Living & Learning: protected characteristics
Our L&L statement for the week: I understand some characteristics are protected by law.
In our L&L lesson this week, we learnt about the protected characteristics. We discussed what they are and how they’re protected.
Discrimination is defined as ‘the unfair treatment of people because of who they are or because they have a certain characteristic(s)’. We discussed examples and the impact of discrimination.
We discussed how the protected characteristics are protected by law – The Equality Act 2010 protects people from discrimination based on protected characteristics.
A helpful way to remember the protected characteristics is by using the mnemonic:
DR GRAMPSS
Disability
Race
Gender reassignment
Religion or beliefs
Age
Marriage or civil partnership
Pregnancy and/or maternity leave
Sex
Sexual orientation
Help at home: Can you remember the 9 protected characteristics using DR GRAMPSS? Why do we have protected characteristics?
Stay and learn: Phase 2 phonics
Thank you for coming to today’s phonics stay and learn session. I hope you found the session useful and went home feeling a bit more knowledgeable about Little Wandle and how we teach phonics in school. Your feedback is highly valued. We would appreciate it if you could complete the parent feedback form.
The Little Wandle parent page has some useful videos on how to support your child’s reading at home. If you were unable to make the stay and learn session, click here to view the slides. Like always, if you have any questions, please ask me at the end of the day.
We look forward to seeing you again at the number stay and learn session on Tuesday 18th November.
Topic: Drop Down Morning.
Year 6 had a drop down morning where they recapped learning from previous year groups. The focussed on the Romans (History), Natural Disasters (Geography) and Computing.
In History, Year 6 looked at the positive and negative impacts the Roman invasion had on Britain.
We then had a class debate – for or against the Roman invasion. This allowed the children to practise their oracy skills. They projected their voices, used specific vocabulary to the topic and changed their tone.
In Geography, the children matched the topic’s key vocabulary to its definition.
After, Year 6 became cops and robbers. They needed to write down everything they knew about the vocabulary and then steal as much information off of their peers as they could.
In Computing, we revisited our learning from Year 3/4. The children were able create their own code to program a sprite to follow their commands.
Poetry Picnic
The poem we’ve been learning this week is called Fallen Apples. As well as performing it in class, the children did an amazing job of reciting it in front of the whole school in our assembly celebrating National Poetry Day on Thursday afternoon!
Here’s a video of the children performing it in class.
National Poetry Day
This week it was National Poetry Day and we’ve enjoyed sharing poems that we have read as our weekly poems so far in Year 2. We thought about what we liked about them.
In our whole school assembly, we enjoyed performing Don’t feed the animals by Robert Hull.
There was some great prosody in the children’s voices and some excellent voice projection too. Well done, Year 2! We’ve really enjoyed reading and learning this poem.
Help at home: have a look at this website to listen to and read a variety of poems at home.
Black History Month
This morning, Year 6 joined a zoom about Black History Month. In the UK, Black History Month happens every October. It provides an opportunity for people to understand, share and celebrate the history of Black heritage and culture and its impact today.
This year the theme is ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’. This means standing strong, being proud of who you are and celebrating the power of Black people’s stories and achievements.
Help at home: Research Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. Can you find 5 facts about each of these influential people? Is there any one else you can find out about?
Autumn 1: week 5
Literacy
This week our focus was We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. We had lots of fun using the actions to retell the story. We even made our own binoculars and used them for our sensory bear hunt on Wednesday.
Help at home: The family came across some obstacles on their journey. Can your child remember them?
Maths
This week, we’ve explored how numbers can be composed of 1s.
Throughout the week, we’ve been collecting groups of 2, 3 and 4 objects to help us understand that a ‘whole’ is made up of smaller parts.
On Tuesday, we helped the three bears find collections of 3 things for their picnic. We used the stem sentence: 1 and 1 and 1 makes 3 each time we found a collection of 3 things.
Help at home: Can you make collections of objects at home? Remember the objects don’t always have to be the same!
Independent learning
Here’s a snapshot of some of the learning we’ve been doing in the areas of provision.
Home learning challenge
Reminders!
- Don’t forget to come to our Phase 2 phonics Stay & Learn and coffee morning on Monday 9am.
- Library books need to be returned every Tuesday.
- eBooks are assigned every Thursday. To celebrate your child’s reading skills, make sure you listen to your child read their eBook daily.
- Reading records and phonics home learning books need to be returned every Thursday.
National Poetry Day!
Yesterday, we celebrated National Poetry Day by exploring lots of poetry in class and having a special poetry assembly. Year 4 have been practising our poem by Paul Cookson all week and the children delivered it in front of the school beautifully.
They projected their voices fantastically and recited the poem with great prosody. They even learnt it off by heart – well done Year 4!
Help at home: visit the children’s poetry archive and explore their brilliant website. Which is your favourite poem?
National Poetry Day
Yesterday was National Poetry Day and we celebrated at school by having a special poetry assembly. We’ve been practising our Wordsworth poem all week and the children delivered it beautifully. They had superb voice projection and excellent prosody. I have been really impressed with the children’s dedication to learning the poem off by heart too.
Well done Year 5!
Help at home by exploring more poems. The children’s poetry archive is a great website to explore.
Maths – Wholes and how they work.
In maths this week we learnt about parts and wholes. Firstly, the children learnt about what a whole is and how we can identify one in individual objects. They then learnt how to make something whole again by splitting objects into parts and putting those parts back together. Following that, we then learnt that whole individual objects can come together to make a whole group of something. For example we need six whole eggs to make a whole box of eggs. The emphasis was on the individual objects coming together to make a whole group. The children explored this by working with different objects creating whole groups of items. Then after this they took part in a game where they were given a number and a hoop, for example 3 children makes a whole group in the pink hoop and 2 in the green hoop. They worked really well on this and I look forward to seeing them improve their knowledge on parts and wholes.
