Welcome to Oak Class!

Class Teachers: Miss. Roberts and Mr. Jones (Thursday)

Teaching Assistants: Mrs. Greaves (Mon - Thurs) and Mrs. Maloney Grant (Friday)

Welcome to all parents, carers and children joining Oak class this year!

Oak Class is a happy class of Reception children who love to learn, collaborate and develop our skills through fun and engaging activities. A lot of our learning takes place through child-led activities, which we observe alongside small adult-led activities, which build up as the year goes on!

Our school day begins from 08:40 - 08:50am and ends at 15:20pm. The drop off point in the morning is at the classroom door, children will be dropped off at the classroom door and collected from this door at the end of the day.

Children will be given a staggered start in September to ensure a smooth transition into school. Week 1 children will start at 08:40am and finish at 12:00pm, Week 2 children will start at 08:40am and have the optional finish time of 13:00pm - this must be prearranged with the teacher.

The collection point is the same and children will be brought out to you. Please inform the school office in the first instance if there is a change to collection at the end of the day or provide advance notice the day before via class dojo.

Reception Baseline Assessment.

Link for parental information: Information for parents: reception baseline assessment.

In the first 6 weeks of your child’s education journey, they will partake in the baseline assessment. This is nothing to worry about and will be conducted by Miss. Roberts and the purpose of the assessment is to provide the starting point for a progress measure that will help parents understand how well schools support their pupils to progress between reception and year 6.

The baseline assessment is a short, interactive and practical assessment of your child’s early literacy, communication, language and mathematics skills when they begin school.

We have a different theme each term and these are the focus of our learning. We will develop our knowledge and skills across all goals in the the Early Years Curriculum. We will develop our understanding of classroom rules and expectations, as well as actively supporting the Cotford St Luke visions (appreciate-believe-challenge) and the values (ready-respectful-safe).

We love to have fun in Oak Class, so please pack some labelled spare clothes in case we get a little bit mucky throughout the day! Please could you bring in a labelled pair of wellies and a puddle suit to keep in school - we are an all weather class and children will be outside at any opportunity. Also please remember to bring a named water bottle so your child is able to drink plenty of water throughout the day.

Class Dojo

Regular updates are posted on our class dojo page - we aim to share information and pictures from the learning activities we have got up to during our day, so please get connected and check your child’s class page if you are able to! Parents and carers are encouraged to contact Miss. Roberts via class dojo, should they require advice or an opportunity to discuss their child.

We will be reading a lot of books in Oak class! Each term we will focus on one author, exploring lots of stories that they have written as a class. As well as this, children will get a story read to them each day this will either be chosen by the teaching team or as a whole class vote. Children will also have access to the reading area throughout the day, which features a range of different books!

In our maths sessions, we will use the White Rose Maths programmes of learning support and build on our maths skills! Exploring a range of different topics, including recognising numbers, number patterns, shape and measure.

This year we will start our Monster Phonics learning! Click on the link below for more information.

Monster Phonics : Monster Phonics Tips For Parents | Monster Phonics

In Monster Phonics, we will become familiar with the different monsters who will help us recognise the different sounds we are learning. We are looking forward to starting this programme and seeing the progress your children make.

2025 - 2026 Oak Class Curriculum map.

We follow a theme for the term, however this could change as we follow your children’s interests and involve them into our learning! Please see the document below to see what kind of activities your child will get up to in Oak Class:

Parental Involvement

In Oak class we would love for Parents/Carers to be involved as much as possible and want you to be a part of your child's education, after all you know them best!

Reading:

We are going to be sending home reading books when the children are in full time. They will be getting two books, which will be picture books to begin with as being able to tell a story using pictures is a very important skill. We will then be moving onto books with known sounds in them - you will receive more information on this prior to your children receiving these books. These books will come home on a Monday in their book bag, please could you return the following Monday to be changed. It is so important for you to read with your children at home!

P.E.

Oak class have their PE sessions on a Monday and Thursday afternoon. Please could they come in their PE kit on this day.

On Monday afternoons, PE will be taught by Miss. Roberts and Thursday’s session will be taught by Mr. Jones.

Uniform:

Please ensure that all of your child's uniform is labelled. We understand it can be frustrating to lose uniform items, so please ensure all uniform is labelled with your child's name so it can always be kept with them.

Spare Clothes:

Accidents happen! Please could you send your child in with a labelled spare set of clothes in their bag and a spare set of clothes in a labelled bag that is able to stay on their peg, these are to include pants and socks.

Getting in Contact:

If you have issues, questions or just want to share your child’s achievements, please get in contact via Class Dojo, Miss. Roberts will be available until 16:30, Monday to Friday. If you are able to get connected, please do!

Please click here to find out more about what we teach in each subject.  The links at the bottom of the ‘Curriculum’ page will tell you all you could wish to know.