Home Learning due MONDAY

Please can the children bring in a cardboard box as they will be making Viking Longboats on Monday afternoon.

This term the children have a new AR reading target.  We would like all children to read and quiz on FOUR books by the end of Term 2. Children are expected to read at least FOUR times every week.

Important Dates for Term 2

3rd November – Poppies on sale for the following 2 weeks; children to bring in donations in named envelopes and house captains to bring poppies round to classrooms.

11th November – Service Uniform Day, children are allowed to wear their service uniforms into school

12th November – Individual School Photos

14th November – Children in need – This year is a challenge yourself theme. We are challenging the children to come into school wearing as many spots as possible!

14th November – Year 6 Come Dine with me (Cyan 12.30, Turquoise and Cobalt 12.40)

24th November – Book Fair all week

10th December – Christmas Fair 3.15pm-4.15pm

15th December – No PE this week

17th December – Year 3, 4, 5, and 6 Christmas Party Day – children to wear Party Clothes to school

17th December – Christmas Dinner Day

18th December – Christmas Jumper Day

18th December – Final day at school; school finishes at 2pm and there will be no after-school club

Reading for Pleasure

This week the children explored song lyrics in their Reading for Pleasure lessons.  The children read out their lyrics and the children tried to guess the song – we all had an amazing time! Next week will be looking at nursery rhymes and their true meanings!

English

This week the children started to read a new book: Skellig.  The children described a setting from the story using ambitious vocabulary and figurative language.  Next week, the children will be looking at a character in our new book and will spend time describing.

Maths

This week the children revisited multiplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1000 mentally.  They also explored multiples and factors.  Next week the children will be looking at time (both analogue and digital) and then exploring differences in time.  If the children have a watch, please can they wear it at school.

Thematic

This week the children have started their new thematic topic – My home, my country. They spent time answering their Big Question: Is it ever okay to invade another country?  They worked in groups to answer this question.  The children then explored a historical timeline, placing Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans in chronological order.