Year 1 & 2 - Emerald
Welcome to Emerald Class!
We are Emerald Class, a mixed age Year 1 & 2 class. We are currently made up of 25 children. Our teacher is Miss Canavan. We are very lucky to get lots of extra help from Teaching Assistants in school and we have Mrs Hailwood Monday - Thursday.
Every day we are busy completing a range of lessons for example in the mornings we do a mixture of guided reading, phonics, literacy, maths and handwriting. In the afternoons we are busy with foundation subjects such as Art, Geography, History, PE, Music, DT (see what subjects we are currently focusing on in our Curriculum Overview).
This terms is a Geography based unit comparing and contrasting weather types in the United Kingdom against Hot and Cold Climates.
We are extremely fortunate to have such wonderful outside space at Richard Durning's and we try and make the most of this come rain or shine. With wellies at the ready, we often take learning outside with trails, challenges and even just completing our classroom work outside. We have started our Year 1 & 2 Forest school every Friday where we will engage in lots of outdoor ed based activities including Den Building.
PE Days in Year 1 and 2 are Mondays and Thursdays, children to come in full PE kit, suited to the weather.
Each day we are also very lucky to have Mrs Halkett come in to listen to the children read. She encourages them and discusses the books ensuring children are trying their best and are engaged. Children are expected to read as often as possible (for the best results - a little each night).
Homework is set weekly on our Showbie Learning Platform, for Year 1 it is a Phonics homework and for Year 2 it is a Maths Skills homework.
Please keep checking back as we will post regularly what we have been up to and things the children and yourselves will find useful.
We encourage children to share achievements and celebrations with us from outside school so please send in any certificates.
Miss Canavan & Mrs Hailwood