Thank you for your continued support and attending the Maths Workshop. We hope you had an informative session and understand your child’s learning journey. We have ‘Autumn Art’ parents drop in on Friday 10th November in both Yr.1 Classes. Please come in  and enjoy art lesson with your child. If you require support in any area, please let us know.

Congratulations to our Mathletics Bronze Award winners.

Lambeth Class – Alvin, Rebeka , Zuzanna , Zofia , Shaira, Tanush,  Sheznin, Alexandru, Ameliya, Lamees, Kamil, Maxwell and Suden

Vauxhall Class – Jacob , Lena, Nathan, Octavian, Mawgan, Yashal, Taliyah, Kushal, Dhiyanesh and Zayna.

Super Mathletic 

Lambeth Class- Alvin-Highest score-7980

Vauxhall Class- Lena -Highest Score-820

Our new topic is ‘Sort it Out’. It is related to our science learning about materials. This half-term children will learn about everyday materials ( glass, plastic, metal, wood etc..), explore and understand their properties. We will also be learning about seasonal changes – Autumn. Another context we will be exploring is ‘People who help us’. 

 English

We are learning to read, enjoy and write our own poems related to Autumn and Fireworks. 

Maths

Children will be consolidating their understanding of subtraction and learn about 2D and 3 D shapes. We will learn to name, identify and describe these shapes.

H

 History 

Barack Obama is our significant Black historical person we will be learning about. We will learn about his job, where he lived , his family etc.

R.E

Children will be learning about Harvest and its significance and how it is celebrated across the world.

Home work

Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned every Wednesday.  Mathletics homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning. Children can earn bronze, silver and gold certificates as they earn the points. Please check the back of your reading record for your child’s username and password.                                          Reading is very important and please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as their reading books to promote a love for reading.

ICT

Please support your child to develop keyboard skills to type their name and write a few sentences – focusing on shift key ( for capital letters), space bar, enter, delete key.

 

Week beginning 16th October, 2017

English: New text ‘Lila and the secret of the rain’. We have enjoyed reading the text. We have learnt to describe the setting- Kenyan village, illustrated the main character-Lila with three thought bubbles. This week we will be talking about her journey.

Maths: Our focus is subtraction and children will be counting backward from a given number, take away objects and jumping backwards on the number lines. Please support your child to subtract by taking away using resources at home e.g. pasta, spoons, straws…..

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW14jOElUrI   -subtraction songs                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZi-6_-  -number pairs song

Hand writing: Please encourage your child to use joined up handwriting. We are doing the caterpillar letters focusing on the letters c, a o, d, g.

https://youtu.be/2NQ6uS8blwY

 

Topic-Geography: Comparing and contrasting localities. Children will be learning to compare and contrast Croydon (UK) with Kenya focusing on climate, weather conditions, physical (hills, mountains, lakes) and human features (houses, huts, town, village).

Religious Education: We are learning to talk about ‘How do people thank God’.-praying, singing songs, going to a service and offering food/flowers/money.
ICT: We are learning to use word programme to type in their name and surname using necessary keys. Please support your child to use word document to type his/her name using shift key, space key, delete and enter keys.

Physical Education: We are learning to travel in different ways and follow directions. e.g: right, left, north, south, east and west.
Lambeth Bridge Class-Wednesdays and Fridays.
Vauxhall Bridge Class- Mondays and Wednesdays.
Reading: We will be changing our reading books every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Home work: From this week maths homework will be set on Mathletics.com programme. Your child’s user name and password is attached at the back of your child’s Reading Record book. Please don’t forget the Phonics and spelling homework is at back of the book.

Please help your children to complete the given tasks and return the book back by Wednesday. All the books will be marked on Wednesday.