Welcome to our class pages where you can find further information about your child’s class and what they will be doing over the coming term.
At Somerdale Educate Together Primary we love family engagement and hope you will be as excited about your child’s learning as we are!
If you have any queries or suggestions please email the office on info@somerdaleet.org.uk.
Our Class Teacher is Beth. Our Learning Support Assistant who helps us is Claire
In our pre-school we aim to provide a high-quality learning environment, where children are given the opportunity to learn at their own pace and follow their own interests. We encourage independence and allow the children to grow in self-confidence and develop at their own rate through challenging and engaging play.
You can find more information on our current learning, by logging onto your Tapestry account to view your child’s online learning diary.
Find out more about our learning on our Google Drive folder. Here you will find useful information, resources, weekly updates on what we are currently learning and our termly learning overviews.
To access the folder, click on the link below:
Pre-School Learning on Google Drive
How-To Guide iOS
Tapestry How-To Guide Android
Please check back soon to see our Termly newsletters.
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Our class teachers are Sam and Becca . We look forward to meeting you all soon. Our Learning Support Assistants who help us are Kelly, Tracey and Janet.
Find out more about our learning on our Google Drive folder. Here you will find useful information, resources, weekly updates on what we are currently learning and our termly learning overviews.
To access the folder, click on the link below:
Year R -School Learning on Google Drive
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Our Learning support Assistant who helps us is Helen
Find out more about our learning on our Google Drive folder. Here you will find useful information, resources, weekly updates on what we are currently learning and our termly learning overviews.
To access the folder, click on the link below:
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A quick hello from the adults who help with our learning.
Our teacher is called Berna.
Our Learning Support Assistants who help us are Janet and Sonja.
In Bumblebee class, we want to be resourceful, independent learners who are engaged and excited about what we do. Much of our learning is done through discovery and we love exploring our own interests.
Being in Year 2 now, we also have 3 challenges a week, which we do independently during discovery time. Two of these challenges will have a science/geography/history/art focus and the other will be a fun phonics challenge this term. We have all week to complete these challenges, learning to manage our time and increase our independence.
We are also starting to share our independent learning in discovery through our very own discovery diaries, taking pride in the wonderful learning we complete during discovery. Our maths and writing is done in small groups and we have guided reading groups, where we read to an adult. We have whole class phonics and learn together sessions and we also have two P.E. sessions a week and music on Fridays.
Find out more about our learning on our Google Drive folder. Here you will find useful information, resources, weekly updates on what we are currently learning and our termly learning overviews.
To access the folder, click on the link below:
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Our Class Teacher is Lily whilst Alice is on maternity leave.
Our Learning Support Assistant who helps us is Sharon.
Year Three are a class of very creative and very busy learners. We learn together and laugh together, explore together and smile together. We love persevering and challenging ourselves.
Below you will see a brief outline of what a week in the life of Year Three looks like and a newsletter that includes an overview of our learning for the term.
Find out more about our learning on our Google Drive folder. Here you will find useful information, resources, weekly updates on what we are currently learning and our termly learning overviews.
To access the folder, click on the link below:
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Our Class Teacher is Lizzie whilst Sonia is on maternity leave.
Year Four are a class of very creative and very busy learners. We learn together and laugh together, explore together and smile together. We love persevering and challenging ourselves.
Below you will see a brief outline of what a week in the life of Year Four looks like and a newsletter that includes an overview of our learning for the term.
Find out more about our learning on our Google Drive folder. Here you will find useful information, resources, weekly updates on what we are currently learning and our termly learning overviews.
To access the folder, click on the link below:
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Welcome to Tigers, our Year 5 Class!
Our Class Teacher is Jim and our Learning Support Assistants who help us are Sonja and Lisa.
Tiger class are now in Year 5 and the learning continues with so much for us to learn.
Our enquiry question focus will go across a huge range of amazing subjects from space to Vikings, from life cycles to evolving technologies!
To find out what we are currently learning this week in Year 5 please click on the link below.
Find out more about our learning on our Google Drive folder. Here you will find useful information, resources, weekly updates on what we are currently learning and our termly learning overviews.
To access the folder, click on the link below:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bkzGtptDk6P2lFUad0ZzsAH_A3ViF0fb?usp=sharing
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Our Class Teacher is Jess and our Learning Support Assistants who help us are Tiarna and Jenna.
We welcome our Year 6 children back to Somerdale and look forward to having fun while we learn lots this year!
Each term we will focus on a different enquiry question which will be linked to all areas of the curriculum so that children are engaged and active learners!
To find out what we are currently learning this week in Year 6 please click on the link below.
Find out more about our learning on our Google Drive folder. Here you will find useful information, resources, weekly updates on what we are currently learning and our termly learning overviews.
To access the folder, click on the link below:
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As a parent you’ll know how important the internet is to children – they use it to learn, play, socialise and express themselves. It’s a highly creative place of amazing opportunities.
However the technology children use every day can be daunting and you might worry or not know about the risks your child can face online – such as bullying, contact from strangers or the possibility of them seeing illegal or inappropriate content.
Online Safety is an important part of keeping children safe at all Educate Together Primary schools. We have extensive security measures in place in school, which are monitored both internally and externally, to help safeguard pupils from potential dangers or unsuitable material. Any Online Safety incidents are recorded and managed. Online Safety is taught to all pupils explaining and demonstrating how to stay safe and behave appropriately online.
We recognise that your child may use technology more than is usual for your family during current lockdown restrictions. We are aware that this can pose problems for families who may not understand the risks children may face when learning or playing online. Please be mindful that school has very strict filtering processes and so if your child is searching at school, inappropriate sites will not be accessed. Please use this time to check your parental filtering to keep your child safe at home too.
Some key websites to help you and your children are:
Childline – for support
UK Safer Internet Centre – to report and remove harmful online content
CEOP – for advice on making a report about online abuse
Internet matters – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
London Grid for Learning – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
Net-aware – for support for parents and careers from the NSPCC
Parent info – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
Thinkuknow – for advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online
UK Safer Internet Centre – advice for parents and carers
Please be mindful of the dangers surrounding the video conferencing apps such as WhatsApp, Zoom, FaceTime etc. These are live running apps and can be recorded by the user at the other end. Please take care to ensure that your child is supervised whilst using these to protect them from images and languages that would not normally be accessible in your household. Staff at school will not be using video conferencing apps to ensure all safeguards for children and staff are in place.
https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-centre/young-people/resources-3-11s
https://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers/hot-topics
Young children and screen time – https://swgfl.org.uk/assets/documents/young-people-and-screen-time-1.pdf?_=1553256230/
Somerdale Educate Together Primary are delighted to have been awarded a Gold Award by the Woodland Trust’s Green Tree Schools programme.
Sonia runs our Eco-Club, with updates added to our whole-class newsletters.
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Educate Together school’s have a strong focus on collaboration, engagement and stewardship. This begins with our pupil’s knowing we are listening.
Each class within the school has a listening team representative. The listening team bring forward issues and ideas from the children, and also ask adults questions on how we are helping to make the school an even better place.
Elections take place in Term 3 every year.
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