New Literacy Module: Traditional Stories
For the rest of the term, Year 2 will be plunged into a world of dragons, princesses and wizards. How much does your child already know about fairy tales and traditional stories? See what stories or characters they can take away from this picture below. 
This would be a great time to introduce (or re-visit) stories at home like ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ etc. How well can your child describe the main character and how well can they describe the villain?
Supporting your child’s learning
Don’t forget the Curriculum Evening this Wednesday at 6.30pm!
For ideas for helping your child at home, download some useful leaflets from Early Education entitled ‘Maths is everywhere’ and ‘The road to reading’.
The children takeover!
On Friday, the children in Reception took over ‘Show and Tell’ and did such a fantastic job that we may let them do it every week!
Maths: Understanding Data
This week in Maths we have been estimating weight and length. Ask your child to describe to you what weight and length are and how they can check their predictions.
The children also carried out an investigation this week to find out what was the most common amount of letters in their first names. Ask your child if they can remember which one was the most popular and which one was the least popular letter. Go to the BBC for a great game all about interpreting data.
New Literacy Unit
We start a new unit in Literacy this week. In this unit we will be looking at labels. What are they? Can children identify them and then write one of their own? Next, we will explain that lists are used for remembering, for planning or for presenting information clearly. Lastly, we will discuss captions and write our own simple caption.
By the end of the week, the children will have used lists to organise and present information about toys.
You can support your child to use captions next to pictures at home. Here is an example.
Lego is a construction toy.
It can be put together to build a model.
Reception are happy learning together!
Our SEAL Theme is ‘Getting On’. Reception are happy to learn together!
PE
In PE we have been extremely lucky to have had coaches take Year Four for multiskills lessons. These lessons have focused on throwing, catching and balancing. These sessions will continue once a week until the next school holiday. I will teach the other weekly session of PE. We will focus on netball and basketball skills.
Try out the game about feelings!
Try the game about feelings which links to our PSHCE this half term.
A typical Year Four music lesson!
05 November 2010
What a busy term so far full of great learning! Year Six have read two class novels and finished one topic of our SEAL work. We have moved rapidly on to our fourth unit of learning in Maths and are half way through are very exciting and interesting topic on Vile Victorians.
We have learnt to play cricket, had some rugby coaching and have just started a multi skills games unit with PE specialist students from Leeds Met University.
The Year Six Tuck Shop is up and running and is a roaring success. Health week was fantastic and hugely informative and our Science topic on Materials was completed with great detail and enthusiasm. Now we’re all looking forward to our next half term and all the learning, experiences and fun that will bring.