Southwark Class Weekly News Week beginning 18th September 2017

September 15, 2017

It has been an enjoyable week for all in Southwark class this week as we get used to the new expectations and timetable which comes along with a new school year.

This week we will be covering the following learning objectives in:

Writing

We will be beginning a three week unit learning about and writing explanation texts. This week we will be revising instructional writing and comparing it to explanation texts. In spelling, we will be consolidating our learning of spelling words which have the /aw/ sound but are spelt with augh or au such as astronaut, Autumn and daughter. The clip below can help you help you and your child with these words.

Reading

We will be continuing our daily guided reading. Every child has a weekly focus session with me and follow up tasks to complete independently which are then reviewed at the beginning of the next teacher led session.

Maths

Our focus this half term is on number and place value. We will be comparing and ordering 4 digit numbers to 10,000 using representations as proof as well as rounding numbers to 10, 100 and 1000.

I.C.T

As you may have noticed from our homework this week our I.C.T topic is mobile phone and internet safety. This week we will be focusing on cyber-bullying and what to do if you receive unwanted and inappropriate text or chat messages. There are many good parent websites on this topic such as the one below to help start conversations with your child about this topic:

http://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers

PE is on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please keep p.e kits at school as we are lucky enough to be able to do additional p.e on occasion. This week we joined in with a live broadcast from Body Coach Jo Wick (see above) P.E kits will be sent home at half term.

We will be looking at Judaism in particular the Jewish celebrations and customs. This will be taught by our PPA teachers on a Wednesday morning.

PSHE

We will be looking at new beginnings and settling in to a new school year.

Key information

Reading books are changed by your child during early morning work at the start of each day. We expect your child to read to you every evening and for this to be recorded in their reading record. You can:

Just sign or initial.
Write a comment e.g if the book was challenging, too easy, any particular words your child found difficult to read, any questions that you asked and your child’s response

Children receive a marble (class reward) for each time they read. Well done to Aljmetin who is our reader of the week this week!

Homework:

Homework will be given out on a Friday afternoon. We expect it to be completed the following Friday. If your child is absent when the homework is given out the are asked to tell myself on my TA Miss Halcomb who will give them a copy on their return. Please let us know via the homework or reading diaries of any problems with completing the homework and we can help them before Friday.

We will be trialling both Spellodrome and Mathletics homework for which you will be sent passwords shortly. If your child does not have access to a computer/ tablet at home, then please let us know.

Trips

There are lots of exciting trips coming up this term. A letter will be sent home by Friday 22nd September with further details.

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