Welcome to Seacole Class

We hope you all had a wonderful summer break and you are ready for the new academic year!

Our Teachers are Mrs Grier (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Lowdon (Thursday and Friday). Seacole’s Learning Support Assistant is Mrs Buttigieg. 

During the autumn term, we focus on transition and take a continuous provision approach to learning. This means that the children have an input on the carpet as a class and then they will be working in small groups with a teacher or exploring resources to enhance play and learning skills.

We have a fun packed curriculum for the autumn term. We will start with a History unit called Toys, then and now. We will be exploring lots of toys from different eras and making special timelines. In Geography, we will be learning all about where will live, by exploring our local area.

You can see what your child will be learning in each subject throughout term via our curriculum map below. 

Please ensure zippy wallets come into school with the children every day.

Monday – Spelling test and book changing day (reading practice book and reading for pleasure book)

Wednesday – Outdoor games day. Children must come to school dressed in their kits. If the weather is cold please send in school jumper or cardigan to wear and tracksuit bottoms rather than shorts.

Wednesday - Spellings set and homework set on Google Classrooms 

Timetable and a normal day in our class

Here is a timetable of a day in Seacole class. Please note that occasionally this will be different. 

We follow God Matters in Religious Education (the Portsmouth Diocese scheme of learning). The children learn two hours and 15 minutes of RE per week in KS1 and are involved in Collective Worship. 

Things that help us learn

We have established the use of Google Classroom as our online learning platform in Key Stage 1. We also use a My Maths, which will be used as weekly homework. We follow Little Wandle as our phonics programme. A reading book (Big Cat for Little Wandle) is sent home on a weekly basis which will be pitched at your child’s current phonic ability and at a level they can decode and comprehend at a 95% accuracy. They will also take home a reading for pleasure book, which they will select from the school library. Weekly spellings are sent home to consolidate the phonetic sounds the children have been learning that week.  

Our Curriculum Web

Take a look at our curriculum webs to view what the children will be learning throughout the year.

Trips

This year we will be organising many exciting school based enhancement activities. Our first trip of the year will be to the Milestones museum. We welcome parent helpers!

If you have any questions or there is anything urgent that you think I need to know, please contact the School Office either by phone at 01252 548123 or by email at                                      adminoffice@st-bernadettes.hants.sch.uk