Welcome to Waterloo Bridge Class
Class teacher – Miss Brown
Teaching assistants – Mrs Preston and Mrs Patel
We are pleased to welcome your child to Waterloo Bridge class and are grateful for your help and support.
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Reading
Children are asked to read at home on a daily basis and their book should be brought to school each day. It is helpful if parents can comment regularly in their child’s Reading Record, particularly when their child has finished their book. Children are responsible for changing and selecting their own books in the morning.
Homework
Children will be given homework each Friday to be handed in by the following Tuesday. Children are also asked to learn spellings and times tables at home. They are responsible for recording their homework in their homework diary.
Other
Children are asked to bring to school a water bottle. They should have a waterproof coat when it is raining or the forecast is for rain.
We have had a great first week back in Waterloo Bridge Class. The children have settled well and worked hard. This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will begin a unit of work on multiplication and division focusing on multiplying and dividing by 3, 4 and 8.
- In English we will learn about the features of a film review before writing our own review of For the Birds.
- In Science we will start our new topic of light and shadow. We will sort objects and pictures into light sources and non light sources.
- In topic time we will be finding out what we can learn from Varna Necropolis, a copper age site in Bulgaria.
- In PE we will continue to work on our gymnastics skills and on keeping fit.
We are looking forward to our cinema visit on Monday 13th November..
Children in Waterloo Bridge Class worked hard during Autumn 1 and I am looking forward to Autumn 2! Thank you to Kate who came in and did an interesting talk on E-safety during the last week of the half term. In Autumn 2 we will continue with out topic Scavengers and Settlers and will move on to learning about the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Our science topic is Light and Shadow. Our learning this week will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will learn to recognise angles as a property of shape or description of turn and to identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle.
- In English we will study a short film entitled For the Birds. We will work toward creating a storyboard.
- In Science we will complete our investigations on magnets before moving on to work on Light and Shadows.
- In Topic time we will learn about the early settlement at Skara Brae.
- In RE we will learn that Hindus believe in one god who has many forms.
- In PE we will continue with our keep fit work and develop our skills in gymnastics.
I would like to remind parents that jewellery should not be worn for school. For safety reasons, this is particularly important on PE days.
Don’t forget we will be visiting the cinema to see the film trolls on Monday 13th November.
Mrs Fallon