The following pages contain information for each class at Wistanstow C of E Primary School
Spring Term 2025
WELCOME TO CLASS 1!
Children in Class 1 will be supported by Class Teacher Mrs Barrett and TAs Mrs Pinches,
Mrs Jones and Mrs Woodhouse.
Our PE session is on a Wednesday afternoon and children should come to school in
their PE kit. If your child is unable to tie their laces, please send them in velcro trainers.
Please ensure long hair is tied up and earrings are taken out or covered.
Children should bring a warm coat in the colder months, a waterproof coat in the wet weather and a sunhat if needed. Children should come to school wearing sun cream when necessary.
Please ensure your child brings a drink bottle every day.
Children in Class 1 will be supported by Class Teacher Mrs Barrett and TAs Mrs Pinches,
Mrs Jones and Mrs Woodhouse.
Our PE session is on a Wednesday afternoon and children should come to school in
their PE kit. If your child is unable to tie their laces, please send them in velcro trainers.
Please ensure long hair is tied up and earrings are taken out or covered.
Children should bring a warm coat in the colder months, a waterproof coat in the wet weather and a sunhat if needed. Children should come to school wearing sun cream when necessary.
Please ensure your child brings a drink bottle every day.
Click the link below for information on what we will be learning in Class 1 during the Spring Term 2025.
Class reward system
We use a star chart in our class alongside stickers to reward children for effort, kind
and helpful behaviour and doing their best. Achieving 10 stars results in a prize and 20 will result in a treat to be shared between them and 2 chosen friends.
We use a star chart in our class alongside stickers to reward children for effort, kind
and helpful behaviour and doing their best. Achieving 10 stars results in a prize and 20 will result in a treat to be shared between them and 2 chosen friends.
READING & PHONICS
Reading is fundamental to children achieving well further up the school so to this end we encourage children to practise their sounds and read their books daily for between 5 and 10 minutes. Once they have read the book three times (early readers up to approx. blue level) We will send a new reading book home with your child (usually Thursday). The book should be well pitched so that they can read almost all the words by sounding them, out then blending but it is fine to tell them a word if they are stuck. Please always get children to re-read sentence once they have sounded out the words. Reading diaries are for recording what they have read at home (school books or their own) and in school. They need to be brought in every day as we aim to read with our children several times a week, some daily.
Reading is fundamental to children achieving well further up the school so to this end we encourage children to practise their sounds and read their books daily for between 5 and 10 minutes. Once they have read the book three times (early readers up to approx. blue level) We will send a new reading book home with your child (usually Thursday). The book should be well pitched so that they can read almost all the words by sounding them, out then blending but it is fine to tell them a word if they are stuck. Please always get children to re-read sentence once they have sounded out the words. Reading diaries are for recording what they have read at home (school books or their own) and in school. They need to be brought in every day as we aim to read with our children several times a week, some daily.
Click the link below for more information on our phonics scheme Bug Club Phonics and how we use it in Class 1 to learn to read. To hear how we pronounce each letter or sound when teaching, please watch the video below.
KIRFS
At Wistanstow, we take part in a new KIRFs activity every half term to build up our mathematic skills. We do this activity 3 times over the half term and try to improve our score each time. Children will be sent home with a homework activity at the start of each half term that will help them with this. They may need help from an adult to read and have a go at them. More information about this is below.
Please don’t hesitate to ask for any further information or advice. We look forward to another fantastic term in Class 1!
Spring Term 2025