SLC - Ash

Welcome to Year SLC - Ash

Our teachers are Mrs Cranley and Mrs Cramp and our teaching assistants are Mrs Thornewill and Ms Clayton.  

We sometimes work with Mrs Coulthard or Mrs Cramp from Holly class. 
 

There are 6 full time children in our class at present - 2 girls and 4 boys!

Please visit our topic pages to see our learning week-by-week.

Class Codes

• Keep your hands and feet to yourself.
• Respect everyone and everything.
• Be a good listener and try your best.
• Be proud to be in the Victoria team.
• Show good manners.

Our topics for 2015/2016 were (in chronological order):

Cued Articulation

We use this to help children learn how to form  the correct mouth shapes to make sounds correctly. It was originally developed for use with deaf people who had undergone a cochlear implant, and were learning to speak. The actions relate to where and how each sound is made. For example, if a sound is voiced, it uses 2 fingers, whereas an unvoiced sound uses 2. Many sounds are paired because you use the same movement but the sound is voiced/unvoiced - e.g. t/d are made the same way, as are s/z, c/g, f/v. We have found that using these cues instead of actions from a scheme like Jolly Phonics helps us to make Phonics multi-sensory, and work on speech sounds at the same time. The action can help the child to remember the letter (or group of letters) and its associated sound.

Working with your child at home

We will send home a reading book daily and spellings weekly, as appropriate. We read with the children 4 times a week 1:1 in class and would like you to do at least the same at home.    All children at Victoria Community School also have a homework book.  Homework will be given on a Tuesday and returned to school on a Monday.  Children will receive one numeracy and one literacy homework each week, appropriate to their level of development.  Children who cannot complete their homework at home can complete it instead of joining the play session on a Friday.

If homework is not completed and returned, children will be expected to miss some of their play session to complete it.

Please help your child by:  reading and understanding what their homework tasks are, reminding them to undertake these tasks, helping them where necessary, and providing a place to work (on a table if at all possible) and appropriate writing materials (at their stage of learning, a pencil is easier to control than a biro, and we discourage the use of felt tips in homework books). Many thanks.

Please visit our Topic pages (links at the pencils above) to find out what we've been learning about, places we've visited, and visitors we've had during each topic this year.

Our current topic is Homes.

Have you seen the Kids' Zone? Play games, and visit some cool websites. You can vote for your favourites!