Week beginning 1st April 2019
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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
1. I can apply my fraction knowledge in an assessment situation.
(2. I can review my assessment and skills.)
3. I can use my fraction knowledge to understand percentages (over 100).
4. I can convert percentages into fractions and decimals.
5. I can find equivalent fractions-percentages-decimals.
English – We shall be looking at instruction writing this week. As a cross curricular approach, we shall be making Hot Cross Buns. We shall be focusing on the specific grammatical features associates with instruction writing.
Science – We shall be looking at changing states of material this week. Linking with our DT, we shall be looking at the process of bread – in a range of forms.
Computing – We shall be creating typing up and designing our travel brochures.
PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.
RE –We shall be looking at the Easter story, with Mrs Forde.
French – We shall be continuing to look at the weather.
Art – We shall be drawing images from photographs using chalks, based on areas around Whitby.
Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.
Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.
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Back to school – 23rd April
Monday 1st April, 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”curled” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#a8f842″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#091f92″ ]Congratulations to all our lovely athletes for completing the Cross Country Run at Duppas Hill ! Well done for your commitment and perseverance. Thank you to all the parents who supported us. Your help is much appreciated ![/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#d7d3d3″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#bc0d0d” ]Date for your diary… Tuesday 2nd April at 3:00 pm in Year 1/Year 2 Play ground – Easter Parade and Cake Sale[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”curled” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#23d8de” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#92092a” ]Congratulations to Lambeth class for an amazing Assembly for your Parents. Well done.. You are so talented and we are very proud of you ! Thank you to all the parents who supported us. Your help is much appreciated ![/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”curled” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f7ef78″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#3d57a3″ ]Thank you for all your support with out Hat Day for Charity ! Your help and generosity is much appreciated ![/dropshadowbox]
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Ben – 3726 and Charlotte 2360Points.
Vauxhall Class : Reluwane– 6280 Points and Krishan 7002Points.
Gold Award
Lambeth Class :Deyan, Marwa, Yaacoob
Silver Award
Vauxhall Award : Reluwane, Sayyid, Shun Ming
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Japdeep, Kye, Cameron, Ayaan, Comella, Isaiah, Charlotte, Vanessa, Jayden, Adoma, Nicole. Ben
Vauxhall Class : Elizabeth, Yeabsira, Tristan, Kostek, Leon, Suvisha, Krishan
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#e40ecd” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#082272″ ]Our Learning This week… [/dropshadowbox]
English
Children have been carefully observing a painting called ‘The girl in the rain’ and use this painting to create their own story map. This week they will write their own creative story.
Maths
We will revisit Place value and children will be using a range of resources – Ten frame, Part-Part Whole, Base 10 to develop a deeper understanding of tens and units,
Science
Children will continue their learning about classifying animals into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores – Mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, insects.
Geography
Children will explore weather patterns by looking at the climate patterns in UK and use atlas to identify the countries in UK.
P.E
Children will continue their learning by making different body shapes like tuck, pike, straddle, dish, arch etc… and also begin to do different rolls like a log roll, egg role and a teddy roll. Children will now sequence a range of movements.
PSHE
We are learning about how to keep our bodies safe and how to get help if they feel vulnerable. We use the NSPCC website to learn about PANTS – the underwear rule.
It stands for P – Privates are Private, A -Always remember your body belongs to you, N- No means no, T- Talk about secrets that upset you, S – Speak up, someone can help.
Watch the Pantosaurus video… https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
Please check the link for the Parental guide.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
R.E
We will be looking at Christianity and the significance of the church as a place of worship for the Christians as well as the significance of Easter.
This week – Home work:– Design and make a poster about Christianity / Easter.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 3rd April, 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 1st April 2019
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Thank you for attending Parent’s Evening last week. I’m sure you are equally pleased with the tremendous progress the children have made since joining us in September. We are incredibly proud of all their achievements.
As this is our final week of term, please ensure that all homework books are returned by Wednesday and that reading books are sent in on group days to ensure your child has their book changed before the Easter break.
Please note the due date for final payments for our trip to Godstone Farm is Thursday 4th April .
Please do not make any travel arrangements yet. You will be notified in due course about a meeting to discuss our plans for the trip.
Kind Regards,
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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#abfcb5″ ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SPRING TERM 2 TOPIC: Traditional Tales
LITERACY: The children have really enjoyed this topic so in our final week of term they will have opportunities to talk, role play and write about their favourite traditional tale, and characters
MATHS: This week the children will learn to count in steps of 2 and begin to learn about finding double of a quantity
UW: We will discuss the Easter story and its significance to Christians. The children will also enjoy some Easter fun with Easter craft and an Easter egg hunt on Friday. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#8dfbfa” ]LEARNING VIDEOS
Counting by 2
Doubles
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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#f6a4fe” ]HOMEWORK:
Coins and notes
Talk to your child about the notes and coins in your purse/wallet
• Describe the size and shape of the coins/notes
• Name the coins/notes
• Trace around the coins and write the value of each coin eg. 1p/2p/5p/10p/20p/50p/£1/£2
• Draw a picture of some of the different notes
READING BOOKS: Please send in reading books and reading diaries on group days.
WORD LISTS: Word lists will be changed on group days [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#e2b0fc” ]THIS WEEK’S MATHLETICS CHAMPIONS
Bronze certificates
CHELSEA: Brady, Emily, Luke, Bonnie, Yusuf
GROSVENOR: Oliver, Alesha, Agyeiwaa [/dropshadowbox]
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Thursday, 4th April 2019– Final payments for Godstone Farm coach trip due.
Friday, 5th April – last day of term
Tuesday, 23rd April – Children return to school for Summer 1 [/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 1st April.
We had a great week last week in Waterloo Bridge Class. We enjoyed taking part in cross country running at Duppas Hill Park on Tuesday. We also participated in “Wear a Hat” day on Friday. This week our learning will be as follows.
- In mathematics we will learn to divide numbers both with and without remainders.
- In English we will write newspaper articles based on the Easter story.
- In topic time we will focus on work around the Easter story creating sadness and joy collages.
- In PHSE we will continue our work using the NSPCC’s “Let’s talk pants” materials. Details of this can be found at https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
It was lovely seeing parents at parents’ evening meetings this week and last. Please get in touch if you still need a meeting.
We break up on Friday 5th April. We hope that all families have a great Easter holiday.
Week Beginning 25th March
In Waterloo Bridge this class our learning is as follows;
- In mathematics we will begin a new unit of work on multiplication and division and we will learn how to multiply a two digit number by a one digit number.
- In English we will learn about the features of a newspaper report.
- In science we will learn about the work of Isaac Newton.
- In RE we will discuss the Easter Story
- In PHSE we will begin work following the NSPCC’s “Let’s talk Pants” material.
We are looking forward to taking part in cross country running at Duppas Hill Park on Tuesday.
Week beginning 1st April 2019
Here comes the final push towards the end of term. We hope that the children all enjoy the much-needed break!
Writing
We will be writing our innovation stories this week with a strong focus on the prequel and ending. Once these have been completed and up-levelled we will be focusing on our diary entries as part of our history learning.
We are excited to share our prequels with Julia Donaldson. We hope that she might respond to us if we write her a letter!
Maths
Our new unit of work is on position and direction. Our learning objectives are as follows:
- To describe movements.
- To describe turns.
- To make patterns with shapes.
Here is some of the key vocabulary we will be focusing on during this unit.
History
We will be completing our work on Neil Armstrong and the Race to Space.
Science
We will be completing our final seed observation and drawing conclusions based on what we have noticed.
PE
This week will be the final week with the students from Archbishop Tennison’s.
Other information
We come back to school on Tuesday 23rd April since Monday 22nd is a Bank Holiday.
Year Four Weekly Blog-Wk beginning 1 April
Our Learning this week:
English-We will be finishing writing our persuasive letters to Croydon council.
Topic/Science-We will be looking at and comparing World biomes in a cross curricular week which will also include Maths lessons on statistics, shape and tessellation .
PSHE-We will be looking at an NSPCC topic around keeping children safe as part of a whole school approach. See the parent’s guide below:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/advice-and-info/pants/pants-2018/pants-parents-guide-online.pdf
After a successful 8 week programme from CUES-ED children will be graduating this week. Look out for your child’s login details which they will receive this week to enable them to access online resources linked to their learning.
PE-We will be taking part in gymnastics and circuit training lessons
Important Information
Friday 5th April-break up normal time for the Easter holidays
Week beginning 25th March 2019
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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
1. I can review my learning I: I can compare and order fractions.
2. I can review my learning II: I can add and subtract fractions.
3. I can apply my fraction knowledge in an assessment situation.
4. I can convert fractions (over 100) into percentages.
5. I can convert percentages into fractions and decimals.
English – We shall be finishing our new topic, Travel Brochures. We will be designing, writing and creating our travel guides.
Science – We shall be having a Science week this week, looking all at the properties and changing states of materials.
Computing – We shall be creating typing up and designing our travel brochures.
PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.
French – We shall be continuing to look at the weather.
Art – We shall be drawing images from photographs, based on areas around Whitby.
Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.
Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.
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27th March – Spring term parents’ evening
Week beginning 1st April 2019
What will we be learning?
Maths-We will be learning how to find the perimeter of polygons
English-We will be writing our explanation about the heart
PSHE-We will be looking at keeping ourselves safe
PE-We will be participating in Boxercise and dance
RE-We will be learning about Buddhism
Spanish-We will be learning about conversational language in Spanish
Important Information
The last day of school is Friday 5th April. There are then 2 weeks holiday.
We return to school on Tuesday 23rd April
SATS -Monday 13th May 2019
Week beginning 25th March
Writing
This week we are hoping to start writing our innovated prequels and endings for Julia Donaldson’s story Monkey Puzzle. The children will be able to keep the middle part of the story as it was. We will be encouraging the children to think about what baby monkey has learnt from his experiences.
Maths
We will be continuing with our work on time. We will be looking at time facts and using them to problem solve. We will also be looking at and comparing durations of time. Please work on these at home.
An example of a reasoning activity could be: convince me that three quarters of an hour is greater than 30 minutes. For this, the children need to know how many minutes there are in an hour and use their knowledge of fractions/ other time facts to support their thinking.
We will also be completing our length assessment.
History
We are continuing with our work on Neil Armstrong and the Race to Space. We will be writing diary entries to link with literacy.
Science
We will be continuing our work on plants. We have been observing how well the seeds we planted have been growing.
PE
We have students from Archbishop Tennison’s doing activities with the children this half term.
Other information
On Monday we will be out at Duppas Hill for a KS1 cross country event (weather permitting).