Week Beginning 28th January
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will consume working on measuring length.We will also learn to find the perimeter of shapes.
- In English we will be exploring a story from another culture, Magic Dogs of the Vocano by Manlio Argueto
- In science we will look at how fossils form.
- In topic time we will look at tourism in volcanic regions.
- In RE we will look at why Muslims believe it is important to care for the environment.
Well done to Leonardo and Ariz who our first members of the 100 club having learned all their times tables up to 10 x 10.
Week Beginning 28 January
English.
This week we shall be using our research into the life of Anne Frank to plan and write a diary entry .
History
We shall be looking at rationing in WW2 and create posters to encourage people to make do and mend or grow their own.
Maths
We will continue to work in our groupings allowing for focused learning
PE
Swimming will continue up to half term
We shall be looking at team work in a competitive environment
RE
We shall be creating a story board of the life of Prince Siddhartha,whom went on to become the Buddha.
SPAG
we will begin to look at last years grammar paper in our SPAG sessions.
Children are strongly advised to independently study the words from the year 4/5/6 spelling sheet as some of these are the words randomly selected for the spelling test each year
Writing
We will be finishing up our innovated warning tales this week before moving onto non chronological reports next week. In the meantime we will be focusing on SPaG (Spelling Punctuation and Grammar) concepts.
These will include: working on suffixes, apostrophes for contractions and possession and subordinating conjunctions.
Reading
Our new class read will be The Hodgeheg by Dick-King-Smith. We will be doing lots of reading comprehension style activities based on the text in preparation for the SATs in May.
Maths
At the beginning of the week we will be doing a quick multiplication assessment before moving onto our new maths unit: shape and space.
This week we will be recapping naming 2D and 3D shapes before focusing on the properties of 2D shapes. The children will need to be able to identify and count sides and vertices on 2D shapes in order to reason and problem solve.
The children will be learning/ recapping a lot of vocabulary associated with shape, sorting and pattern. It would be helpful if you could encourage and consolidate this at home.
History
We are hoping to move onto learning about a new historical figure: Pablo Picasso.
Science
We will be continuing our work on plants.
PE
We are excited to have some students from Archbishop Tennisons learning to lead PE/ games and activities as part of their Sport’s Leader’s Initiative. They will be working with us for the next 6 weeks.
Important information
We will be holding another maths workshop on Thursday 31st January. THIS IS A REPEAT OF THE CALCULATING WORKSHOP WE HELD IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR. It would be great to see you all there!
Week Beginning Monday 21st January, 2019
Children have settled back into the class / school routines and are enjoying our new context. This week they will begin to learn about the Moon and space.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Our Maths workshop is on Wednesday 23rd January at 9:00 am in the Dining Hall. Please attend as it will give you an insight of how maths is taught in Year 1, the use of resources to support children’s understanding of key mathematical concepts as well as how you can support your child at home.[/dropshadowbox]
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions.
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Ryan – 2600 Points / Deyan – 2400 Points
Vauxhall Class : Oskar – 1890 Points/ Naa Ayorkar – 1100 Points
Silver Award :
Lambeth Class : Ayaan
Vauxhall Class : Oskar
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Ryan,Deyan,Charlotte,Isaiah,Magnus, Nicole,Yaacoob, Comella,Ben,Sharaya
Vauxhall Class : Shun Ming, Isabella,NaaAyonkar
Our learning …
This term our new context is called…
‘Now you see me, now you don’t’ and it is about Space especially focusing on the ‘Moon’.
This is related to exploring space in Science as well as learning about significant people who has made a contribution to world history – our focus is on Neil Armstrong. We will also be learning about classification of animals in science – mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, amphibians etc..
Please check your child’s homework book for the overview of this term’s curriculum.
English
Our focus text is ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram. Your child will continue developing their skills of prediction and questioning. They will begin to identify and differentiate between fiction and non-fiction texts and understand the different features of texts. Fiction – stories, pictures, characters, events, sequencing events (beginning, middle and end). Non-fiction – true, facts, contents, photographs etc…
Maths
We will be learning to tell the time – o’clock and half past and make comparisons. Children will also begin to understand the different units of time – seconds, minutes, hour, day, night, week, month, year, seasons etc…
Please use the link below to support your child’s learning.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
We will also be continue our learning to count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s from different numbers.
Science
We will continue our learning about seasonal changes focusing on Winter.
Children will be looking at different types of animals and birds and sort them to different categories in their learning about classification – mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish etc…
PSHE
Children will begin to develop their understanding about going for goals and how to achieve them by breaking them into little steps,
ICT
Children will learn about e-safety and how to get help when necessary. They will continue developing their skills to use a keyboard – write their name, change font and size and colour, use back space, enter and space bar keys with confidence. Please support your child at home to do the same.
P.E.
Children will be learning about control and how to develop ball skills – chest pass, over arm throw, under arm throw etc…
This week Home work:- Space poster, phonics and spelling.
Please continue …
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
Please return home work by Wednesday 23rd January, 2019.
Week Beginning 21st January
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will learn to estimate, measure and compare lengths.
- In English we will create information leaflets on volcanoes.
- In science we will investigate the properties of rocks.
- In topic time we will find out why volcanoes often occur around the “Ring of Fire”.
- In RE we will earn about why Jewish people believe it is important to care for the environment and learn about the Jewish festival of Tu B’Shevat ( the birthday for the trees).
The children will take their number stars test every two weeks and are divided into two groups. Group 1 will take their test this week and group 2 the following week.
Week beginning 21st January 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#8c0ec1″ ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SPRING TERM 1 TOPIC: Transport
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham
The children will enjoy this story about a very noisy boat trip with the main character Mr Gumpy. This week we focus on developing the language to sequence time by retelling the story using story maps and actions.
GROUP PHONICS: Group Phonics will continue this week with each group focusing on reviewing the sounds learnt and decoding new words as well learning how to spell and write these words.
KEY WORD LISTS: Please only send in word lists if your child is ready to be tested. Please note that there isn’t any rush for your child to race through the lists. It is more important that they have secure recognition of these words before moving onto the next list.
MATHS: This term we focus on securing number skills within 0-10. This week we will focus on:
• Finding the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them. • Saying the number that is one more than a given number.
• Finding one more or one less from a group of up to ten objects.
• In practical activities and discussion, use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting.
• Begin to represent a number story using numerals and symbols for addition and subtraction [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#2cb6f0″ ]HOMEWORK
Please refer to sticker in homework book
READING BOOKS
Please continue to send in reading books and diaries on group days [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#38e32b” ]USEFUL LEARNING VIDEOS:
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Southwark Class Blog-Week beginning 21.1.19
What are we learning this week?
Maths – This week we will be exploring factors and multiples and then assessing our progress with our multiplication and division unit..
English – To continue our Rainforest theme, this week we will be beginning to read and investigate the text-The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. Please feel free to follow along with us at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0arFtHeVw
Science-We will be completing our unit on teeth and digestion by investigating the effect of sugar on the teeth and concluding which liquids effect the enamel most and therefore which liquids damage the enamel.
I.C.T-We will be continuing our internet safety unit exploring online gaming
P.E-Both classes have been enjoying using scooter boards to improve their netball skills.
Congratulations to Southwark’s Crazy chickens team who earned 205 marbles this week. Bianca and Teddy who were our readers of the week and those children who got merit cards, Lucas, Sofia, William, Emiliana and Oscar from Southwark bridge class and Taylor and from Millennium.
Week beginning 21st January 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#e59dfa” ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – Revising the formal methods of multiplication and division.
English – We shall be starting our new unit, warning stories, based on our new class read – Room 13!
Science – We shall be revising our key facts from our Space topic.
Computing – We shall be looking at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addiction. We shall also be looking at how to build a Space animation on Scratch.
Reading – We shall be starting our new class novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells. Thanks to the Friends of Howard for our lovely class sets of books so that we can all read along! We shall also be writing a book review on Wonder. 
History – We shall be finishing off our innovation of Pandora’s box – with a modern twist!
PE – We have PE lessons on Tuesdays and Thursday. Please make sure your child has some tracksuit bottoms/leggings as we shall be going outside on Thursdays.
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31st January – Trip to Polka Theatre.
Week beginning Monday 14 January
Maths
This week we will begin to work in new groupings , in order for children to be challenged and extended at the most appropriate level.
Literacy
we are using our research on the life of Anne Frank to plan and write a biography o her life.
Science.
our topic this term will be living things and their habitats .
We will be looking at looking at the classification of living things
Religious Education
our topic this term is Buddhism
Our study of humanities this term will be focused on world War 2 in History.
Week beginning 14th January 2019
Writing
We will be continuing to look at The Magic Brush. This week we are focusing on innovating our own warning stories using a warning tale toolkit. We have worked hard on understanding the concept of a good warning tale.
SPaG
Our focus this week is on conjunction use, particularly subordinating conjunctions e.g because, when, if, until and while. They can be used at the beginning of a sentence or to join two clauses of unequal importance. For example:
I waited inside until it had stopped raining. (the phrase it had stopped raining does not make sense on its own).
Reading
Our new class read will be The Hodgeheg by Dick-King-Smith. We will be doing lots of reading comprehension style activities based on the text in preparation for the SATs in May.
Maths
We have moved onto division and have been consolidating our understanding of equal groups. This week we will be dividing by 2s, 5s and 10s with an emphasis on using pictorial representations to help us solve problems (ie drawing sharing plates etc).
For example: 50 divided by 5=___. We would draw five plates or circles to represent the groups and share or group 50 counters in each of the groups. The answer will be the amount in one of the groups.
We are encouraging the children to recognise fact families. For example: 2×5=10 and 5×2=10 therefore 10 divided by 2=5 and 10 divided by 5=2. The children should have a strong understanding that multiplication is commutative (can be done in any order) but division is not (and has to begin with the total or largest number).
History
We will be finishing our work on Florence Nightingale’s life this week.
Science
We will be moving on to looking at plants. We will be finding out and describing what plants need in order to grow. The children will be hypothesising and planning their own investigations.