Wagtail - YR/1

Welcome to Wagtail Class!

We are class of children from FS2 (Reception) and Year 1 (Key Stage One). You will find us in the room known as the Nest. 

Our teachers are Mrs Wilson and Mrs Busson and our teaching assistants are Mrs Fielding and Miss Anderson. We may also work with Miss Howlin, the Robin class teacher as we share our outdoor learning area with Swift class. Teachers planning time is on Thursday afternoons and the children have PE or Forest Schools.  

If you have any queries you can email the teachers on

FPSwagtail@palladianacademytrust.com   

Mrs Laura Wilson, Assistant Head & Wagtail Teacher

Mrs Karen Busson, SENCo & Wagtail Teacher

Mrs Julie Fielding, Teaching Assistant

General Class Information

In Foundation we are taught through whole class sessions, such as Little Wandle Phonics and Numbersense Maths, and then practise, develop and extend our learning through high quality play experiences. Please come to our Fitz Playdates to learn more about your child's education in the Foundation Stage and discover how you can support your child's learning. Please see the link to the workshop presentations below for more details.

This page will continue to be updated throughout the course of the year. 

In Year One we have seperate lessons for each subject. We follow Little wandle for phonics, Numbersense and NCETM for maths. 

Our core aim as educators is to get your children reading and become confident writers and mathematicians. Please read to your children and with your children as often as possible. Regular practise with their phonic reading book is a key expectation of learning at home but it is also really important for you to read to your children - that bedtime story is growing their vocabulary and understanding!  Regular counting will support their maths and opportunities to write at home are always beneficial. However remember they have had busy days at school - so if you can only fit on one thing before they are too tired, please read!

Reading books

We change reading books every Tuesday and Friday, this gives you opportunity to read and re-read your book three times. We also send home Reading for Pleasure texts; we ask that these are returned every Thursday please.

Rewards 

We reward your children using positive praise, marbles and tokens home. The marbles the children earn feed into a jar and when this is full we have a whole class treat- this is often things like extra playtime, extra time on the pirate ship play equipment or a dance session. 

Term 2 

We have had so much fun in Wagtail this term! We explored Forest School for clues and discovered the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have enjoyed telling the story using our bear voices! We have made so much progress in our reading and are beginning to spell simple words. Reception have explored numbers to 5 and have enjoyed finding all the different ways to arrange 5 objects. We have been amazing at performing our Nativity play. We have loved exploring our understanding of the world in our outdoor area, including creating roadworks when a hole in the road appeared (more Bradford traffic chaos!) Year 1s have also had a very exciting term.  The children chose their favourite animals after reading ‘The Most Important Animal of all.’  This led to some wonderful writing and some even more amazing homework projects!  In Geography the children have been using maps to locate features of our local area, and they have even had a go at drawing their own map of the school grounds. The Key stage nativty was incredible and the children enjoyed singing and perfoming- we have been hearing the songs on the playground ever since!