A Place to Learn Together
We offer Nursery Provision to Year 6
Week Beginning 27.11.23
Maths: We will be continuing our topic of multiplication and division. We will be looking at how to multiply and divide by 3 and 4.
Please ensure children are going onto Times Table Rock Stars to help with their recall of these times tables.
Writing: We will be beginning our next Non-Fiction unit which will focus on instruction writing. We will begin this by learning our text 'How to look after a minotaur' and thinking about our own mythical creatures.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Beasts of Olympus. We will be focusing on mixed comprehension, retrieval and inference.
Assemblies: Children need to continue to learn their assembly lines and songs, please can you encourage them to practice these at home.
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Week Beginning 20.11.23
Maths: We will be continuing our topic of multiplication and division. We will be looking at multiples of 3, 5 and 10 as well as sharing and grouping as methods of dividing. Please ensure children are going onto Times Table Rock Stars to help with their recall of these times tables.
Writing: We will be continuing our Suspense cycle. As part of this we are going to begin thinking about our own suspense stories and trying to incorporate everything we have learnt this cycle.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Beasts of Olympus. We will be focusing on mixed comprehension, retrieval and inference.
Assemblies: Children will be provided with lines this week, please can you encourage them to practice these at home.
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Week Beginning 13.11.23
Maths: We will be finishing our topic of addition and subtraction and beginning multiplication and division. The first few lessons of this topic will be focusing on using arrays as a ways to show multiplication.
Writing: We will be continuing our Suspense cycle. As part of this we are going to begin innovating our our suspense stories.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Beasts of Olympus. We will be focusing on mixed comprehension, retrieval and inference.
Greek day: Greek day is on Thursday 16th November. We invite all children to dress up as an ancient Greek for this as we immerse ourselves in all things Ancient Greece.
Reminders:
Week Beginning 6.11.23
Maths: We will be continuing our topic of addition and subtraction, thinking about inverse operations and using estimates as a way to double check our answers.
Writing: We will be continuing our Suspense cycle. As part of this we are going to look more closely at hiding a threat, thinking about the effect this has on the reader.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Beasts of Olympus. We will be focusing on summarising, retrieval and inference.
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Week Beginning 30.10.23
Maths: We will be continuing our topic of addition and subtraction, consolidating our knowledge of adding and subtracting two numbers crossing 10 and 100.
Writing: We will be beginning our Suspense cycle. We will begin this with a hook and then we will be looking at hiding the threat from the reader and using character reaction to intensify the story.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Beasts of Olympus. Within our first week we will be focusing on prediction, retrieval and inference.
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Week Beginning 16.10.23
Maths: We will be continuing our topic of addition and subtraction, focusing on adding and subtracting two numbers crossing 10 and 100.
Writing: We will be finishing our Warning Tale cycle with the children being given the opportunity to write a warning tale of their choice. They will be encouraged to use personification, five senses and rule of 3; applying this thinking about the setting of the story.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Akimbo. We are going to look at retrieval, inference and summarising skills this week.
Reminders:
Week Beginning 9.10.23
Maths: We will continuing our topic of addition and subtraction looking at adding and subtracting 1s and 10s across 10 and 100.
E.g. 270+ 60 = 330
This would mean that when adding this number they are not just looking at the tens column, but will have to think about the hundreds too
Here we demonstrate that ten tens would be swapped for a 100 block and then look at their answer.
Writing: We will using the skills of personification, power of three as well as choosing an appropriate time of day and weather to help us create an effective setting for our innovated warning tale.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Akimbo. We are going to look at retrieval, inference and mixed comprehension skills this week.
We are sewing for the next two weeks, any spare fabric you have at home would be greatly appreciated.
Reminders:
Week Beginning 2.10.23
Maths: We will be beginning our topic of addition and subtraction. We will look at adding and subtracting 1s,10s and 100s.
Writing: We will be starting our Warning Tale cycle. This will be focusing on personification, five senses and rule of 3; applying this thinking about the setting of the story.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Akimbo. We are going to look at retrieval, inference and summarising skills this week.
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Week Beginning 25.9.23
Maths: We will concluding our topic of Place Value this week. We will be looking at consolidating numbers to 1000 and looking at ordering and comparing values to 1000.
Writing: We will using what we have learnt in this cycle and last weeks innovates to help us write our own information texts based on a chosen animal.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Akimbo. We are going to look at retrieval, inference and summarising skills this week.
Reminders:
Week Beginning 18.9.23
Maths: We will continuing our topic of Place Value this week looking at numbers up to 1000. We are going to be focusing on flexible partitioning and finding 1, 10 and 100 more than a given number up to 1000.
Writing: We will using what we have learnt in this cycle to help us innovate our own information texts.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Akimbo. We are going to look at retrieval, inference and summarising skills this week.
Reminders:
Week Beginning 11.9.23
Maths: We will continuing our topic of Place Value this week looking at numbers up to 1000 in a variety of representations, including the use of; number lines, dienes and part-whole models.
Writing: We will continuing learning our model text 'The Lion' and we will be focusing on; using adjectives in expanded noun phrases, generalisers and the structure of an information text.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Akimbo. We are going to look at retrieval, inference and summarising skills this week.
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Week Beginning 5.9.23
Maths: We will be introducing the topic of Place Value this week starting with representations of numbers up to 100, including the use of; number lines, dienes and part-whole models.
Writing: We will begin our unit on Information texts. We will be focusing on learning the model text and using adjectives to describe animals.
Reading: Our book this half term will be Akimbo. We are going to look at prediction and retrieval skills this week.
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