Learning Updates
Year 1
We've had a busy week of phonics, maths, storytelling, writing, partner work, harvest songs and playing!
Here’s what we’ve been learning this week:
Phonics - Words with 2 or more digraphs e.g. finger, chicken, queen, teeth, sharp, short.
Tricky words: what when he she we be me have love
Sentences: My fishes are bigger than the cat. I can feel the cobweb with my finger. The sheep has sharp teeth. My garden feels cool in the morning.
Write a sentence: I have a bucket of popcorn.
English - ‘The Tiger who came to tea’ by Judith Kerr. We have made a story map (whole class and individual). We have been labelling characters and objects from the story using a word bank. In our sentence writing lesson, we wrote short sentences using inspiration from ‘Oi Frog’.
Maths- We have been representing objects: tens frame etc. We had a go at recognising numbers as words, ordering number words (zero to ten) and we have continued to practice correct number formation of numerals.
TOPIC- We looked at where we live. Learning about the United Kingdom, our country (England) and finding where we live (Suffolk) and the local area (Moulton).
SCIENCE- Our bodies: What do we do with our hands/ feet? Our hands help us to… Our feet help us to …
RE- Mrs Harper discussed what clubs and groups we belong to and what we need to do those.
Music- The children continued to explore musical pulse with Miss Ferrier.
PE- was on Tuesday with Mrs Crook.
PSHE- We talked about our similarities and differences.
Homework: Optional: Label the body and answer questions. Return next week for a star stamp.
Have a lovely weekend. Mrs Brandon
Year 2
This week we have continued with our different learning topics and become familiar with routines.
English: We’ve innovated a postcard text for Sunny in the forest. We have made sure we’ve used interesting vocabulary and used our model text.
Maths: It has been good to rehearse our knowledge of two digit numbers and exploring all the ways that we can show our working.
Science: We revised our knowledge of food groups and what food does to help us.
History: Our history skills were tested looking at artefacts of St Edmund and thinking about what it told us about him. We then learnt his story and rehearsed it.
Computing: We continued our journey looking at floor robots and planning a set of instructions.
Music: We have learnt two new songs this week with guitar accompaniment. We discussed dynamics.
PSHE: We have started our unit all about Rights, Roles and Responsibilities. Our listening and deep thinking was incredible.
Art: We continued our learning focusing on an artist using charcoal and using different mark making techniques.
PE With Mrs Crook.
RE we talked about Rosh Hashanah and the build up to Yom Kippur for Jewish people. We also thought about the concept of repentance and saying sorry for our wrongdoing.
Just to mention:
- We only change books on a Monday and a Friday. If your child reads their book completely you can either: A) reread it focusing on key vocabulary. B) Read another home book that your child can easily decode/ they enjoy.
- Please try to encourage your child to remember their jumpers (we are also doing this in school). It links really well to our PSHE unit on responsibilities this term.
Have a great weekend,
Mr Turner
Year 3
We have had a busy week in Year 3, with lots to celebrate. A particular highlight was becoming the first class to win Bookster Bear this year for having the highest number of Star Readers. We were also delighted to see so many children achieve full marks in their spelling test. Mrs Dobson and I are very proud – keep up the fantastic work, Year 3!
A quick reminder, please, that toys and special items such as ‘squishies’, jewellery and Pokémon cards should stay at home. We have already had an item go missing, and they can prove quite the distraction! Please also support your children to put on their own earring tape for PE – it’s causing a bit of a delay to the start of each lesson.
Mrs Shipp taught the children RE this week and, following this, we have spoken with the class about the importance of respectful listening and following adult instructions. We would appreciate your support in reinforcing this message at home, please.
As always, please keep up the reading, spellings, times tables and maths target practice – thank you!
Our learning this week
In Maths, we continued exploring place value, representing and partitioning numbers up to 1,000 and finding 1, 10 and 100 more or less than a given number.
In English, we identified the key features of instructional writing through How to Make a Spaceship and continued practising our How to Brush Your Teeth text map. We also completed a whole-class reading comprehension based on George’s Marvellous Medicine. I particularly enjoyed the children’s Grandma voices – they really captured the ‘grizzly old grunion’!
In Science, we classified animals as carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. In Geography, we examined fruit and vegetable packaging to identify where different foods have come from.
In Art, the children carefully recreated elements of Van Gogh’s landscape drawings using different pencil marks. In French, we explored how people greet one another in France at different times of the day, while in RE the children discussed the meaning of a saviour and depicted situations involving someone being saved.
In Music, the children developed ideas for a soundscape to accompany a mini-film. In PE, they developed agility and teamwork through team games with Mrs Crook, and in Computing, we explored how files can be shared between devices on a network.
Have a lovely weekend!
Claire Murphy
Year 4
Hello everyone, another week has whizzed by and we are at Friday again! This week has obviously been really busy. The children are completely settled in now and they have coped with a change of teachers really well.
In our learning this week;-
Maths - continuing with place value we have added and subtracted with place values in mind and looking at number lines. With Mrs Harper they have started to look at area.
English - the children have been using description this week, thinking of some great descriptive words as well as finishing learning the actions to their focused text.
Anglo-Saxons (history) - we looked at where the Anglo-Saxons came from and the reasons why they might have wanted to come ~ the push and pull factors.
French - the children read the Hare and the Tortoise in French and looked at the vocabulary.
RE - we looked at 'Saviours', who can they think of in a film or TV program that is a saviour, who did they rescue. Then they answered some questions which needed some deeper thought around the rescue.
Science - the children sorted living things into their appropriate category.
Music - the children, in groups, mind mapped sounds of the forest ready to create and compose.
Art - this week the children learnt how to draw some Anglo-Saxon/Celtic patterns.
Thank you for returning the spelling sheets this week. I have apologised to the children and explained that EdShed appears to have muddled up the spelling sets and classes so some children received spellings that were not at their level. I am very impressed at how they all gave the spelling test a go, seeing as they had practised them. We are trying to sort out EdShed for next time.
We are off to West Stow, an Anglo-Saxon village, next week. Please make sure you have returned the purple/lilac form either to the classroom in a reading record or to Mrs Manning in the office. I am keeping an eye on the weather and will advise you later in the week as to appropriate clothing for the day. What I would suggest now is that they wear footwear that can get mucky (unless I suggest Welly Boots!) as I don't want the children to be reluctant to enjoy the visit because they are worried about getting in trouble for getting their shoes dirty.
Please make sure your child has spare shoes for the field for breaktime and lunchtime, in school. They will need a bag to put them in to hang them on their peg and keep the corridor tidy.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Chittock and the year 4 team
Year 5
I was very impressed with the first week's homework - well done team. It was all very neat, accurate and filled with lots of great facts. I'm sure next week's will be just as good!
This week in English, we have been reading about Apollo 13 and learning how it was a successful failure! The astronauts really were very lucky! If you'd like to watch the film, it is a PG and is currently on Netflix and ITV player. We've also picked one of the other Apollo 11 astronauts to write a biography about – so I hope you are ready for lots of facts about Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
In Maths, we have been developing our understanding of tenths and decimal place values. Decimals can look scary – but they work in exactly the same way as whole numbers! We also learnt that ordering decimals is much easier when you have a strategy.....
In Science, we learnt about why we have night and day. Lots of children were very surprised that the Moon plays no part in why we have day and night and are trying to spot it out during the day! We focused on using the word rotate rather than spin to sound more scientific.
In Computing, we looked at the Mars Rover and thought about how it is able to send data back to Earth from so far away. In DT, we had a go at making some pop-ups which will help us when we come to design our own pop-up books in the coming weeks.
In French, we learnt the names of some sports in French and acted them out. In RE, we learnt about the Holy Trinity and why it is so important to Christians.
Next Wednesday, Dr Matthew Bothwell is coming in to talk to Y5 all about space. I'm delighted to hand over the answering of some very hard, technical space questions to him. I know quite a lot, but I'm not a PhD!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Miss Rutter, Mrs Marsh and Mrs Nichols.
Year 6
This week in English, we have been developing our writing skills by exploring different sentence types and using expanded noun phrases to add detail and description to our work. We have been applying these skills through activities linked to the novel we are currently reading, helping to prepare us for next week's learning.
In RE, we have been learning about the mystery of the Holy Trinity, exploring what Christians believe about God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
In history, we have been examining how propaganda was used during wartime to encourage and recruit men to join the front line. We discussed the different techniques used in posters and other media to influence public opinion and inspire enlistment.
In PSHE, we have been learning about the importance of ensuring that our digital conduct mirrors our in-person conduct. We discussed how conflict can arise online because, when communicating digitally, we are unable to use many of the non-verbal cues that help us understand the intentions behind a message. We also explored the concept of a digital footprint, considering how messages or content may be deleted but do not necessarily disappear completely.
In maths, we have continued our learning on place value and have been developing our understanding of negative numbers through a range of calculation activities.
Home Learning
This week's home learning task has been set on SPaG.com. The children have their login details in their reading records. If your child is unable to access the task digitally, a paper copy is available; children were offered one today.
I am aware that secondary school open evenings and open days are currently taking place. If you are considering applying to a faith school, such as KEGS or St Benedict's, I would strongly recommend locating your child's baptism certificate as soon as possible if this is required to support your application. In previous years, families have occasionally found themselves searching for this documentation at the last minute, which can cause unnecessary stress.
Have a wonderful weekend.
The Year 6 Team
