Celebrations and successes

Well done to Amira-Lee, Georgi, Lucas, Ziyan and Amari who received merit cards this week.

Lucas and Ziyan were excellent ambassadors for our school at the cross country competition this week. We are all very proud of you both.

 

We will be covering the following objectives during the week commencing 16th October 2017.

Writing

We have already investigated how animals are treated in some circuses. Although most of the children were shocked and saddened by what we discovered, it has created lots of discussion. We have decided that we will use our passion for treating animals kindly to write our own set of letters. We hope to send them to a circus to persuade them to use human circus acts instead of mis-treating animals.

Phonics/ SPaG

We are continuing to recap phase 5 alternative graphemes and spelling patterns during daily phonics sessions. We will also be consolidating using the past tense and looking at how to use the conjunctions and, or and but to extend our sentences.

Reading

We will be doing guided reading every week. This helps us to form part of our reading assessment data.

We have now come to the end of The Twits. Since we only have a week left of this half term we are just going to read short stories related to our topic and move onto a new chapter book next half term.

Maths

We have almost come to the end of our work on number and place value. Please see some photos below of some of Hungerford Class comparing numbers using these symbols:

< less than

< greater than

= equal to

 

We will be doing a little more work on placing numbers on a numberline before moving onto addition and subtraction strategies.

Our topic this half term is The Circus is Coming to Town. There are many links to science, history and geography within this.

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 our PPA teachers on a Thursday morning.

PSHE

We will be thinking about how to be a good friend this week.

ICT

We will be looking at how to use algorithms to program digital devices. We will also learn how to debug simple programs. We are hoping to use bee-bots in our lesson this week.

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. You can:

• Just sign or initial.
• Write a comment e.g if the book was challenging, too easy, any particular words your child found difficult to read, any questions that you asked and your child’s response

THANK YOU!

Firstly, we would like to say a big thank you to the adults who helped with our school trip! We had a fantastic day out and all of the children were excellent ambassadors for Howard School!

Secondly, Miss Brown and I were really impressed with the standard of the homework received this week. We have put the partitioning posters on display outside our classrooms. We hope that in doing this homework with your children you were able to gain an understanding of the things we have been doing in school!

 

 

We will be covering the following objectives during the week commencing 9th October 2017.

Writing

We will be moving on to writing persuasive letters to a circus which is linked to our topic ‘The Circus is Coming to Town’. We have already had a look at how circuses have changed over time and the way in which some circuses mis-treat animals which will form the basis of our letters.

Phonics/ SPaG

We are continuing to recap phase 5 alternative graphemes and spelling patterns during daily phonics sessions. We will also be consolidating using the past tense and looking at the four different sentence types: commands, statements, questions and exclamatory sentences.

Reading

We will be doing guided reading every week. This helps us to form part of our reading assessment data. We will be completing reading assessments over the next fortnight to check that your child is on the correct book band!

Our class read is still The Twits by Roald Dahl. It has proven to be a hit so far!

Maths

Our focus this half term is on number and place value. We will be comparing numbers using less than (<), greater than (>) and equal to (=).  We now have a big emphasis on reasoning and problem solving in every lesson. The children are already becoming much more confident and independent using the maths mastery approach.

Topic

Our topic this half term is The Circus is Coming to Town. There are many links to science, history and geography within this. We are all agreed that being part of a circus sounds very exciting!

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 our PPA teachers on a Thursday morning.

PSHE

We will be thinking about how to be a good friend this week.

ICT

We will be looking at how to use algorithms to program digital devices. We will also learn how to debug simple programs. We are hoping to use bee-bots in our lesson this week.

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. You can:

• Just sign or initial.
• Write a comment e.g if the book was challenging, too easy, any particular words your child found difficult to read, any questions that you asked and your child’s response.

Homework:

Homework will be given out on a Thursday or Friday afternoon. We expect it to be completed the following Tuesday.

 

We will be trialing both Spellodrome and Mathletics homework for which you will be sent passwords shortly. If your child does not have access to a computer/ tablet at home, then please let us know.

Important information

Next Thursday (12^th October) I will not be in due to a personal commitment. The class will be taken by Miss Robinson.

Trips

More details about other upcoming trips will be sent home over the next few weeks.

We will also be sending letters home soon about Ministrings. It is free of charge, although if your child wishes to bring their instrument home then there is a small deposit to pay. This week the children will be holding and testing the instruments to find out which might be the most suitable for them. If you have any preferences then please let me know.

Thank you for all of your continued support.

Miss Stroud