Week beginning 18th December 2017
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Below is a list of questions that you could be asking your children when reading with them at home. We do encourage our children to read at home for at least 20 mins a day. Please take this time to share your child’s book and help us to encourage a love for reading.
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Maths:
We shall be assessing perimeter, area and conversion of metric units.
English:
We shall be continuing our new unit of poetry. We will be learning and performing a rage of poems in small groups.
Reading:
We shall be trying to finish reading our class novel, George’s Secret Key to the Universe. We shall also be writing our own book reviews, based on what our favourite reading book has been during the Autumn Term.
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Monday 18th December – Carol Concert – St Andrews Church – Years 3/4/5 – 2:15pm
Tuesday 19th December-Class Parties are in the afternoon. Please look out for a letter that your child will be taking home over the next few days.
Wednesday 20th December-Last day of term!!
Please remember that we return to school on the 3rd January 2018.
Week beginning 18th December 2017
This is the last week of school before we break up on Wednesday 20th for Christmas and there are lots of different activities going on in school.
There will still be plenty of opportunities for learning to continue in amongst everything else.
Maths-We will be looking at long division
English-Writing–We will be making a class book of our Newspaper articles about The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Reading-We will be continuing to read Holes by Louis Sachar.
History-We will be continuing to look at how Britain prepared for war and the precautions it took
R.E-We will be focusing on Christianity this week and the Christmas story. We will be looking at the symbol of light and what it means at Christmas time. We will be making Christingles which represent different parts of the Christian faith at Christmas time.
The children will be set homework to complete over the holiday so please make sure they complete a little bit each night otherwise they will have a lot to do if they leave it to the night before we come back to school.
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Thank you to all of those who came and supported the Christmas Fayre on Saturday. It was a great success.
Congratulations to all Year 6 who received a merit card this week. They have shown great maturity helping to support other adults within the school on a daily basis. Thank you.
Monday 18th-Year 6 Christmas performance at 6pm in School
Tuesday 19th-Class parties in the afternoon. Children can wear their own clothes this day. Please make sure they have returned the slip that tells us what they will be providing at the party.
Wednesday 20th-Last day of term. Attendance assembly. School finishes at 3.30pm. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
School starts back again on Wednesday 3rd December at 8.50am
Week beginning 11th December 2017
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Congratulations to all those who received a merit card and a Privilege Card this week. Keep up the hard work.
Unfortunately, we have been noticing that quite a few of the Year 5 children are not as confident with their times table knowledge as we would have hoped. It is an end of Year 4 expectation that they are confident with knowing up to their 12 x 12 times tables. Please practise these crucial number facts with your children at home. Use this handy times tables square, below, to help you. Many thanks for your support,
The Year 5 team.
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Maths:
We shall be looking at perimeter, area and conversion of metric units.
English:
We shall be starting our new unit of poetry. We will try to visually recreate the scene that the author is trying to describe. We will then look to rewrite and extend of own versions of a variety of poems.
RE/Art: We will continue to explore the (Christian) value of giving when designing and planning an advents calendar for another student in ourclass.
PE: We will have PE lessons outside until Christmas, due to the hall being used for the Christmas performance rehearsals.
ICT: We shall be continuing to create our very own Scratch Boat game!
Music: The children will secure and extend their Guitar and Piano skills during Soundstart (A-Minor, G-Major …).
PSHE: We shall be continuing our Apple’s Friends programme.
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Monday 18th December – Carol Concert – St Andrews Church – Years 3/4/5
Tuesday 19th December-Class Parties are in the afternoon. Please look out for a letter that your child will be taking home over the next few days.
Wednesday 20th December-Last day of term!!
Congratulations to all those who received a merit card and a Privilege Card this week. Keep up the hard work.
Week beginning 11th December 2017
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You are invited to a Christmas Musical performance by Reception children on Tuesday 12th December 2017 at 9.30am in the main hall.
We look forward to seeing you then.
Kind Regards
Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]
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This week’s learning
AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark
THEME: Christmas
LITERACY:
Book Focus: The story of Christmas
During the remaining week and a half of this term the children will be learning more about Christmas, why it is celebrated and how it is celebrated around the world.
Phonics: We will continue to revise the Phase 2 phonemes and how to form each grapheme. The children will also practise reading the 5 tricky words learnt thus far Please continue to use the daily decoding homework to support your child with learning to blend sounds to read short cvc words. Please help your child by listening to them as they practise reading the 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. Please keep these sheets at home
MATHS:
This week we will revise concepts about numeral and quantity match and will also explore aspects of shape and measure through our Christmas related activities such as weighing presents and ordering by weight.
EAD: The children have been practising well for their musical performance to you on Tuesday. Also this week they will enjoy creating and making a range of Christmas related crafts in the creative areas of the classroom. [/dropshadowbox]
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A letter to Santa
Please support your child to write a short letter to Santa about what they may want for Christmas or just a note to ask a Santa a question. Please encourage your child to write by themselves using their knowledge of letter sounds but you may scribe for them if they find this challenging.
Books for home reading
Please note which day your child will be expected to return their books:
Mondays- Red group
Tuesdays- Blue group
Wednesdays- Green group
Thursdays- Orange Group
Fridays – Yellow group (Apologies to Yellow group, due to rehearsals last Friday we were unable to change Yellow group books and will do so on Monday)
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12th December: Reception Christmas Performance to parents at 9.30am in main hall
15th December: Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day
19th December: Class Christmas party. Children to wear their own clothes to school
20th December: Last day of term
3rd January 2018: Children return to school [/dropshadowbox]
11th December 2017
An update on the fund raising, we have now raised £273 towards our target of £400 so well done everyone. We will have some more events in the new year and hopefully be getting our bike shed very soon!!
Our topic for this half term is Light and Dark and our learning will be linked to this theme where possible.
Book of the week : The Nativity Story
Homework.
Homework on Friday:
Write a letter to Santa
Early morning work. We will continue with early morning work, practising writing their names using a capital letter followed by lower case letters and writing cvc words learnt in phonics using correct letter formation.
Learning for this week
Maths. We will be matching numeral to quantity using concrete and pictorial examples. Congratulations to those children who have achieved their number stars 1 and 2.
Phonics. The children have now learnt all the sounds in Phase 2 of their Phonics learning. Over the next few weeks we will teach assisted blending to support their ability to read short decodable cvc words. The children have also learnt the first 5 high frequency/tricky words (I, the, to, go, no). We will continue with teaching the Phase 3 sounds later this term.
Next week we will send home a copy of all the sounds they have learnt thus far. Please keep these at home and practise saying and writing the sounds regularly with your child.
We will now send home daily decoding homework to support your child with learning to blend sounds to read short cvc words. Please help your child by listening to them as they practise reading the 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. Please keep these sheets at home
Role Play/UW. The children are enjoying the doctor’s surgery, with lots of imaginitive play and language being observed.
EAD. We will continue practicing our Christmas songs for our Christmas performance. Please use the link below to help your child practice our songs. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday cheering your children on.
Our class post box will be available from Monday 4th December for children to post their Christmas cards.
Request.
We are planning on using natural resources in our learning in the Spring term. If anyone has any shells, corks, pine cones, buttons etc they don’t need we would be grateful of them. We are also collecting pairs of socks!
Also if you are having a clear out before Christmas and have any Duplo no longer being used we would love to top up our limited supply.
Important dates
12th December Reception Christmas Performance 9.30 am.
15th December Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day,
£1 donation to go to charity
19th December Class parties, children to wear own clothes
20th December 2017 End of Term
3rd January 2018 School open
Week beginning 11th December 2017
Week beginning 11th December 2017.
In Maths this week, we will add and subtract units of measure as well as solve problems about length.
In English, we will continue writing our playscripts based on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
In Religion, we will learn about the Nativity story and the symbolism of the gifts from the Magi.
We will continue to learn and rehearse the songs for the Christmas Performance.
Important dates
Wednesday 13th December 2017 Trip to watch a Pantomime Show at Waddon Leisure Centre.
Monday 18th December 2017, Christmas Performance at St Andrews Church.
Our trip to the Pantomime was postponed to the date stated above, please ensure your child brings a packed lunch to school that day.
We thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Taggart Class Teacher
Mrs Glenn Teaching Assistant
Mrs Tooze. Teaching Assistant
Week Beginning 11th December 2017
In Waterloo Bridge Class our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will be continuing our work on measure focusing on measuring in metres. We will convert between metres and centimetres and add and subtract those units of measurement. We will then move on to work on mass and capacity.
- In English we will write play-scripts based on Jack and the Beanstalk.
- In Science we will investigate shadows.
- In RE we will learn about the visit of the magi and the symbolism of the three gifts.
- In music we are working hard rehearsing for our Christmas performance.
We were disappointed that our visit to the pantomime was cancelled. We will now be visiting on Wednesday 13th December. Please make sure that your child has a packed lunch on that day.
Our Christmas performance is on the afternoon of Monday 18th December. We are grateful for your support in helping children rehearse their songs.
Week commencing 11th December
Here is a breakdown of what we will be looking at over the coming week:
English- We will be introducing the poem Jack and the Beanstalk from Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes.
Maths- We will be converting measures and learning about perimeter.
Reading- All children read with an adult at least once a week as part of a Guided Reading programme. After this adult led session they complete tasks relating to the text or linked to current English and Spelling focuses. We continue to read stories as a class.
ICT- We are still holding an extra ICT session each week to introduce the children to touch typing. This a free to use course and is accessible to everyone. If you would like to continue this at home, I have included the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr
PE- There are still 2 PE lessons this term. Please could children bring a pair of jogging bottoms and a long sleeve top for our Quick Cricket tournament which will be held outside, weather permitting.
RE- We will be studying a unit of work concerning discrimination. This unit will be taught by Mrs Adams on a Wednesday morning.
Science- Our current Science topic is materials. This will also be taught by Mrs Adams.
French- We will be revising our conversational skills so far and then moving on to learn the numbers between 20 and 50 and learning vocabulary to describe the months of the year and time.
Homework- Homework is given out on a Friday and should be returned by the following Friday. In addition to tasks given out I expect the children to read every day and continue to practise the multiplication tables. I will be collecting the reading records in every week to check children are reading and would ask that you initial or sign to show they have read and make any comments you deem necessary, children should also record all independent reading they have done in the book so I am able to see that they are reading regularly. Children should feel free to keep a book for as long as they need to in order to finish reading. If you have any concerns about your child’s book choice, please speak to me or write me a note.
Successes– Well done to Zamira, Malachi, Oliver, AJ and Hilda who all received merit cards this week!
Well done to Blue table who are currently leading the table points competition.
Additional information– As I am sure you all now are aware, our trip to the pantomime has been rescheduled for Wednesday 13th December for the 10.30. performance. Children will need a packed lunch on this day.
Important dates–
Wednesday 13th December- Panto
Friday 15th December- Christmas jumper day and school Christmas lunch
Monday 18th December- pm Christmas recital in St Andrew’s church
Tuesday 19th December- pm class parties. Please could Millennium bring savoury treats or fruit and Southwark will organise sweet treats.
Wednesday 20th December- School term ends.
Week beginning 11th December 2017
This week we will be covering the following learning objectives in:
Writing
We will be moving onto a new piece of writing about the Christmas story. We will be recapping what we know about the story and sequencing it. We will then be re-telling the story from a different perspective. For example: from the viewpoint of a star, a king or the innkeeper.
Phonics/ SPaG
We have been working on phase 6 and will continue to do so. We will be focusing on homophones including their, they’re and there as well as to, too and two.
Maths
We are continuing to focus on addition and subtraction which we hope to have finished before Christmas. We have been focusing on subtracting one digit numbers from two digit numbers this week. Please see my example below.
This, combined with our other recent learning (please see the blog for the previous week) will he helpful when we come to think about how to add and subtract two 2-digit numbers. We will be doing this without crossing the tens boundary (e.g 65+22 or 65-22) and then moving on to crossing tens e.g 65+27 or 65=27).
A useful strategy for addition is:
Example: 54+21=
4 ones + 1 one= 5 ones
5 tens + 2 tens= 7 tens
__ tens + __ ones=__
This is partitioning and recombining
A useful strategy for subtraction is:
Example: 79-13=
79
70 9
-10 -3
60 6
How can you help to develop your child’s number fluency?
- Continue practicing counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.
- Ask them to show you what they have been doing in school.
- Practice times tables.
- Quick recall of halves and doubles (for numbers within 100)
- Partitioning numbers in different ways (e.g all of the ways to make 13).
- Give your child a number – how many more do we need to add to get to the nearest multiple of 10? What about if we were subtracting? For example: 56 (we have to add four to get to 60 or subtract 6 to get to 50). This helps them to recognise that we do not need to do individual jumps on a numberline when calculating.
- Give children a number and ask them what the value of each digit is. For example, 96 (the 9 has a value of 90 and the 6 has a value of 6).
PSHE
We have started the Zippy’s Friends project which will run for most of the year. After each of the six modules we will send home an activity for your child to complete. This will give you an insight to what it is all about. Please speak to your child about these sessions as they are all very excited about the project! So far we have looked at feelings of sadness, anger and jealousy. We will be sending some related homework home shortly.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The year 2 Christmas show will be taking place on Thursday 14th December at 2:15pm. You will be able to collect your child straight after the performance if you wish to, though please let us know if this is the case.
Your children have been given letters in regards to their costumes- please check book bags.
All costumes need to be in school by Wednesday 13th December. Please place them in a named carrier bag and leave them on your child’s peg. Thank you
ALSO:
Homework
We have sent home a SPaG booklet which is due back in January. I have also set mathletics homework this week. You can find your child’s login at the back of their reading record.
Christmas jumper day is next Friday (15th December). There is a £1 donation that will go to the Save the Children charity organisation.
Christmas parties will be taking place on Tuesday 19th December. More information will follow shortly.
Southwark Wk beginning 11th December
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Maths-We will be learning about kilometres and perimeter.
English- This week we will be studying the poem Jack and the Beanstalk from Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes.
Science-We will be studying materials
P.E-There are still two p.e lessons this term and your child will need jogging bottoms and a long sleeve top for our Quick Cricket tournament.
R.E-We will be continuing our work on Discrimination with Ms Symes..
Important Dates
Please remember the Christmas Fair is on Saturday 9th December. It would be great if you could support the school by coming.
Friday 15th December-Christmas lunch and Christmas Jumper day.
Monday 18th December 2017- pm Christmas performance at St Peter’s church.
Tuesday 19th December-Class Parties are in the afternoon. Please look out for a letter that your child will be taking home over the next few days. Southwark please bring sweet treats and Millennium savoury.
Wednesday 20th December-Last day of term!!
Congratulations to all those who received a merit card this week Tyray and Julia. Keep up the hard work.
Congratulations also to Harley and Daniel who are our class readers of the week.