Otley and Witnesham Partnership

Class 2 is a fun, supportive class, made up of Year 1 and Year 2. Our teacher is Miss Bolt and our LSAs are Mrs Swann and Mrs Cooke.

How we learn

In Class 2, we have daily Phonics lessons, plus 4 Reading, 4 Writing and 4 Maths lessons per week. In these lessons, we use a mixture of whole class inputs, group work with an adult and independent work. We also cover all of the wider curriculum subjects, which usually involve a whole class input followed by an independent challenge for us to complete. We love to use books to inspire our learning, and we use lots of practical resources to support our understanding of key concepts.

We also use continuous provision within our classroom and outdoor area. The classroom is set up with a range of different areas, including the Studio Area, Small World Area, Role Play Area, Construction Area, Reading Area and Calm Corner. When it is Discovery Time, we can access and explore these different areas. We can choose activities based on our interests, work collaboratively with our friends and consolidate previously learnt skills. The adults in our class enjoy working with us during Discovery Time, observing our learning and helping us to challenge ourselves further.

We use Seesaw in lessons to record our practical learning (e.g. using resources to build different numbers in Maths). We also record our independent learning from Discovery Time on Seesaw, which allows us to share our work with the adults as well as to reflect on what we have learnt.

Homework

Our homework is set each half term in a homework grid. This contains a range of activities based on our learning in a range of subjects. We can choose the activities that we want to work on. We have a special sharing session where we can bring in our work to show our friends.

Reading is also very important to us in Class 2. Each week, we have 2 Reading sessions where we read a decodable Phonics book. This is linked to what we have learnt in our Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Phonics lessons. We are working hard on our fluency, so we practise reading each book several times. We bring the books home so that we can continue to practise and share our brilliant learning at home! We also bring home a list of the sounds, words and sentences we have been working on each week in Phonics, so that we can practise more at home. We visit the library once a week and choose our own ‘reading for pleasure’ book, that we can bring home and share with our family.

General Notices

We have Outdoor Learning sessions every Tuesday. When it is cold, we may need wellies, coats, hats and scarves. When it is warmer, we may need sun hats and sun cream!

Our PE day is Friday. Earrings need to be removed for PE and long hair needs to be tied up.

Our library day is Wednesday. We need to bring our books back on Wednesdays so that we can choose another book.

Please make sure that all items (bags, bottles, jumpers…) are named, so that we can easily reunite any missing items with their owners!