Welcome to Mars Class! We would like to give you a huge welcome to the children and parents of Mars class. The children in our class are taught by  Mrs Pilkington and Miss Davies along with our  teaching assistants Miss Huyton, Miss Deacon and Miss Bromley.

We will be building on last year’s Year 1 and Year 2 experiences with a balance of whole class teaching, group work, independent learning and play based learning. We hope that as children reach the end of their journeys in Mars they will be equipped to start their next class year becoming more independent and resilient.

We are really lucky to have such a big classroom in Mars! We have lots of learning areas for the children to work independently including construction, craft, games, computing, fine motor skills and mark making. We will be using the outdoor space for our learning too and we have a brand new learning hub that we use for focused activities.

Our school day is very busy and jam-packed! It starts at 08:45am and finishes at 3.15pm. In the morning we usually focus on Phonics, Maths and Literacy and then in the afternoon other subjects such as PE, Computing, RE or Topic. We finish the day with our daily celebrations and a story.

We have PE each week on a Wednesday and a Friday. Please can all children have a full named PE kit in school every day. They will need black pumps, black PE shorts and a house coloured school PE T-shirt inside a named bag. Please can all jewellery be removed before school on PE days, thank you.

Reading is really important for your child both inside and outside of school. We hope that your child reads at least three times a week at home (everyday is even better) and get their reading record signed by an adult. 5 dojo points will be awarded for each time a child has read at home with it recorded in their reading record. Mars pupils will need to bring in their reading records every day along with their reading books. We will listen to your child read at least twice a week and we will also undertake guided reading sessions. There will be plenty of opportunity for children to read books that they love in class and we really encourage this at home too.