Week commencing 9th July
Our topic for this term is called ”Temples, Tombs and Treasures’ linked to our HISTORY curriculum about Ancient Egypt.
Your child has taken home a homework sheet to cover the homework for the whole half term. Please choose another activity to complete for homework this week. We have had some fantastic work so far! I have attached an electronic copy of the homework below in case the paper copy is lost Homework-Egyptians
In English, we will be looking at poetry and drama over the final days of the term. We have been reading list poetry and looking at features and effective language. We have also been using this as an opportunity to practise the plural apostrophe of possession.
In Maths, we will be continuing a unit of work on Geometry, covering properties of shapes and position and direction, plotting of coordinates and simple translation of position.
We have also started to use a mental Maths game called Daily 10 which you can find a link to below
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
I have also asked those children who are less confident to continue to practise time (including digital, analogue and 24 hour time) and money, including coin recognition, for when we revisit these units.
P.E will continue to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, please ensure your child has their kit for every lesson. In addition to this we will continue to run the Daily Mile to help promote the fitness of our children.
As I’m sure you all know, reading daily is essential in helping your child progress with reading and writing. Please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as your child’s school reading books to promote a love for reading. Please remember to write a comment or sign your child’s reading record regularly. Remember that your child can keep a book for as long as they need in order to finish it. We appreciate your support to enable your child to be a fluent and competent reader.
In Science, children are enjoying a unit on Electricity with Mrs Grundey.
In RE- the children are learning about Judaism
Week beginning 9th July
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#d48af9″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]What will we be learning[/dropshadowbox]
Maths-We will be learning about the history of maths
Reading-We are continuing to read ‘A boy in Striped Pyjamas’
Writing-We will looking at the poem-‘The Highwayman’
Science-We will be learning about evolution
Geography-We will be learning about Scandinavia and developing our map reading skills
R.E-We will be continuing to develop our knowledge of Christianity
Computing-We will continuing to design and make an APP
PE-We will be continuing to play tennis and will also look at challenging ourselves more.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#d48af9″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Important Information[/dropshadowbox]
Wednesday 11th July-Our Year 6 trip to Kidzania
Friday 13th July-Year 6 are running the Reception Sports Day
Friday 13th July-Year 6 Leavers Party 5-8pm
Week beginning 9th July 2018.
Week beginning 9th July 2018.
In Maths, we will complete our work on solving money problems and consolidate our knowledge of converting units of measure and subtraction methods.
In English, we will start our work on writing advertisements for television.
In Science, we will share our research about the different organs of the body.
We will continue our work of learning multiplication and division facts in preparation for the transition to Year 4.
Please continue to encourage your child to use Mathletics, Spellodrome and Teach your monster to read as additional online learning resources.
Week beginning 9th July 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fab5f7″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents, Carers
We would like to invite you to join us for our Reception Sports Day and picnic lunch on Friday 13th July. Please bring your own packed lunch and send one in for your child.
Please note that with only two weeks to go until the end of your child’s year in Reception, we will not be issuing any further reading books this week. Instead, reading books and diaries will be collected on group reading days.
We will continue to check word lists until the end of this week. If your child has not completed all 24 lists, they will continue with these into Year 1. Thank you for your overwhelming support with practising with your children to achieve their animal word certificates this year. It has been wonderful to see this impact on their progress with reading.
Kind Regards
Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#befab5″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SUMMER TERM 2 TOPIC: Summer’s Here
THEME: Under the sea
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae
The children have enjoyed learning about the wide range of creatures that can be found under the sea. They will enjoy this beautifully illustrated book of poems about sea creatures.
Group Phonics: This term we will focus on reading words and sentences containing all the phonemes the children have learnt throughout the year and we will be teaching strategies for instant blending of words and strategies for reading longer multisyllabic words.
PSED-Personal, Social, Emotional Development: We will be talking about changes and what to expect when the children are in Year 1. They will have a tour of the Year 1 classes and an assembly with the Year 1 teachers. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#a0e8f9″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]HOMEWORK: Sent out on Friday 6th July 2018. Due back by Wednesday 11th July 2018
Creatures under the sea
Find out and write a few facts about 5 different sea creatures. You could also draw or find pictures of these sea creatures
READING BOOKS: Will be collected on group days
WORD LISTS: last week for checking word lists [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#faf869″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]IMPORTANT DATES:
Friday, 13th July 2018: Reception Sports Day and Picnic lunch at school
Tuesday 17th July: 120th Year of Howard Celebration afternoon
Thursday, 19th July: Last day of school for children [/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 9th July
In Waterloo Bridge Class this week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will be working on skills to help us to progress in our number stars. This will include doubling and halving, number bonds to 1000, units of measure and division with remainders.
- In English we will be writing scripts for our TV advert. We will then perform our advert.
- In science we will learn about the organs of the body.
- In ICT we will complete our PowerPoint presentations on sports.
On Thursday all children will do a mixed times table test and on Friday we will complete our last number star challenge. On Friday afternoon we will do activities to celebrate good behaviour in Waterloo Class. All children have the chance to take part subject to good behaviour this week.
Week beginning 9th July 2018
On Tuesday, 3rd July we had a wonderful time at the Croydon Library. We would like to say a big thank you to all the parents who came along with us.
Key stage one sports day- 10th July, 2018.
Congratulations to our Mathletic Champions…
Silver Award :
Lambeth :Rebeka, Tanush, Martin, Alvin
Bronze
Lambeth Class :Betim, Francis, Kamil, Ameliya, Zofia
Vauxhall Class : Abigail
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class :Betim- 3539 points
Vauxhall Class : Abigail-1300 points
Our learning this week…
English
On Monday, we will read the story ‘Lima’s Red Hot Chilli’ by David Mills, talk about characters, look at noun phrases, sentence structure, adjectives-describing words and sequencing the story. On Tuesday we will be planning a similar story by changing title, character’s name, problem, ending…..and so one. Wednesday morning, we will be planning our own stories and on Thursday, we will be writing our own stories independently. By Friday, we will be editing our own stories.
Maths
This week we will be revisiting addition and subtraction.
History
Children will continue to develop their understanding of the past. Let them talk to you or grandparents or older family members of how life was when they were young and begin to think about what life is for them especially relating to toys and games they play. ( For e.g doll house / marbles in the olden days and computer games in the modern times).
ICT
We are learning to create and debug programs. Please support your child to develop their skills by using ‘Lightbot’.
http://lightbot.com/hour-of-code.html
Art
Children will continue to learn about the British nature artist Andy Goldsworthy and create their own nature sculptures. Please bring twigs , leaves, flowers, pebbles by Wednesday. Thanks.
P.E
Children will continue developing their skills to skip and using a skipping rope with increasing control. This week, the children will learn to develop their team spirit and positive attitude towards winning gracefully as well as accepting defeat as a way to improve their skills.
PSHE
Our topic is called ‘Relationships’. Children will be talking about feelings – how to deal with it.
Music
We will continue to sing using our voices creatively and learn about rhythm and tempo.
R.E.
We will be continuing our learning about different religions focusing on basic principles of Hinduism.
Homework
Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned on Wednesday please. Homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning. Please continue to do your Mathletics. Looking forward to more Gold Award winners this term.
P.E.
Lambeth Class : Monday & Wednesday
Vauxhall Class : Wednesday & Friday
*If your child attends an Afterschool sports club and takes their P.E kit home, kindly return the P.E kit the next day. A lot of the children have been upset and disappointed as they have missed their P.E sessions as a result of not having kits.
Week Beginning 9th July 2018
Writing
We are finishing our police reports based on the book Tuesday before moving on to revisiting stories. The children will be using picture prompts to plan and write their own individual stories.
Reading
We are still really enjoying Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. We are able to talk about the story & characters and are able to make predictions about what may happen in the text.
We will also be looking at key reading comprehension skills as a whole class using pictures and short passages of text as a stimuli.
Maths
We have been consolidating various skills over the past couple of weeks. In the coming week we will be reviewing and investigating 3D shape and fractions. We will also be completing puzzles and challenges that cover number and calculating.
PSHE
We will be continuing with our new module of Zippy’s Friends.
P.E
We are going to be doing tennis skills on a Monday and doing Real PE on Wednesday.
Art
We have been learning about the artist LS Lowry. This week we are going to be using his influence to practice drawing matchstick people moving in different ways before painting a water colour seaside scene. We will be then drawing matchstick people over the seaside scene.
The art work will be on show at our 120th year celebrations in a couple of weeks- more information to follow 🙂
DON’T FORGET: Sports Day is Tuesday 10th July. If you have not returned the slip telling us how your child is getting there please do so as soon as possible.
Week beginning 4th July
Writing
We will be using images to plan and write creative writing. I am excited to see the creative ideas the children might have!
Reading
We are still reading Aristotle by Dick-King-Smith.
Maths
We have been recapping our previous learning. It is clear that all of our hard work has paid off as the class have remembered a lot!
PSHE
Zippy’s Friends- we will be doing our final session of the Zippy’s Friends program!
P.E
Monday: real PE.
Wednesday: tennis skills.
Important information.
KS1 Sports Day – Tuesday 10th July- please ensure that your child has suncream/ a water bottle and a packed lunch.
Last day for children– Thursday 19th July
INSET day- Friday 20th July
Week beginning 2nd July 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#3ef6d7″ ] Our end of year performance is this Wednesday (4th July). We hope to see as many of you there as possible.
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Maths:
Over the next week, we shall be revising column subtraction and place value
English:
We shall be continuing our new unit, diary writing. We shall be building character profiles as well as starting to plan our own innovation as Alice.
PE:
This week is the last swimming lesson of the year.
Group C Tuesday 5th June – Tuesday 3rd July
Please can you make sure that they bring a swimming costume (preferably NOT a bikini for girls and NOT long shorts for boys), towel and, if they have long hair, a swimming hat all in a bag that can be easily identifiable. Children will be taught how to swim by 2 qualified swimming instructors including a teacher from Whitgift school and no prior knowledge of how to swim is needed. Children will be assessed the first week and then put into suitable groups with no child entering the deep end unless they can swim a length unaided. A trained lifeguard will also be present.
Children who are not going swimming during this time will still have a PE lesson. All children will continue to have their Thursday PE lesson.
Music:
We shall be continuing our Soundstart lessons with Mr Regan.
RE:
Mrs Grundey and Mrs Swift will be taking our RE sessions on Tuesday afternoons. This term we shall be looking at Judaism.
French:
Mrs Grundey and Mrs Swift will also be taking our French sessions this term. This term we shall be looking at clothes!
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#fc71a7″ ]This term will be very much focused on preparing your child for Year 6. [/dropshadowbox]
Week commencing 2nd July
Our topic for this term is called ”Temples, Tombs and Treasures’ linked to our HISTORY curriculum about Ancient Egypt.
Your child has taken home a homework sheet to cover the homework for the whole half term. Please choose another activity to complete for homework this week. We have had some fantastic work so far! I have attached an electronic copy of the homework below in case the paper copy is lost Homework-Egyptians
In English, we will be continuing to work on our new story Jimmy and the Pharaoh and continue to look at and write our own playscripts. We will then be looking at poetry for the final weeks of term.
In Maths, we will be moving on to a unit of work on Geometry, covering properties of shapes and position and direction, plotting of coordinates and simple translation of position.
We have also started to use a mental Maths game called Daily 10 which you can find a link to below
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
I have also asked those children who are less confident to continue to practise time (including digital, analogue and 24 hour time) and money, including coin recognition, for when we revisit these units.
P.E will continue to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, please ensure your child has their kit for every lesson. In addition to this we will continue to run the Daily Mile to help promote the fitness of our children.
As I’m sure you all know, reading daily is essential in helping your child progress with reading and writing. Please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as your child’s school reading books to promote a love for reading. Please remember to write a comment or sign your child’s reading record regularly. Remember that your child can keep a book for as long as they need in order to finish it. We appreciate your support to enable your child to be a fluent and competent reader.
In Science, children are enjoying a unit on Electricity with Mrs Grundey.
In RE- the children are learning about Judaism.