Monday 21st September,2020

September 20, 2020

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Dear Parents, Carers

We have been very pleased with the calm and settled start to school for our children this year.

If your child is unable to come into school for any reason, please call the school office to let them know. For other enquiries please email year1@howard.croydon.sch.uk. If you are still not receiving text messages or emails from the school, please let us know immediately.

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SCHOOL TIMES Start: 8:45am and Finish: 3:00pm

Please do not arrive any earlier or later than these times as this will cause congestion at the school entrance If you have other children at Howard Primary, please drop them at the School Hall.

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FOOD AT SCHOOL

LUNCH: School lunches are provided every day at 11.45.

A weekly menu will be sent home every Friday. Kindly fill this in with your child and return every Monday morning as you drop off your child. We appreciate your support and co-operation with this to enable us to to have a smooth transition at lunch times.

If your child has a packed lunch, please indicate this on the menu choice letter.

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Merit Assembly

Congratulations to our winners.

We have our ‘Merit Assembly in our classrooms every Friday.

Lambeth Class:

Tate – For being an amazing in our class and having a positive attitude to all our learning challenges.

Dawood– For his amazing writing about the sea using fantastic descriptions and vocabulary.

Vauxhall Class: Whole class- for working hard and having a positive attitude towards their learning.

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PE LESSONS

PE lessons will take place twice a week.

Lambeth Class: Monday & Thursday

Vauxhall Class: Monday & Thursday

On their PE day,children must attend school in their PE kit, (jogging bottoms-Black or navy blue are permitted), school shoes and school cardigan or jumper.

Please send their black plimsolls or PE trainers in their PE kit bag, which will stay at school for use during PE lessons. A spare set of clothes may also be stored in the PE kit bag.

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Our learning this term is based on the topic called ‘Amazing Me’ linked to Science – learning about naming and identifying body parts, senses, healthy eating and lifestyles.

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Our learning this week…

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English

At Howard Primary School we have adopted The Power of Reading scheme for literacy. We will focus our literacy work on a core text. The text we are working on is currently a secret and slowly we will reveal the title and the book to the children.

This week we will be looking at seaside/beach. Children will explore using their senses – what they can see, feel, smell, hear. We will listen to Benjamin Britten’s ‘Four Sea interludes’.

They will write about their feelings about the sea – when it is calm / stormy.

Children will talk about what other objects they find on the beach and will be given a special pebble to look after and write about.

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Maths

Mathletics homework will be set weekly based on children’s learning in school. The Log-ins are inside their Reading Records.

We will be learning about Subtraction. Children will learn number songs and understand how to take away subtract in a practical context using ten frames and other resources.

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Science

We continue our learning about our body but focus on our senses.

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PSHE

We continue to develop our learning about the zones of Regulation and expressing our emotions. We also continue developing strategies to calm down if we are feeling emotional especially anxious using different breathing techniques.

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Computing

We will continue to focus on e-safety and the importance of being safe when using the internet.

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