Week beginning 5th November 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fafd98″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents, carers
We look forward to seeing you at parents evening this week. If you have not yet booked a 10 minute slot, please speak to your child’s class teacher to arrange a time to meet. If you have booked a slot, a reminder slip of your appointment time has been sent in your child’s book bag. The times will also be displayed on the class noticeboard, in the hallway outside each classroom.
Also, please return the reply slip for our trip to the cinema on Tuesday 13th November as soon as possible.
Kind Regards,
Miss Pillay, Mrs Crooks, Miss Thompson and Mrs Carden [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#8726a6″ ]AUTUMN 2 TOPIC: Light and Dark
This week’s learning
LITERACY
Book Focus: Whatever Next by Jill Murphy
The children will enjoy this wonderful story about a little bear’s adventure to the moon, developing their understanding of the story through role play activities. We will read and discuss the key events using sequencing vocabulary such as ‘First, Then, Next, Last’ or ‘At the end’.
Phonics: /i/, /n/, /m/ /d/ and /g/
Please keep each sound sheet at home and continue to practise saying and writing these sounds every day. As your child continues to learn more letter sounds they may forget the earlier sounds taught so it is important to practise daily recognition and writing (using each of the sound cues eg /a/ – round the apple , down the leaf)
MATHS: In continuation from last week
• To explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
• To recognise, create and describe patterns
• To use mathematical names for ‘flat’ 2D shapes, and mathematical terms to describe shapes
• To select a particular named shape
Knowledge and Understanding of the World: The children will begin to learn about aspects of space exploration as they become more familiar with the focus book Whatever Next . Later this week we will also discuss the significance of Remembrance Day .
Communication and Language: To listen to others one to one with increasing attention and recall [/dropshadowbox]
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Take some time this weekend to look up at the sky when it becomes dark outside. What do you see? Can you draw a picture about what you see? Ask an adult to help you write labels for your picture (eg. fireworks/ the moon/stars/aeroplane lights flickering)
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 book bag after each reading.
Please note that if a reading book is lost, you will need to replace it by purchasing the same title that was lost [/dropshadowbox]
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Monday, 5th; Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th November 2018 – Parent meetings for Reception children
Tuesday, 13th November – Reception trip to cinema
Further dates to follow [/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 5th November 2018
We have had a good first week back in Waterloo Bridge Class and the children have been working very hard. This week our learning will be as follows.
- In mathematics we will learn to multiply and divide by three and to solve problems using facts from our three times table.
- In English we will learn about the features of a film review.
- In science we will investigate darkness and learn that darkness is the absence of light.
- In topic time we will learn about the difference between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age.
- In RE we will learn about the story of Ganesha.
We are looking forward to our visit to the cinema on Thursday.
Southwark Weekly News Week Beginning 5th November
Our Learning This Week:
Maths-We will be subtracting 4 digit numbers including multiple exchanges, learning when or when not to exchange and different ways to use an inverse operation to check an answer.
Literacy-We will be following an explanation video-How to Draw Horrid Henry and recognising the similarities and differences between explanation and instruction writing. Then, we will plan and write our own explanation text.
Topic-We will be having a short break from our topic on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings to focus on Remembrance day. Our focus will be learning about the effects of war on those left behind, in particular working children and women.
R.E-We will be continuing our topic on discrimination linking to Black History Month.
I.C.T-We will be focusing on features of PowerPoint presentations and how to improve our presentation techniques.
Other information
Devil Emoji’s group won our marble competition with an impressive 197 marbles this week! Merit cards were given to Junaid, Diego, Nikodem, Oscar, Leen and the whole class. Amna is our reader of the week. Well done!
Week beginning 5th November 2018
We have a SPaG and Handwriting workshop on Wednesday 7th November, 2018 at 9.00am.
Congratulations to our Mathletic champions-
Lambeth Class:
Silver-Isaiah, Comella
Bronze-Adoma, Japdeep, Leila-Rae, Zayna, Jayden, Marwa, Ryan, Nicole, Yaacoob, Ayaan, Ben, Amira, Brooke, Vanessa
Super Mathlete- Ryan 8387 points
Vauxhall Class:
Bronze-Krishan, Suvisha, Amelia-Rose
Super Mathlete- Suvisha 2720 points.
Our learning this week………..
English-We will be looking at Fireworks poems. What is a poem? How is it different from a story? We will be looking at the features of a poem -title, poet, stanza/verse, rhyming words, onomatoaepic words…
Maths: We will be looking at subtractions. Subtraction by crossing out and then using a number line.
Science: We will be observing changes across the four seasons. We will be describing the weather- Autumn.
History: We will be learning about significant people in our life time- ‘Barack Obama’.
PSHE: We will be revisiting Rights and Responsibilities, our class charter and the 5 Core Values in our school.- caring, courtesy, consideration, co-operation and commitment.
RE: We will be learning about harvest and discuss how it is celebrated around the world.
PE: We will continue to develop balancing skills as well as listening skills and travelling in different ways.
Music: We will be learning more harvest songs.
Home work: This week home work is
- based on Science/Literacy curriculum Materials.
- Phonics
- Matheletics
Please return home work by Wednesday 7th November, 2018.
Maths workshop
Thanks to those of you who were able to attend the maths mastery workshop this morning. We really do hope that you found it informative.
We promised we would put the slides up on the blog, however I have just realised that it is unlikely you will be able to access it as it is not a microsoft document.
Please be patient whilst I see if it is possible to convert the file. Failing that, we will send a hard copy home tomorrow afternoon.
Thanks,
Miss Stroud and Miss Brown
Week begininng 30th October 2018
Welcome back after half term!
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Maths:
This week, we shall be finishing our revision of addition and subtraction and then we shall be moving on to looking at factors and multiples.
English:
Before half term, we finished reading our class book: There’s a boy in the girls’ bathroom. This week, we shall, therefore, write a detailed book review.
SPAG:
We shall continue to focus on: apostrophes for possession and omission as well as using a range of the Y5/6 expected spellings in our writing.
Reading:
We have started our new class book, Wonder by R.J. Palacio.
In Year 5, children are responsible for changing their own books independently. We do ask that children read at home everyday and mark this by a simple comment in their homework diary. Please do encourage your child to read aloud, even though they are in Year 5, to build the stamina with their fluency.
Example comment:
Name of Book: Gangsta Granny
Peter read from page 12-16. He struggled on the words ‘inspiration’ and ‘necessary’.
PE:
Our PE lessons will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please ensure your child has their full PE kit on these days.
Music:
Soundstart lessons, with Mr Regan, shall start this week. This is where Year 5 pupils will have the chance to learn both the guitar and keyboard.
RE:
Mrs Forde will start to teach the children all about Christianity on Wednesday afternoons.
PSHE:
We shall be writing a letter to Bradley, from Carla – two characters based in our class novel from last half term.
Week beginning 30th October
I hope you all had an enjoyable week.
This week we will be learning:
Maths-Simplify and order fractions
English-Editing and assessing the writing of The Piano story
Science-Planning and carrying out an investigation inoto shadows.
PE-Starting our new topic gymnastics
PSHE-Finishing our learning about Walter Tull
Computing-Continuing to design an APP
Important Information:
There will be a Junior Citizen Day on Wednesday 31st October
Week Beginning 29th October 2018
We are looking forward to a new half term in Waterloo Bridge Class. This half term we will continue with topic work on early history focusing on the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
- In mathematics this week we will learn about angles. We will learn about right angles as a property of turn and shape and we will compare angles bigger than and smaller than right angles.
- In English we will begin a unit of work on film. We will start by looking at a short film entitled “For the Birds.” We will ask and answer questions about the film and retell the story of the film adding narrative.
- In Science we will begin our new topic of Light and Dark.
- In RE we will retell the story of Rama and Sita in pictures and sentences.
- In topic time we will introduce the Bronze Age.
We are looking forward to our visit to the cinema on 8th November.
Week beginning 30th October 2018
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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#4b57e7″ ] Welcome back to school! We hope you had a restful half term break.
AUTUMN 2 TOPIC: Light and Dark
This week’s learning
Knowledge and Understanding of the World: This week we will introduce our new topic: Light and Dark, and explore the celebration of Bonfire Night, discussing fireworks and the safety of handling these.
LITERACY
Phonics: This term the children will begin learning letter sounds in Phonics lessons. They will learn to say, recognise and write one new letter sound each day.
This week’s sound focus: /s/, /a/, /t/ and /p/
The children will bring home a daily sound sheet. Please help them with letter formation and practise ‘stretching’ or ‘bouncing’ the initial sound for each of the pictures on the sheet sent home
MATHS
This week’s Maths focus:
- To explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
- To recognise, create and describe patterns
- To use mathematical names for ‘flat’ 2D shapes, and mathematical terms to describe shapes.
- To select a particular named shape [/dropshadowbox]
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Well done to the children who received certificates for completing all their homework in Autumn Term 1. Keep up the good work and they will receive another certificate at the end of Autumn 2 too.
- The first homework for Autumn 2 will be issued on Friday. Check book bags for green homework books.
- Your child will also bring home 2 reading books and a reading diary during the course of this week. Please check book bags for these. There is further guidance about reading books on the inside covers of the yellow reading diary. Please ensure that reading books and diaries are kept in your child’s book bag after you have read with/to them.[/dropshadowbox]
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Monday, 5th; Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th November 2018 – Parent meetings for Reception children
Tuesday, 13th November – Reception trip to cinema – Check your child’s book bag for more information
Further dates to follow
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