Week beginning 4th February 2019
Mathematics workshop is now rescheduled for Tuesday 5th February, 2019 at 9:00 am in the Dining Hall.
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions.
Super Mathlete:
Lambeth Class : Adoma – 3341 Points / Ryan – 2396 Points
Vauxhall Class : Krishan– 5710 Points/ Ali – 3392 Points
Gold Award
Lambeth Class : Isaiah
Silver Award :
Lambeth Class : Jayden, Cameron
Vauxhall Class : Yeabsira, Krishan
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Adoma, Japdeep, Marwa, Yaacoob, Deyan, Magnus, Ryan, Nicole, Ayaan, Nathan, Comella, Kye, Charlotte, Sackena
Vauxhall Class : Oskar, Shun Ming, Ali
Our learning …
This term our new context is called…
‘Now you see me, now you don’t’ and it is about Space especially focusing on the ‘Moon’.
This is related to exploring space in Science as well as learning about significant people who has made a contribution to world history – our focus is on Neil Armstrong. We will also be learning about classification of animals in science – mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, amphibians etc..
Please check your child’s homework book for the overview of this term’s curriculum.
English
Our focus text is ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram. Your child will continue developing their skills of character description, role-play and hot-seating characters. They will continue to identify and differentiate between fiction and non-fiction texts and understand the different features of texts. Fiction – stories, pictures, characters, events, sequencing events (beginning, middle and end). Non-fiction – true, facts, contents, photographs etc…
Maths
This week we will continue our focus on money. Children will develop their skill to recognise and identify different coins as well as notes – 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 50p, £1, £2,£5,£10,£20,£50 . Children will understand the value of coins and how to make totals using different coins for e.g 10p can be 10 x 1p coins/ 5 x 2p coins / 2x 5p coins / 1x 10p. Children will also play shopping games.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Science
We will continue our learning about seasonal changes focusing on Winter.
Children will plan, write and edit a non chronological report about winter.
Children will be looking at different types of animals and birds and sort them to different categories in their learning about classification – mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish etc…
PSHE
Children will begin to develop their understanding about going for goals and how to achieve them by breaking them into little steps. Children will also be learning about the Green Cross Code and understand the importance of staying safe while crossing roads.
ICT
Children will learn about e-safety and how to get help when necessary. They will continue developing their skills to use a keyboard – write their name, change font and size and colour, use back space, enter and space bar keys with confidence. Please support your child at home to do the same.
P.E.
Children will be learning about control and how to develop ball skills – chest pass, over arm throw, under arm throw etc…
R.E
Children will learn about Christianity – focusing on the place of worship – Church
This week Home work:- Staying safe while crossing the road poster / The Green Cross Road.
Please continue …
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonic games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
http://more.starfall.com/?t=253552593&y=1