Week beginning 29th October 2019
- Wednesday 6th November Local area walk- 9.15 to 10.30 am
- SPaG & Handwriting Workshop – Tuesday 12th November at 9:00 am in the Dining Hall.
- Friday 22nd November- Autumn Art Parent’s Drop-In, both classes 2.30 to 3.15 pm.
- Tuesday 26th November- Maths workshop for parents-9.00am in the Dining Hall.
- Tuesday 11th December KSI Christmas Play.
Super Mathlete
Vauxhall Class: Aayush- 10,156 points
Lambeth Class: Hasan-3893 points
Silver Award:
Vauxhall Class: Ishmael
Lambeth Class:
Bronze Award:
Lambeth Class: Shauna, Brady, Olivier, Mathilde, Emily, Aliyah, Luke, Stanley, Mikael, Hasan, Mia, Sakhile, Anaya, Carter, Bonnie
Vauxhall Class: Aayush, Mah’ree, Hamza, Agyeiwaa, Kelsey, Naomi, Freddie, Alesha, Fabeha, Yigit Emre, Logan
English
We will begin our new half term with recount writing-discussion about our half-term holiday, make a plan and then write and edit our recount writing. We will recap ‘Our Year I-Jumbo Targets’- capital letters, one finger space between words, a full stop at the end of a sentence, keywords spelt correctly. By the end of this week, we will be introducing ‘Poetry’- reading and performing ‘Autumn’ and ‘Fireworks’ poems.
Maths
We will be continuing our learning about subtraction. Children will use ten frames, part-part-whole, counters, cubes, numicons to develop their understanding of key concepts. Then we will be looking at 2D shapes.
Science
Children will be observing, discussing and then learn to describe changes across the four seasons.
RE
Hinduism – Children will be talking about ‘Diwali’ story and celebration- the festival of light. Children will be dressing-in traditional clothes, drawing ‘Rangoli’ patterns, making divas with grains.
Art
We will be learning to draw Rangoli patterns using lines and shapes, making Diwali cards and divas.
PE
This term we will be discussing Real PE-‘Bike Ride’. Children recap showcase different ways of travelling and develop core body strength by balancing.
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 episode 2.
History: We will be celebrating ‘Black History Month’. Our class will be talking 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 a, o, d.
https://youtu.be/2NQ6uS8blwY
Home work:
Please support your child to make a poster about ‘Barack Obama’.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 30th October 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 / Starfall Phonics
Merits
… for this week’s merits to:
- the whole class and particularly Evie, Richa, Deen, Kamil and Oscar.
Also, many thanks for the numerous Harvest Festival contributions.
Half-Term
“Happy Half-Term” to everybody.
Thank you for your hard work and now enjoy a restful, hopefully very sunny week.
For anyone, who might have misplaced their homework, use the link below:
An update of the learning for the week after half-term will follow on Friday.
Monday 14th October,2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f88ee9″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#7c3ef2″ ]Dates for the Diary : Phonics Workshop – Tuesday 15th October at 9:00 am in the Dining Hall [/dropshadowbox]
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Lambeth Class: Yusuf
Vauxhall Class: Aayush
n=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f4ec46″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#f2563e” ]Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions this week ! [/dropshadowbox]
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class: Yusuf
Vauxhall Class: Aayush
Silver Award
Lambeth Class: Bonnie
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class: Yusuf, Shauna, Brady, Olivier, Mathilde, Emily, Aliyah, Luke, Stanley, Mikael, Hasan, Priscilla, Jennifer, Mia, Sakhile
Vauxhall Class: Aayush, Mah’ree, Oliver, Ishmael, Millie, Kelcia, Hamza, Agyeiwaa, Rayyan, Kelsey, Naomi, Tymon, Freddie
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#cafbf8″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#b3d397″ ]Our learning this week… [/dropshadowbox]
English
We will continue our focus on our text – Lila and the secret of rain by David Conway. Children are familiar with the story and will write a character description. They will also make a story plan and write the story with key events in a sequence.
https://www.slideshare.net/stories4/lila-and-the-secret-of-rain
Maths
We will be continuing our learning about addition and subtraction.Children will use ten frames, part part whole, counters , cubes, numicons to develop their understanding of key concepts.
Science
Children will finish their learning about their body by writing a simple non-chronological report and by conducting a simple investigation.
RE
Children will be discussing and developing their understanding of being thankful as well as participate in celebrations during Harvest Assembly on Thursday.
Art
In Art, we are learning about Line and tone and children will look at their face using a mirror and explore how to draw a self-portrait.
PE
This term we will be discussing about traveling. Children showcase different ways of travelling. Children will also develop core body strength by balancing.
ICT
During ICT sessions, we will be learning to log on and use a program as well as understand the main rules of e-safety using ‘Hector’ programs.
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.
Home work:
Please support your child to make different number bonds.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 16th October 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 / Starfall Phonics
Week beginning 14th October 2019
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Dear Parents, Carers
Thank you to those of you who were able to attend the Maths workshops on Thursday. We appreciate your constructive feedback and we are glad that you enjoyed engaging in the activities to find out how your child will learn Maths in Reception.
This will be the final week of the Autumn 1 half term. It has been a pleasure getting to know your children and to see how they have settled so quickly into school routines. Please note that school will finish at the regular time of 3.30pm on Friday, 18th October. Children will return to school on Tuesday, 29th October at 8.50am as usual.
We hope you enjoy the rest of the week
Kind regards,
Reception Team [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#f72e28" ]This week’s learning
AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: All about me
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Owl Babies by Martin Wadell
Through a shared reading of this classic tale about a family of beautiful owls, the children will learn to recall and retell a story by creating a class story map. They will learn to use vocabulary such as ‘First, Then, Next, Last’ or ‘At the end’, learning actions to help them recall the meaning of these words. They will also learn where to locate information about a book such as the title and author of a book
MATHS
This week our Maths focus will be to learn to count reliably within numbers 0-5 and to recognise and form each of the numerals 0 to 5 [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#2832f7" ]HOMEWORK:
Letter and word hunt (print in the environment)
Which letters and words can you see on your way home? Ask your adult to help you write some of the words you see around you.
You could also find words you recognise in magazines or newspapers. You could cut these out and stick them in your book eg names of shops/places you visit eg TESCO McDonald’s, etc
Please note that no homework will be issued on Fri 18th as it is the last day of term. Homework will resume after half term.
READING BOOKS AND DIARY
Please send in both books and yellow diaryon group days. Please note that after Mon 14th Oct Red group will have their books changed again after the half term on Tuesday 29th October together with Blue group due to Monday 28th October being part of their half term.[/dropshadowbox]
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Thursday, 13th October 2019: Writing Workshop for Parents. Either 9.00-10.00 or 2.00-3.00
Friday, 18th October 2019: Last day of Autumn 1 term
Tuesday, 29th October 2019: Children return to school for the start of Autumn 2 Term
Monday, 4th November 2019: Visit to Croydon Library. Please return the reply slip so we may make further arrangements. If you are available to help we will inform you in due course about what to expect. Grosvenor Class to leave at 10.00am and Chelsea Class to leave at 11.00am
Friday 8th November 2019: Family Friday. You are welcome to come into class from 8.30 to 9.00 to share in your child’s learning
Reception Parent evenings will be scheduled in early November, where you will have an opportunity to book a 10 minute appointment with your child's teacher to discuss their learning and progress. You will receive a letter in due course about this. [/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 14th October
The children enjoyed their visits to Get Fired last week and produced some beautiful artwork. Their tiles have been left in Get Fired to be fired in their kiln. The children will be able to take their tiles home after the half term holiday.
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will continue to use formal written methods to carry out addition and subtraction calculations. We will learn to check our answers using inverses.
- In English we will write instructions for making a Stone Age tile.
- In science we will test the strength of different magnets.
- In topic time we will continue our learning on the Stone Age.
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Merits
… well done to the children who received this week’s merits: Leen, Molly, Josiah and Magnus.
Half-Term is in sight – Wk 14th October 2019
Thank you for your hard work this week.
Should the dog accidentally have eaten the homework, here is a copy: Au1-Wk6-11102019
Next week, we will be learning the following:
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I can use a range of mental strategies for addition and subtraction.
I can evaluate the efficiency of mental and formal calculation strategies.
I can use the rounding rules to estimate my answers.
I can use estimating and the inverse to check my answers.
I can apply my mathematical knowledge and skills when solving addition and subtraction problems.
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I can use feedback to improve the retelling of a scene from a story.
I can use a story-map to invent a substitution scene for a story.
I can use a range of devices to narrate a substituted scene for a story (two lessons).
I can give and use feedback to improve the narration of a substituted key scene for a story.
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I can prove that the Earth is a spherical body – Part II.
I can use my scientific knowledge to explain why we have day and night.
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I can design and evaluate my draft for a space-related cardboard relief – Part II.
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I can use the internet safely. (ICT)
I can create a series of balances to music – Part II. I can develop my endurance. (PE)
I can use the numbers and colours in Spanish.
Week Beginning 14th October 2019
The children were introduced to Lotte’s Reiniger’s version of Hansel and Gretel and they are familiar with the story. This week the children will be retelling the story of Hansel and Gretel in their own words. They will use their story mountain and their knowledge of the video to help them.
We will encourage the children to show us the characters’ journey through their use of language. We will be looking for:
- use of adventurous adjectives to describe nouns
- different sentence types – questions, commands, statements and exclamations
- conjunctions in order to join sentences together
- different sentence starters
- correct use of capital letters and full stops.
Later on, in the week, the children will write an apology letter to the witch from Hansel or Gretel. We will first look at features of an apology letter before we write our own.
Maths
We will continue with the addition and subtraction block.
- to add a 1-digit to 2-digit number (bridging)
- to add a 1-digit to 2-digit number (PV chart)
- to subtract 1-digit from 2-digit number (number lines)
- to subtract 1-digit from 2-digit number (PV chart)
- add 2 2-digit numbers not crossing 10’s (number lines)
Bridging through ten
Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon. This week we will continue to explore programming. We are the programmers of the future!
Ministrings will continue every Wednesday. This week we will play some instruments that belong in the string family. Children will take part in a Harvest Assembly.
Week beginning 14th October 2019
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We shall be visiting the Fairfield Halls on Wednesday 16th October 2019 for a concert, which shall be held by Whitgift School, we shall return in time for lunch.
For secondary school information and support, please check out the link at the bottom of the Howard Primary School home page.
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Maths – We shall be looking at multiplication and division over the next two weeks, using both written and mental strategies.
English – Over this half term, our lessons shall be based on our class reading book Goodnight Mister Tom and our topic The Second World War. This week, we shall be starting our new unit of War Poetry. We shall be learning to recite, read and comment on a range of war poetry whilst using video imagery to inspire our own ideas.
Science – Our topic this half term is Electricity. This week, we shall be looking at circuit symbols and identifying whether a circuit will work or not.
PSHE – We shall be learning about New Beginnings.
RE – Our RE lessons shall be taught by Mrs Forde. This half term’s unit is Buddhism.
PE – On Fridays we have our Basketball sessions and on Tuesdays we have our Swimming sessions. Please make sure that your child has their full PE kit in school.
Spanish – We shall be learning show to ask and talk about my name, extend our numbers from 1-10 up to 20 and continue to showcase our homework.
History –Over the next two weeks, we shall be learning about the role of women during WW2.
Computing – We shall be continuing to look at online safety this half term.
