Owl Class 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Owl Class

The Owl Class team

Mrs Donaldson 

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Ms Hodgson 1:1 support

Mrs Chastney

(covers two afternoons per week: Monday and Friday)

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In Owl Class we love to challenge ourselves, try new things and work hard to build strong relationships with friends and our teachers, as we settle into life at school.  Although we have many exciting things planned for each term, the children also guide their own learning, bringing a vast amount of knowledge, experiences and interests with them.  We want every child to be curious, love to learn and be prepared for their journey through primary school.

Spring 2026

Into the night sky

This term we are using the night sky as the starting point to inspire our learning; we will follow characters from our books on adventures through space, find out about the moon, stars, planets, astronauts and explore gravity. The children will learn about noctural animals and through our texts, sensory play, songs and discussions develop vocabulary and observational skills linking to Understanding the World.  Additional books will support this phase of learning including:  

We will continue to explore the natural world around us, making observations about the changng seasons as we move through winter, invetigating ice and changing states.

• Understanding the World: What we see at night (moon, stars, planets), day vs. night, nocturnal animals (owls, foxes, bats).
• Literacy: Using new vocabulary (moon, stars, sky, dark, sparkle, moon phases), storytelling, describing the night sky.
• Expressive Arts & Design: Creating night sky pictures (scratch art, paint, drawing and colour mixing), making models. 

Some of our books this term ...

Our topic web which maps out the learning opportunities planned for this term:

Reading

At Randwick we are passionate about reading and fostering a love for the adventures on which our books will take us.  We begin our reading journey as soon as we start at school, learning phonics, sharing books in school and with our families. 

Fuzzy, our reading bear, loves to come home with us bringing a book from our class library with him to share the magic of reading beyond the classroom. 

Owl class love to look back at all their previous learning on Tapestry and talk about how much they have learned and discovered so far this year.

Click here to see how our curriculum is designed in EYFS

Important information

Uniform:

Dark blue sweatshirt/cardigan, light blue polo shirt, grey trousers/skirt/shorts, grey/navy/white socks or tights, dark coloured school shoes or boots in winter

PE kit: 

Randwick PE t-shirt, navy shorts/cycling shorts, daps or trainers, change of socks (white/grey)

In cold weather, navy blue joggers/leggings and a school sweatshirt are recommended

Forest school kit: (every Thursday morning)

Navy blue joggers, usual t-shirt and school jumper. They can wear their shoes to school and bring their wellies with them in a bag or leave them on the welly stack.

As we go out in all weathers please ensure your child has a waterproof coat, waterproof trousers and welly boot socks.

Please make sure all clothing is clearly named