Week beginning 7th October 2019
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Thank you for coming to the Phonics Workshop last week and for your valuable feedback.
From Monday 7th October your child will receive a colour banded reading scheme book as well as a library book. Please support your child to develop their early skills for reading by:
• looking at the cover of book and predicting what the book might be about
• talking about the pictures and asking them to tell you what is happening
• If the book contains decodable words, show them how to sound out the letters and blend together to read.
(It's time to practise the skills you picked up at the Phonics Workshop)
Please don’t forget to come to the Maths Workshop on THURSDAY, 10th October 2019. You can choose to attend either ONE of the two sessions: 9.00-10.00 or 2.00-3.00. This workshop will focus on how your child will learn the skills to develop their mathematical thinking and understanding.
Please help your child settle into their school routine by being prompt in the morning and at collection time. Please be reminded that school starts at 8.50am and finishes at 3.30pm.
Kind regards,
Reception Team
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A Special Thank you to the following parents, carers:
- Thirukumaren's parents
- Ethan's parents
- Luca's parents and Nan [/dropshadowbox]
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AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: All about me
Dough Disco
The children are really enjoying these fun sessions aimed at developing their motor skills in readiness for writing.
Bucket Time
This is a small group activity aimed at developing children’s ability to listen and maintain attention for short periods of time. These daily sessions are most suited to children who experience considerable difficulty with focused listening and attention.
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Shape Hunt
Can you go on a shape hunt around your home?
Find objects around your home that have the same shape as these 2D shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, semi-circle, heart. You could draw a picture or take photographs of these objects.
READING DIARY AND BOOKS
Please remember to send in your child’s reading diary and class library book on group reading days as follows:
RED GROUP on Monday
BLUE GROUP on Tuesday
GREEN GROUP on Wednesday
ORANGE GROUP on Thursday
YELLOW GROUP on Friday
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Week beginning 7th October 2019
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Parents evening will be held in the teachers’ classes this week on Tuesday and Thursday, after school.
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 writing our biographies based on Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.
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 – This week’s Friday PE session shall be taught by Agata, who coaches our students with the Sports Partnership. Swimming will be on Tuesday as normal.
History – This week, we shall be looking at rationing this week.
Computing – We shall be continuing to look at online safety this half term.
Week beginning 7th October, 2019
Mathletics Champions this week:
Super Mathlete:
Vauxhall Bridge Class: Alesha – 5119 points
Lambeth Bridge Class: Yusuf – 2040 points
Silver Awards:
Vauxhall Bridge Class: Naomi
Lambeth Bridge Class: Brady
Bronze Awards:
Vauxhall Bridge Class: Oliver, Adem, Alesha, Freddie, Mah’ree
Lambeth Bridge Class: Teodora, Havey, Stanley, Bonnie, Emily, Hasan, Shaura Anaya, Aliyah, Luke, Mia, Jennifer, Barin.
Our learning this week…
English
We will read the new text call ‘ Lila and the secret rain’ by David Conway & Jude Daly. The children will be looking at the picture of the setting to predict the story. On Wednesday, they will discuss and write about Lila’s feelings, thoughts and journey. On Thursday and Friday, they will be learning how to make a story planner.
Maths
Children will count objects and begin to understand 1 more than / 1 less than a given number
Your child will also be comparing numbers using mathematical vocabulary – more, greater than /fewer, less, lesser than as well as begin how to understand how to use the symbols > and < correctly.
Science
We continue our learning about the body focusing on the five senses,
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 letter o.
PSHE
We will be learning about the 5 C’s – care, commitment, courtesy, co-operation and consideration and also begin to develop an understanding of being a Rights Respecting School.
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 traveling. 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.
Home work:
Please make a small poster about our local area- Croydon.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 9nd 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
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm http://more.starfall.com/?t=253552593&y=1
Reading: https://www.starfall.com/h/im-reading/
Week Beginning 7th October 2019
The children will storymap Hansel & Gretel in order to familiarise themselves with the story and in order to understand the structure of the story.
We will also explore character descriptions, focusing on both personality and appearance. Children will have a guided reading session based on the story of Hansel & Gretel.
Maths
We are starting 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
Ministrings will continue every Wednesday. This week we will play some instruments that belong in the string family.
This week’s Merits
… to the children who received this week’s merits: Akosua, Daisy, Damara, Lillian, Lisa, Pyman and Melvin.
Keep it up.
Please remember to log-in to Mathletics and complete your tasks. Any task with below 90% success rate has been re-assigned.
Week 7th October 2019
After an eventful week, we are now taking big steps towards half-term. We hope everybody is having a wonderful weekend. For anyone, who might have “misplaced” the homework or not received it due to absence, please click below.
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Maths: We will gradually be expanding our skills in mental and formal addition and subtraction.
English: We will use a range of narrative techniques to retell a key scene from our class-novel and further develop our use of expanded noun phrases.
ICT: We will continue with e-safety and giving advice on how to navigate safely online.
Science: We will re-visit the topic “Earth as a spherical body” and explore how we can prove that fact.
Art: This week should see use create the first draft/plan for our cardboard relief work.
PE: Now, we will combine, Music, PE and Science and begin creating a sequence of balances to Gustav Holst’s Planet suite (Jupiter – for maximum jollification).
Week Beginning 7th October
The children really enjoyed their cross country run in Duppas Hill Park on Thursday. Thank you to all the parents who came to help.
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In Mathematics we will learn to carry out addition calculations using formal written methods.
- In English we will learn about the features of instruction writing.
- In science we will compare the strength of different magnets.
- In history we will learn about the origins of farming.
- In RE we will learn about Hindu sacred books.
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Week beginning 30th September 2019
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Year 6 trip to Kew Gardens – Friday 4th October
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 subtraction this week.
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 identifying the key features of a biography, boxing up a biography, editing and up levelling an existing biography, planning and beginning to write our biography based on Neville Chamberlain.
Science – Our topic this half term is Electricity. This week, we shall be looking at writing a method on how to light a bulb.
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 – PE will be held on Fridays, where we will be starting our unit on Basketball. Year 6 will be going swimming on Tuesdays.
History – This week, we shall be continuing to look at ‘evacuation during WW2’. We shall be writing a letter as an evacuee as well as learning why children were evacuated during the Second World War.
Computing – We shall be continuing to look at online safety this half term.
Week beginning 30th September 2019
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Thank you for coming to our introductory meeting last week. It was wonderful to see so many of you there. For those parents who were unable to attend, please check your child’s bookbag for notes from our meeting. Also all parents will have received a copy of our curriculum overview for Autumn Term 1 which explains the learning focus for this half term.
On Friday your child received their yellow reading diary and a book from the class library to take home. Please note that this book is for you to read to your child. Please make a note in the diary about how your child enjoyed the story. Please only send in the library book and reading diary on your child’s reading day (see inside front cover for which day your child will change their reading books). Please leave these books in their bookbag.
From Monday 7th October your child will receive a colour banded reading scheme book as well as a library book.
Please don’t forget to come to our Phonics and Reading workshop for parents on Wednesday 2nd October. You can choose to attend either ONE of the two sessions: 9.00-10.30 or 2.00-3.30. This workshop will focus on how your child will learn to read and form letters and how you can support your child with reading at home.
Please help your child settle into their school routine by being prompt in the morning and at collection time. Please be reminded that school starts at 8.50am and finishes at 3.30pm.
Kind regards,
Reception Team [/dropshadowbox]
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AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: All about me
Dough Disco: In addition to a range of stimulating activities and challenges, this week the children will begin their first daily dough disco sessions. These are short, fun sessions aimed at developing your child’s motor skills in readiness for writing.
HOMEWORK: Please return by Wednesday
My Family
Draw a picture of your family. Can you name the people in your family? Ask your adult to help you label your pictures.
READING DIARY AND BOOKS
Please remember to send in your child’s reading diary and class library book on group reading days as follows:
RED GROUP on Monday
BLUE GROUP on Tuesday
GREEN GROUP on Wednesday
ORANGE GROUP on Thursday
YELLOW GROUP on Friday [/dropshadowbox]
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Week – 30th September 2019
Welcome to an exciting week of learning ahead.
Please find last week’s homework using the link below.
The highlight of our week will probably be our excursion to Kew Gardens. Please remember to arrive on time as we would like to leave school at 9:05 promptly. Also, children will need a packed lunch, a healthy snack, a rain jacket and a warm jacket (depending on the weather). A notepad would be helpful so children can take notes about the wonderful things they will be seeing and learning about. Curious? Check out the links below:
https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-on/chihuly-at-kew-reflections-on-nature
https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-in-the-gardens/the-childrens-garden
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Maths:
- Place-Value-Assessment
- I can use resources to visualise addition.
- I can use resources to visualise subtraction.
- I can use mental strategies to add and subtract.
English:
- I can use formal language to write a school report for an innovated/invented character.
- I can use feedback to edit and improve my writing.
- I can identify adjectives (esp. when used in expanded noun phrases).
- I can explore a character’s personality by creating an I-am-poem.
- I can use poetic devices to write a poem.
Science:
- I can describe Earth as a spherical body.
Art:
- I can identify types of relief and design the first draft of space-related cardboard-relief.
PE:
- I can link a series of balances.
Spanish
- I can express how I feel in Spanish.