Yellow Class 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Yellow Class!

A very warm welcome to Yellow Class. I hope you have all had a lovely summer.

We have such an exciting year planned and can not wait to get started. Our first topic of the year is ‘Discoverers’. We start our topic by focusing on our local area where Sunny the Meerkat helps us to discover the area around our school. Then we whisk away on an around the world adventure with a specific focus on Kenya in Africa. We will learn about continents and oceans in Geography and animals and their habitats in Science.

Staff

The staff in Yellow Class are: Mrs Swallow, Miss Butler and Mrs Vann (on a Thursday afternoon).

Reading

At the beginning of the year children will continue to read Little Wandle books. As the children progress they will exit the Little Wandle program and move on to coloured book banded books. 

Reading is such a vital part of your child’s learning so please continue to read at home with the children, 10 minutes a day really does make a huge difference. Please write in your child’s diary so that we know they have read and then they will move along our new, Meerkat inspired, reading stars! If the children read 5 times in a week they will get a sticker on a bookmark.

Spellings

Spelling rules and patterns are taught on a daily basis in Yellow Class.

Homework

There is no set homework, however on my weekly email I will encourage children to read regularly and take part in online maths games.  

PE and outdoor learning

PE will be on a Friday. Children will need to come to school in PE kits every Friday. If we are doing outdoor learning – I will text/ email to let you know in advance. Waterproofs and wellies can be kept in school – they are useful to have in school so we can still get outside even on wet days. Please name everything!

Snacks

Please send snack in a SMALL container or just with your child’s name on. Remember we are a Nut Free school.

If you have any queries/ questions then please see me on the gate, email me or ring school and I will do my best to help dswallow@peartreeprimary.co.uk

Finally, I am so lucky to be working with your children this year. I know the year will be filled with learning, adventures, laughter and lots of fun!

Kind regards,

Debbie Swallow

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