Swan Class
Welcome to the Swan Class Page! This is where you can find out about what we’ve been up to recently in Swan Class, read our newsletter and see some examples of our work.
Class Teacher:
Adrienne Wrigglesworth
Speech and Language Therapists:
Caylin Hall
Kayleigh Turner
Learning Support Assistants:
Willow Cruickshank
As part of our learning journey as a UNICEF Rights Respecting School, we agreed a class charter to help us to be the very best learners and globally-aware citizens that we can be.
After lots of discussion, we settled on Article 3 Best interests of the child as our umbrella right. Then we chose Article 12 Right to be heard, Article 29 Right to an education and Article 31 Right to relax and play.
Everyone in the class has signed up to our charter, making sure that everyone is doing their best to TALK, LEARN and GROW.
As part of our Super Skills learning we visit Addlestone library each month. Everyone chooses their books and then they have to return ones they have borrowed and issue the new ones independently – THINK FOR YOURSELF Swan Class!
It is so relaxing spending time with a good book and sharing our reading with our friends. We definitely recommend this as a way to help our wellbeing.
Swan Class are learning to think about current issues such as refugees settling in the UK from Afghanistan, gender stereotyping and children’s rights. We talked about how all children have equal rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This week we are learning to share other people’s opinions. We have learned that we need to listen really carefully to our friends’ ideas so that we can summarise them and retell them.
In Swan Class, we are working hard on our targets to develop our independence, become effective communicators and grow as responsible individuals. Our targets are taken from the Meath School Talk, Learn, Grow curriculum intent and help us to focus on ways in which we can build our resilience in our learning. We share these at the beginning of each learning session as part of our introduction including the WALT (We are Learning To) when we take it in turns to lead the class in Colour Words (see the Meath School specialist approaches).
We work together as a team in Swan Class and this helps us to earn Petrol Points:
Curriculum Map
Useful Links
We are learning to touch type using this website:
Log on and practise your skills and speed!
We use Snappy Maths.
This helps us to practice finding halves and quarters of shapes.
There are some great ideas linked to our library visits on the British Library website:
Visit the British Library website
We look at the CBBC Newsround webpage to find out what’s going on in the world:
This link supports families in helping your child to learn their times tables:
This is a great game to help with place value:
Visit the website and play the game
We use Talk to Frank to help us understand how to keep safe:
