Welcome to Westminster Bridge Class.
Class teacher: Mrs Ramakrishnan
Teaching assistant: Miss Dale
English – Writing
We are continuing to work with Leon and the Place Between by Grahame Baker-Smith. 
The children will be using their portal story toolkit in order to write their own portal story. After writing their stories the children will edit and up level their work.
The children will be using their portal story toolkit in order to write their own portal story. After writing their stories the children will edit and up level their work.We will encourage the children to check if they have included powerful verbs, adverbs, adjectives and conjunctions within their writing
English- reading
We have started our whole class read: Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year.
Maths
We are starting the addition and subtraction block.
- to know number bonds within 20 & understand fact families
- number bonds to 20
- to be able to check calculations
- to compare number sentences
- Number bonds are also often referred to as ‘number pairs’. They are simply the pairs of numbers that make up a given number. Knowing number bonds with confidence allows children to develop strategies for solving more complicated mental problem.
Comparing number sentences
History
We will continue our learning about Amy Johnson. The children enjoyed sharing their knowledge about Amy Johnson. They added their facts into a fact file and used adventurous vocabulary. This week we will send our family a postcard telling them all about our solo expedition! We looking forward to sending them.
Science
We will be sorting materials according to their properties.
ICT
Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon. Last week we enjoyed a session of coding. this week we will continue to explore programming. We are the programmers of the future!
Music
Ministrings will continue every Wednesday. This week we will play some instruments that belong in the string family.
PE
Our PE slot is on Monday afternoon.
Please ensure all children have their full PE kit in school (fully named).
PSHE
We have introduced the children to a programme called Zones of Regulation which we are hoping will help regulate feelings and emotions and offer the children the correct way to talk about their feelings. This week we will continue to think of suitable ways to regulate their feelings. 
English – Writing
We are continuing to work with Leon and the Place Between by Grahame Baker-Smith. We will be thinking about the impact words have on our readers and we will be using thesauri to up level our words. We will use a portal toolkit to plan our own story, and then we will write our own exciting stories based on Leon & the Place Between. The themes of wonder and magic will continue in our own innovated stories. English- reading We have started our whole class read: Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year.
We will be thinking about the impact words have on our readers and we will be using thesauri to up level our words. We will use a portal toolkit to plan our own story, and then we will write our own exciting stories based on Leon & the Place Between. The themes of wonder and magic will continue in our own innovated stories. English- reading We have started our whole class read: Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year.Maths
We are continuing with the maths block: Number & Place Value.This week we are:
- counting in steps of 2 from any number, forward and backward
- counting in steps of 5 from any number, forward and backward
- counting in steps of 10 from any number, forward and backward
- counting in steps of 3 from any number, forward and backward
We will fill out 100 squares and look for patterns when counting in 2s, 5s and 10s
- recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 10 (number bonds)
Number bonds are also often referred to as ‘number pairs’. They are simply the pairs of numbers that make up a given number. Knowing number bonds with confidence allows children to develop strategies for solving more complicated mental problem.
HistoryWe will be contituing our learning about Amy Johnson. The children have learnt some interesting facts about this brave explorer. We will be creating a factfile about Amy Johsnon and we will be exploring new vocabularly related to Amy Johnson. We will use some of this language in our factfile. Science
ScienceLast week we recapped materials and their uses. This week we will challenge the children to hunt around the school and find different materials. We will be thinking about how these materials and their properties.
ICT
Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon.
Music
The first music lesson was a success. Ministrings will continue every Wednesday.
PE
Our PE slot is on Monday afternoon.
Please ensure all children have their full PE kit in school (fully named).
PSHE
We have introduced the children to a programme called Zones of Regulation which we are hoping will help regulate feelings and emotions and offer the children the correct way to talk about their feelings. This week the children will match their emotions to different zones and think of suitable ways to regulate their feelings.