Monday 12th February, 2018

It’s been a busy and exciting Half-term and we thank you for all your help and support. All your children are enjoying their learning and has made good progress. We have a lot of budding authors as well as artists following our creative writing of Space stories and doing lovely space art pictures. Children have enjoyed chatting to our own resident ‘astronaut ‘ as part of their learning about Space.

Half-Term Week – Monday 12th February – Friday 16th February, 2018

Parent’s Evening this term will be on – Thursday  March 1st, 2018 & Wednesday March 14th, 2018

 

Our Mathletic winners
Silver Award
Lambeth class -Tanush, Rebeka, Harry, Francis, Patrick, Zuzanna
Vauxhall Class- Nathan

Bronze Award
Lambeth Class
Monae, Suden, Maxwell, Alvin, Zofia, Sheznin, Martin, Vera, Kamil
Vauxhall Class  – Diyanesh, Ethan,Taliyah,Sarah,Abigail,Yah

Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class – Tanush – 4650 Points
Vauxhall Class – Abigail – 4203 Points

 

Our Learning this term…

Our context for learning for the next term is ‘It’s Raining! It’s Pouring’!

Our focus is on geography – we are learning to identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles. Children will be using atlases and developing their locational knowledge of UK and its capital cities.

English
We will be writing recounts of our holidays and learn about the different features of poems – stanza, repetition, rhyming words, onomatopoeic words, rhythm… Children will read a range of rain poems and will learn to perform poems.

Maths
We will be learning what is fraction (equal parts of a whole) and learn to make halves and quarters of shapes and amounts. They will continue to develop their skills in counting in 2’s/ 5’s/10’s forward and back from different numbers.

Counting in 2’s…

Counting in 5’s

Counting in 10’s

Doubling & Halving

Fractions

Science

We will finish our learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Art

In Art we will be exploring patterns and create a patterned umbrella using a range of media. Please support your child by looking at different designs / patterns you can choose.

P.E

Children will continue developing their gym skills.

PSHE

In PSHE, our topic is called ‘Good to be Me’. We will be thinking about their talents and what talents/skills they have that children are proud about.

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 the basic principles of Islam.