Southwark News Week beginning 27th November
Here is a breakdown of what we will be looking at over the coming week:
English- We will be continuing our unit of work about Robin Hood, reading a version by Marcia Williams alongside the Disney film. We will be acting, planning and beginning to write our own versions of the Robin Hood legend ‘The Golden Arrow’ this week. As well as focusing on fronted adverbial phrases in grammar.
Maths- We are beginning a unit of work on measure, beginning with a recap of Year 3 objectives and thinking about converting units of measure.
Spelling- Our focus this week in class is the suffix sion. We will be thinking of as many words as we can such as mission and practising our spelling using methods such as speed spelling and hangman.[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Reading- All children read with me at least once a week as part of a Guided Reading programme as well as reading with our new class teaching assistant-Mrs Minnaar. After the adult led sessions they complete tasks relating to the text. In addition, some children receive additional one to one reading with an adult. However, I can not emphasis enough the importance of encouraging your child to read independently or to yourself every day as this helps with their learning across the entire curriculum. Your child is led to appropriate books by the adults in class but the expectation is that they choose books themselves and change these books when they need to during early morning work session. If your child is not bringing home challenging enough or too challenging books please speak to them about this and write us a quick message in their reading journals.[/dropshadowbox]
ICT- We are still holding an extra ICT session each week to introduce the children to touch typing. This a free to use course and is accessible to everyone. If you would like to continue this at home, I have included the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr
Our ICT topic this half term is software developing, we will be designing a Maths game on Scratch. The class are having great success with this and I must congratulate Azain, Vishal and Adrian for the impressive leadership skills they are demonstrating during this coding lessons. Thank you!
PE- PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Thursdays and children will need their PE kits. I would also like to remind you that the school policy is that all earrings should be removed, hair should be tied back and tights should be removed when getting changed. I would also ask that PE kits stay in school between Monday and Friday as occasionally we are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take part in additional activities. This half term we will be learning Pilates and Quick Cricket and will continue to run the daily mile.
RE- We will be studying a unit of work concerning discrimination. This unit will be taught by Miss Siams on a Wednesday morning.
Topic- Our topic for this term is Vikings and Anglo Saxons. This will concentrate on the period between the Viking and Anglo Saxon struggle to control Britain to the time of Edward the Confessor.
French- We will be revising our conversational skills so far and then moving on to learn the numbers between 20 and 50 and learning vocabulary to describe our families.
PSHE- Our current focus is anti-bullying to coincide with anti-bullying week. We will also be relating this to ideas from the 2 films we viewed this term-Trolls and Ninjago.
Homework- Homework is given out on a Friday and should be returned by the following Friday. In addition to tasks given out I expect the children to read every day and continue to practise the multiplication tables. I will be collecting the reading records in every week to check children are reading and would ask that you initial or sign to show they have read and make any comments you deem necessary, children should also record all independent reading they have done in the book so I am able to see that they are reading regularly. Children should feel free to keep a book for as long as they need to in order to finish reading. If you have any concerns about your child’s book choice, please speak to me or write me a note.
Successes– Well done to Limar, Ciaran, Harley and Tyray who all received merit cards this week!
Well done to Marble group-Team Sport who won this week’s marble competition and to Limar and Stefan for being our Readers of the Week.
Additional information– A big thank you to everyone who contributed to Operation Christmas Child and donated items for our shoe boxes. I was overwhelmed by your generosity!