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Tuesday 15th December 2020 – Christmas Lunch
Friday 18th December 2020 – Mufti Day – Children wear their own clothes to school
Monday 21st December – Christmas Holidays
Enjoy the Christmas break!…

 

Our learning this week…

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English

At Howard Primary School we have adopted The Power of Reading scheme for literacy. Our literacy work is based around a core text. The text we are working on is called Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin.

 

Other books by Bethan Woollvin include:

 

This week we will:

• Plan their own version of a fairy tale with an alternative ending
• Write their own version of a fairy tale with an alternative ending

Children should include features of Year 2 writing.

• write simple coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real of fiction)
• write about real events, recording these simply and clearly
• demarcate most sentences in their writing with capital letters and full stops, and use question marks correctly when required
• use present and past tense correctly and consistently
• use co-ordination (e.g. or/ and/ but ) and some subordination (e.g. when/if/that/because) to join clauses
• segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many of the words correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at others
• spell many common exception words
• form capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters
• use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters

 Children will work on showing the change in their character.

 

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Mock Reading Paper

Reading – two papers 

The Key Stage 1 reading test comprises two papers which cover fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts:

• Paper 1 – This consists of a selection of texts totalling between 400 – 700 words, with questions interspersed
• Paper 2 – This includes a reading booklet of a selection of passages totalling 800 – 1100 words. Children are required to write their answers in a separate booklet.

Each paper is worth 50% of the marks and takes approximately 30 minutes.

What kinds of questions are there?

There will be a mixture of question types. In some, your child will need to choose an answer (selected responses). For others, they will need to write their own answer (short and extended responses).

Examples of selected response questions include:

Multiple choice: What is Lucy looking for in the story? Tick one of the boxes below.
Ranking/ordering: Number the events below to show the order in which they happen in the story.
Matching: Match the character to what they do in the story.
Labelling: Label the text to show the title.

Examples of short response questions include:

Find and copy: Find and copy one word that shows how Lucy is feeling.
Short response: What does Lucy eat?

Examples of extended response questions include:

Open-ended response: Why did Lucy write the letter to her grandmother? Give two reasons.

 

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Geography

Children will find out more information about the different continents using an atlas. Children will develop their atlas skills.Like other non-fiction books, atlases have a table of contents in the front of the book and an index at the end of the book. The index, which is in alphabetical order, helps you find the page for specific information.The most important part of an atlas is the map key. The map key, which is also called the map legend, is a little box on each map that explains different symbols or colors so you can understand the map.

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PE

Our focus this term will be tennis and dance/exercise.

 

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PSHE

This term in PHSE we are focusing on celebrating differences. We will continue to focus on bullying.

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RE

Our focus this term is Judaism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqbw2hv/resources/1

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Mathletics

A big well done to all the children completing their Mathletics.  We are so proud.

Gold

 

Silver

Ishmael and Rayyan (Hungerford)
( Westminster)

Bronze

Ishmael, Rayyan, Oliver, Yigit Emre, Alesha, Aayush, Tymon, Freddie (Hungerford)
(Westminster)

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