Teacher: Miss Creaby
Teaching Assistants: Miss Carey, Miss Beaumont, Mrs Cairns, Miss Crawford, Mrs Lawes.
Class Information:
Home-School Diaries
Your child will bring home a home-school diary each night. The diary will include activities completed that day as well as any information staff deem useful for parents/carers to know. Staff would appreciate if parents/carers would let us know via the diary of any important information you think would be useful for staff to be aware of.
Homework
At The Grange we believe that it is crucial to work in partnership with parents and carers. There is an expectation that you will support us by ensuring that your child completes the tasks that we set as homework.
Obviously the level of your engagement will depend on your child’s age but we expect you take an active part in all aspects of homework and, where necessary, indicate that you have monitored the completion of it (e.g. by signing the Home/School Reading Record Book.)
The routines of reading every day, learning spellings and multiplication tables etc. can be great fun and very rewarding for all concerned. Best results are achieved when homework in not done at the last minute but has a fixed time in a child’s established home routine. Short, sharp periods of activity are preferable to prolonged periods of study where concentration can be lost.
Effective learning and consolidation of learning cannot happen in an environment with lots of distractions (e.g. television etc.) Please give some thought to where your child works at home.
Reading:
Everyday children will have the opportunity for individual reading time with an adult. Children's reading books will be sent home each night and should return to school every day with their reading record inside. Please use the reading record to make comments on your child's progress when listening to them read at home.
Spelling:
On a Tuesday your child will receive their weekly spellings to take home and learn. Can you please ensure your child completes their spellings on a daily basis as they will be tested each Tuesday.
Curriculum
Through our topic lessons we will be learning about the Normans. Children will be learning about the battles 'Stamford Bridge' and 'The battle of Hastings.' . In History we will be learning about what life was like in these times and how it differs from life today. In Art we will be exploring the work of Antoni Gaudi and creating some pieces of Art based on his work. In design technology we will exploring culture and seasonality looking at different sesonal foods..
In English and maths we will be continuing to work on our individual targets.
In science we will be learning about animals. We will be focusing on animals and their habitats.
In Computing we will be continuing to develop our coding skills.
In P.E. we will be starting Athletics lessons, these will take place on a Tuesday morning.
Thank you for reading the Class Nine page.
Supporting your child at home
The following links will take you to Espresso and Purple Mash. Both contain numerous resources for supporting your child in all areas of the school curriculum. Individual log-in details can be found in children's reading records. For further information about the curriculum please go to the Curriculum section of the school website.