Week beginning 17th December 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#1a980f” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]
Dear Parents
Thank you for coming to see our musical performance last week. We are incredibly proud of all our Reception children and it was a joy to see how they have grown in confidence over the last three months.
As we approach the end of the Autumn term, we would like to wish you and your families a very joyous festive season. The children will celebrate with a class Christmas party on Wednesday afternoon. Please send in requested party treats by Wednesday morning. The children may wear their own clothes (party clothes) to school on Wednesday.
The last day of school for children is Thursday 20th December. The children must wear their regular school uniform on this day.
Kind Regards
Reception Team
[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#d51414″ ]This week’s learning
AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark
Theme: Christmas
LITERACY:
Book Focus: The Stick Man by Julia Donaldson
Phonics: The children’s Phonics learning has now been assessed and next term they will work in smaller groups during Phonics lessons. This is to ensure that they learn phonic skills at the pace at which they are making progress. We will provide further information about this next term.
Please help your child by listening to them as they practise reading sounds and words using their phonic knowledge. Help them to point under each sound as they say each sound, then sweep their finger across the word as they blend to decode the word.
High frequency word lists: Next term we will begin sending home our ‘Animal’ word lists.
MATHS: This week we will revise concepts about number, shape and measure through our Christmas related activities. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#0e8807″ ]HOMEWORK:
Writing CVC words
Use the sheet provided and write the words that match each of the pictures, forming each letter correctly.
Please note that the children will not receive holiday homework so please send in all green homework books by Wednesday.
Reading books:
This week, all reading books will be changed on any day between Monday – Wednesday so please ensure your child’s books are in their book bag everyday [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#cc0d20″ ]IMPORTANT DATES
Wednesday, 19th December: Class Christmas party. Children may wear their own clothes to school
Thursday, 20th December: Last day of term
Monday, 7th January 2019: Children return to school [/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 17th December
In Waterloo Bridge Class this week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we continue to work on telling the time to the nearest five minutes.
- In English we will write the end of our Aladdin stories. We will make our stories into a book.
- In RE we will learn about Christmas symbolism.
- In Design and Technology we are sewing using binca fabric.
On Monday we will be visiting St Andrew’s Church to rehearse for our performance. We are looking forward to seeing parents and friends at our Carol Concert at St Andrew’s on Tuesday at 10am.
Our Christmas party is on Wednesday 19th December. Children may wear their own clothes but they should be suitable for morning learning and playing outside. Children should bring some food, without nuts, to share with the class.
Week commencing 17th December
Wow! The end of the first term already! It has been such an amazing start to the year and everybody has worked so hard and achieved so much! A break is well deserved!
What we hope to achieve during the last week of term;
English- We will be putting the finishing touches to our robin writing. Click on the link below to watch the clip.
https://www.literacyshed.com/cominghome.html
We have been amazed by the progress made in writing this term, the quality has been amazing and we hope to continue this upward trend next year.
Reading- All children should be reading at home every day during the holidays!
Maths- We are recapping our term’s learning this week.
In addition to this, all children need to be practising the multiplication tables as one of the Year 4 objectives is know the tables and related division facts to 12×12. There will be a weekly test in class.
There is a free interactive game we use often in class as a starter which children can also access at home. Please find the link below;
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Your child has also been given a password to a new times tables speed game which will help them to improve their recall of multiplication and division facts while still having fun.
Homework- Homework will be set on a Friday and should be returned by the following Wednesday each week. The children will be expected to read every day and practise their multiplication tables in addition to other work that is given.There will also be weekly tasks set on Mathletics and Spellodrome. This week, we have given a project which does not need to be handed in until Friday 11th January. Children should research and present their information about how children in another country celebrate Christmas. see below for a copy of the homework.
Other information-
Saturday 15th December is the Christmas Fair, please come and support the school!
Monday 17th December is the final dress rehearsal in St Andrew’s church prior to our performance.
Tuesday 18th December is the Year 3 and 4 Christmas performance in the church at 10am.
Wednesday 19th December is class parties- letter attached below.
Thank you for all your help and support this term. We couldn’t have done it without you. Have a wonderful Christmas break, however you spend it!
Week Beginning 17th December, 2018
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions.
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Ryan – 10290 Points / Ben 1o039 Points
Vauxhall Class : Krishan (8610 Points/Micah 7282 Points
Silver Award :
Lambeth Class : Vanessa, Lelia-Rae
Vauxhall Class : Suvisha, Ali, Shun Ming, Oskar
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Amira, Ayaan, Yaacoob, Nicole, Charlotte, Jayden, Adoma, Japdeep, Deyan, Ben, Ryan, Sackena, Annika, Lena, Comella, Isaiah, Marwa
Vauxhall Class : Leon, Krishan, Sayyid, Yeabsira, Anthony, Micah
Our learning this week…
Assessment week-Children will writing a letter to Santa, retelling the Christmas story by sequence pictures and write the Christmas story independently.
Maths
Your child will be developing their understanding of comparing numbers which are lesser than / greater than and equal to a given number, greatest / smallest as well as be introduced to the symbols > (greater than) and < (lesser than). We will be looking at measurements- Long/short, tall/short, big/small.
Science
Assessment week-we will recall all the facts we have learnt about materials and their properties – glass ( hard, transparent), fabric ( smooth, ribbed, absorbent), plastic (flexible,hard or smooth), metal (shiny, hard), rubber (strong,stretchy, waterproof), stone (strong, hard, smooth or rough) as well as classify objects into man made or natural.
History
Children will be editing their information report writing about Barack Obama.
RE:
We will be discussing about where Christians go to worship- Church. We will also learn about the significance of Christmas to Christians and how it is celebrated.
PE:
We will be learning some dance movements and show them how to move in different ways using the beat/rhythm of song.
Music:
We will be learning Christmas songs.
Home work:
This week home work is
* based on PSHE curriculum-‘People who help us’
*Phonics and Spelling
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
Please return home work by Wednesday 19th December, 2018.
Information for the week beginning 17 December
Literacy.
We will be watch a short animated version of A Christmas Carol and focusing on the transformation of Ebeneezer Scrooge in our writing.
Maths
We will Continue to look at converting between Metric and Imperial measure.
Other News
Our Christmas performance will be at St Andrews church from 2.15 pm on Tuesday 18 December.
Our class party is to be held on the afternoon on Wednesday. Any contribution for food or drink would be greatly appreciated
In the New Year
After the holiday we will be studying WW2 in many areas of the curriculum. It would be advantageous if the children were aware of the general background to the conflict and significant dates
. More specific areas of study such as Anne Frank The Holocaust), the Blitz and Evacuation are also to be covered.
Separately we will be looking at the writing of Shakespeare, so again it would be beneficial if the children had been exposed to his prose or made aware of his existence.
School finishes at 3;30 on Thursday.
See you at normal time on 7th January 2019
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.Mr Jalloh
Week commencing 10th December
Please find an update about what we will be learning in Year 4 this week;
English- We will be using a video clip to inspire our writing in English this week. We will be continuing to write and edit our narrative, practising all of our writing skills we have used so far (fronted adverbial phrases, strong openings, descriptive language, paragraphing etc) and learning to include expanded noun phrases in our work as well. Those children who have completed this will be extended by thinking of a sequel to the story. Click on the link below to watch the clip.
https://www.literacyshed.com/cominghome.html
Reading- All children should be reading at home every day and handing their record books in each day to be checked. They will be reading in guided groups with an adult at least once each week.
Maths- We are continuing our unit on measure. We will be calculating the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.
In addition to this, all children need to be practising the multiplication tables as one of the Year 4 objectives is know the tables and related division facts to 12×12. There will be a weekly test in class.
There is a free interactive game we use often in class as a starter which children can also access at home. Please find the link below;
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Your child has also been given a password to a new times tables speed game which will help them to improve their recall of multiplication and division facts while still having fun.
Topic- This week we are learning about Viking beliefs and Danelaw.
Homework- Homework will be set on a Friday and should be returned by the following Wednesday each week. The children will be expected to read every day and practise their multiplication tables in addition to other work that is given.There will also be weekly tasks set on Mathletics and Spellodrome. This week, children have been asked to learn their songs and narration words for the Christmas performance.
Other information-
Saturday 15th December is the Christmas Fair, please come and support the school!
Tuesday 18th December is the Year 3 and 4 Christmas performance in the church at 10am.
Friday 14th December is Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner
Wednesday 19th December is class parties- letters to follow!
Week beginning 10th December 2018
We are continuing to look at The Nativity Story this week. We will be looking at the features of a journey toolkit and will be doing our own piece of independent story writing. There is an emphasis on using new vocabulary from the text (such as taxes, scroll, worship) as well as using conjunctions and time adverbials effectively.
1263 – Nativity – The Macneil Studio
Reading
We are continuing to read The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl.
Maths
We have moved onto early multiplication skills e.g recognising and making equal groups. Our focus this week is on making links between this and repeated addition before leading into using the multiplication symbol. For example: 5+5+5 is the same as three equal groups with five in each group which is the same as 3 X 5. The X symbol means ‘groups of’ or ‘lots of’. The children should make links between the fact that addition is commutative (can be done in any order) and therefore so is multiplication e.g 3×5 and 5×3 will give you the same total.
History
We will be introducing a new famous person from history… Florence Nightingale.
ReminderDon’t forget our Christmas production is Thursday 13th December at 2:15 in the main hall. Christmas jumper is on Friday 15th December. 🙂
Week beginning 10th December 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ce9bfc” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#030404″ ]This week, we will be learning the following:[/dropshadowbox]
Maths:
This week, we shall be looking at mutliplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1000.
English:
This week, we shall be starting our new poetry unit. We shall be reciting and innovating ‘I am…’ poems.
Music:
Our music lessons will be used to practise for our Cristmas performance on 18th December.
RE:
Mrs Forde will be finishing off our unit on Christianity, this week.
Computing:
We shall be looking at word processing skills and how to use features to write a newspaper report.
French:
We shall be looking at the unit of pets this week, As-tu un animal? We shall be completing a listening exercise and starting to round off the topic!
History:
We shall be continuing to looking at Pandora’s box; retelling and innovating the greek myth.
Christmas Jumper Day – 14th November
Christmas performance – 18th December
Week beginning 10th December 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f72121″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#ec1d1d” ]Dear Parents, Carers
We look forward to seeing you at our Christmas Musical Performance to watch your child perform the songs they have been learning.
This will take place on Tuesday 11th December at 9.30am in the main school hall. So please make your way to the main hall after you drop your child off at 8.50am
Kind Regards
Reception Team
[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#3fdd2a” ]LEARNING VIDEOS
See songs to practise in previous blog post [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#dd2a3f” ]AUTUMN 2 TOPIC: Light and Dark
This week’s learning
LITERACY
Book Focus: Stickman by Julia Donaldson.
The children will be delighted to read this heart-warming, Christmas themed story about a stick family who await their father’s return.
Phonics: Assisted blending to decode cvc words. Please continue to practise daily decoding.
MATHS:
• To match a numeral to a random arrangement of a quantity
• To find count back from a given number
• To find one less than a given quantity
Understanding the world: The children will learn how Christmas is celebrated in different parts of the world
Expressive Arts and design: The children have been practising well for their musical performance to you on Tuesday. Also, this week they will be creating and making a range of Christmas related crafts in the creative areas of the classroom. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#31d631″ ]HOMEWORK
Celebrations We have been learning about different kinds of celebrations. Can you talk to your adult at home and find out which celebrations are important in your family and what you do when you celebrate eg: birthdays, Christmas, etc. You could draw a picture or find pictures of different celebrations. Please use your phonic knowledge to write a label for your pictures
READING BOOKS
Please read with your child and write a comment in the yellow reading diary. Please keep both reading books and yellow diary in your child’s bookbag after each reading.
Please note that if reading books have been lost, they will need to be replaced [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#d63145″ ] IMPORTANT DATES
Tuesday 11th December 2018: Reception Christmas performance to parents 9.30am in the main school hall.
Friday, 14th December 2018: Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas lunch for children. Children may wear a Christmas jumper over their usual school uniform (school dress or school shirt and school trousers)
Wednesday, 19th December 2018: Class Christmas party in the afternoon. Children may wear their own clothes to school
Thursday, 20th December 2018: Last day of term for children
Monday, 7th January 2019: Children return to school [/dropshadowbox]
Week beginning 10th September 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#d257eb” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]What will we be learning?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths-We will be learning how to convert metric and imperial measurements as well as solving problems using the 24 hour clock
English-We will be completing our diary entry from the Pied Piper’s point of view. We will also be continuing to read ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar
Science-We will be continuing to learn about Electricity
PE-We will be going swimming this Tuesday
Geography-The children will be continuing to develop their map work skills and will be focusing on Europe.
Music-The children will be continuing to learn the songs for the Christmas Carol Concert.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f9f13a” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Important Information[/dropshadowbox]
Christmas jumper day-14th December
Christmas Carol Concert-18th December 2pm
Class party-19th December
Last day of school-20th December