Welcome to Vauxhall Bridge Class.
Class teacher: Mr Shahzar
Teaching assistant: Mrs Hunjan
Our learning objectives this week are:
Maths – This week we will be developing our understanding that addition can be done in any order, we will be adding two numbers together using a number line and subtracting a 1 digit number from a 2 digit number using a number line.
English – The children have loved reading and creating a story map for the book ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and writing up the story in our own words applying all the skills we have been learning in our English lessons.
Topic – We will continue to identify some common flowers and insects in our school environment.
Reminders:
Important information/ dates
Monday 5th June: INSET day
Tuesday 6th June: children return to school at 9am.
Thursday 8th June: KS2 Sports Day
Week beginning 12th June: 12th/13th – is the phonics screening test. All week is Healthy schools week.
Saturday 17th June: Summer Fayre
Tuesday 27th June: Whole school photo at Whitgift School
Tuesday 11th July: KS1 Sports Day
Thursday 20th July: Last day for children 3.30pm finish.
Our learning objectives this week are:
Maths – This week will be working on fractions and we will be finding a half and a quarter of a shape and sorting fractions into groups, finding half or a quarter of a quantity and finding different ways to shade a half and a quarter of a given shape. We will also be doing some problem solving by finding a half and a quarter.
English – This week we are starting a new unit of work and will be learning about poetry. Children will be identifying the features of a poem, identifying rhyming words, performing poetry and writing their own poem based on a poem that they have read.
Science– Children will start their new science topic of plants that they will be doing on a Thursday afternoon.
PE- We will continue our throwing and catching within the game of Lacrosse and we will be developing our fitness.
RE- We will continue to learn about our new religion Hinduism.
Other Information
Date for your diary! The class and individual photos will be on Thursday 18th May. On Friday 19th May is Bring in a bottle in exchange for children wearing their own clothes.
Our caterpillars are now three weeks old and are still in their chrysalises. We are very excited to see them transform into butterflies and are hoping that this happens next week.
Just a reminder that the weather is getting warmer and children are encouraged to bring a water bottle to school filled with water only please.