Dosbarth Fagan
Croeso | Dosbarth Fagan | Year 1/2

Classroom Routines and Timetables

Class Teacher: Miss F Stephenson

Class LSA: Mrs L Tonge

Our Christian values for this term are thankfulness and for autumn 2 is peace. Please provide opportunities to discuss these values at home.

Our Christian value for this term is Friendship and for Autumn 2 it is thoughtfulness. Please provide opportunities to discuss these values at home.

8.45 - Children arrive and settle down to complete their Morning Activity / Register and appoint Helpwr Heddiw

9.10 – 9.25 Collective Worship

9.25 – 10.30 Read Write Ink, Literacy, Languages & Communication along side continuous and enhanced provision

10.30 – 10.45 Snack / Break Time

10.45 – 11.55 Mathematics & Numeracy along side continuous and enhanced provision

11.55 – 12.55 Lunch

12.55 – 1.25 Guided Group Reading

1.25 – 3.00 Inquiry learning/RE/Welsh

3.00 - Whole class activity- story and song time

3.30 - Home Time

Note: Please could you ensure that all jumpers, cardigans, snack pots and water bottles are clearly labelled with your child's name in order to prevent any being misplaced. Thank you.

Curriculum Newsletter

Curriculum newsletters are shared at the beginning of every term. These are available here on our class page and links are shared on ParentMail. Please click on the button below to read our latest class curriculum newsletter.

Autumn Term 2024 - Coming Soon

Home Learning

Weekly homework – A numeracy or literacy activity will be alternated each week. This will usually be based on something we have learned that week in class and can be linked to our inquiry theme work. It will be set on a Friday and will be due in on Wednesday. This will be uploaded onto Google Classroom as an assignment. Please submit (hand in) via Google Classroom.
Termly homework – We have provided a grid of activities linked to our inquiry which promote a range of skills and cover additional areas of the curriculum such as expressive arts and health and wellbeing. This can be found both on the website and Google Classroom. We ask that children choose at least one activity to complete by the end of each term and this will be presented to the class to celebrate the great home learning that is taking place.
Daily reading (10 minutes a day)- Your child will come home with a new reading book each week. Please can you ensure that the reading book is in school every day if possible as we will also read with your child individually once a week in class.

Aims for your child..

To encourage a love of reading,
To develop fluency and independence,
To develop comprehension and understanding,
To explore a range of different texts.

Reading Tips:

Before Reading: If it is the first time your child has read the book, look at the cover and title with them to predict what they think the book might be about. Make links to other books read with similar themes, the same characters and/or similar authors/illustrators.

During Reading: Ask your child questions about the characters in the book as you read the story

• Has your child use his/her finger to follow the direction of the text (top to bottom, left to right)?

• Has your child looked at the sentences and see if they can identify any of the sounds in the words or any of the high frequency words they have learnt?

• Discuss the meaning of any unfamiliar words.

After Reading: Discuss with your child what they liked/disliked about the story

• Can your child think of another title for the book and why?

• Did the story have a sad or happy ending? Can your child think of a different ending for the story?

• Can your child think of another character which he/she might want to add to the story and why?

• With richer picture books, you can ask, ‘what was the big idea of the story?’

Key Dates

January 2025

Monday 6th January – Children return to school

Monday 6th January - Values Day

31st January - INSET Day School Closed to Pupils

February

WC Monday 3rd February - Chinese New Year Celebration PS1&2

Monday 3rd February - Children’s Mental Health Awareness week

Thursday 13th February – Valentine Disco (Years R/1 and 2) 3.30-4.30pm, (Years 3/4/5/ and 6) 4.45 - 5.45pm

Friday 14th February – Year 3/4 Family worship 9.15am

Tuesday 18th February - Whole School sikhism Celebration Day

Friday 21st February – Last day of term

24th – 28th February – Half Term

March

Monday 3rd March - Return to school

Thursday 6th March – World Book Day (Dress Code TBC)

Friday 7th March - Collaborative Eisteddfod Celebration

Monday 10th March – 14th March - STEM week

Wednesday 12th March - iSingPop Workshop (Years 4&5 pupils only)

Friday 21st March - iSingPop Performance at St. Mellons CiW Primary School (2pm &. 6pm)

April

Monday 7th April - Friday 11th April – Cycle Proficiency Year 6

Monday 7th April & Tuesday 8th April – Parents Evening 3.30-5.30pm

WC: Monday 7th April – Easter Celebration Week

Friday 11th April - Year 2 Family Worship 9.30am

Friday 11th April - End of Term

Easter Holidays – 14th April - 25th April

Rights Respecting School

All Saints' C/W Primary School is proud to be a Rights Respecting School, which means we are a community where children's rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.

This term we will be focusing on the following Articles from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as part of our Right of the Month.

January

Article 6

The right to life and to be healthy

February

Article 2

All children have rights

March

Article 7

The right to a name and a nationality

April

Article 24