Welcome to Westminster Bridge Class.
Class teacher: Mrs Ramakrishnan
Teaching assistant: Miss Dale
WB: 20th March
Our key learning objectives this week will be:
Maths-We will be continuing to work on money. We will be focussing on how to make amounts from mixed coins, how to work out change and problem solving.
Reading- We will be continuing our class read: Harper and the Circus of Dreams.
Writing- We will be looking at leaflets and writing our own non-fiction leaflets on ‘Healthy Lifestyles.’ We will be discussing the features of leaflets before planning and writing our own J
Science- Ourselves- how to be healthy and fit.
Topic- How are you? – with strong links to Science and History.
PE- On Mondays: dance with Miss Handley
On Thursdays: Gymnastics
RE-Our RE topic this term is Islam. We will be looking at beliefs that Muslims have.
EXCITING NEWS!
Westminster class will be taking part in a Tri-Golf activity session with students from Archbishop Tennison. Please make sure that they have their PE kits in school. Thank you.
DON’T FORGET:
Friday 24th March is Red Nose Day. Each class will be raising money in their own way.
Year 2 will be coming to school in their pyjamas! (Slippers included if you want J)
Please make sure that the children DO HAVE their school shoes available to them at school.
Maths objectives that you could help with at home:
- Practical addition of money to make amounts up to and over £1
- Ensuring children use the correct notation for £ and p e.g. understanding the difference between £1.08 and £1.80
- Understanding that change is a subtraction number sentence
SPaG objectives that you could help with at home:
- Spelling words with –el, -le, -il and –al endings e.g. camel, table, pencil, oval
- Spelling and understanding homophones, in particular, their/ there/ they’re and to/ too/ two
- Using suffixes at the ends of words e.g. happily, engagement, plentiful and talking about the spelling rules
- Adding adverbs to verbs e.g. walked slowly, smiled happily
- Using different sentence types in writing; most importantly questions & exclamations
WB: 13th March
Our key learning objectives this week will be:
Maths-We will be starting our new Maths topic on money. We will be focussing on how to make amounts from mixed coins, how to work out change and problem solving.
Reading- We will be continuing our class read: Harper and the Circus of Dreams.
Writing- We will also be finishing our non-chronological reports of animals and thinking about ways to up-level them. We will be considering our next steps to help us improve our writing.
Science- Ourselves- how to be healthy and fit.
Topic- How are you? – with strong links to Science and History.
PE- On Mondays: dance with Miss Handley
On Thursdays: Gymnastics
RE-Our RE topic this term is Islam. We will be looking at beliefs that Muslims have.
Maths objectives that you could help with at home:
- Continue to think about fractions of amounts in a practical context e.g. sharing objects.
- Understanding the size of fractions e.g. that ¼ is smaller than a 1/3
- Understanding how to count in ½’s using a number line
SPaG objectives that you could help with at home:
- Spelling words with contractions e.g. can’t, won’t, don’t, isn’t
- Adding adjectives (describing words) to simple sentences
- Using suffixes at the ends of words e.g. happily, engagement, plentiful and talking about the spelling rules
- How the ends of words changed when adding –ed for the past tense.
- Adding adverbs to verbs e.g. walked slowly, smiled happily
- Using different sentence types in writing; most importantly questions & exclamations