Week beginning 2nd December 2019

Diary Dates: The Year 1 Christmas Production this year is called ‘The Magical Christmas Jigsaw’. It will be performed on Wednesday 11th December 2019 in the Hall at 2.15pm.
Please provide your child’s appropriate costume in a named carrier bag by Friday 6th December 2019.

A big thank you to all the parents who attended The Maths Workshop on Tuesday 26th November 2019. We hope this was helpful. The Handout has been given out to all the children.

Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions!

Super Mathlete

Lambeth Class – Tome (4140 Points)

Vauxhall Class – Aayush ( 3902 Points)

Silver Award

Vauxhall Class – Mah’ree, Agyeiwaa, Freddie, Oliver

Lambeth Class- Barin, Priscilla, Mia, Aliyah

Bronze Award

Lambeth Class – Brady, Sakhile, Jennifer, Stanley, Emily, Olivier, Tome, Bonnie, Luke, Hasan, Kevin,  Mustufa, Carter, Mikael, Harvey, Shauna

Vauxhall Class – Yigit Emre, Logan, Mohamed, Alesha, Aayush, Hamza, Fabeha, Ishmael, Afia, Naomi, Kelsey, Kelcia

Our Learning this week…

English

We have a new focus text called ‘The Lonely Beast’ by Chris by Chris Judge. Children will be planning a story map with story beginning, middle and ending.

Maths

Children will be learning about Measure: Length: tall and short (taller than, tallest, short, shorter than, shortest). Long and short (longer than, longest, short, shorter than, shortest). Children will be using non- standard units ( cubes, paper clips..) and standard units ( cm, metres). And also Weight- heavy and light ( heavier than, heaviest, lighter than, lightest). Children will be working on practical tasks.

Science

Children will begin to learn about the different types of materials – metal, plastic, fabric, glass, wood, paper etc…They will sort materials into groups on the basis of their properties and begin to distinguish between an object and material from which it is made.

 

Children will also continue their learning about seasons focusing on Autumn.

P.E

Children will continue developing different ways of travelling as well as develop their core strength and balance.

ICT

During ICT sessions, we will be learning to use technology purposefully to create, organise store and retrieve digital content-log on, type name and surname, change font, size, colour and type a sentence using capital letter, space and full stop. Children will watch Hector’s world.

PSHE

We will discuss in class about-‘ People who help us’ at home, in school and in our community.

Art:

Children will be making some Christmas decorations. A snowman for the hall and a candle for the classroom.

Phonics

Please continue to practice sound recognition with your child. Encourage them to apply their phonic knowledge every time you read or write with them.

Handwriting

We will be learning to form the numbers correctly and begin to learn the cursive script starting with the letters c, a, o, d, g. as well as numbers.

Homework

Please support your child to make a poster about Materials.

Please hand it in by Wednesday 4th December 2019

Please continue …

*Mathletics-your child’s user name and the password are attached in your child’s yellow Reading Record book.

*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.

*Play phonics games on Phonics Play / Star fall Phonics.