Welcome to Willow Class

 

  Classteachers: Miss J. Dandy/Mrs. L. Dhanak

2025-26

 

Welcome to Willow

Week Beginning 9.2.26

This week, the children worked collaboratively with partners to find out their favourite colours, pattern and animals and used what they learned to create telescopes for their friend!  They have worked so hard on their listening and speaking skills and this really shone through in this lesson.  We also had a special visitor who came to read us a story and they were very impressed with the children's oracy skills; well done, Willow!  

We used our collaborative telescopes to spy on a new ship, which sailed into the classroom!  We spotted lots of strange objects and quickly worked out the main character in our new story this week...

We have been predicting, noticing and deducing from this book and have loved shouting what he shouts when he is crocnapped from the Nile: 'How humiliating!'  

Whenever you notice your child looking at someone when they speak to them, or turning their body to face who they are talking to...or even asking a question such as 'Do you agree?' or 'What do you think?', do praise them for this, as these are just a few of our first oracy targets.  We are very excited to develop this oracy framework across the school, starting with our Birch and Willow superstars!

 

Subitising - Why It Is Important

A video which clearly explains the concept we are instilling in Maths at school.  The KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts) your child has brought home are also included in this page's attachments and run beautifully alongside the message you will hear in the video.  

Support for Phonics at home

Please CLICK HERE for videos showing the sounds we teach in Autumn and Spring terms.  There are also really handy guides to accompany what the children will be learning in school and might be useful for when the children bring home decodable reading books.