Day 1 of our Breathing Challenge
To celebrate together Children’s Mental Health Week, we have created a new challenge for children and adults to take part in.
GROWING TOGETHER also means getting out of our comfort zone to learn something new. This develops thinking skills, resilience, adaptability and positive attitude. They are all valuable skills to protect our mental health and wellbeing.
COME SELFREGULATE WITH ME
BREATHING CHALLENGE
Breathing is a very powerful tool to improve and maintain positive mental health.
It can energise you, relax you and give you extra thinking space.
By doing this challenge you will learn 5 different types of breathing techniques.
Watch the video and get practising! You can do it on your own, with friends, with the whole class, with your family or with your pet.
THE RULES
Record yourself by taking a picture, a video or a drawing. You can even write about it or compose a song.
Share your recordings with your teachers.
Miss Ancel and Mrs Pollington will choose 2 winners for Reception, 2 for KS1 and 2 for KS2 on 23rd February 2022.
The winners will be announced on 25th February at Merit Assembly.
THE PRIZE
The winners will take part in an amazing fidget making master class with Miss Ancel and Mrs Pollington.
We will be using food items such as flour, rice, beans ( and lots of balloons) to make stress busting fidgets. Some will be for you to keep , some will be to share with your class.
HAPPY BREATHING!
Mrs Pollington and Miss Ancel
Week beginning 7th February 2022
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Dear Parents and Carers!
Welcome to Spring 1st Term week 6.
School starts at 8.55 am and finishes at 3:05 pm.
Your child’s Mathletics and Google classroom passwords are attached at the back of your child’s yellow reading record book.
We are continuing to learn with lots of adult-led carpet sessions in the classroom and free-flow & choice activities indoors and outdoors.
Thank you for supporting your child’s homework. Please return it by Wednesday 19th January.
If you have any relevant questions, please contact us via the Year-Group-Email: year1@howard.croydon.sch.uk or the comment feature in Google Classroom. We will aim to respond as quickly as possible.
Our learning for this week………
Reading:
Thank you for reading with your child. We will change the books on Friday. Please return your child’s reading book back with your comments on your child’s yellow reading records books. Reading books will not be changed without your comments.
Phonics:
In our phonic groups, we are revising all the sounds that we have learned so far.
Mrs Hunjan’s Group
Miss Robinson’s Group
Mrs Jeevahan’s Group
Miss Parkinson’s Group
Miss Allcorn’s Group
https://youtu.be/0mbqFcOGMw4
Maths:
This week we will be partitioning numbers 6-10 in two groups systematically.
Science:
This week we will be discussing and recording about reptiles, fish and amphibians.
Computing:
This week we will be focussing on basic skills like How to change colour, size and font.
Art:
We will be making a rain picture using lines, tone, primary and secondary colours.
PE:
We have PE on Mondays and Wednesdays. Please send your children with their PE kits to school on these days.
Sports and P.E. Kit (Boys and Girls):
Blue school T-shirt with logo
Shorts black or navy
Black plimsolls. Trainers can be worn for outdoor sports.
RHE – Relationship and Health Education
Jigsaw has two aims for all children:
- To build their capacity for learning
- To equip them for life
Jigsaw brings together PSHE Education, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. The topic this term is ‘Dreams and Goals.’ Week 4 lesson. This week children will learn to understand, how to work well with a partner and celebrate achievement with them.
I can understand how to work well with a partner and celebrate achievement with them.
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Week beginning 7th February 2022
This week, we are celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week and we will also be raising awareness for Safer Internet Day.
Spring 1 Week 6 – 7th February 2022
Spring 1 – Week 6 – 7th February 2022
A week of finishing off Geography and any other “bits and bobs” from this half-term.
On Thursday/Friday, we will be exploring different games for out next Design & Technology topic.
Here are the objectives for the week ahead.
Please remember – PE days are Tuesday and Thursday.
This week, we are celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week and we will also be raising awareness for Safer Internet Day.
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- To use multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 to convert between measurements. – 2 Lessons
- PIXL Assessment – Reasoning Paper 3
- To understand volume as an amount of space something occupies (3 dimensional).
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- PIXL – Reading Paper
- To develop comprehension skills.
- To identify the features of a non-chronological report.
- To engage in book talk.
- To write a non-chronological report.
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To name a range of pets in Spanish.
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- To recognise that some mechanisms allow a smaller force to have a greater effect (Gears).
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To reflect on dreams and goals.
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- To identify the impact of earthquakes and tsunamis on the physical and human world.
Enjoy your Sunday evening.
See you in the morning.
Your Year 5 Team.
Week beginning 7th February 2022
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THIS WEEK’S LEARNING
TOPIC: On the Move
LITERACY:
Focus Book: Amelia Earhart by Isabel Sanchez
Group Phonics: Check Google Classroom for Group Phonics homework
MATHS: Oral counting beyond 10, Recognising and talking about shapes of everyday objects
PSED: Mental Health Week Theme: Growing together
UW: To explore objects(vehicles) from the past and discuss how these have changed and consider what a vehicle might look at in the future.
PE: Dance: To perform to an audience: a sequence of movements with a partner
CREATIVE: To look at and recreate our own version of paintings by the artist Delaunay
IT: Safer Internet day 8th February
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Week beginning 7th February 2022
This week, we are celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week and we will also be raising awareness for Safer Internet Day.
What are we learning this week?
Maths –
- To explain the relationship between the mean and sharing equally
- To calculate the mean of a set of data
- To explain how the mean changes when the total quantity or number of values changes
- To calculate the mean when one of the values in the data set is zero or missing
- To use the mean to make comparisons between two sets of information
- To explain when the mean is not an appropriate representation of a set of data
English –
This term, our English lessons have been centred around the text Rooftoppers, by Katherine Rundell. This week, our learning objectives are:
- To edit and up-level my newspaper report.
- To identify the key features of a travel guide
- To up-level an existing travel guide.
- To plan a travel guide.
Science –
- To be able to identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and explain the functions of the heart, blood vessels
and blood. - To be able to plan pattern-seeking enquiry.
- To be able to report causal relationships.
- To be able to record results using a line graph.
RE –
Our key questions that we will be investigating are:
- ´What is the Dharma?
- ´What are the Four Noble Truths?
- ´What is the Eightfold Noble Path, why is it important to Buddhists?
- ´What are the 5 precepts and how are they important for a Buddhist lifestyle?
- ´What is Karma?
Music –
- To listen to music and describe its effects and use of musical dimensions
- To create a musical background to accompany a poem
Week beginning 7th February 2022
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Our learning this week…
This week, we are celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week and we will also be raising awareness for Safer Internet Day.
English
At Howard Primary School we have adopted Read Write Inc Phonics.
RWI is a method of learning centred round letter sounds and phonics, and we use it to aid children in their reading and writing. Read Write Inc., developed by Ruth Miskin, provides a structured and systematic approach to teaching literacy. It is used by more than a quarter of the UK’s primary schools and is designed to create fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers.
Using RWI, the children learn to read effortlessly so that they can put all their energy into comprehending what they read. It also allows them to spell effortlessly so that they can put all their energy into composing what they write.
When using RWI to read the children will:
- Learn 44 sounds and the corresponding letter/letter groups using simple picture prompts
- Learn to read words using Fred Talk
- Read lively stories featuring words they have learnt to sound out
- Show that they comprehend the stories by answering questions.
Five key principles underpin the teaching in all Read Write Inc. sessions:
Purpose – know the purpose of every activity and share it with the children, so they know the one thing they should be thinking about
Participation – ensure every child participates throughout the lesson. Partnership work is fundamental to learning
Praise – ensure children are praised for effort and learning, not ability
Pace – teach at an effective pace and devote every moment to teaching and learning
Passion – be passionate about teaching so children can be engaged emotionally.
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/
Hold a sentence is an activity that encourages children to remember a whole sentence while focusing on spelling and punctuation.
Build a sentence is to give children the opportunity to create their own sentence to that shows the meaning of a word and edit a sentence allows the children to critique a sentence using their knowledge of spelling punctuation and grammar. Children complete a longer piece of independent writing, which gives them the opportunity to show off their creativity and to practice their spelling, grammar and punctuation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOJUPNVnLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjHqJQ8sxs4
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Power of Reading
English
At Howard Primary School we have adopted The Power of Reading scheme for literacy. Our literacy work is based around a core text. The text we are working on is called Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin.
Other books by Bethan Woollvin include:
This week we will continue to:
- Plan our own version of a fairy tale with an alternative ending.
- Write our own version of a fairy tale with an alternative ending.
Children should include features of Year 2 writing.
- write simple coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real of fiction)
- write about real events, recording these simply and clearly
- demarcate most sentences in their writing with capital letters and full stops, and use question marks correctly when required
- use present and past tense correctly and consistently
- use co-ordination (e.g. or/ and/ but ) and some subordination (e.g. when/if/that/because) to join clauses
- segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many of the words correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at others
- spell many common exception words
- form capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters
- use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters
Children will work on showing the change in their character.
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Maths – Money
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- To count money in pence
- To count money in pounds
- To count money with notes & coins
- To count the correct money
- To make the same amount using different notes and coins
To count money in pence
We will use our knowledge of counting in 2s/5s and 10s to help us count money in pence. We will develop strategies to help make counting more efficient. Such strategies include starting with the highest value coin first.
To count money in pounds
We will use our knowledge of counting in 2s/5s and 10s to help us count money in pounds. We will develop strategies to help make counting more efficient.
To count money with notes and coins
We will teach the children to count notes and coins together and we use the expression ten pound and 23 pence. We do not introduce children to decimals yet.
To select the correct money
Children will be given numerous items to buy and they need to select the right amount of money to buy the items.
To make the same amount using different notes and coins
Children will develop their understanding of different ways to make the same amount. The children will begin to see that 10p can be made using 2p, 2p, 2p, 2p and 2p or it can be made using 5p and 5p.
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Science
Our topic this term is living things and their habitat.
We will name, identify and discuss the suitability of organisms living in the different habitats. We will be thinking about the polar habitat and how animals and plants are suited to living there.
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/nature/habitats/article/polar
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PE
Please remember to send your child to school in their PE kit on their PE days.
Westminster – Monday & Thursday
Hungerford – Monday & Thursday
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RE
We will focus on Judaism.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zd9jxnb
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Geography
This week we will recap the 7 continents and 5 oceans.The oceans hold about 96.5% of all of Earth’s water and is one of the most amazing places on earth!
PowerPoint Presentation – t-tp-5976-oceans-of-the-world-facts-powerpoint_ver_1
Online game to consolidate– https://world-geography-games.com/oceans/index.html
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RHE – Relationship and Health Education
Jigsaw has two aims for all children:
- To build their capacity for learning
- To equip them for life
Jigsaw brings together PSHE Education, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. The topic this term is ‘Dreams and Goals.’
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Reading
When reading with your child at home ask them questions related to their book.
Questions to ask before you read
- Can you look at the pictures and predict what you think will happen in this book?
- What makes you think that?
- What characters do you think might be in our story?
- Do you think there will be a problem in this story? Why or why not?
- Does the topic/story relate to you or your family? How?
Questions to ask during the reading
- What do you think will happen next?
- What can you tell me about the story so far?
- Can you predict how the story will end?
- Why do you think the character did _______?
- What would you have done if you were the character?
- How would you have felt if you were the character? (use different characters)
- As I read____________, it made me picture________ in my head. What pictures do you see in your head?
- As you read, what are you wondering about?
- Can you put what you’ve just read in your own words?
Questions to ask after reading
- Can you remember the title?
- In your opinion, was it a good title for this book? Why or why not?
- Were your predictions about the story correct?
- If there was a problem, did it get solved?
- What happened because of the problem?
- Why do you think the author wrote this book?
- What is the most important point the author is trying to make in his writing?
- What was your favourite part of the story?
- If you could change one thing in the story, what would it be?
- Can you retell the story in order?
- If you were __________, how would you have felt?
- What is the most interesting situation in the story?
- Is there a character in the story like you? How are you alike?
Why did you like this book?
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Mathletics
A big well done to all the children completing their Mathletics. We are so proud. Please continue to complete your activities on Mathletics.
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Star of the week
Hungerford
Dawood – for making an effort to produce neater work.
Caitlin – for working hard with her reasoning and problem solving skills in math sessions. Caitlin is also using her initiative within the classroom, gaining independence.
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Zynah – for making good progress with her writing. You are also taking onboard advice given.
Uvejis – well done for trying hard with your phonics as well as your math challenges. Good effort.
Mustafa – for good responses during class discussions and always persevering with challenges.
Ali – for trying hard with your phonics and making progress with your reading. You are a good friend and you follow the 5C s.
Prithvi – goodluck in your new school – be a shining star in all that you do.
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Children’s Mental Health Week 2022
Children’s Mental Health Week
Children’s Mental Health Week is taking place on 7-13 February 2022. This year’s theme is Growing Together.
We will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, and how they can help others to grow.
We all have mental health as we all have a brain and we all feel emotions.
How can we keep mentally healthy?
Through our Zones of Regulation Curriculum we support children and adults developing a common language of emotions and emotional resilience.
This is one way we are growing together.
By developing reflection skills, by learning a range of strategies and a can do approach, we embed positive mental health habits.
Being mentally healthy does not mean having a perfect, easy life but developing the understanding and know how to adapt and bend when the problems arise so we don’t end up broken.
We will be exploring 5 easy steps to lay the foundations of positive mental health and wellbeing and join forces in taking part in a mental health challenge. Watch this space!
Week commencing 7th February
Another busy week of learning completed. The children have been impressing us every day! We’re nearly at the end of the half term, it has really flown by!
This week, we are celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week and we will also be raising awareness for Safer Internet Day.
Here’s what we will be learning this week:
English- This week we will be writing a Kenning poem. We will learn what a Kenning poem is, brainstorm some powerful vocabulary and have a go at writing and editing our poems. We will also have a focus on spelling words with the -ous ending and a reading focus of sequencing and summarising.
We will be beginning to send home reading books on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for those children who have not already chosen them. Reading diaries should be brought to school each day.
Maths- We are continuing to work on multiplication this week. We will be consolidating our knowledge that 9 is triple 3 and that the 3, 6 and 9 times tables share factors and working on the divisibility rules for the 3, 6 and 9 times tables.
If your child would like to practise their learning at home, there are lots of free games which they can use, including Daily 10 from Topmarks or Hit the Button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
PE- We will be beginning to work on gymnastic and static balance and also incorporating some dance lessons over the course of this half term.
Art- We will be making a papier mache construction of a volcano. Please provide your child with an old shirt to wear if possible to protect their uniform when working.
RE- We will be thinking about how and why we should care for our world and comparing the views of different religions about the importance of caring for the world and those who live in it.
Science- We will be continuing our topic of light, looking for patterns in the way that the size of shadows changes.
Homework- We will post homework on Google Classroom each week. We have added tasks to Mathletics. Additionally, the children will have access to Language Angels to practise their new vocabulary in Spanish. We hope to give your child access to TTRockstars also this week, a fun way to practise times tables.
PE will take place on Monday and Friday for Blackfriars class and Tuesday and Friday for Waterloo class. Children should come to school in their school PE kits on those days.
RHE- We are beginning a new topic about dreams and goals and thinking about the challenges people face and how they can overcome them.
Please ensure your child has a water bottle in school each day.
Lastly, if you have any questions or concerns, please speak to a member of staff or email us at the address below;
Year3@howard.croydon.sch.uk
Year 3 Team
We have now got access to Google Classroom again and are starting to upload homework tasks. Children’s logins have not changed but there is a new class code.
Waterloo: 2tu6ksx
Blackfriars: tdsv7fo
If you have any problems logging in, please let us know.
Week beginning 31st January 2022
What are we learning this week?
Maths –
- To explain why shapes can have the same areas but different perimeters
- To describe the relationship between scale factors and side lengths of two shapes
- To describe the relationship between scale factors and perimeters of two shapes
- To describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all four quadrants)
- To draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane and reflect them in the axes
English –
- To write a newspaper report.
- To edit and up-level my writing.
We shall also be continuing our class read, The Nowhere Emporium, by Ross Mackenzie. We shall be completing comprehension and writing based activities based on the book and the chapters that we read.
Science –
- To be able to identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and explain the functions of the heart, blood vessels
and blood. - To be able to plan pattern-seeking enquiry.
- To be able to report causal relationships.
- To be able to record results using a line graph.
PE –
This week, QE2 will have PE on Thursday and Tower will have their lesson on Friday.