Week beginning 11th December,2017
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#dddddd” ] Thank you very much if you have been to the Book Fair. Your children will enjoy reading the fun and exciting books.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]The Year 1 Christmas Play is on Wednesday 13th December at 2:15 pm in the main hall. We look forward to seeing you there. Tickets are sent home. Please ensure you bring them to the play.[/dropshadowbox]
On Friday the 15th December we have Christmas Jumper Day and children can wear their special jumpers if they want to. Its also traditional Christmas dinner day…Yum ! Yum!
Congratulations to our Mathletic Winners..
Lambeth Class
Silver Certificate – Martin, Suden
Bronze Certificate – Hugh, Maximilian, Patrick,Kaziah, Francis, Harry, Rebeka, Martin, Tanush, Shaira, Zofia, Alvin, Harshana, Zuzanna, Suden
Lambeth class Super Mathlete – Tanush – 4028 points
Vauxhall Class
Bronze Certificate – Yashal, Abigail, Nathan, Ethan, Lena
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English
We will be finishing off our focus text – The Lonely Beast. Children have done their story maps and will be writing and editing the story.
They will also be writing letters and invitations to continue developing their writing skills in different genres.
Maths
Place value will be finished this week and we will be looking at the vocabulary of measures – length ( tall, short, taller than, shorter than, tallest, shortest, long, longer than, longest), wide, narrow, weight – heavy, light, heavier than, lighter than, heaviest, lightest.
R.E
We will be exploring how Christians celebrate Christmas and read the story of the birth of Jesus. Our Christmas play is closely linked to the story.
Science
We will be revising all the elements of out topic of Materials and discussing all the different areas children have learnt.
PSHE
Children will continue to develop their understanding of what is a community and who are the people who help us in the community for e.g police officer, fire worker, lollipop lady, nurse, doctor, teacher etc..
Home work
Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned every Wednesday. Mathletics homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning. Children can earn bronze, silver and gold certificates as they earn the points. Please check the back of your reading record for your child’s username and password.
Reading is very important and please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as their reading books to promote a love for reading. Please remember to write a comment or sign your child’s reading record regularly. We appreciate your support to enable your child to be a fluent reader.
Week beginning 11th December
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f98ae8″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]What have we been learning?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths-We will be learning how to convert between metric and imperial measurements.
English- This week we will be studying the poem ‘The Pied Piper ‘ and creating writing based on it.
Science-We will be studying Sound!
P.E-There is the last swimming of the term. Please make sure you bring costumes and towels with you.
Our second PE lesson will be gymnastics in the hall. Only plimsolls or bare feet are allowed.
Topic-The topic for this term is World War 2. This will continue throughout the Autumn term by Mrs Adams. Last week we had a visitor to our classroom who spoke to us about being evacuated during World War 2. It was so interesting to hear what she had to say.
R.E-We will be continuing our work on Buddhism with Mrs Adams.
Computing-We will be continuing to create our own APP with Mr Govinden.
Please remember the Christmas Fair is on Saturday 9th December. It would be great if you could support the school.
Friday 15th December-Christmas lunch and Christmas Jumper day.
Monday 18th December 2017- The Year 6 Christmas Performance is at 6pm at school.
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.
Congratulations to all the children who spoke at City Hall. You represented the school so well and all the adults were very proud of the way you spoke.
Week Beginning 11th December
Writing
This week we are looking at specific characters from the Nativity story thinking about their characteristics & how they entered the story. We will be story mapping the story from a chosen characters perspective before writing our own story.
Phonics/ SPaG
We are continuing to recap phase 5 alternative graphemes and spelling patterns including alternative spellings e.g. the /m/ sound spelt in words such as lamb or the /ch/ sound as in words like picture or witch.
We will also be looking at how to spell high frequency words and improving simple sentences by adding adjectives and connectives.
Maths
We are continuing to focus on addition and subtraction. We will be using our knowledge of adding multiples of 10 and adding one digit numbers to two digit numbers by bridging through ten to help us to subtract one digit numbers from two digit numbers e.g 65-7.
It is important that your child is secure with knowing the nearest multiple of ten for any given number. For example, if we are on the number 46, we know that we need to add four more to reach 50 or subtract 6 to reach 40. A strong understanding of number bonds to 10 will also support this.
Here is an example of how we can add one digit and two digit numbers. This understanding will help us with the concept of subtracting too. The children need to be secure in knowing the nearest multiple of 10 to any given number. For example:
We can then use this to help us to bridge through 10. Have a look at my example below.
We will also be thinking about how to add and subtract two 2-digit numbers. Firstly without crossing the tens and then moving on to crossing tens.
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
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 discussed things that make us feel happy/ sad and what we can do to help us feel better. In this module we will also be looking at anger, jealousy and embarrassment. I was extremely impressed with the maturity shown by the whole class.
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:
Christmas jumper day is next Friday (15th December). There is a £1 donation that will go to the Save the Children charity organisation.
https://christmasjumperday.org/about-christmas-jumper-day/?utm_campaign=cjd2016&utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=cjdschoolsppc2017&ppc=true&matchtype=e&s_keyword=christmas%20jumper%20day%202017&adposition=1t1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_4XX5dn31wIVi24bCh0tng6IEAAYASAAEgIBfPD_BwE
We will be having class parties on Tuesday 19th December- more information to follow.
Week beginning 4th 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.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#94e3fe” border_width=”5″ border_color=”#141214″ ]Next week, we will be learning the following:[/dropshadowbox]
Maths:
We shall be applying a range of multiplication and division facts and strategies to solve number problems.
English:
We shall be finishing our film reviews about the film Moana, following our trip to the cinema. We shall be looking specifically at the planning, writing and editing process. After this piece of work, we shall be independently writing our own film reviews based on our favourite films!
RE/Art: We will continue to explore the (Christian) value of giving when designing and planning an advents calendar for another student in my class.
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.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#94fe97″ border_width=”5″ border_color=”#141214″ ]Key dates[/dropshadowbox]
Saturday 9th December – Christmas Fayre
Monday 18th December – Carol Concert – St Andrews Church – Years 3/4/5
Week beginning 4th December
In Waterloo Bridge Class this week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will be beginning a unit on measure. We will be measuring in centimetres and millimetres, converting between measurements and adding and subtracting measures.
- In English we will be working on play-scripts. We will read and identify the features of play-scripts before writing our own play-scripts of Jack and the Beanstalk.
- In science we will continue to learn about the spectrum of light and will make spinners.
- In RE we will learn about the significance of advent for Christians and the symbolism of the advent candles.
- In music we continue to work rehearse the carols for our Christmas concert.
We are looking forward to our visit to the Pantomime on Thursday morning. Please make sure that your child has a packed lunch.
4th December 2017
Thank you once again for supporting our bake sale last Friday, for your contributions, manning the sale and buying the cakes. We raised £108.10 on Friday bringing our total to £273.50. Just £126.50 to go to reach our £400 goal!
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 Non fiction space themed books
Homework.
Homework on Friday:
The solar system
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.
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. For the last 2 weeks of term we will turn our role play area into a doctors surgery as the children have requested this.
EAD. We will continue practicing our Christmas songs for our Christmas performance. Please use the link below to help your child practice our songs.
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
1st, 4th, 5th, 6th December Book fair. 3.30 to 3.50 in the school hall.
9th December FOH Christmas Fair 11am to 3pm.
12th December Reception Christmas Performance 9.30 am.
15th December Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day
20th December 2017 End of Term
3rd January 2018 School open
Week commencing 4th December
Here is a breakdown of what we will be looking at over the coming week:
English- We will be continuing our unit of work about Robin Hood and reading a version by Marcia Williams. Alongside this we will be looking at fronted adverbial phrases. This week we will be beginning to write our own version of the Golden Arrow.
Maths- We are beginning a unit of work on measure, beginning with a recap of Year 3 objectives and thinking about converting units of measure.
Spelling- Our focus this week in class is the suffix sion. We will be thinking of as many words as we can such as mission and practising our spelling using methods such as speed spelling and hangman.
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
Our ICT topic this half term is software developing, we will be designing a Maths game on Scratch.
PE- PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Thursdays and children will need their PE kits. I would also like to remind you that the school policy is that all earrings should be removed, hair should be tied back and tights should be removed when getting changed. I would also ask that PE kits stay in school between Monday and Friday as occasionally we are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take part in additional activities. This half term we will be learning Pilates and Cricket and will continue to run the daily mile.
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.
Topic- Our topic for this term is Vikings and Anglo Saxons. This will concentrate on the period between the Viking and Anglo Saxon struggle to control Britain to the time of Edward the Confessor.
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.
PSHE- Our current focus is anti-bullying to coincide with anti-bullying week. We will also be relating this to ideas from the 2 films we viewed recently.
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 Sophie, Irshad, Edmund, Lizzy and Warda who all received merit cards this week!
Well done to Blue table who are currently leading the table points competition.
Additional information– A big thank you to everyone who contributed to Operation Christmas Child and donated items for our shoe boxes. I was overwhelmed by your generosity! We now have 67 boxes on their way to Albania.
Friday 7th December, we will be going to watch Jack and the Beanstalk at Waddon Leisure Centre. The trip will take place during school hours though your child will need a packed lunch. We will not need additional help on this occasion but thank you for all the help you have given us with trips this far. A reminder letter will follow.
Week beginning 4th December 2017
Thank you very much for attending our ‘Science Opens Doors’ and book fair in the hall. Please support our school by buying lots of books for your children.
A big thank you to all the parents who had contributed and supported with our ‘Operation Christmas Child’ -shoe box appeal. As a whole school we managed to collect 67 boxes. Lambeth class contributed 8 boxes and Vauxhall class contributed 9 boxes.
We are organising a Year 1-Christmas Production. This will take place in the hall on Wednesday 13th December at 2.15pm. Parents, please book your tickets on time.
Please provide your child’s costume by Friday 9th December for our dress rehearsals.
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We enjoy celebrating you child’s birthday. However, there are children in our year group who suffer from nut allergies and will have serious reactions if they are in contact with nuts. So please do not bring cakes in unless they are in sealed bags or party bags which we can hand out at the door at Home time.
Congratulations to our Mathletics Award winners!
Well done!
Lambeth Class –
Silver Awards– Patrick, Francis, Maxwell
Bronze Awards– Ameliya, Kamil, Rebeka, Tanush, Martin, Shaira, Zifia, Dominic, Harshana, Sheznin, Alexandru, Suden, Alvin
Vauxhall Class –
Bronze Awards– Abigail, Mason, Jacob, Yashal, Sarah, Ethan, Lena
Silver Awards-Nathan, Taliyah
Super Mathlete Awards
Lambeth Class – Tanush-6389 points
Vauxhall Class- Abigail-4932 points
Our topic is ‘Sort it Out’. It is related to our science learning about materials. Children will continue to learn about everyday materials, understand their properties. This week we will be focusing on Natural and Man-made materials. For e.g.-natural materials are wood, coal, clay, sand, iron, rock, leather and man-made materials are bricks, glass, paper.
English
Our focus text is ‘The Lonely Beast’. We will continue and complete our story maps and the children will be writing the story of ‘The Lonely Beast’. We have been learning about adjectives (large, cheerful, playful, beautiful, handsome) and prepositions (through, between, in, on, under). This week we will be encouraging children to use them in their story writing.
Maths
Children will continue Place Value-teen numbers and counting in ones, twos and tens.
PSHE
We will continue exploring the theme using the story ‘Something Else’. Our theme for this year group – All Different All Equal. This week we are going to make a poster for our display board.
RE
We are going to perform ‘The Christmas Story’ soon. Children are learning some songs.
Home work
Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned every Wednesday. Mathletics homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning. Children can earn bronze, silver and gold certificates as they earn the points. Please check the back of your reading record for your child’s username and password.
Reading is very important and please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as their reading books to promote a love for reading. Please remember to write a comment or sign your child’s reading record regularly. We appreciate your support to enable your child to be a fluent reader.
Week beginning 4th December 2017
Week beginning 4th December 2017.
In Maths this week, we are learning to measure accurately using centimetres and meters, convert units of measure and solve problems using measure.
In English, we will refer to the story of Jack and the beanstalk to write and edit our playscripts.
In Science, we will investigate how a spectrum of light is made.
In History, we will research about Iron Age Celts.
Important dates
Thursday 7th December 2017 Trip to watch a Pantomime Show at Waddon Leisure Centre.
Please support your child in completing homework especially the work set online namely Mathletics.
We thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Taggart Class Teacher
Mrs Glenn Teaching Assistant
Mrs Tooze. Teaching Assistant
Week beginning 4th December 2017
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fcfe99″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents
Huge thanks again for supporting our 2nd bake sale.
On Friday we raised a further £108.10, bringing our Fun Friday Fundraising total to £273.50. We are just £126.50 away from reaching that £400 goal! We hope to continue our fundraising efforts with more Fun Friday events in the new year.
Thank you very much to our parent volunteers for setting up and manning the bake sale on Friday.
Kind regards
Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#11ccba” ]IMPORTANT DATES
4th, 5th, 6th December: Book fair. 3.30 to 3.50 in the school hall.
9th December: FOH Christmas Fair 11am to 3pm.
12th December: Reception Christmas Performance to parents at 9.30am
15th December: Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day
20th December: Last day of term
3rd January 2018: Children return to school[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#40ad08″ ]HOMEWORK: Please return homework by Wednesday
Learning about Space
Can you draw a picture of the planets in our Solar System? Can you use your knowledge of initial sounds to write labels for each planet in your picture? Which is the smallest planet? Which is the biggest planet? [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#0a0fde” ]This week’s learning
AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark
LITERACY: Book Focus: A range of Space themed non-fiction texts
This week we will explore the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts
Phonics: We are revising all the Phase 2 sounds learnt thus far and will continue to 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) which are not phonetically decodable yet so can be learnt through repetitive practice. A good idea to practise at home would be to write each of these 5 words on paper or card and attach on cupboards or doors at home and encourage your child to recognise and read them daily.
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 the children will explore each of the numerals 0-20 as a quantity using concrete objects and pictorial representations to correspond to a given numeral.
EAD: Please use the videos below to practise the Christmas songs your child will be singing at their performance to you on Tuesday 12th December 2017[/dropshadowbox]