A very warm welcome to you all, especially those that are new to our Walton family. Our class page is where you will find all of the up to date information about Hedgehog class - routines, reminders, class topic, home learning etc. 

This page is updated regularly so don't forget to check back frequently! Mrs Toft is the class teacher. Mrs Redford, Mrs Branton and Mrs Western support in hedgehogs class. 

Follow our school Twitter page for daily posts and updates from the classroom!

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Do cows drink milk? What are baby pigs called? We will be exploring these questions, and more, in this project about life on the farm and the animals that live there.

Science - Our Body/ Animals including humans – About me

PSHE - Being me in my world

Computing - Exploring Mini-Mash/ Privacy and Security/Online Relationships

History - Farming in history

Geography - Food from around the world

Art/DT - Fruit and vegetable printing/Steven Brown/Seed instruments

Important Information

Spellings

The children are all given spellings to practice on a weekly basis - Reception x5, Year 1 x10 (Reception will not receive these for the first few weeks of  the Autumn term). Please support your child to do this in a variety of fun and exciting ways.

The children will be sent home with their spellings for the term during the first week for your reference and will be uploaded to Spelling Shed.

We use the website ‘Spelling Shed’ to support the practice of spellings and they are updated every Friday. To ensure everyone has access to Spelling Shed, I will be resetting all login details and these will be sent home with your children in the first few weeks. Tests will be held on a Friday.

If you have any questions or an issue with Spelling Shed please do not hesitate to get in touch. 

Reading

At Walton, we use Rainbow Readers as a reading reward scheme, to support with reading at home. Reading is such a vital skill for life, and one that is essential for accessing the curriculum further up the school. We are a book loving school, and really hope are children will become passionate and avid readers too! Each time your child reads 25 times at home, they get a different coloured badge. 200 reads gives the children a highly coveted gold badge. We count a maximum of 7 home reads each week - so, even though you may read more often, you only need to do a daily summary in the record book. 

We ask that children are read with at least 5 times a week at home, but ideally each day. This can take many forms and doesn't need to always be 'school books' - books from home, magazines, e-readers, audiobooks, even cookery books all make interesting ways to access a wide range of vocabulary. If your child is a reluctant reader at home, do let us know - we have lots of strategies to support with this. 

PE

PE takes place on a Tuesday and Friday afternoon. Please send your child to school dressed in their PE kit, including a warm tracksuit top for outdoors. If your child has their ears pierced, please ensure your child can take out and put in their earrings independently.

Wild Wednesday

Wild Wednesday takes place every Wednesday and we will be outdoors in all weathers. Please make sure your children have appropriate clothing (see the forest school page for more information). 

Children are to come into school wearing their forest school clothes, with their school clothes in a clearly named bag to change into when we are finished.

Outdoor learning

At Walton we love learning outdoors. Please provide your child with a named pair of wellies to keep in school at all times. This means that we can take learning outdoors whenever we can!