Dolphins
Meet the Dolphins' Team
Teacher
Miss Kinsey (Monday & Tuesday)
Miss Tyson (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Teaching Assistants
Mrs Ann Duc- Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon PPA cover
Mrs Brigid Du Plessis Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
What does provision look like for those with additional needs in Dolphins class?
Outlined in the document below are the waves of provision we use to support children with additional needs. Support is tailored to each individual and provided as needed, with or without a diagnosis. Please talk to your child's class teacher if you have any concerns about your child, their needs or the provision in class. You can find further information on the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities page on our website. This is where you will find our vision for SEND pupils, and our SEND information report which outlines what we as a school can offer.

Class Information
PE Days
In Term 1, we have PE on a Tuesday afternoon and a Thursday afternoon.
Please ensure your child wear school uniform to school in the morning and has their PE kit in school for the term, so that they can change in school. Their PE kit should include the following items:
a yellow t-shirt
black shorts and black jogging bottoms or leggings
a jumper
plimsols or non-marking trainers
Woodland
Woodland sessions will now be termly. Our Woodland Day this half term is yet to be confirmed. The date will be added to Google Classroom and emailed to you by the office staff.
Please ensure your child wears appropriate clothing for the setting and the weather.
If it is raining, please ensure your child brings wellies into a plastic bag to change into after lunch.
Term 2: To improve is to change?
Through our rich text ‘The Wild Way Home’ by Sophie Kirtley, we will be stepping back in time to the Stone Age! We will be exploring this wonderful text in RIC, developing a range of reading skills, such as predicting, inferring, retrieving and summarising.
In English, we will use this text to inspire different styles of writing including a newspaper report, a balanced argument and a diary entry.
In the build up to these extended pieces of writing, we will revisit different types of sentences, as well learning how different sentence openers and conjunctions can enhance their writing.
We will also be revising how to punctuate adverbials and clause with commas and how to use inverted commas and other associated punctuation for dialogue.
Pupil planners need to be brought into school and handed in every morning
We will visit the library weekly on Wednesdays
PE days are Tuesday and Thursday
Mrs Duc will teach the class on Wednesday afternoons during the teachers' PPA
Term Key Dates
Odd Socks Day - Monday 13th November
Book Fair 14th-17th November
Firework Night - Friday 17th November
Parent Information Evening - Thursday 23rd November
Parent Forum -Thursday 30th November 8:45am
Christmas Dinner - Thursday 14th December
End of term - Friday 15th December
Inset Days 2023-24
Friday 1st September 2023
Monday 4th September 2023
Tuesday 5th September 2023
Friday 19th January 2024
Monday 15th April 2024
Term 2 Knowledge Organiser and Termly Overview



Homework
Homework is set every Friday on Google Classroom and will be due in the following Thursday. The homework folder can be found under the 'Classwork' tab.
Reading record - please record what you have read and how often you have read in the new home school planner. We encourage children to read at least five times a week either independently (aloud or in their head) or aloud with an adult.
Activities - there will be spellings to learn and timetables to practise.
Mangahigh - Children to login and complete the Manga High task set by your teacher. They should aim to complete the task three times. The children's logins can be found on their Google Classroom under 'Classwork'.
Nessy - Children with Nessy accounts should be accessing Nessy at home at least twice a week for 20 minutes.
Please do let the class teacher know if you require a paper copy.
We ask that you send in a photo of the work instead of a paper copy to reduce the number of items coming into school.
Websites to support your child at home
General
Reading
EPIC – eBooks: https://www.getepic.com/ (Our class code is on our Google Classroom under 'Classwork' --> 'Useful websites')
Maths
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