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Hello and welcome to
another week of busy activities. We would like to thank the children for their
excellent production of the Christmas play “The Very Hopeless Camel!”. We are
so proud of the children and now that they thoroughly enjoyed their
performances. We definitely have a few budding actors and actresses among them!
We had our Christmas
Fair on Friday which was a great success. Thank you to everyone who turned up
and supported the school.
This week we will be
assessing the children on their reading, writing, numeracy and phonics. Some
assessments have already taken place and will be continuing throughout the
week.
Notices
Monday 8th December
2014 is the children’s Christmas dinner.
Friday 12th
December 2014 is the Advent Service in school. Details on the school
newsletter)
Maths
This week the children will be having a numeracy
test which will test all of the areas covered so far in this half term so this
week we will be have a revision week to revisit some of the topics that we have
covered so far this term.
Below is a list of some of the topics that
the children will be tested on:
·
Use every
day language to describe 2D and 3D shapes – what the shape are called and how
many sides and corners shapes have.
·
Odds
and evens – can they identify odds and evens numbers up to 100.
·
Counting
reliably up to 30 and above.
·
Reading
and writing numbers up to 100.
·
Understanding
the operation of + and – and use related vocabulary.
·
To
know pairs to 10 and build up to pairs to 100.
·
To
recognise coins and their values – to be able to add up amounts and find
totals.
·
To
read the time to the hour/half hour on an analogue clock.
·
Start
to recognise multiples of 2,5 and 10.
English
In English this week we are continuing with ‘The Nativity
Story.’ The children will be writing about the main events. The children will
also be making their own nativity scene and retelling the story in small groups
using their drama skills. This is a lovely time of year and the children will
enjoy learning all about this special time.
Talk to your child about the nativity story and encourage them
to think of the order of the story. What were the main events of the story?
Have a go at some fun online literacy games.
Topic
This week the children
will learn about why letters were so important during the war.
We will talk about what
they would miss the most about being away from home and then relate this to
World War I and discuss what they think a soldier would miss about home.
Whole
class discussion will be based on how the troops communicated with their
friends and family – either by writing a letter or sending a postcard. Soldiers
wrote lots of letters back to their friends and family, telling them about
events and what was happening.
We
will read three examples of actual letters written by three soldiers during the
war and discuss their content. How the soldiers must have felt at the time and
how the recipient must have felt reading the letters.
In
pairs they will be tasked to write their own letter to a friend or family
member as if they were a soldier fighting in the war.
Interesting
fact – did you know that pigeons were also used during the war. About 500,000 pigeons were
regularly dropped into enemy lines by parachute, and then sent back with
messages.
Come and
See
This week we continue with the
topic of Waiting. This topic covers the theme of Advent and what we need to do
to prepare for the coming of Jesus on Christmas Day.
Thank you for your continued support- and have a great week!
Not many ‘sleeps’ now until Santa comes!!
The Key Stage 1 team.
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