploring our environment, looking at our favourite books and discovering what festival and traditions the children celebrate. We also plan to invite families in to see an exhibition of our ‘All about me’ topic work and our Nativity play.
In English this term we will introduce daily phonics. We will encourage the children to develop accurate and neat letter formation and encourage writing for a range of purposes. We will be constantly fostering a love of reading and language, by reading at least one story per day, having daily rhyme time and discussing the new vocabulary that we find in the books we read. We will also be supporting your child to develop their speaking and listening skills by providing them with lots of opportunities to speak to others in full sentences and discussing the skills needed to be a good listener.
In maths we will focus on recognising and writing numbers to ten, comparing quantities, composition of number and exploring numerical patterns within ten.
We will also be supporting your children to develop their social and emotional skills, physical skills, understanding of the world and expressive art and design through a range of adult supported and play based activities on a daily basis.
Children will also have weekly P.E, R.E, PSHE, Science and Music lessons. Along with Geography and History lessons throughout the term.
Contact can be made via Eylog message, which we will check regularly. You can also expect a weekly Eylog update. Letters sent from the school office will be sent via ParentPay.
We welcome parental involvement, if you are interested in volunteering in Squirrels class please come and speak to us. All volunteers will require a police check that can easily be arranged by the school.
Thank you.