In topic, we will continue to learn about the Inuits and make comparisons about their way of life to ours.
In English, we will be developing our sentence structure and writing our news from the weekend.
In Maths, we will be learning and developing our knowledge of number bonds to 10 by doing a variety of practical activities to ensure this knowledge is embedded before moving on to recording the number sentences.
In continuous provision, we will be playing maths addition games, sorting alien and real words ,leaf printing and sorting photos to compare Inuits to us.
Important information:
On Fridays we will no longer be doing PE as the children have a 2 hour session on a Thursday. Every Friday this term we will be doing Music and RE as we will be practising our Christmas play “Snuggle up stable”. This has a Christian theme so the children will be learning about the birth of Jesus.
This coming Friday the 16th is a teacher training day so school will be closed for the children.
To support ‘Children in Need’ day this year, Mrs Maude is running a design a poster competition and on Thursday the we will be celebrating by wearing our pyjamas or something spotty to raise money for the charity.
It was wonderful to see so many of you attending our Firework Display this week. It was a fantastic event which brought the school community together. Asher S was the lucky winner of our raffle, pressing the button to launch the fireworks.
Welcome back, we hope you had an enjoyable half term break and the children are feeling well rested. This term will be a busy one with lots to look forward to. Hopefully you received your letter about Ash End farm. This is a lovely trip for the children where they get to see and feed a range of animals as well as joining in with a range of Christmas activities such as the nativity story and a visit to see Father Christmas. We will let you know arrangements nearer the time. If you did not receive an email about the trip then please visit the admin team in the school office and they will be able to help.
This week we will be focusing on celebrations. We will be talking about celebrations that have already happened and will be having a focus on Bonfire night and Guy Fawkes. We will talk about how the children have celebrated bonfire night and will be learning about why we celebrate Guy Fawkes. The children will be involved in a range of creative and active activities and will be relating the celebrations to their own celebrations. On Wednesday evening the school is hosting a firework display. There will be a range of stalls available, hot food and a fantastic firework display for you all to enjoy. We hope to see you all there, tickets are still available from the school office.
The children have now all been assessed and have been allocated their new phonics groupings. They will begin working on the sounds they do not know and will then be introduced to new letter sounds. Continue to work on the letter sounds sent home and particularly on blending the sounds together to read words. We will be sending home reading diaries soon with links to home videos that we would like you to watch with your child. This will be your child’s reading homework so please sign the diary each time you watch a video or read some words to let us know how your child is getting on with the sounds at home. Below are some additional links to videos that you may want to watch with your child.
This week in Maths we will begin to look at some 2D shapes and their properties and positional language. We will be focusing on circles and triangles. We will be talking about number of sides and identifying shapes in the environment. We will be reading Rosie’s walk and will be going on our own walk that focuses on over, under, on top, in front and behind. See if your child is confident with positional language. Play a game where you give them an instruction to stand in front, behind, on top etc, or they could place a toy in the positions. Can they tell you where the toy is?
Can we please remind all parents to check that all of their child’s clothes are labelled. We have a number of jumpers and cardigans without names on. Names written in pen wash off very quickly so please check them regularly.
We are looking forward to an exciting term in the run up to Christmas. The weather is likely to get much colder now so please make sure your child has a warm waterproof coat and they will need named gloves and a hat.
Welcome back to the second half of the Autumn term. It’s going to be a busy one!
This week we will enjoy our school fireworks night and we hope that we will see you there. We will have some activities in our continuous provision linked to fireworks night and the children will be doing printing in Art linked to fireworks.
In topic this week we will learn about the Inuit people and their life in the polar regions. In Science, we will be carrying out an experiment to find out which materials are best for warmth, flexibility, protection and which are waterproof.
In phonics, the children will be starting in their new groups and consolidating sounds or learning new ones depending on their progress last term.
In Maths, we will continue with addition and subtraction and problem-solving. Our maths star job will be learning about the part, part, whole model.
Any queries you can contact us on our class emails.
On Monday some of the Year 5 children went to the Excel Sports Centre for a Dodgeball values tournament. The children played really well and showed good respect, honesty and teamwork. Well done to all involved!
This morning, Beth from Severn Trent water came to school to share an assembly with pupils from Y1-Y6. Beth explained the job that Severn Trent do; the process of cleaning water and importance of what you flush / put down the sink.
Year 2 have been looking at how to stay healthy. Last week, we made fruit kebabs and then ate them! They were very tasty! We then discussed our favourite bit and why we chose fruit as a snack, rather than something like chocolate! Here are some pictures of us with our fruit kebabs:
