Week beginning 10th September 2018
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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.
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Christmas jumper day-14th December
Christmas Carol Concert-18th December 2pm
Class party-19th December
Last day of school-20th December
Week beginning 10th December 2018
This week:
- In Maths we will start to work on telling the time, we will begin looking at quarter past, half past, quarter to and o’ clock with an aim to begin telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes and then the nearest minute.
- In English we will be re-writing the middle of Aladdin and up-levelling our writing.
- In R.E we will be looking at the significance of light at Christmas.
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Week commencing 10th December
Please find an update about what we will be learning in Year 6 this week;
English- we will be writing contrasting diary entries as the Pied Piper.
Firstly when he took on the job for the council and secondly when they refused to pay him the agreed amount
Maths- We will be looking at conversion between imperial and metric measures and 12 and 24 hour clock.
IXL maths ( a free online site)offers many fun links to learn about these areas
Topic- in Geography we will be learning out the European states as they existed before WW2
Other information-
We continue to rehearse for our Xmas production with many of the children doing very well in roles as narrators.
Saturday 15th December is the Christmas Fair, please come and support the school! Raffle tickets are currently on sale outside the Assembly Hall before and after school.
Week Beginning 10th December 2018
In Waterloo Bridge Class this week our learning will be as follows;
- In Mathematics we will be beginning some work on time. Our target is to be able to tell the time to the nearest minute.
- In English we will be writing the middle of a story based on Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Phillip Pullman.
- In Science we will investigate shadows.
- In RE we will look at the significance of light at Christmas.
We continue to work hard rehearsing for our carol concert on 18th December. We are grateful to parents who are helping children to rehearse at home.
Week Beginning December 10th December, 2018
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Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions.
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Ryan – 12661 Points / Ben 12145 Points
Vauxhall Class : Krishan (6400 Points)
Silver Award :
Lambeth Class : Comella, Marwa, Sackena, Isaiah
Vauxhall Class : Micah, Mila
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Amira, Ayaan, Cameron, Yaacoob, Nicole, Charlotte, Jayden, Adoma, Japdeep, Lelia-Rae, Zayna,Deyan, Ben, Ryan
Vauxhall Class : Shun Ming, Isabella, Leon, Martyna, Oskar, Suvisha, Krishan
Our learning this week…
Children will continue developing their editing skills by reading to check their story and making corrections if needed.
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).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_VJfnbqT8
Science
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 write a information report about Barack Obama using all the facts they know.
RE:
We will be talking 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 RE – the significance and celebration of Christmas
*Phonics and Spelling
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
Please return home work by Wednesday 12th December, 2018.
Songs for Performance
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Songs for performance
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Week beginning 3rd December 2018
Many apologies for the missing blog from last week- we encountered technical issues :/
Writing
We are starting a new text this week looking at the Nativity story.
1263 – Nativity – The Macneil Studio
The children will be thinking about any new vocabulary in the text and using dictionaries to find definitions before thinking more carefully about the story e.g. how the characters felt and their motivations & actions.
Reading
We are continuing to read The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl.
Maths
This week we will be finishing our money topic.
We will be focusing on finding change and 2-step problems. There are strong links to the calculating strategies that your children have already learnt.
The key concepts are that finding change is a subtraction calculation and therefore they will need to use number lines or place value charts as a strategy.
An example of a 2-step problem using money is as follows: Molly bought an apple costing 25p and an orange costing 54p. She paid with £1 coin. How much change did she get?
So… the children will add 25p+54p to find the total and then subtract the total from the money paid- £1- 79p=__
History
We will be introducing a new famous person from history… Florence Nightingale.
Week beginning 3rd December 2018
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LEARNING VIDEOS
Phonics – blending to read cvc words with sounds /s/a/t/p/i/n
Phonics – blending to read cvc words with sounds /m/d/g/o/c/k
Maths – Subitize (quick recognition of an quantity)
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This week’s learning
LITERACY
Book Focus: Aliens love underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Phonics: Assisted blending to decode cvc words with the following sounds: /s/a/t/p/i/n/m/d/g/o/c/k/ck. Please use the video above for extra practice. Your child will bring home a list of words to decode. Please keep these at home and practise daily decoding.
MATHS:
• To practise number formation
• To develop quick recognition of quantities up to 5 by looking at arrangements of these quantities. This is known as subitizing – see video above
• To count on from a given number to find the answer when adding two single-digit numbers using quantities and objects
• To say the number that is one more than a given number.
Understanding the world: To discuss the celebrations that occur in December and how different people in the world celebrate. We will talk about the significance of the Advent calendar for some Christians.
Expressive Arts and design: This week the children will continue to practise the four songs that the children will perform to you on Tuesday 11 December 2018. [/dropshadowbox]
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Writing numbers
Can you use the number formation rhymes to practise writing each number of the numbers 0-9 like this: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
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]
Week commencing 3rd December
Please find an update about what we will be learning in Millennium 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. Click on the link below to watch the clip.
https://www.literacyshed.com/cominghome.html
The children have also been revising sion/tion words with Mrs Forde. The link below can help with reinforcing this learning.
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zyv4qhv
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 beginning a unit about length, converting between metres and kilometres. We will then 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.
Science- Our focus this term is teeth and digestion. We will be designing our own scientific enquiry about tooth decay.
The following websites are useful resources if you would like to support your child’s science learning. http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/ science/teethandeating/ an informative site which will deepen the children’s understanding of teeth. http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/ science/bodyandmedicine/digestivesystem/ is an informative website which will support the children’s understanding of the human digestive system. Useful quiz to test knowledge.
Human Body app (ios) http://tinybop.com/apps/the-human-body allows children to manipulate the digestive system
Mrs Forde will be providing PPA cover on a Thursday morning, teaching RE, covering a topic on discrimination and Spelling.
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.
Successes- Well done to Ryan, Martin, Victoria, Pyman and Kelsey who all got merits this week!
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.