Vauxhall

 

Welcome to Vauxhall Bridge Class.

Class teacher: Mr Shahzar

Teaching assistant: Mrs Hunjan

 

 

Week beginning 25th June 2018

June 22, 2018

The special visitor- Renee Jenkins is coming on Thursday  28th June 2018 to work with both Year 1 classes.Just a gentle reminder, please pay £3.80 using Parent Pay for this amazing session about old toys and household objects.

P.E.
Lambeth Class : Monday & Wednesday
Vauxhall Class : Wednesday & Friday

*If your child attends an Afterschool sports club and takes their P.E kit home, kindly return the P.E kit the next day. A lot of the children have been upset and disappointed as they have missed their P.E sessions as a result of not having kits.

Our Mathletics champions for this week are…
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class : Zofia, Alvin, Ameliyah, Kamil, Francis, Vera, Rebeka, Tanush, Martin, Zuzanna, Alexandru and Suden.
Vauxhall Class: Abigail, Dhiyanesh and Sarah

Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class: Francis (5155 Points)
Vauxhall Class : Sarah (2350 Points)

Our topic for this term is called ‘Puppet on A String’ linked to our history curriculum about old and new and is related to old household objects and toys.

Our learning this week…

English
On Monday, we will write, edit and publish our poems based on ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright. From Tuesday we will be looking at our new text ‘ Lima’s Red Hot Chilli’ by David Mills. 

Maths
This week we will be looking at Place Value- counting forwards and backwards from any given number,ordering numbers, one more, one less, writing numerals in words . 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place value

History
Children will continue to develop their understanding of the past. Let them talk to you or grandparents or older family members of how life was when they were young and begin to think about what life is for them especially relating to toys and games they play. ( For e.g doll house / marbles in the olden days and computer games in the modern times).

ICT
We are learning to create and debug programs. Please support your child to develop their skills by using ‘Lightbot’.
http://lightbot.com/hour-of-code.html

Art
Children will continue to learn about the British nature artist Andy Goldsworthy and create their own nature sculptures. Please bring twigs , leaves, flowers, pebbles by Wednesday. Thanks.

P.E
Children will continue developing their skills to skip and using a skipping rope with increasing control. This week, the children will learn to develop their team spirit and positive attitude towards winning gracefully as well as accepting defeat as a way to improve their skills.

PSHE
Our topic is called ‘Relationships’. Children will be talking about feelings – how to deal with it.

Music
We will continue to sing using our voices creatively and learn about rhythm and tempo.

R.E.
We will be continuing our learning about different religions focusing on basic principles of Hinduism.

Homework
Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned on Wednesday please. Homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning. Please continue to do your Mathletics. Looking forward to more Gold Award winners this term.

Week Beginning Monday 18th June, 2018

June 15, 2018

Well done to all the Year 1 children! We are so proud of you.

You have worked so hard and made excellent progress in your phonics and congratulations for staying committed. Year 1 teaching staff would like to say a big thank you to all the parents and carers for helping and supporting our children. Results of the Phonics Screening Check will be announced in due time in accordance with the government requirements.

Special visitor ( Renee Jenkins) – June 28th, 2018
Just a gentle reminder, please pay £3.80 using Parent Pay for this amazing session about old toys and household objects.

P.E.
Lambeth Class : Monday & Wednesday
Vauxhall Class : Wednesday & Friday

*If your child attends an Afterschool sports club and takes their P.E kit home, kindly return the P.E kit the next day. A lot of the children have been upset and disappointed as they have missed their P.E sessions as a result of not having kits.

Our Mathletics champions for this week are…
Silver Award
Lambeth Class : Zofia, Alvin
Vauxhall Class: Abigail

Bronze Award
Lambeth Class : Kamil, Alexandru, Harry, Rebeka, Tanush, Martin, Zuzanna
Vauxhall Class: Taliyah, Dhiyanesh
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class: Suden (3730 Points)
Vauxhall Class : Dhiyanesh (2370 Points)

Our topic for this term is called ‘Puppet on A String’ linked to our history curriculum about old and new and is related to old household objects and toys.

Our learning this week…

English
We will continue to learn about the different features of poems – stanza, repetition, rhyming words, onomatopoeic words, rhythm… Children will recite, read poems and identify different features. Children will compare and contrast ‘The Sound Collector’ with another poem – Mettle Fettle. We will read, perform, write, edit and publish our poems based on ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright.

https://www.bbc.com/education/clips/zkpmhyc

Maths
This week we will be looking at money. Please support your child to look at the different coins and notes and help them to make 10 p / 20 p / 50p / £1.00 using different coins. If you go shopping please let them pay by working out what coins to use.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

History
Children will begin to develop their understanding of the past. Let them talk to you or grandparents or older family members of how life was when they were young and begin to think about what life is for them especially relating to toys and games they play. ( For e.g doll house / marbles in the olden days and computer games in the modern times).

ICT
We are learning to create and debug programs. Please support your child to develop their skills by using ‘Lightbot’.
http://lightbot.com/hour-of-code.html

Art
Children will continue to learn about the British nature artist Andy Goldsworthy and create their own nature sculptures. Please bring twigs , leaves, flowers, pebbles by Wednesday. Thanks.

P.E
Children will continue developing their skills to skip and using a skipping rope with increasing control. This week, the children will learn to develop their team spirit and positive attitude towards winning gracefully as well as accepting defeat as a way to improve their skills.

PSHE
Our topic is called ‘Relationships’. Children will be talking about feelings – how to deal with it.

Music
We will continue to sing using our voices creatively and learn about rhythm and tempo.

R.E.
We will be continuing our learning about different religions focusing on basic principles of Islam.

Homework
Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned on Wednesday please. Homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning. Please continue to do your Mathletics. Looking forward to more Gold Award winners this term.