What a fantastic start to Term 2. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces and so many adults at PTC’s this week.

Maths

This week, we’ve been exploring equivalent fractions. The children have done brilliantly at identifying and shading fractions that are equal, and they’ve been using multiplication and division to find and check their equivalents. It’s been great to see how confidently they can now explain why two fractions are the same!
Next week, we’ll be moving on to finding fractions of amounts and comparing fractions, which will build on all the great work we’ve done so far.

English

We have started our brand new book, Ice Palace, which has really captured the children’s imaginations! This week, we’ve focused on using expanded noun phrases, verbs, and adverbs to describe the beautiful but mysterious wintry scenes from the story. The children have created some truly atmospheric descriptions.
Next week, we’ll continue to develop our descriptive writing by exploring similes, metaphors, and personification to make our writing even more powerful.

Thematic

Our new topic has begun! The children have loved diving into the world of Ancient Egypt. This week, we looked at where Ancient Egypt fits within other eras of history and discussed just how important the River Nile was to the Egyptian people.
Next week, we’ll be finding out all about Pharaohs and the gods and goddesses the Ancient Egyptians worshipped — a topic the children are already very excited about!

 

Spellings

Next week, we will be spellings words with the suffix -ly

Quickly, jokingly, normally, gracefully, finally, dramatically, differently

CHALLENGE WORDS – aggressively, fearfully, outrageously

 

Love to Learn

Our love to learn this week is to practice your spellings, TTRS and read 4 times a week.

Can you also create your own villain character like Starjik, it can have its own powers and think about how it can cause havoc to villages just like Starjik does!

 

Dates to remember

27th October – Inset Day, children not in school

28th October – Parent/teacher consultation week

31st October – Halloween disco

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

11th November – Service Uniform Day, children 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!

24th November – Book Fair on all week

5th December – Year 2 and 4 Come Dine with me (Sapphire 11.30, Cornflower 11.45, Team Aqua 12.30 and Team Topaz 12.40)

10th December – Christmas Fair 3.15pm-4.15pm

15th December – No PE this week

16th December – Year 3 and 4 Church Performance at 10am at St Laurence Church

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

We hope you have a lovely half term,

Mrs Cousins, Mr Cook and Miss Jordan