Welcome to Marazion Class
2024-2025
Teacher
Sarah Allen
(sallen@stithians.cornwall.sch.uk)
Support Staff
Kate Manley
Every morning + Thursday afternoon
Welcome
Marazion class is taught by Mrs Allen and supported every morning by our teaching assistant, Katey Manley. In Marazion, we follow the National Curriculum but also try to incorporate a continuous provision approach to encourage the children to learn through play. We have a lovely reading area, role-play area, computer area and tuff tray zones which are always accessible to the children.
A typical day in Marazion looks like:
- Registration
- Literacy
- Maths
- Break time
- Phonics
- Lunch time
- Guided Reading
- Topic (session 1)
- Afternoon movement break
- Topic (session 2)
Autumn Term 1
Our topic this term is... MARVELLOUS ME
Year One Curriculum Overview
If you are interested in reading the Year One curriculum overview, please click here.
This year 1 National Curriculum Checklist acts as a handy overview and guide to what children will be learning in Year 1.
The checklist gives you an idea of the outcomes expected of children by the end of year 1 for all subjects covered in the National Curriculum.
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Newsletters & Topic Webs
Please click on the links to view the files.
Newsletters
Topic Web
PROVISION IN MARAZION
Moving from EYFS to Year One may seem daunting, but we have created an environment where children have a tidy and engaging environment where they can learn through play. Please view our picture gallery below.
In Marazion, we aim to provide a classroom that has continuous and enhanced provision.
Our Continuous Provision:
In Marazion, the children can access all our resources in the classroom. We have the following areas in place:
- Phonics area (drawers full of phonics resources, sound cards, etc.)
- Maths area (access to all maths equipment)
- Reading area (reading pod and book stand)
- Writing area (access to pens, pencils, whiteboards, writing tablets, etc, handwriting activities)
- Fine motor skills area (threading activities, buzzer games, tweezer games)
- Creative area (access to glue, scissors, plain and coloured paper, playdough, colour mixing paint area)
- Computing (free access to laptops, the class iPad to play games and scan QR codes)
▪️The resources within these areas remain in place all term/year.
Our Enhanced Provision:
- Themed tuff trays
- Book vote (each child has a named token, and they can vote on which book they want to hear at the end of the day. The book with the most votes wins.
- A role-play area (the theme changes half-termly)
- Challenges in the reading, writing, maths and phonics areas for the children to complete
▪️The enhanced provision areas are changed regularly.
Our Outdoor Environment:
Just off the back of our classroom, we have a small outdoor area, which includes a shed. I am due to inherit the shed and plan to transform it into another usable space for the children.
Photos from our classroom
Here are some recent photographs from our classroom:
Phonics at School
At Stithians CP School we follow the Bugs Club Phonics scheme.
Supporting Phonics at Home
The following three videos show the correct pronunciation for all the letter sounds in phases 2, 3, and 5.
If you would like further advice, about how you can help your child with their phonics at home, then please pop in to see me.
Autumn Term 2024 Blog
18th October 2024
11th October 2024
4th October 2024
This week in Marazion, we introduced a new maths resource called the rekenrek, which functions similarly to an abacus. The children practised subitising up to five, using their ‘clever moving finger’ to move a specific number of beads at once. Seeing them actively engaging with the rekenreks and making interesting number observations was wonderful. For instance, one child noticed that the beads were grouped in sets of five by colour. In literacy, we focused on writing about our families, with the children drawing pictures and adding labels. We explored the sense of touch in science, and the children created sensory “feely” boards. Our history lessons delved into Victorian-era homes, and the children were fascinated to learn that people used outhouses or chamber pots instead of modern toilets. In design technology, we began planning model homes, which we will start building next week. During RE, we read the story of ‘The Lost Sheep,’ in computing, the second group of children had the opportunity to use Tux Paint.
27th September 2024
This week in literacy, we have focused on the text My Big Shouting Day by Rebecca Patterson. The book touches on themes of frustration, emotions, and learning how to deal with bad days. It's a humorous and light-hearted way to show that everyone has tough days, but they can get better with time and a little patience. The story is also a great way for children to learn about emotions and self-regulation. To reinforce this, the children created puppets to role-play different scenarios, acting out both happy and challenging situations. In maths, we have been finding one more and one less than a number and the children have continued their learning of the number bonds to five by presenting them in a bar model. In history, we’ve been learning about houses from various historical periods, exploring how they were built and designed. Tying into this, our Design Technology lessons focused on the interior features of homes. The children had fun creating miniature models of doors, tables, cupboards, curtains, and wallpaper. In computing, the first group of children explored a digital painting program called Tux Paint.
20th September 2024
This week in Marazion, we have been exploring the story ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anna Llenas. Through this engaging tale, we learned that each colour represents a different emotion. The children worked in small groups to role-play various emotions while their friends tried to guess which feeling they were portraying. We also got creative with playdough, sculpting our very own colour monsters. In maths, our focus was on numbers and ordinal numbers. We explored numbers 0-5, practising partitioning them into number bonds to 5. In science, we continued our exploration of the human body, focusing on our eyes and ears. The children researched the most common eye colour in Marazion and recorded their findings in a tally chart—blue turned out to be the most common! In history, we learned about the key external features of a house and labelled them together. Meanwhile, in design technology, the children experimented with different materials and tools to join objects together. They used sellotape, string, Blu-Tack, and glue to combine materials for junk modelling. In small groups, they then worked collaboratively to build model homes.
Pupil of the week: Addie
Virtue (Caring): Hugo
13th September 2024