Week beginning 20th November 2017.
Week beginning 20th November 2017.
In Maths this week, we are learning to count up and down in tenths, as well as finding and writing fractions of a discreet set of objects.
In English, we will complete film reviews based on the film Trolls which the children watched last week. We will begin a new story Jack and the Beanstalk.
In Science, we will investigate darkness and record our findings.
In History, we will compare research and compare three periods in history.
Important dates
Friday 8th December 2017 Trip to watch a Pantomime Show at Waddon Leisure Centre.
Saturday 9th December 2017. FOH Christmas Fair.
Please support your child with their homework as it helps to consolidate the work covered in school.
We thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Taggart Class Teacher
Mrs Glenn Teaching Assistant
Mrs Tooze. Teaching Assistant
Week Beginning 20th November 2017
Writing
We will be choosing and story mapping one of the films we watched last week to plan and write a film review.
Phonics/ SPaG
We are continuing to recap phase 5 alternative graphemes and spelling patterns. We will also be looking at how to spell high frequency words and improving simple sentences by adding adjectives and connectives.
We will be focusing on synonyms within our writing to make it more interesting.
Reading
Our class read is Pippi Longstocking. We will be thinking about what has happened so far in the story, making predictions about what might happen and clarifying new words and their meanings.
Maths
We will be looking at addition and subtraction.
We will be looking at adding and subtracting 10’s before we move on to adding and subtracting 1’s to 2-digit numbers crossing the 10’s boundary. We are also beginning to think about ways we can add and subtract two 2-digit numbers.
Just an aside: We DO NOT teach your children the column method for addition and subtraction when calculating. If you would like any tips or advice as to how we teach these strategies please just ask 🙂
Topic
We will be learning about People of the past. There are strong links to art and history.
PE
PE is on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon.
Monday: pilates.
Wednesday: ball skills.
RE
We will be looking at why things are special to people. This will be taught by my PPA teacher on a Thursday morning.
PSHE
We have started the Zippy’s Friends project which will run for most of the year.
ICT
We will be looking at how to use algorithms to program digital devices. We will also learn how to debug simple programs.
DON’T FORGET:
We will be starting to learn our Christmas songs for our Year 2 Christmas performance. The children will be bringing home song words soon- please practice them at home.
Week beginning 20th November 2017
Thank you to all of the parents/ grandparents that helped on our trips last week! We also hope that you enjoyed the Harvest performances. With that in mind, we are going to be starting rehersals for our Christmas performance this week. These will take place during PE times on Monday and Wednesdays. We will send more information to you at a later date.
Writing
We will be using the two films we went to see last week to help us explore the features of a film review. We will be looking at how to write a synopsis and eventually write our own film review about our favourite film.
Phonics/ SPaG
We are going to begin to recap aspects of phase 6 phonics. This includes present and past tense, suffixes and spelling longer words.
Maths
We are still working on addition and subtraction. We will be consolidating counting adding ones and tens. We are hoping to move onto adding two digit and one digit numbers.
Helpful information
Our new topic this half term is People Of The Past. There are many cross-curricular links in this topic.
PSHE
We will be starting our new PSHE scheme: Zippy’s Friends. Our first module is ‘communication’.
Key information
Reading books are changed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We expect your child to read to you every evening and for this to be recorded in their reading record.
Week beginning 20th November 2017
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ] Thank you so much to all our parent helpers on the trips this week! Your help has been very much appreciated![/dropshadowbox]
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Maths:
I can recognise and use square numbers (incl. Notation).
I can recognise and use cube numbers (incl. Notation).
I can use the inverse to check my multiplications.
I can multiply by 10, 100 and 1000.
English:
L.O. I can retell a story accurately, using time adverbials.
L.O. I can use descriptive vocabulary to describe settings and characters.
L.O. I can plan a film review.
L.O. I can write and edit a film review.
RE/Art: I can explore the (Christian) value of giving when designing and planning an advents calendar for another student in my class.
PE: We will have the chance to develop our Benchball skills as well as gymnastics on Thursdays.
ICT: We shall be continuing to explore a very common problem, Video game addiction.
Music: The children will secure and extend their Guitar and Piano skills during Soundstart (A-Minor, G-Major …).
PSHE: We shall be looking at cyber bullying: the signs and resolutions to help those affected.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”5″ border_color=”#21ceff” ]Key dates[/dropshadowbox]
Tuesday 21st November – Science Opens Doors parent/pupil workshop in the hall.
Monday 18th December – Carol Concert – St Andrews Church – Years 3/4/5
Week beginning 20th November
WHITGIFT PRIMARY PROJECT.
This week’s learning will be taking place at Whitgift school. The children will have some amazing opportunities to develop their computing skills, experiencing programmes including Microbit, Animation shop, Photoshop, Scratch and GoRobo. The children will also have a PE lesson, a foreign language lesson and a practical Science lesson which the children in previous years have thoroughly enjoyed.
All children will need a packed lunch everyday as well as their PE kit in school and their best manners. We are visitors at their school for the week and poor listening and behaviour are not tolerated by the teacher in charge of the project. The children will come to school as normal and we will walk over to Whitgift at about 9.30am. The children will be back in school by 2.30pm so will be able to be collected as usual.
Previous Year 6 classes have thoroughly enjoyed the week and have got a lot of it so I am hoping that this class will too.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fcb8f7″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Important Information[/dropshadowbox]
A very big thank you to all of you who donated presents for the Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes. They are being wrapped this week and sent of in the next couple of weeks. I know they will very much be appreciated.
Don’t forget to donate any bottle you have for the tombola stall at the Christmas Fayre on the 9th December. It would be lovely to see as many Year 6 children as possible.
Congratulations to all those who received a merit card and a Privilege Card this week. Keep up the hard work.
Week beginning 13th November 2017
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ] Please make sure your children arrive in the classroom by 8:50am on Tuesday 14th and Thursday 16th November so we can leave promptly for our cinema trips. Keep checking the blog for photos from our rocket exhibition[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”curled” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”3″ border_color=”#0b8760″ ]Next week, we will be learning the following:[/dropshadowbox]
Maths:
We shall be starting our new unit of multiplication and division. We shall be looking at multiples, factors and prime numbers. We shall be creating visual links between our objectives.
English:
We will be continuing our topic, Film Reviews. Together, we will be identifying and evaluating the key features of a film review. We shall be using the Beauty and the Beast to learn about the planning, writing and editing process of writing a film review.
RE: We will further explore Hinduism – beliefs and Gods.
PE: We will have the chance to develop our Benchball skills as well as gymnastics on Thursdays.
ICT: We shall be continuing to explore a very common problem, Video game addiction.
Music: The children will secure and extend their Guitar and Piano skills during Soundstart (A-Minor, G-Major …).
PSHE: We shall be starting our Apple’s Friends programme this week.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”5″ border_color=”#a221ff” ]A few reminders[/dropshadowbox]
Please continue to keep your Children’s University passport up to date with activities you did over half term.
The Children’s University is an amazing programme that encourages your child to take part in a wide variety of activities both in and outside school that will enrich their lives and give them access to activities they wouldn’t usually have. We would like as many children in Year 5 as possible to purchase a Children’s University passport (£2 from Miss Handley) and start collecting stamps. Clubs that they participate in both in school and outside school will stamp their passport and once they have received 30 stamps they will be recognised at a formal graduation ceremony. Children in the past have met the Mayor of Croydon at this event and other important people within the community.
It is a great way for children to develop more than just academic skills and be recognised for all the extra-curricular activities that they do. This can include sports clubs, drama clubs, arts and crafts clubs, brownies, scouts, volunteering with the Lily Trust at school, supporting the school with whole community projects and many more.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”5″ border_color=”#21ceff” ]Key dates[/dropshadowbox]
Tuesday 14th November – Film trip: Queen of Katwe (Children require a packed lunch)
Thursday 16th November – Film trip: Moana
Week beginning 13th November 2017
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fcfa99″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents
Thank you to the following parents for coming to our first coffee morning last week: Rachel, Trina, Rahima, Stella, Fatima and Dinora.
We expect to receive your responses from the letter they sent to you on Friday and hopefully more of you will be interested in helping out and joining our Reception Parent Group.
Our first project is Fun Friday on the 17th November 2017. So please start sending in your donations of sweet and savoury baked treats to sell at our first Fun Friday event.
When donating food items to sell, please remember:
• Due to allergies and dietary requirements, any food you send in must not contain any nuts/nut products or pork
• If baked treats contain meat products eg samosas, please send with a label attached to say which type of meat it contains.
Thank you very much for your support.
Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]
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AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark
LITERACY: Book Focus: Whatever Next? by Jill Murphy
The children have enjoyed acting out this story taking on the role of Baby Bear who goes on an adventure to the moon. This week, the children will recall and sequence the main events to retell the story.
Phonics:
This week’s sound focus: /c/, /k/, /ck/, /e/, /u/ and /r/
This week the children will learn their first digraph (2 letters which combine to represent one sound /ck/). So by Tuesday your child will learn 3 ways of representing the /k/ sound as c. k or ck. You may find that they will initially use any of these 3 letter forms to represent the /k/ sound.
Please keep the daily practice sheet at home and practise saying and writing the sounds until your child can confidently recognise and write each of them.
MATHS:
This week we will revise all numbers within the range 0-20. We will review strategies for counting reliably using concrete objects and pictorials. The children will also revise number formation of the numerals within this range. The children will learn to represent quantities of each number to 20 using tens frames
TOPIC – Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
The children are really enjoying our Space station role play area, dressing up as astronauts and planning space exploration trips to the moon. This week they will learn more about our solar system and develop their keen interest in the different planets.
PSED – Personal, Social, Emotional Development:
This week is Anti-Bullying Week. This year’s theme is: ‘All Different, All Equal’
In Reception, we will have a year group assembly and talk about what makes a person unique, discussing the concept of differences and how we can be respectful and tolerant of each other’s differences [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#30f5f4″ ]HOMEWORK:
Well done to all the children in Chelsea Class. We have now had 100% return of homework and every child in Chelsea now has their homework certificate for Autumn 1.
Please return homework by Wednesday
Remembrance Day: Who would you like to thank on Remembrance Day? Find or draw a picture about some of the different people who help us in our communities. Ask your adult to help you write a sentence about how they help us (eg. police/firefighters/nurses/doctors/paramedics, etc)
Books for home reading: By the end of this week your child will be issued with 2 books (a reading scheme book and a class library book). Please check your child’s yellow diary for a note about how to support your child with each of these books. Also, it will explain which day to return their books so it can be exchanged for a new book. [/dropshadowbox]
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Wednesday 15th November: Writing Workshop
Friday 17th November – Fun Friday (bake sale by Reception parents in KS2 playground)
12th December: Reception Christmas Performance
15th December: Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#3ae02b” ]Here are a few educational videos your children have been enjoying this week:
Counting to 20
The Solar system
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Week Beginning 13th November, 2018
A big thank you to all the parents who attended the Autumn Art fun session on Friday afternoon. I know your children enjoyed the fun activities with you. We look forward to organising more sessions with you!
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Our cinema trip is on Friday 17th November and children need to be in school by 8:30 am as we need to be in Purley Way Vue Cinema before 10:00 am.
Our Harvest Assembly celebrations is on Tuesday 14th November at (9:15 am and 3:00 pm). Please attend and join in the celebrations. Children will be performing ‘The Little Red Hen’.
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Our school is involved in Operation Christmas Child to bring joy to children who are suffering and are in difficult circumstances. Please contribute to help them. The closing date is Friday 17th November. Please check the link for more information.
https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/
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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.
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Congratulations to our Mathletics Bronze Award Winners ! Well done !
Lambeth Class – Maxmilian, Patrick, Kaziah, Angelo, Francis, Vera, Harry, Tanush, Martin, Shaira, Zofia, A;vin, Harshana, Sheznin, Zuzanna, Alexandru, Suden. Monae
Vauxhall Class – Sarah, Nathan, Jaziah, Dhiyanesh
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class – Tanush – 8950 Points
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Our topic is ‘Sort it Out’. It is related to our science learning about materials. Children will learn about everyday materials ( glass, plastic, metal, wood etc..), explore and understand their properties.
English
Our focus text this week is ‘The Lonely Beast’. We are exploring a range of new texts which children enjoy and promote a love for reading and inspire them to write.
Maths
Children will explore Position and direction and will enjoy playing games using prepositions which will be linked to our English text.
Try and explore using the link
PSHE
Our theme is Anti-bullying as it is Anti Bullying week. We will exploring the theme using the story ‘Something Else’. Our theme for this year – All Different All Equal
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.
ICT
Please support your child to develop keyboard skills to type their name and write a few sentences – focusing on shift key ( for capital letters), space bar, enter, delete key.
13th November 2017
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fcfa99″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents
Thank you to the following parents for coming to our first coffee morning last week: Rachel, Trina, Rahima, Stella, Fatima and Dinora.
We expect to receive your responses from the letter they sent to you on Friday and hopefully more of you will be interested in helping out and joining our Reception Parent Group.
Our first project is Fun Friday on the 17th November 2017. So please start sending in your donations of sweet and savoury baked treats to sell at our first Fun Friday event.
When donating food items to sell, please remember:
• Due to allergies and dietary requirements, any food you send in must not contain any nuts/nut products or pork
• If baked treats contain meat products eg samosas, please send with a label attached to say which type of meat it contains.
Thank you very much for your support.
Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]
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 Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers
Homework.
Homework on Friday: Remeberance Sunday/People who help us.
Early morning work. We will continue with early morning work, practising writing their names using a capital letter followed by lower case letters and practising the correct letter formation of the sounds learned in our phonics lessons. We have now introduced handwriting books for those ready to use them.
Learning for this week
Maths. We will be revising counting and recognising numbers to 20 and working with 10 frames. The children will be practicing writing numbers on their white boards. We will continue to work on achieving number stars 1 and 2.
Literacy. We will be designing and labelling an Alien.
Phonics. Sounds for this week are c,k,ck, e,u,r
PE. Dressing/undressing independently. Listening to instruction. Taking part in relay races focusing on working together as a team. Discussing ways to keep safe during P.E.
PSED. Good to be green, class charter, 5 C’s, rules on the carpet. How to ask a friend with help putting on aprons etc. Beginning to talk about how to solve disputes independently. As part of Anti-Bullying Week we will hold a Reception assembly to talk about about what makes a person unique, discussing the concept of differences and how we can be respectful and tolerant of each other’s differences.
Role Play/UW. We will contnue with our space station. It is very popular and the children are loving it. We will introduce some non fiction books and pictures of moon landings that they have shown a real interest in.
Junk modelling.
Any small boxes, bottles or interesting junk would be very welcome.
Important dates
Wednesday 15th November Writing Workshop
Friday 17th November – Fun Friday (bake sale by Reception parents in KS2 playground)
12th December Reception Christmas Performance
15th December Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day
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Here are a few educational videos your children will enjoy:
Counting to 20
The Solar system
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Southwark News Week Beginning 13th November
Week beginning 13th November 2017.
In Maths this week, we are beginning to use written methods to subtract from a 4 digit number. We will continue to use the concrete, pictorial and abstract models to ensure deeper understanding and fluency,
In English, we will be continuing our legends unit based around the legend of Robin Hood. The children in year 4 are very much enjoying using the Marcia William’s book-The Adventures of Robin Hood to explore this legend and will be beginning to plan and write our our Robin Hood adventures this week. If you would like to discuss their Literacy learning with your child please use the links below:
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/story13478-the-legend-of-robin-hood.html
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Robin-Hood-Marcia-Williams/dp/1406311375
In Science, we will continue learning about teeth and the digestion system.
In I.C.T, we will be continuing designing and making our own educational games using Scratch programming. See the link below to practice further at home.
Important dates
Monday 13th November 2017 Trip to Grants Cinema to watch Trolls.
Thursday 16th November 2017 Trip to Vue Croydon Purley Way to watch Ninjago.
For both cinema trips the children will be leaving promptly in the morning and be back to school on time for lunch. Please ensure your child is at school by 8.50am to avoid any delays or disappointment.
Thursday 7th December 2017 Trip to watch a Pantomime Show at Waddon Leisure Centre.
Thank you for your generous donations for the Harvest festival. We will continue to take donations for Operation Christmas Child until 15th November 2017. For further information about this charity see the video below:
For ideas of things to donate to your child’s group shoe box see the document below.
We thank you for your continued support.
Miss Turpie class teacher
Miss Allcorn class teaching assistant