Week beginning 25th September 2017

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#17f92b” ] Thank you very much to the many parents who have followed our invitation to join our Class-Dojos. We hope that you are finding it a useful tool to monitor and feedback about work and behaviour. However, if there are any questions arising, please do not hesitate to contact us after school when picking up your child or via the school office as we will not be using Class-Dojo as a messaging system.

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Maths

I can round numbers up to 1,000,000.

I can read Roman numerals.

I can use my skills in counting up in powers of 10 to complete and correct sequences.

I can interpret negative numbers, count backwards and forwards.

I can compare numbers up to 100,000.

 

English

 

Unit: Talk for writing

I can retell a story.

I can use a story map to retell a story.

I can use hot seating to develop character profiles.

I can retell a substitution story.

 

SpaG

I can identify and confidently use verbs.

I can use powerful verbs in my writing.

I can change the tense of a verb by adding ‘ed’.

I can use alternative verbs to up level my writing.

 

Science

I can work scientifically (plan, measure, record, report).

PE

Tuesdays – Hockey

Thursdays – Circuits 

RE/Art

We shall be continuing with our stained glass windows. Cutting out our templates and then layered our tissue paper effectively.

 

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Spellings

Knowing how to spell words is a very important aspect of your child’s education and one that we value highly.  Historically, most teachers handed out to pupils a list of words to learn to spell, on a weekly basis, which pupils were tested on at a later time.  Nationally, evidence shows that good spellers consistently perform very well in their tests and poor spellers do not.  In addition, even though some may score highly in tests, evidence of this standard of spelling is not always seen in their daily writing.  Many experts, like us, believe that tests only test pupils’ short term memory and do not assist students in gaining spelling mastery.  For this reason, although there will be on-going assessments, we will no longer be giving weekly spelling tests.  Testing isn’t teaching and we want to teach pupils to become confident spellers through a variety of ways which include word study (e.g. spelling patterns and rules) and word meanings and their origins.