Welcome to Lambeth Bridge Class.
Class teacher: Miss Mulvaney
Teaching assistant: Mrs Vile
Dear Parents,
Autumn 1 half term has been a pleasure getting to know your children and to see how they have settled so quickly into Year 1 class routines.
Welcome to Autumn 2 half term. Hope you had rest and ready for a busy and exxciting half term ahead. Our new Topic is ‘Sort It Out’.
Dates for the Diary:
- Wednesday 6th November Local area walk- 9.15 to 10.30 am
- SPaG & Handwriting Workshop – Tuesday 12th November at 9:00 am in the Dining Hall.
- Friday 22nd November- Autumn Art Parent’s Drop-In, both classes 2.30 to 3.15 pm.
- Tuesday 26th November- Maths workshop for parents-9.00am in the Dining Hall.
- Tuesday 11th December KSI Christmas Play.
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions this week !
Super Mathlete
Vauxhall Class: Aayush- 10,156 points
Lambeth Class: Hasan-3893 points
Silver Award:
Vauxhall Class: Ishmael
Lambeth Class:
Bronze Award:
Lambeth Class: Shauna, Brady, Olivier, Mathilde, Emily, Aliyah, Luke, Stanley, Mikael, Hasan, Mia, Sakhile, Anaya, Carter, Bonnie
Vauxhall Class: Aayush, Mah’ree, Hamza, Agyeiwaa, Kelsey, Naomi, Freddie, Alesha, Fabeha, Yigit Emre, Logan
Our learning this week…
English
We will begin our new half term with recount writing-discussion about our half-term holiday, make a plan and then write and edit our recount writing. We will recap ‘Our Year I-Jumbo Targets’- capital letters, one finger space between words, a full stop at the end of a sentence, keywords spelt correctly. By the end of this week, we will be introducing ‘Poetry’- reading and performing ‘Autumn’ and ‘Fireworks’ poems.
Maths
We will be continuing our learning about subtraction. Children will use ten frames, part-part-whole, counters, cubes, numicons to develop their understanding of key concepts. Then we will be looking at 2D shapes.
Science
Children will be observing, discussing and then learn to describe changes across the four seasons.
RE
Hinduism – Children will be talking about ‘Diwali’ story and celebration- the festival of light. Children will be dressing-in traditional clothes, drawing ‘Rangoli’ patterns, making divas with grains.
Art
We will be learning to draw Rangoli patterns using lines and shapes, making Diwali cards and divas.
PE
This term we will be discussing Real PE-‘Bike Ride’. Children recap showcase different ways of travelling and develop core body strength by balancing.
ICT
During ICT sessions, we will be learning to use technology purposefully to create, organise store and retrieve digital content-log on, type name and surname, change font, size, colour and type a sentence using capital letter, space and full stop. Children will watch Hector’s world episode 2.
History: We will be celebrating ‘Black History Month’. Our class will be talking about ‘Barack Obama’. Who is he? Why he is special? What did he do? Where did he live?
Phonics
Please continue to practice sound recognition with your child. Encourage them to apply their phonic knowledge every time you read or write with them.
Handwriting
We will be learning to form the numbers correctly and begin to learn the cursive script starting with the letters a, o, d.
Home work:
Please support your child to make a poster about ‘Barack Obama’.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 30th October 2019
Please continue …
*Mathletics-your child’s user name and the password are attached in your child’s yellow Reading Record book.
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonics games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
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Lambeth Class: Yusuf
Vauxhall Class: Aayush
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Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class: Yusuf
Vauxhall Class: Aayush
Silver Award
Lambeth Class: Bonnie
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class: Yusuf, Shauna, Brady, Olivier, Mathilde, Emily, Aliyah, Luke, Stanley, Mikael, Hasan, Priscilla, Jennifer, Mia, Sakhile
Vauxhall Class: Aayush, Mah’ree, Oliver, Ishmael, Millie, Kelcia, Hamza, Agyeiwaa, Rayyan, Kelsey, Naomi, Tymon, Freddie
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#cafbf8″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#b3d397″ ]Our learning this week… [/dropshadowbox]
English
We will continue our focus on our text – Lila and the secret of rain by David Conway. Children are familiar with the story and will write a character description. They will also make a story plan and write the story with key events in a sequence.
Maths
We will be continuing our learning about addition and subtraction.Children will use ten frames, part part whole, counters , cubes, numicons to develop their understanding of key concepts.
Science
Children will finish their learning about their body by writing a simple non-chronological report and by conducting a simple investigation.
RE
Children will be discussing and developing their understanding of being thankful as well as participate in celebrations during Harvest Assembly on Thursday.
Art
In Art, we are learning about Line and tone and children will look at their face using a mirror and explore how to draw a self-portrait.
PE
This term we will be discussing about traveling. Children showcase different ways of travelling. Children will also develop core body strength by balancing.
ICT
During ICT sessions, we will be learning to log on and use a program as well as understand the main rules of e-safety using ‘Hector’ programs.
Phonics
Please continue to practice sound recognition with your child. Encourage them to apply their phonic knowledge every time you read or write with them.
Handwriting
We will be learning to form the numbers correctly and begin to learn the cursive script starting with the letters c, a, o.
Home work:
Please support your child to make different number bonds.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 16th October 2019
Please continue …
*Mathletics-your child’s user name and the password are attached in your child’s yellow Reading Record book.
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonics games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics