Miss Hirst – Corrie Primary & Nursery School

Welcome to Boost group!

9th September 2026 by Miss Hirst

Welcome to Boost group!

Children who attend our ‘Boost group’ have been identified as needing an extra ‘boost’ with their learning.

Each morning, each child will work to develop their speaking and listening, reading, writing and maths skills.

Here you will find further information about what your child in Boost Group will be learning in other areas of the curriculum, along with other useful information.

Autumn Curriculum

Topic: Our Local Area

This term the children will begin to recognise both human and physical geographical features of our local area.

Science: Animals

In the animals unit children will learn about types of animals and will group and classify living things.

PHSE: JIGSAW : Being in my world

Our school follows a scheme called Jigsaw and this term Boost group children will complete a unit called ‘Being in my world’.

RE:

In RE the children will be looking at: Which people are special and why?

PE: Basketball (also swimming for year 4 children)

The children will continue to have the sports coach working with them on a Thursday afternoon. This half term, the children will develop their skills for the game of basketball.

Please ensure your correct and full PE kit is in school all week as PE days may change to accommodate other activities taking place in school.

Year 4 children, will join their peers and attend swimming lessons on a Monday afternoon. Please make sure the children have appropriate swimming kits and towels in a bag. Children with long hair also need a swimming cap.

Music:

Music this half term will be using the Charanga scheme, Anyone can play.

Computing: Computing systems and networks

This term the children will explore what is IT, how it is used in and out of school and about using IT safely.

Forest School

Children in Boost Group have the fantastic opportunity to take part in Forest Schooling each Friday. We venture out in all sorts of weather conditions and therefore children should have waterproof and warm clothing and sturdy footwear.

Other Support

To help support each child’s individual needs, children may take part in other activities to support their needs. These may include Zones of Regulation, speech and language, motor skills, lego therapy, social skills, memory skills or support with specific life skills.

Home Reading:

We ask that you read with your child as often as possible and sign their reading record a minimum of twice weekly in line with school policy. We will check reading records and change reading books every Thursday. We monitor reading, homework and PE kits as part of our Assertive Mentoring Scheme.

Homework

Homework will be issued each Thursday and should be completed each week and handed in by the following Tuesday to achieve GREEN for Homework in Assertive Mentoring. If it is handed it in on Wednesday or Thursday you will achieve YELLOW. If you don’t hand your homework in you will be RED for that week.

Other important information:

Please ensure your child’s name is clearly written in all your school uniform.

Children have a login for Active Learn, Readingeggs, Spellingshed and Times Table Rockstars. Each of these will help support your child’s learning and can be used at home. Please ask an adult if you lose or forget your login.

KEEP IN TOUCH!

Parents & Carers are always very welcome to call in to discuss any aspect of their child’s learning, any other area of their school life or just to say ‘hello’.

If there is anything you need, or any help we can give you with anything, please let me know by either messaging on Google Classroom or speaking to us.

We are available after school, except on Wednesdays because that’s when we have our Staff Meeting. If a matter is urgent, you can always speak to an adult in the morning.

Thank you for your continued support.

Boost Group Team

Mrs Appleton-Jones, Miss Place, Miss Newton, Miss Turner, Miss Inocencion, Miss Atkinson and Mrs Farrington

Welcome to Year 3!

6th September 2026 by Miss Hirst

We are looking forward to a busy and exciting year ahead. We look forward to seeing the children embrace new challenges, develop their independence and grow in confidence, curiosity and resilience.

English

Our writing this half term will be inspired by The Iron Man by Ted Hughes which follows a giant metal man who arrives mysteriously, wreaks havoc by eating farm machinery, and eventually saves the Earth from an alien dragon. We will use this story to create our own narrative and also an explanation text. The children will focus on daily sentence accuracy and apply a range of grammatical skills in their writing.

Reading

We will have daily whole class reading sessions in Year 3 and our first class text is Bill’s New Frock by Ann Fine. It tells the story of Bill Simpson, who wakes up one morning to find he has transformed into a girl. Now forced to go to school in a pink dress, Bill discovers one of the worst days in his life is about to unfold.

Maths

We are starting the year with the ‘Place Value’ unit in Power Maths, then moving onto addition and subtraction, partitioning numbers, comparing numbers and adding numbers on a number line.

We will be continuing to work on our times table knowledge and times table rockstars will really help to support this.

Science

This half term our science unit is ‘Animals including Humans’. We will be learning about the links between animals and humans. We be exploring vertebrates and invertebrates, looking at the function of muscles in the human body and learning about a balanced diet.

Topic

Our topic this half term is ‘The Stone Age to Iron Age’, we will be learning all about this period of time and life in the Stone Age. We will develop our historical skills by exploring artefacts such as cave paintings to infer what like was like in this time period. There will also be an exciting Stone Age Workshop, with lots of artefacts and information for us to enjoy.

Jigsaw

Our first Puzzle is called Being Me In My World. We will be discussing how we learn, how we can help others and our school community.

PE will be Wednesday and every other Tuesday.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PE KIT. This should include a plain white t-shirt or Corrie t-shirt, plain black shorts or leggings and black pumps.

FOREST SCHOOL

We are very excited to be continuing our Forest School sessions this year. Forest School will take place every other Thursday.

The sessions will begin as follows:

Thursday 10th September – 3M
Thursday 17th September – 3B

The classes will then continue to alternate each Thursday.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR FOREST SCHOOL CLOTHES. This needs to be suitable clothing and footwear for wet, muddy activities.

HOMEWORK

We will continue to have a creative approach to our homework this term. You will be given Maths and Spelling homework each week as well as being able to choose from a range of creative activities in Topic.

Homework is given out on Friday and is due in the following Wednesday.

We read in class every day, so make sure you always have your Reading Log in school.

Please make sure you also read twice each week at home and ask an adult to sign your Reading Log for you.

We will check your Reading Log every WEDNESDAY to see that you have read at home, so please don’t forget!!

We’re really excited for this term, and we’re sure it’s going to be a great one!
Mrs Millard & Mr Brown

Welcome to Corrie!

4th September 2026 by Miss Hirst

Welcome to Corrie!

Everyone in the Reception Team are incredibly excited to see you all again and to start a wonderful year off together.

The Reception team would like to welcome you to our year group page.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

What does your child need for Reception?

A school uniform and shoes
A water bottle
A coat
A pair of wellies
A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

What learning will your child be exploring this half term?

This half term the focus is developing the children’s social and emotional development.

This involves helping children to develop a sense of seeing themselves as a valuable individual, build constructive and respectful relationships, express their feelings and consider the feelings of others, regulate behaviour accordingly, work and play cooperatively and take turns with others, give focused attention to what the teacher says.

The Topic this term is Me in My World!

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring numbers to 5, comparing groups within 5, exploring 2D and 3D shapes, change within 5, number bonds within 5 and space.

Literacy

This half term we will be exploring a variety of texts;

The Something by Rebecca Cobb
The Colour Monster Goes to School by Anna Llenas
What Makes me a Me? by Ben Faulks and David Tazzyman
Five Minutes Peace by Jill Murphy
In Every House on Every Street by Jess Hitchman
Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
After the Storm by Nick Butterworth
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
My First Heroes: Black History by Campbell Books

Click some of the Youtube links at the bottom of this post to listen to them!

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be,

Happy Hand Washing Song
Five Little Speckled Frogs
Five Little Ducks
5 Little Pumpkins
One Potato, Two Potatoes
Rain, Rain Go Away
What’s the Weather?

Phonics

In Phonics, the children will be learning the Phase 1 and Phase 2 Phonics sounds and the phase two key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home.

We use the Super Sounds and Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

Learning at Home

Each week, your child will bring home a homework book and a library book to share with you.

Library books will be changed every Friday. On this day, your child will also bring home their homework book containing a homework activity linked to their learning from that week. Together, you and your child can choose an activity from the homework menu below.

Homework can be completed directly in the homework book or presented in any way your child chooses. For example, photographs or videos of completed activities can be emailed to us at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk

Homework should be returned by the following Wednesday each week.

They will also begin to bring a reading book to share with you too – please join us for our Reading Workshop to find out more.

Are you looking forward to September too like us?

Many of you on our transition days were keen to find out how you can support child over the summer in preparation for September. Here’s a helpful page the BBC have put together that you may find useful – from articles, videos and resources to support you and your child with starting primary school.

Starting-Reception.pdf

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Youtube book links:

Welcome to Year 2!

30th August 2026 by Miss Hirst

Welcome back and a very warm welcome to Year 2!

We hope you have all had a wonderful summer and are feeling excited for the year ahead. We are looking forward to a busy and exciting first term filled with engaging learning experiences, new challenges and lots of opportunities for the children to develop their confidence, independence and curiosity.

Things to Remember:

Daily Essentials

A labelled water bottle, these will be washed each day and returned home each half term.

A healthy snack should be brought each day. This must be fruit or another healthy alternative.

PE lessons will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

PE kits will be kept on classroom pegs and returned home at half term.

Forest School

Forest School will take place on Wednesdays and will begin during the week commencing 14th September. Forest school clothes should be brought into school in the morning and will be returned at the end of the day.

Reading

Reading books should be brought into school every day.

Reading books will be changed on Wednesdays.

We encourage you to read with your child at least three times each week, as regular reading is one of the best ways to support progress.

Homework

Homework will be sent home on Fridays and should be returned by Wednesday.

Library Books

A new library book will be issued each Friday and should be returned on Wednesday.

What We Will Be Learning This Term

English

We will be developing our reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through a range of exciting texts and activities. The children will have opportunities to write for different purposes whilst continuing to improve their spelling, punctuation and grammar skills.

Mathematics

This term we will be focusing on securing and developing our number skills to 100. We will also be learning about:

Addition and subtraction
Money
Multiplication and division

History

Our history focus this half term is our local area and its history. We will be exploring how our local community has changed over time and discovering interesting facts about the place where we live.

Geography

In geography, we will be studying Magical Maps, where we will learn different ways to find our way around and develop our map-reading skills.

Science

Our science learning will include:

Uses of materials
Healthy lifestyles, including feeding, exercise and keeping ourselves healthy

Art

We will be exploring the work of local artists, learning how to observe, appraise and form our own opinions about their artwork.

Design Technology

We will become designers as we create and make their very own hats, developing their planning, designing and evaluation skills.

Computing

We will be developing their computing skills by exploring how information technology is used in everyday life, including in homes, shops, libraries, and hospitals. They will learn about using technology responsibly and making safe choices online. In digital photography, children will capture, edit, and improve photographs while developing an understanding that not all images they see are real.

PSHE (Jigsaw)

We will be learning about Being Me in My World and Celebrating Differences.

We will take part in dance and invasion games, building teamwork, coordination, and confidence.

We will explore the question Who is a Muslim and what do they believe?

Music

We will explore a range of styles and genres, including South African music, Christmas music, Big Band, Motown, Elvis Presley, and Freedom Songs.

We are looking forward to sharing a fantastic year of learning with your children and working closely with you to ensure they have a happy, successful and rewarding Year 2 experience. Thank you for your continued support, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Mrs Jones, Miss Ashmore, Mrs Clegg and Mrs Hartigan.