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Chilthorne Domer Church School
Together we Love, we Aim High and we Celebrate!
Ash Class
Welcome to Ash Class!
Our Class Teachers are Mrs Stradling and Mrs Carter.
Miss Dare supports our class throughout the week.
Ash Class is where our EYFS (Reception) children learn all about school life and enjoy exploring and playing. Mrs Carter teaches the beginning of the week and Mrs Stradling teaches the end of the week. We are very lucky to have the support of Miss Dare every day of the week!
During the Autumn term, we will be focusing on settling into school and making positive relationships with one another. This term is so important to create the foundations for our children to love school and develop skills for life.
As we develop and learn our school routine, we will begin to be immersed in our phonic lessons, learning Phase 2 phonemes ready to begin reading and writing!
In Maths, we will begin learning all about the numbers to 5 in different representations including Rekenreks, Ten Frames and Base 10.
Our focus this term during our afternoon sessions will be on Understanding the World, where we will learn all about ourselves now and in the past.
It is going to be so much fun!
Our PE days are on Tuesday and Wednesday during the Autumn Term. Our time to explore the Forest School area will also fall on one of these days.
Our Christian Values for this term are:
Autumn 1: Thankfulness
Autumn 2: Trust
Best wishes,
The Ash Class Team
Ash Class Autumn Term Curriculum Newsletter and Map
Ash Class 2024 - 2025
We have had the BEST year with so much fun! Take a look at our video and see which activities you think were our favourite moments. Now it's time for our children to turn into Year 1 and for new faces to arrive. We are already looking forward to watching everyone shine in 2025 - 2026!
Activities to help your child:
Useful Websites to Support Your Child's Learning at Home
Below are some of our favourite games in Ash Class. Please visit the sites to support your child's learning at home.
Topmarks: www.topmarks.co.uk
We use this website to support our learning with maths. It has lots of wonderful games and can direct you to lots of other websites within it as well.
Our favourite games to play are listed below.
Reception Children:
Underwater Counting
Children count the number of items in the ocean and select the matching numeral.
Caterpillar Ordering
Children can order numbers to 10, then 20 and work up to 100, through the different levels.
Place Value Basketball
This is where the children need to think about which number is being represented e.g. how many tend and how many ones. The children can start at the first level with numbers to 20 and then move up to numbers to 100 if they so wish.
Shape Pattern Train:
Children can complete repeating patterns - adding on the next shape.
Toy Shop Money:
Children should make amounts, counting in 1p coins.
Year 1 Children:
Place Value Basketball
This is where the children need to think about which number is being represented e.g. how many tens and how many ones. The children can start at the first level working to numbers to 20 and move up to numbers to 100.
Caterpillar Ordering:
The children can order their numbers to 100, placing the tiles in order. They can also sequence the numbers in 2s.
Shape Pattern Train:
Children should complete the repeating pattern, changing 1, 2 or 3 components at one time.
Toy Shop Money:
Children should make amounts using 1p coins, 2p coins, 5p coins and 10p coins.
Mental Maths Train:
Children can find the answer, following an addition and subtraction calculation.
Phonics Play: www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Reception Children: In class, we have been focusing on Phase 2,3 and 4 in our phonics sessions. We have also begun to look into split digraphs and alternative ways of writing a sound in Phase 5.
Year 1 Children: In class, we still revisit Phase 3 and 4 to help us consolidate our phonic knowledge, as well as playing the games for Phase 5 where our main learning takes place.
We use the free games in school and these are our favourite ones to help us develop our learning:
Buried Treasure
Picnic on Pluto
Dragon's Den
Pick a Picture
You will notice that some words are 'alien' (pseudo) words. These encourage the children to practise their phonic skills and ensure they have a secure understanding of them, rather than recognising them through sight. It is important that children are immersed with 'real' and 'pseudo' words.