Welcome to Kestrels!

Teacher – Miss Dempster

TA – Mrs Croft

In Kestrels class, we encourage independence, creativity and confidence. Our aim is to inspire children to be the best they can be whilst learning and having fun. Please feel free to come and speak to us if you have any questions. If you would like to email the class teacher, please contact admin@uplands.gloucs.sch.uk and they will forward the message onto Miss Dempster.

Key Information:

Homework:  

• Homework in Kestrels is to play Times Table Rockstar and to read at least four times a week.  Each child will have their own username and password for Times Table Rockstar and should play at least ten games a week. This is checked every Monday. Please encourage your child to complete their homework every week as this will support their learning in class.

Physical Education:

• The children will have a PE lesson every Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. They can wear their PE kit to school on these days. This should be black shorts, leggings or tracksuit bottoms, daps or trainers and a plain white T-shirt.
• On Wednesday, during Terms 3 and 4, our class will be walking to Stratford Leisure Centre for swimming lessons. They will need a costume, towel, goggles (optional), long hair tied back, a snack and a waterproof coat.

To see more about the Kestrels class, please take a look at the Kestrels blog page which is updated weekly with information about what we have been getting up to in class. 

Knowledge Organiser

Every term we create a knowledge organiser that contains the key information that the children need to learn in our science and humanities topic. This will be sent home at the beginning of every term. It also contains information about our musician and artist of the term as well as the poem we are going to learn together. This term our topic is called The Romans are Coming! Please see below for the knowledge organiser for this topic.