Welcome to Waterloo Bridge Class
Class teacher – Miss Brown
Teaching assistants – Mrs Preston and Mrs Patel
We are pleased to welcome your child to Waterloo Bridge class and are grateful for your help and support.
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Reading
Children are asked to read at home on a daily basis and their book should be brought to school each day. It is helpful if parents can comment regularly in their child’s Reading Record, particularly when their child has finished their book. Children are responsible for changing and selecting their own books in the morning.
Homework
Children will be given homework each Friday to be handed in by the following Tuesday. Children are also asked to learn spellings and times tables at home. They are responsible for recording their homework in their homework diary.
Other
Children are asked to bring to school a water bottle. They should have a waterproof coat when it is raining or the forecast is for rain.
We had a great Stone Age Day today. Well done to parents who provided some great costumes. This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will continue our work on column addition and subtraction.
- In English we will learn about instruction writing and write instructions for painting a pottery tile.
- In Science we will learn about magnetic poles.
- In art we will create stone age paintings.
- In RE we will create storyboards based on the story of Rama and Sita.
We are looking forward to our visit to Get Fired, Purley on Monday. The children will be able to take their tiles home after the half term holiday.
In Waterloo Bridge Class this week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will be learning to subtract using the column method and to solve problems using subtraction.
- In writing we will write up our version of Stone Age Boy before starting work on instruction writing.
- In reading we read regularly in small groups. We are also enjoying our class book The Queen’s Nose by Dick King-Smith.
- In science we will look at the strength of different magnets.
- In art we will plan a cave painting in preparation for our visit to Get Fired.
Don’t forget our Stone Age Dress up day is this Friday (12th October) and our visit to Get Fired is next Monday (15th October). I am looking forward to meeting those parents who are coming for Parent-Teacher meetings this Wednesday. KF