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Dear Parents / Carers

Just to let you know that Monday 9th November is INSET Day. Please support your child to complete the Mathletics Challenges as well as any pending Homework on Google Classroom. Any queries / concerns please email us on year1@howard.croydon.sch.uk. Thank you.

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Our learning this Half-term. It is called ‘Sort it out’ and focus mainly on our learning about materials. We also focus on Geography – where we live. This aspect focuses firstly on identify what Croydon is  – a town and what it can offer  – shops, hospitals, schools, restaurants, leisure facilities, different modes of transport etc… Here is an overview.

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Let’s celebrate our Merit Card winners.

Lambeth Class

Leanne – For focusing on her learning and making excellent progress with her phonics and writing.

Tarun – For being a ‘super learner’ in our class. You always try your best and is a good friend too. Well done !

Vauxhall Class

Nevaeh – For making a poster about Barack Obama – What  a fantastic work. Well done & keep it up – Mrs S Jeevahan

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Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions !

Vauxhall Class : Josiah

Lambeth Class : Mirac, Tarun, Tate, Yaseen, Sumaiya, Rebecca

Vauxhall Class : Josiah, Prithvi, Subhishashree

Lambeth Class : Ayaz x2, Mirac x 2, Tate x 2, Sumaiya x 2, Yaseen x 2, Arbi x 2, Dawood, Milena, Danielle x 2, Tarun x 2, Rebecca x 2, Leanne, Izabella, Dakshakkavin x 3

Vauxhall Class : Jai, Faris, Josiah x 2, Amelia-Rose x 2, Prithvi, Hamish x 2, Subhikshashree x 2

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Our learning this week…

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English

Learning Challenge 1

We continue our learning using our focus text, ‘The Storm Whale’. Children will sequence pictures to show their understanding of the story and the key events – beginning, middle, end. 

They will also write a goodbye message to the whale – message in a bottle

Check out the story.

Learning Challenge 2

We will introduce children to poetry focusing on Firework poems. We will watch firework videos, read a selection of firework poems focusing on identifying the poetic features like title, poet, stanzas, rhyming words, repetition, onomatopoeic words like Bang, Fizz, pop etc…

Check out this Firework video and poem.

 

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Phonics

Watch the video and support your child to learn the sounds and keywords.

Please practise the sounds and tricky words

* Mrs.Ramakrishan’s Phonics Group

Practise Set 1 and all of Set 2 Sounds
Tricky words – Phase 4

^ Mrs. Hunjan’s Phonics Group

Practise Set 1 and Set 2 Long vowel up to oo from the Sound Pronunciation video
Tricky words Phase 3 and Phase 4

* Miss Dale’s Phonics Group

Practise Set 1 from the Sound Pronunciation video
Practise Set 1 and all of Set 2 Sounds
Tricky Words Phase 3 & Phase 2

* Mrs Jeevahan’s Phonics Group:
Practise Set 1 from the Sound Pronunciation video
Tricky words Phase 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q

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Maths

For mental starter we continue to count forward / back from different numbers, identify 1 more / 1 less than a number and order numbers to 20.

We will continue to learn to count with 1-1 correspondence .

We are also comparing numbers and identifying greater than / lesser than.

 

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Science

We begin our learning exploring different objects and discussing what material it is made out of. Have a look around your house and look at different objects. What is it made of – wood, metal, plastic, fabric, glass.

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Art

We link this to our English curriculum learning about fireworks. We will draw a range of fireworks using different media like pastels, chalks, crayons, pencils…

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PSHE

This week is AntiBullying week. Our slogan is ‘United against bullying’

We will discuss ‘what is bullying?’ and how we can differentiate between bullying and falling out. We will also talk about what are the different kinds of bullying – physical, verbal, emotional, e-bullying and talk about ways to be safe and get help.

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RE

This week Hindus all over the world celebrate Diwali – the festival of lights or Diwas. Children will learn about the significance of this festival and how it is celebrated by Hindus.

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