Mevagissey Community Primary School

Starfish Class

Welcome to Starfish - our YR/Y1 class !

Starfish is the first class the children join when they start their exciting journey of learning through Mevagissey School. Our learning is fun, engaging, challenging and encouraging. Our teachers are Mrs Hoare (class teacher) and Miss Gibson (TA)

This year, the Reception children are mixed with Year 1, so are fortunate enough to have some older role-models to help and guide them on their learning journey.

A finished rabbit

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A finished rabbit

2/18

A finished dog

3/18

A finished hedgehog

4/18

A finished parrot

5/18

A finished rabbit

6/18

Writing sentences

7/18

Counting amounts to 10.

8/18

Writing captions

9/18

Writing sentences

10/18

Sharing books with our families.

11/18

Using and naming 2D shapes to create pictures.

12/18

A rabbit

13/18

A rabbit

14/18

Creating clay models.

15/18

Squeezing, rolling and using joining techniques.

16/18

Using clay to make an animal.

17/18

Counting amounts to 10

18/18

Experimenting with fire strikers in Outdoor Schools

1/4

Success! We have a spark!

2/4

Supporting each other and wishing our friends success.

3/4

Celebrating each others successes!

4/4

Using a compass to find North, South, East and West.

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Finding the compass points on the school field.

2/6

Where is North?

3/6

Creating our own maps of our journey to school.

4/6

Drawing our own map of the UK.

5/6

Noticing bulbs are growing.

6/6

Meeting members of the community when sharing old toys, during our Community Tea

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Inviting the members of the community in to share their toys.

2/8

Sharing old toys with members of the community.

3/8

Woodwork faces to help us build up our fine motor skills.

4/8

Making woodwork faces and naming the parts of out faces.

5/8

Outdoor schools - creating faces using clay and natural resources.

6/8

Visiting our local church to watch our baby Emily get baptised.

7/8

Baptising baby Emily in the font.

8/8

Spring 2

I wonder how it grows...

This open ended topic, will take us on adventures into our local environment, learning about a famous plant hunter called George Forrest, who worked at Caerhayes Castle. The children will explore sources of evidence that will help them answer questions about who George Forrest was and why he was famous. This topic may lead the children to think about where they have been on journeys and what features they have seen on their journeys in the locality and beyond. They will use their own experiences to begin thinking about how he travelled the world in the past. The children will be learning about the plants, naming parts of a plant and investigating how they grow. They will observe the work of Van Gogh and experiment with colour mixing when recreating his Sunflowers painting . The children will continue to support their fine motor skills development by carrying out woodwork projects.

Developing our fine motor skills when hammering golf tees into pumpkins.

1/4

Building confidence when talking to new adults.

2/4

Comparing baby photos with our friends in the community.

3/4

Visiting the Memory Cafe in the village.

4/4

Number - White Rose Maths

Reception (EYFS)

Spring 1

Alive in 5 – 2 weeks

Growing 6,7,8 – 3 weeks

Building 9 and 10 – 1 weeks

Spring 2

Building 9 and 10 – 2 weeks

Length, Height and time– 2 weeks

Mass and capacity – 1 weeks

How many now? – 1 week

Consolidation

Each day, we will talk about the date and temperature. The children will begin applying our understanding for numbers to identify whether the date/ temperature more or less than the previous day. They will pay for their fruit each starting at 1p initially.

Year 1

Spring 1

Place Value – 3 weeks

Addition and Subtraction – 3 weeks

Spring 2

Addition and Subtraction – 3 weeks

Place Value – 2 weeks

Length and Height – 2 weeks

Mass and Volume – 2 weeks

Early Reading and Writing

Reception

The children will continue learning their Set 1 and Set 2 sounds. We will be focusing on continuing to develop our fine motor skills to support letter formations when writing labels, captions and sentences.

Year 1

Children will continue in their RWI groups each day and use their knowledge of Set 2 and 3 sounds to develop their reading and writing. They will apply and develop these skills when writing in sentences independently building a knowledge for writing in different genres, as well as continuing to develop an understanding for adjectives and verbs. The children will begin to understand similes and conjunctions in their writing.

Novel Study/ Drawing Club

Being a 'Novel Study School', we will develop a love of books through Drawing Club. We hope this will allow the children to develop a love for familiar texts and develop using a range of new exciting vocabulary, as well as beginning to apply their phonics skills taught in RWI. Children will be continue the 'joy' of writing through carefully chosen books/ animations that will enhance and develop their vocabulary during each 1 week focus. The books chosen for Drawing Club will also be carefully selected to allow the children follow their interests whilst exploring themes such as; healthy relationships, cultures and the wider world.

Children will continue to choose their favourite story (choice of 2 books a day) at the beginning of each day, which we will listen to before lunch. We will also listen to 3 other stories from our familiar text pallet, during the day, to again develop a love for familiar books and enjoy more new exciting vocabulary as well as embedding the British Value: Democracy

We will continue to visit the school library once a week, so the children can carry on making independent selections for the pictures books they wish to take home and share with an adult.

Sharing achievements

Seesaw - We use Seesaw to communicate and share amazing moments in class, but you can also use this to send us 'WOW' moments from home too!

Homework - Starfish Class

With an adult

Reception

Sharing a library book with an adult

Reading and writing red 'tricky' words

Watch RWI videos sent from the Virtual Classroom

Reading our RWI books 4 times a week at home

Year 1

Reading and writing red 'tricky' words

Reading RWI books 5 times a week at home

Practicing weekly spellings

Completing Maths homework (Hand in on Wednesday for marking)

Independently

Dressing and Undressing

Putting on and doing up our coats

Putting our shoes on the correct feet

Using cutlery to eat out dinner independently

Cleaning our teeth

Asking for help when we need it