Week beginning 10th June 2019
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SUMMER TERM 2 TOPIC: Summer’s Here
Theme: Growing and changing
LITERACY:
Book Focus: A selection of Non-fiction books about growing and changing
This week we will have caterpillars in class and the children will be learning about the life cycle of this amazing minibeast. We will focus on aspects of growing and changing. The children will compare and contrast their baby pictures to their current photos and discuss how they have changed and grown. So please send in their baby pictures this week. Thanks to those parents who have sent these in.
Group Phonics: This term we will focus on reading words and sentences containing all the phonemes the children have learnt throughout the year and we will be teaching strategies for instant blending of words and strategies for reading longer multisyllabic words.
MATHS: Halving and doubling
PE: Athletics [/dropshadowbox]
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Four seasons
• Draw and label a picture about each of the four seasons.
• Can you write which months occur in each of the seasons?
READING BOOKS and WORD LISTS: Will be checked on group days
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Week beginning 10th June 2019
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English-We will be continuing to write a story that builds up tension. We will also be reading the next couple of chapter of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’
Science-We will be learning about evolution
Maths-We will be continuing to learn how to solve puzzles
DT-We will be analysing pop up books and how they work
PE-We will be starting kwick-cricket and learning how to play tennis. This week we will be focusing on forehand and backhands.
RE-We will be continuing to learn about Christianity
History-We will be learning about the Holocaust and
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Cross-Country competition-10/06
The Summer Fair-22/06
Croydon Athletics Competition-24-26/06
Week beginning 10th June 2019
Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
* I can estimate and approximate area (Continue & finish).
* I can identify different 2D shapes and describe their properties (Recap Y4).
* I can measure angles in degrees using a protractor (multiples of 10).
* I can precisely measure angles using a protractor.
* I can accurately draw lines and angles using geometrical tools.
* I can calculate angles on a straight line.
English/History – We shall be continuing our diary writing unit. This week we shall be taking a cross-curricular approach (History) with our writing. We shall be comparing eduction in the Victorian times to modern times. We shall then be building a character profile of a victorian child and then write a diary entry.
PE – Swimming continues this week and on Thursdays we shall be taking part in developing our Tennis skills.
French – We shall be continuing to look at the unit of clothes!
Music – Soundstart lessons will continue this week.
Reading – We shall be continuing with our class text, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this week. We shall be basing our comprehension sessions around our class text.
Geography – We shall be starting our new topic, Rivers!
Art – We shall be looking at our new unit, landscape artists.
Week beginning 10th June 2019.
Important Dates:
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Phonics Screening Check 10th June, 2019.
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Summer Fair on the 22nd June, 2019.
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Toy workshop by Renee Jenkins on 25th June,2019.
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KS l Sports Day on 10th July, 2019.
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions!
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Marwa – 3850 Points and
Nicole – 3940Points.
Vauxhall Class : Krishan – 3070 Points and
Elias – 2380Points.
Gold Award
Lambeth Class :
Vauxhall Class: Krishan and Shun Ming
Silver Award
Vauxhall Class : Kostek
Lambeth Class: Sackena, Ryan, Deyan and Jayden.
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Comella x2, Isaiah, Brooke, Ben, Adoma, Lena, Shuajb, Japdeep, Zayna x2, Deyan, Vanessa, Jayden, Marwa x2, Nicole x2, Isabella and Amira x2.
Vauxhall Class : Shun Ming, Krishanh, Reluwane, Micah x2, Tristan, Aalliyah, Yeabsira, Ali, Mila, Isabella, Michelle x2, Sayyid, Suvisha and Elias
Our topic for this term is called ‘Puppet on a string’.
English
Poetry – We will reading some poems and discuss the key features of a poem. Then, we will support children to plan, create and publish their own poems.- ‘Down at the station’, ‘The Sound Collector’. We
Maths
First, we will complete our subtraction word problems tasks. Then we will be looking at Measuring this week Volume and Capacity. Our children will be using out-door area to explore their learning.
Science
Children will be naming and identifying plant parts we eat. Example: roots, leaves, stems, seeds, flowers. We will be listening and learning ‘ Plant alphabet song’.
Geography
Children will name, locate and identify characteristics of the 4 countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding season Maps-Atlas work.
P.E
We will be supporting children to master basic skipping skills. We will encourage them to develop foot patterns that aid skipping.
PSHE
Children will learn to talk about their feelings. Discussion about Big/small worries – How can we get help? What can we do?…. We will be reading the text -‘ The Huge Bag Worries’.
R.E
We will be looking at Hindusium- Hindus believes about God.
This week – Home work:– Science.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 12th June, 2019
Please continue …
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonic games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm http://more.starfall.com/?t=253552593&y=1
Week Beginning 10th June 2019
The children have settled back into school really well after their half term break. This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will work on statistics. We will create tally charts, bar charts, diagrams and tables. We will also answer one and two step questions based on data presented.
- In English we will plan and write our own version of Dream Big by Deloris Jordan. We will make our own dreams the focus of the story.
- In science we will learn how to carry out a health check on another person.
- In topic time we will plan and make our own nut free muesli.
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Year Four Weekly Blog 10th June 2019
Thank you for all your support cheering your children on at Sports Day. What a fantastic day!
This week year four will be learning:
Literacy-This week we will be learning about successful opening to narrative stories and using inverted commas in writing.
Maths-We will be learning about types of angles including obtuse, acute and right-angles. as well as identifying angles in shapes
Topic-After learning about religion and deities, we will be learning why Ancient Egyptians built pyramids.
P.E-We will be continuing net and wall sports, focusing on volleyball
I.C.T-We will be using scratch to design toy prototypes
Science-We will be starting a unit on electricity finding out what we already know and building on this learning.
Dates for the diary
Non-uniform day-Thursday 13th June-bring a bottle for the school fair.
Week beginning 3rd June
I hope you all had a restful half term and your children come back ready to work for the last 7 weeks and 2 days!!
What will we be learning
English-We will be continuing to write our own story that builds up suspense
Maths-We will be learning how to solve patterns and puzzles
Science-We will be carrying out assessments this week as well as looking at evolution
PSHE-We will be learning about illegal and legal drugs
PE-This week’s PE lessons also include Sports Day (Thur 6th June 10am at Croydon Arena)
R.E-We will be continuing our work on Buddhism
MFL-We will be carrying out assessments this week in how much we have learnt already
DT-We will be starting to learn how pop up books are made and evaluating their effectiveness
Important Information
This is a very busy half term for the children in Year 6.
Please look out for notices/letters that will be sent home about trips, leavers parties, leavers’ assemblies, summer fair, reports etc.
Please also make sure the school are made aware about days your child may need to have off due to visits to secondary school etc.
Please keep an eye out for any pop up books you may have at home. We need to collect about 12 that the children can evaluate.
Thank you for all your support
Week beginning 4th June 2019
Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
* I can calculate the area of compound shapes (Recap).
* I can estimate and approximate area (Continue & finish).
* I can identify different 2D shapes and describe their properties (Recap Y4).
English – We shall be starting our new unit, diary writing. This week we shall be identifying the key features, editing an existing diary and then planning and writing a diary entry based on Sports Day.
PE – It is sports day this Thursday. Any child travelling with the school must arrive promptly and in their PE kit.
French – We shall be continuing to look at the unit of clothes!
Music – Soundstart lessons will continue this week.
Reading – We shall be continuing with our class text, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this week. We shall be basing our comprehension sessions around our class text.
Geography – We shall be starting our new topic, Rivers!
Art – We shall be looking at our new unit, landscape artists.
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Sports Day – 6th June
Week beginning 4th June 2019
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Welcome back to school!! We hope you have had a restful May half term break.
It’s hard to believe we are in the final term of your child’s year in Reception. This is a very busy term with lots of fun activities for the children. It is also an important term as we begin to prepare the children for their transition to Year 1 in September.
You can help by talking to your child at home about change and growing. This is something we will also focus on in class. We will be doing a class project about their development and how they have grown. So we ask if you could please send in ONE baby picture (0-12 months) of your child. Please send a copy or if you send the original we will make a copy and return the original. We will also return any copies we make. Please send in by Monday, 10th June. Please send in a named envelope.
There are also several fun days to look forward to this term: Coach trip to the farm; Sports Day and the Summer Fair. More information about dates and times will follow in due course.
We look forward to a wonderful final term with you and your families.
Kind Regards,
Reception Team
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THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SUMMER TERM 2 TOPIC: Summer’s Here
Theme: The Weather
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Rosie’s Hat by Julia Donaldson
In keeping with our weather theme, this enjoyable story is all about a very smart hat which has many adventures on a very windy day.
Group Phonics: This term we will focus on reading words and sentences containing all the phonemes the children have learnt throughout the year and we will be teaching strategies for instant blending of words and strategies for reading longer multisyllabic words.
MATHS: Solving addition and subtraction number stories and working with numbers within and beyond 20
PE: Athletics – This term the children will enjoy several athletics based activities such as running, relay, hurdles (low level), and javelin (made of soft foam) [/dropshadowbox]
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Seasons song
The Weather Song
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Homework will go out on Friday 7th June 2019
READING BOOKS and WORD LISTS: Will be checked on group days
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Event Dates to be added in due course
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Week beginning 3rd June
We will be spending the first week back writing police reports based on our key text from last half term: Tuesday.
Maths
We will be recapping all of our maths learning from the year, starting with number and place value. This is a good way to ensure that the children have a sound understanding of each of the maths strands. We will still be having structured lessons in the same format as usual.
Art
We will be creating our own colour wheels based on Kandinsky’s work.
Geography
We will be naming and locating the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world.
Science
We will be exploring the desert habitat. We will also be looking at how humans can keep healthy e.g diet, hygiene and exercise.
PE
We are going to be making the most of the good weather this term. We will be doing ball skills with tennis/ basketball and skipping.
Important information
Key Stage 1 Sports Day
Thursday 11th July at the Old Whitgiftian’s Sports Club