The new Reception Class have arrived!
We’ve had a fantastic first week in Reception. There were very few tears, even from the parents!
Don’t forget Relax and Read on Thursday. Come and
enjoy reading with your child.
Visit to Allerton Grange City Learning Centre Tuesday 27 September
As part of our Themed Week, Staying Safe, Year 5 will be visiting Allerton Grange on Tuesday 27 September between 9.30am and 2.30pm.
During their visit, the children will be working in the adjacent learning centre, looking at safety-themed photography.
Your child will need to bring a packed lunch for the visit.
Visit to Allerton Grange 26 September
As part of our Themed Week, Staying Safe, Year 4 will be visiting Allerton Grange on Monday 26 September between 9.30am and 12.00am.
During their visit, the children will be working in the food technology department, looking at food preparation, hygiene and use of equipment, making soup and bread to eat at the end of the session.
Your child won’t, therefore, need to bring lunch although you may like to send a snack for when they get back to school.
A voluntary donation of £1 would be appreciated to cover the cost of ingredients.
Using maths resources
Outdoor PE
Number work
Maths
This half term, your child will practise his / her number skills. So far, we’ve learnt about multiples of numbers and odd and even numbers. We’ll soon be focusing on using methods to add and subtract. To help your child at home, you could practise counting forwards and backwards from random numbers in 1s, 2s and 10s.
Literacy
We’ve been focusing our learning on using capital letters and full stops properly. To help your child at home, please make sure your child can write their full name with capital letters. Perhaps you could look for words that use capitals in reading books – look for words such as names of places and days of the week.
Recently, we’ve used describing words to make our sentences more interesting and we’ll soon be learning about the features of stories and writing our own, too!
Spellings will go home on Fridays and be tested the following week – your help with learning the words – a little time each night – is needed here, please.
Topic
We’ve started the year with a mini-topic associated with sound. We’ve been identifying sounds, thinking about how sounds are made and how we can change the volume and pitch of sounds.
Next week, we have a themed week: ‘Staying Safe’.
Our big topic this term is ‘Doctor! Doctor!’ We’ll discuss how people in the emergency services help us, how our bodies work and how to stay healthy. Your child will also learn about historical figures such as Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale. There’ll be a variety of art and DT activities, too. This topic provides us with the opportunity to invite lots of people in for talks and we’re also planning a trip. Our class novel is George’s Marvellous Medicine – you might like to read this along at home as well as in school.
Connectivia!
How many connectives do you know? Do you know what type of connectives they are? Have a look at these pictures below of a competition we had today to see which group could answer these questions. Well done, Green Group!
