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We welcome Mrs Malone and Mrs Pinto-Edwards back this week
after a fantastic week away with the Year 6 children at the Conway Centre.
An enjoyable time was had by all.
Photographer-the
school photographer will be in on Wednesday 24th September so please
remind your children to stay extra clean and tidy until it is their turn in the
Hall.
Harvest
Festival- we will be having our annual Harvest Festival in
the Hall on Friday so any donations of food (tinned preferably) will be gratefully
received.
Maths
This week in Maths we
will be starting the topic of place value. This is a very important topic in
Maths as it is the basis of many areas including ordering, addition and
subtraction of bigger numbers.
Year 1 children will
recognise the value of each digit in a 'teens' number and say which is more or
less of two numbers.
Year 2 children will
partition 2-digit numbers into T and U; order numbers up to at least 100 and
position them on a 100-square.
Some
websites to help:-
English
This week we will be reading the fantastic ‘Mr
Gumpy’s Outing’ by John Burningham. We will be reading about his journey and
making puppets to retell the story. The children will be writing about an
outing that they have had recently and encouraged to use connectives such as:
and, but, so or because. Connectives will be our grammar and punctuation focus
this week. Towards the end of the week the children will be writing an
extension to the story ‘Mr Gumpy’s Outing’ Which will be marked before the
final lesson to give the children a chance to improve their writing using their
personalised targets.
Please ask your children what outings they
remember going on. How did they get there? Did anything funny or exciting
happen there?
Topic
In our Topic lessons this week we continue looking
at Journey’s.
Initially the children will be thinking of adjectives
to describe space and we will ask them to give a reason for their description.
For example:
Space is mysterious
because it is dark.
Some children may be able to extend this using a
connective such as ‘and’.
The lessons will cover the Race to Space between
the Americans and Russians and the children watch a rocket launch from the
following link:
We will look at the design features of rockets
(for example – the pointed nose and the fins) and what these features are used
for.
In groups the children will design their own space
rocket and decide what materials they would like to use to make it.
Next week the children will have lots of fun
actually making their rocket!
PLEASE CAN
YOU SEND YOUR CHILDREN INTO SCHOOL WITH AN EMPTY SHOE BOX THAT CAN BE USED IN
NEXT WEEKS LESSON (IT IS UNLIKELY THE SHOE BOX WILL BE RETURNED!).
Come and
See
Families
We have started the Reveal part of the topic. The children
will be continuing to recognise the stories and psalms which reveal God’s love
and care.
The children will be looking at this psalm in
detail:
I feel safe, so very safe, when I think of you my God.
Snuggled up in bed, even when it’s
dark outside I feel safe.
Your love for me is strong.
You care for me like a mother bird cares for her baby chicks.
I know you are always there for me.
You always listen to me.
You comfort me when I am sad you help me to be strong when things are
very hard.
Based on Psalm 63:6-9
(God’s Story 2)
We will be using
drama to develop the psalm, taking it line by line.
The children
will be making large brick shaped cards that can be put together to make a house
shape. On each brick the children will be writing all the things that a family
needs to show love and care.
Thank you for your continued support- and have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
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