English

In English, we planned and wrote our own fairy tale narratives. We started by revisiting nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs before exploring a model fairy tale and magpie-ing ambitious vocabulary and ideas.

Throughout the week, we:

• Planned our own fairy tale using a beginning, middle and ending structure.
• Orally rehearsed our stories with partners.
• Wrote the opening of our stories, focusing on using the past tense.
• Wrote the middle section, ensuring our sentences were punctuated correctly.
• Completed the ending, experimenting with different sentence openers.
• Edited and improved our work by checking spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence openers.

In reading, we enjoyed fairy tale texts together, including examples linked to Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood, collecting ideas and vocabulary that we can use in our own writing.

In our spelling sessions, we practised this term's red words: was, said, some, come, when, what, school, once, friend.

You can try practicing these at home!

Maths

This week we continued developing our addition and subtraction strategies.

The children learnt to:

• Use number bonds to 10 to help add three single-digit numbers.
• Reorder addends to make addition calculations easier to solve mentally.
• Use rebalancing strategies when adding or subtracting 9 and 11.
• Use the "think addition" strategy to solve subtraction calculations by finding the missing part.

We used practical resources such as tens frames, counters, Cuisenaire rods, bead strings and multilink cubes to explain and prove our mathematical thinking.

RE

In RE, we learnt about leadership and why leaders are important within different communities.

The children:

• Found out about leaders in school and the roles they carry out.
• Explored the challenges and responsibilities of leadership.
• Learnt about global religious leaders and their special books.
• Investigated the names, clothing, places of worship, holy books and duties of local religious leaders.

 

Love 2 Learn

In our thematic topic next term we will be learning about the Great Fire of London. For your love 2 learn task you can research the Great Fire of London and write down some key facts in your love 2 learn book. For example:

When:

Where:
Why:

Who:

AR Reading 

If your child has an AR login please practice logging in and accessing books with your child to support them in logging in when we take quizzes in class. Thank you!

Spellings

 Please practice Year 1 Common Exception words and once your child is secure in these, move onto year 2 common exception words:

 

Dates for your diary

2nd November – Staff Development day, children not in school

2nd November – Secondary School Application Deadline

3rd November – School begins for children at usual time

3rd – 11th November – Poppies on sale in school

3rd, 4th, 5th November – Parent teacher consultations

4th November – Year 6 swimming begins (every Wednesday up to and including 9th December)

6^th November - Non-uniform day to raise money for new playground equipment.

11th November – Children can wear service uniform to school

13th November – Reception Come Dine with me

13th November – World Kindness Day and Children in Need day. Wear something yellow and/or spotty to school

16th November – Individual and sibling school photos

18th November – Reception and year 6 height and weight check

20th November – Year 1 and 6 Come Dine with me

25th November – Year 4 to Maidstone Museum

27th November – Year 2 and 5 Come Dine with me

30th November – Book fair in school this week

4th December – Year 3 and 4 Come Dine with me

4th December – Year 5 Pantomime (year 5 to be collected at 4.20pm)

9th December – Christmas Fair from 3.15pm-4.15pm

11th December – Reception Nativity at 9am in school hall

14th December – Year 1 Nativity at 9am in school hall

15th December – Year R, 1 and 2 Party Day. Non-school uniform for these children

15th December – Year 3 and 4 Christmas Church performance at 10am and year 5 and 6 Christmas Church performance at 2pm

16th December – Year 2 Nativity at 9am in school hall

16th December – Party day for year 3, 4, 5 and 6. Non-school uniform for these children.

17th December – School Christmas Dinner and all children to wear Christmas jumpers to school (please note children to wear usual school uniform, but a Christmas jumper, rather than a school jumper/cardigan)

18th December – Last day of school. School to finish at 2pm. No after school club on this day.