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Week 18th November 2019

November 17, 2019

Unbelievable, we have entered the second half of November!

Tomorrow afternoon, we will have a visitor …

Maths: We are going to continue with multiplication and division (4×1 with and without exchange, visualisation of exchange, 2×2 with visualisation and exchange).

English: In this busy week ahead, we will …

expand our skills when describing characters and settings,
improve a film review and
then plan and write our own film review on “Dora the explorer – And the lost city of Gold”.

Art: We will finally start making our Cardboard Relief.

Science: We will finish Space.

Spanish: Exchange further personal information.

PSHE: Hopefully, our visitors will arrive and work with us on how to keep ourselves fit and healthy.

Week beginning 18th November 2019

November 17, 2019

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As the colder months of the year approach, could you please add a pair of black jogging trousers to your child’s PE kit if you haven’t already done so.

Kind Regards

Reception Team

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This week’s learning

LITERACY

Book Focus: Aliens love underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort

The children will love this charming and funny story about alien creatures from another planet who are fascinated by human underpants! This delightful story will stimulate their imagination and create a stimulus for our learning this week.

Phonics: /r/, /h/, /b/, /f/ff / /l/ll/

MATHS

To develop understanding of 4 and 5.

Also to have opportunities to apply their learning and make links between each of the numbers 1-5.

CAL: To ask questions using words such as who, what, when, how and why things happen and to begin to give own explanations.

EAD: The children will begin to learn a few festive songs for their Christmas performance next month

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HOMEWORK

Day and night

We have been learning about day and night and what happens at these times of the day. We know that many animals can be active at night. Can you draw or find pictures of 3 different animals that are active at night and use your phonics knowledge to label your pictures [/dropshadowbox]

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Week Beginning 18th November 2019

November 17, 2019

English – Writing

On Monday the children will be introduced to similes. Similes compare one thing to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’. We will encourage the children to create powerful pictures using their words.

The children will be using similes to describe features of Autumn. Example – the rain fell like diamonds form the darkening sky.

On Tuesday the children will write their cinquain poem about Autumn.

On Thursday and Friday, the children will gather ideas for their recount and they will study the features of a recount.

The children will be writing recounts about their cinema visit, the author visit and their Autumn walk.

English- reading

We will start a new book called The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year.

When reading with your child, please use VIPERS when asking them questions on the book they are reading.

Maths We have moved on to money.

- To count money in pounds
- To count money with notes and coins
- to select the correct money
- to make the same amount using different notes and coins
- To count money in pounds
- Children will use their knowledge of counting in pence to help them. They will recognise it is not the amount of coins you have but the value of the coins. Children will be encouraged to count in 2s, 5s and 10s.
- 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.

Science

In science, children will learn more about John McAdam as a person who invented new material (John McAdam)

ICT

Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon. This week we will continue to explore programming. We are the programmers of the future!

History

Florence Nightingale will be introduced to the children. The children we be shown several pictures of Florence Nightingale and then they will answer questions to help them get an understanding of her life.

The children will answer questions such as who do you think this woman is. Does her uniform tell you about her job? Why is she special? etc

Geography

Georgraphy

Children will compare Croydon with Darwin

Darwin Croydon

Music

Ministrings will continue every Wednesday. This week we will play some instruments that belong in the string family.

Our PE slot is on Monday afternoon. We are currently focusing on balance and co-ordination.

Please ensure all children have their full PE kit in school (fully named).

PSHE

We have introduced the children to a programme called Zones of Regulation which we are hoping will help regulate feelings and emotions and offer the children the correct way to talk about their feelings. This week we will continue to think of suitable ways to regulate their feelings and match emotions to different zones.

Is your child an author?

If yes, head over to Grant Koper’s website. Your child has the opportunity to have their story published on his website and their story read out of YouTube by Grant himself!!!

https://www.grantkoper.com/kids/

Week Beginning 18th November, 2019

November 15, 2019

Dear Parents!

Autumn Art session will be held on Friday 22nd of November, 2019 at 2.45pm in your child’s classroom. We would like to welcome all the parents to come and enjoy art with your child!

Dates for the Diary… Year 1 Christmas Play – Wednesday 11th December 2019.

Our Mathletics Champions this week are…

Super Mathlete

Lambeth Class – Brady (4230 Points)

Vauxhall Class – Hamza ( 4495 Points)

Gold Award :

Lambeth Class –

Silver Award

Lambeth Class – Tome, Bonnie, Yusuf

Vauxhall Class – Kelcia, Logan, Alesha

Bronze Award

Lambeth Class – Aliyah, Shauna, Kevin, Luke, Stanley, Mathilde, Teodora, Brady,Barin,Hasan, Jennifer, Mia, Mustafa

Vauxhall Class – Ishmael, Yigit Emre, Naomi, Agyeiwaa, Hamza, Aayush

Our Learning this week…

English

Poetry-Children will write and edit their own Autumn poems. Then we will begin a new familiar story called ‘The Lonely Beast’. We will be reading, discussing and asking questions about the main character.

Maths

Children will continue their learning about 2D and 3D shapes.

Science

Children will begin to learn about the different types of materials – metal, plastic, fabric, glass, wood, paper etc…They will sort materials into groups on the basis of their properties and begin to distinguish between an object and material from which it is made.

Children will also continue their learning about seasons focusing on Autumn.

We will also investigate – Are taller people older?

Art

Children will develop their skills using different media to create firework pictures. Autumn Art on Friday afternoon at 2.45pm.

P.E

Children will continue developing different ways of travelling as well as develop their core strength and balance.

ICT

During ICT sessions, we will be learning to use technology purposefully to create, organise store and retrieve digital content-log on, type name and surname, change font, size, colour and type a sentence using capital letter, space and full stop. Children will watch Hector’s world.

History

We will be celebrating ‘Black History Month’. Our class will be talking and writing about ‘Barack Obama’. Who is he? Why he is special? What did he do? Where did he live?

Phonics

Please continue to practice sound recognition with your child. Encourage them to apply their phonic knowledge every time you read or write with them.

Handwriting

We will be learning to form the numbers correctly and begin to learn the cursive script starting with the letters c, a, o, d, g.

Homework

Please support your child to make a poster about Friendship.

Please hand it in by Wednesday 20th November 2019

Please continue …

*Mathletics-your child’s user name and the password are attached in your child’s yellow Reading Record book.

*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.

*Play phonics games on Phonics Play / Star fall Phonics.

https://youtu.be/2NQ6uS8blwY

Week Beginning 15th November 2019

November 15, 2019

This week our learning will be as follows;

In mathematics we will continue our work on multiplication and division learning to multiply and divide by 8.
In English we will write a film review of Johnny English Strikes Again.
In science we will learn that darkness is the absence of light.
In history we will introduce the Bronze Age.
In RE we will consider the significance of Diwali for Hindus and what we can learn from that.

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Whitgift Primary Project – Day 1

November 13, 2019

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Today, we had a lovely time getting to know Whitgift School. In Computing, we learnt how to take pictures – using a camera – and manipulate them using Corel Photoshop. We had fun using different effects and creating our own animated GIFs.

Next, we were introduced to the language of Italian. Our teacher, Mr Jackson, taught us the names of different colours and pets. We realised there were a lot of similarities with the etymology of words we have previously learnt in our French and Spanish lessons.

Finally, we were treated to a treasure hunt in the Water Garden. This proved to be a fantastic opportunity to see a range of different birds – including flamingos – and even the odd wallaby popped out to say hello!

Week beginning 11th November 2019

November 12, 2019

YEAR 6 ENRICHMENT WEEK

This week we will be experiencing a range of activities that will help develop the children’s wider understanding of the world and beyond. Below is a list of the different activities that will be taking place.

Monday-Today we will meet Floella Benjamin and watch the film ‘Coming to England’. She wrote the book and produced the film about her life in Trinidad and her experience living in England.

Tuesday-We will be walking to the cinema in Croydon and watching the film ‘Aladdin’

Wednesday-We will be catching the tram to Vue cinema on Purley Way and watching the film ‘Stan and Olly’

Thursday-We have been given a last minute opportunity to go to Pizza Express and make pizzas.

Friday-We will be continuing our project that we started last Friday with the London Ambassadors ‘WE’ charity. We will be looking at ways we can raise money for the homeless in Croydon through a range of different events.

Week beginning 11th November 2019

November 11, 2019

Dear Parents!

All the children have settled into our class routines with ease as well as started their new learning journey with our topic ‘ Sort It Out’.

Thank you very much for all the parents who supported us with the ‘Local Walk’.

Dates for the Diary… Tuesday the 12th November workshop cancelled.

Apologies for the error about Year 1 Christmas Play. It is on Wednesday 11th December.