Curriculum Notes for week beginning 20.1.20 As it says in the Newsletter, next Friday will be a non-uniform day in school. Year 1 will be celebrating ‘Australia Day’ on Friday January 24th in order to raise awareness and cash for the current bush fire crisis. As well as being timely, this fits into…
Once more the end of another series of educational endeavours is upon us and a well-deserved rest is ahead – so get your homework done! Next week: English: Many a troth shall be given, and hearts shall be broken, as the children embark upon play-scripts, based on the star-cross’d lovers…
A lot of our literacy hour this week will be spent rehearing for our assembly. We will continue with guided reading daily. This week’s reading target: Understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by: predicting what might happen from details stated and implied This week’s spelling focus:…
WB 20.1.2020 This week’s key words to read and spell for this week: happy, funny, bunny, party, family and very. Continue with phonics sounds to learn: ey (donkey) and long i (behind, remind, etc) We will be teaching spellings that have the digraph oo/oo. look book took good foot wood…
Dear Parents and Carers Once again we’ve had another busy week in Year 6! In English, the children have been completing their writing on the digestive system, and begun to look at the outbreak of World War Two, our topic for this term. In History, the children analysed the geographical and…
G’day Mates! On Friday January 24th Year 1 will be holding a special Australia Day celebration in order to raise awareness of the current bush fire crisis. We are aware that since last September, many Australian people have lost their homes and an estimated 1 billion animals have died in…
We hope you all had a lovely weekend. This week in Year 2 we will be looking at the Great Fire of London from the point of view of a flea! Vlad and the Great Fire of London will be our writing stimulus. In Maths, both groups will continue with…
Curriculum Notes for Week Beginning 13.1.20 Happy New Year and welcome back for the Spring Term! Our spelling focus for next week is the prefixes de- and pre-. prepared deform forwards prefix decrease prelude depart descend degrade deduct defuse In Literacy next week, we will be looking at the features…
Firstly, a great big ‘Thank You’ for all the cards and gifts we received for Christmas, your generosity is greatly appreciated (particularly from my wife, who now has a lovely, new dinner service from the sales – by the way, this does not mean you are all invited for dinner!)!…
We will continue in literacy this week to focus on letter writing. At the start of each lesson we will have a SPAG focus and at the end of each lesson we will have guided reading. Monday will be comprehension. This week’s reading target: Develop positive attitudes to reading and…
