"Dosbarth Heulwen"
Welcome to our class page!
This term our topic is ‘My World, Your World, Our World’ As part of this topic we will be;
Listening to a range of traditional and modern stories.
Our Focus Books are;
-
The Elves and the Shoemaker – Talk for Writing Pie Corbett style
-
I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont
-
Marvelous Me: Inside and Out by Lisa Bullard
-
The Family Book by Todd Parr
-
So Much! by Trish Cooke
-
Only One You by Linda Kranz
-
The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
-
Elmer by David McKee
-
Gozzle by Julia Donaldson
-
The Smeds and the Smoos by Julia Donaldson
-
Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel
-
Super Duper You by Sophie Henn
-
Can I build another me by Shinsuke Yoshitake
-
A handful of Buttons by Carmen Parets Luque
-
Binny’s Diwali by Thrity Umrigar
We will be:
-
Exploring our likes and dislikes – getting to know each other and our new environments.
-
Learning about our lives, our families and our homes.
-
Sharing who/what is special to us.
-
Creating different autumn themed crafts using a range of resources and materials.
-
Developing our oracy and shared writing skills through following a Talk for Writing approach to story telling.
-
Learning Welsh vocabulary and phrases to support us in asking and answering questions. Listening to stories about Tedi Twt.
-
Familiarising ourselves with simple French phrases and songs.
-
Exploring and developing our number skills in lots of practical ways such as finding out how ‘big’ and ‘small’ things are in our classroom and outdoor area
-
Developing our recognition of 2D and 3D shapes. Learning about properties of these shapes.
-
Finding our ‘whose shoe is this?” through our Maths Investigation.
-
Investigating our senses through practical experiments and activities as part of our main Science Investigation “How do our hands feel…?”
-
Using JiT to create a self portrait. Developing our ICT skills to create a Pictogram of our haor and eye colours.
-
Exploring our outdoor area to complete focused tasks – natural art, number hunts, looking at habitats, creating patterns, outdoor construction work.
PE Sessions
PE will take place on a Wednesday. Please could you ensure that your child wears their PE kit to school i.e. tshirt, joggers and trainers. Learners will not be permitted to change into their kit in school.
Reading Books
We will send Read, Write Inc sound cards, word flashcards and/or a reading book home with your child. Please return their flashcards/book once you have practised them with your child. This will enable us to monitor progress and assess when your child is ready to learn new sounds or change their reading book. Thank you for your cooperation.
Snack Time/Amser Snac
The cost of a daily snack per week is £1. This can be paid weekly or termly. This half term the cost is £8. The cost for the full term is £15. We use any money raised (following the purchase of snacks) to purchase resources for our class such as baking/decorating items, craft resources or new activities for the children. Please note: Amser Snac is different to ‘Tuck Shop’. Learners in Dosbarth Heulwen access a class ‘tuck shop’ as a very important part of our daily routines, this supports social skills, numeracy development and enables our learners to take on the roles of ‘Weekly Helpers’.
Outdoor Learning
Outdoor learning is a large part of our school curriculum, and we plan to spend a lot of time learning outdoors. Should you wish for your child to change their footwear, then please send appropriate outdoor footwear (e.g. wellies) into school in a labelled bag. This can be left in school on your child’s peg. This is optional and not required. In the event of hot weather, could pupils please bring a sunhat in to school. Suncream should be applied at home prior to the learners coming in to school.
Please keep an eye out for updates and information about weekly events on Piota, our school app. We will also be updating our Facebook and Instagram pages regularly.
Many thanks for your support. We are looking forward to a fun term 😊.
Miss Singleton and Mrs Littler