Week Beginning 25th June 2018
In Waterloo Class this week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will be revising out learning on fractions. We will look at finding and ordering tenths and at finding fractions of quantities.
- In English we will learn about the features of advertisements. We will create a newspaper advertisement for our muesli using persuasive language.
- In science we will learn how to carry out a health check.
- In topic time Chase will be leading outdoor activities to help us stay healthy. All children will need their PE kits.
- In RE we will look at the significance of the Turban for Sikhs.
It is expected to be hot next week. Please make sure that all children have a water bottle.
Week commencing 25th June
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 begin to look at and write our own playscripts.
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.
Successes- Well done to William, Kiki, Erin, Kendra and Malachi who all achieved merits this week.
Additional information- A big well done to Erin and Kendra for representing the school at Croydon Athletics. We are extremely proud of you!
Week beginning 25th June 2018
The special visitor- Renee Jenkins is coming on Thursday 28th June 2018 to work with both Year 1 classes.Just a gentle reminder, please pay £3.80 using Parent Pay for this amazing session about old toys and household objects.
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.
Our Mathletics champions for this week are…
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class : Zofia, Alvin, Ameliyah, Kamil, Francis, Vera, Rebeka, Tanush, Martin, Zuzanna, Alexandru and Suden.
Vauxhall Class: Abigail, Dhiyanesh and Sarah
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class: Francis (5155 Points)
Vauxhall Class : Sarah (2350 Points)
Our topic for this term is called ‘Puppet on A String’ linked to our history curriculum about old and new and is related to old household objects and toys.
Our learning this week…
English
On Monday, we will write, edit and publish our poems based on ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright. From Tuesday we will be looking at our new text ‘ Lima’s Red Hot Chilli’ by David Mills.
Maths
This week we will be looking at Place Value- counting forwards and backwards from any given number,ordering numbers, one more, one less, writing numerals in words .
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place value
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.
Week beginning 25th June
Writing
Our focus will be on using our understanding of the features of a police report to plan a whole class one; we will be doing a shared write. Then, we’ll be planning individual police reports iusing a similar structure.
Reading
We are still reading Aristotle by Dick-King-Smith. Lots of children have been making links between the story and other stories they have read. For example, that it is written by the same author as The Hodgeheg which was another of our class reads. Hungerford Class have also identified that Dick-King-Smith often wrote stories about animals.
Maths
We are moving onto our final unit: statistics. This includes the use of bar charts, pictograms, tally charts etc).
PSHE
Zippy’s Friends- our next and final unit is called ‘we cope’.
P.E
Monday: real PE- pirate pranks.
Real PE is an initiative that focuses on cognitive, creative, social and personal skills as well as technical skills. Last week the children all loved the drama links.
Wednesday: tennis skills/ fitness circuits (based on
Important information
Thursday 28th June – Parent lunch. You will have received your invitations. Year 2 are very much looking forward to it.
KS1 Sports Day – Tuesday 10th July
Last day for children– Thursday 19th July
INSET day- Friday 20th July
Week beginning 18th June 2018
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Maths-We will be learning about the history of maths
Reading-We are continuing to read ‘A boy in Striped Pyjamas’
Writing-We will learning about persuasive writing and planning our own.
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=”#fbbbbb” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Important Information[/dropshadowbox]
Thank you to all the Year 6 children who worked so hard at the Summer fair on their games. Some of the children were around all day.
Congratulations to those who sang in the choir at the Summer fair. You all sounded amazing.
18th-20th June-Croydon Schools Athletic Competition. We wish all the children representing Howard the best of luck.
Week beginning 18th June 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#c6fbbe” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents
It is hard to believe that we are fast approaching the end of your child’s final term with us. You may have noticed that your child may be talking a lot more about moving to Year 1. This is because around this time of year we begin talking about their transition from Reception to Year 1. This can be a confusing time for your child and they may feel more anxious than usual. You can support them through this transitional phase by talking more about your own experiences, in a positive manner, eg. about your own transition to Year 1 or other transitions you have made in your life .
At school, we have planned several transition activities to ensure your child is ready for the move in September. Before the last day of term you can expect to find out which Year 1 class your child will be in and you will have an opportunity to meet their Year 1 teachers. You will be informed of this in due course.
We thank you for your patience while these arrangements are being finalised.
Kind Regards
Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#33ace4″ ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SUMMER TERM 2 TOPIC: Summer’s Here
Theme: The Farm
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Farmer Duck by Martin Wadell
The children will enjoy this delightfully engaging and slightly quirky tale about a very hardworking duck and an incredibly lazy Farmer. It will contribute well to our discussions this week about working well as a team and how we can help each other to build a stronger class team. Also it will serve as a wonderful introduction to our learning about farm life ahead of our trip to Godstone Farm next week.
Group Phonics: This term’s focus is 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.
UW – Knowledge and Understanding of the World: During the next two weeks we will explore the different animals that live on farms. The children will learn to identify similarities and difference between adult and young farm animals and between farm animals and pets or wild animals.
MATHS: This week we focus on patterns and shapes. Naming and talking about properties of shapes and making and explaining patterns of different types.
PE: Athletics – Last week the children enjoyed learning about track events and taking on roles of being athletes, spectators, coaches and starters in a hurdles race. This week they will explore the various roles in a relay event. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#bd45f2″ ]HOMEWORK: Sent on Friday 15th June 2018. Due by Wednesday 20th June 2018
Extreme Weather
Last week the children were quite interested to learn about different types of extreme weather such as floods, blizzards, tsunamis, hurricanes and even droughts. So for homework we asked the children to find out a bit more and find or draw a picture about some of the extreme weathers they were interested in and write a few short sentences/labels about it.
READING BOOKS and WORD LISTS: Will be checked on group days [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#454ef2″ ]IMPORTANT DATES:
Monday, 25th June 2018 at 3.30pm: short meeting about trip arrangements ONLY for allocated Parent helpers (you will have received a blue/green letter to confirm that you will be helping on the day)
Thursday, 28th June 2018: Reception trip to Godstone Farm
Friday, 13th July 2018: Reception Sports Day at school
Thursday, 19th July: Last day of school for children [/dropshadowbox]
Week commencing 18th June
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 continue developing our narrative writing with a short film called Origins; The Story of a Lone Robot in order to develop show not tell methods of writing.We have nearly finished the alternate ending and we will then be moving on to some work on playscripts.
In Maths, we will be continuing to look at formal written methods for multiplication and division, so it would be helpful for children to continue to practise their multiplication tables and related division facts. Please encourage your child to use Mathletics to revise these skills.
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.
Successes- Well done to AJ, Deon, Sophie, Raya, Chanyiah and Aishu who all achieved merits this week.
Additional information- Thank you to Gabby M’s Mum, who has single-handedly supplied us with plenty of paper for Art.
Week Beginning 18th June 2018
We have really enjoyed our healthy schools week. Thank you to everyone who contributed to our shared breakfast on Wednesday. The children also really enjoyed making muesli. This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will be revising place value. We will compare and order numbers and estimate the position of numbers on a number line. We will use our skills to solve problems.
- In English we will write diary entries in role as the basketball player, Michael Jordan.
- In science we will look at the body.
- In PE we will look at the affect of exercise on our heart rate.
- In topic time Chase will work with us in the classroom on healthy living.
Good luck to Nikodem and Bianca who will represent Howard Primary School in athletics at Croydon Arena this week.
Week Beginning Monday 18th June, 2018
Well done to all the Year 1 children! We are so proud of you.
You have worked so hard and made excellent progress in your phonics and congratulations for staying committed. Year 1 teaching staff would like to say a big thank you to all the parents and carers for helping and supporting our children. Results of the Phonics Screening Check will be announced in due time in accordance with the government requirements.
Special visitor ( Renee Jenkins) – June 28th, 2018
Just a gentle reminder, please pay £3.80 using Parent Pay for this amazing session about old toys and household objects.
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.
Our Mathletics champions for this week are…
Silver Award
Lambeth Class : Zofia, Alvin
Vauxhall Class: Abigail
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class : Kamil, Alexandru, Harry, Rebeka, Tanush, Martin, Zuzanna
Vauxhall Class: Taliyah, Dhiyanesh
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class: Suden (3730 Points)
Vauxhall Class : Dhiyanesh (2370 Points)
Our topic for this term is called ‘Puppet on A String’ linked to our history curriculum about old and new and is related to old household objects and toys.
Our learning this week…
English
We will continue to learn about the different features of poems – stanza, repetition, rhyming words, onomatopoeic words, rhythm… Children will recite, read poems and identify different features. Children will compare and contrast ‘The Sound Collector’ with another poem – Mettle Fettle. We will read, perform, write, edit and publish our poems based on ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright.
https://www.bbc.com/education/clips/zkpmhyc
Maths
This week we will be looking at money. Please support your child to look at the different coins and notes and help them to make 10 p / 20 p / 50p / £1.00 using different coins. If you go shopping please let them pay by working out what coins to use.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game
History
Children will begin 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 Islam.
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.
Week beginning 18th June
Writing
We have sequenced the story and written out own simple versions. Next week we will be doing some drama from the perspective of a police officer. We will also be identifying the key features of a police report.
Reading
We have chosen to change our class read. We are now reading Aristotle by Dick-King-Smith. It is a story about a cat who gets himself into all kinds of trouble.
Maths
We will be finishing our measurement unit and moving on to statistics (the use of bar charts, pictograms, tally charts etc).
PSHE
Zippy’s Friends- our next and final unit is called ‘we cope’.
P.E
Monday: real PE- pirate pranks.
Real PE is an initiative that focuses on cognitive, creative, social and personal skills as well as technical skills. Last week the children all loved the drama links.
Wednesday: tennis skills.
Important information
Thursday 28th June – Parent lunch. You will be receiving invitations to come and have lunch with your child.