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23 September 2011

The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 28 September.

I know how to stay safe around electricity.

As we have been learning about electricty for the previous two weeks, I thought it would be a good idea for the children to creatively show what they have learnt about staying safe.

Here are some ideas that we came up with as a class when we talked about the homework:

• A poster highlighting the dangers of electricity.
• A series of pictures or photographs showing potential hazards.
• Instructions about how to use electrical items safely.
• A song or poem about electricity.
• A letter advising someone how to use electricity safely.

I will eagerly look forward to seeing your creations on Wednesday.

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.

23 September 2011

This week’s spellings are high frequency words. The children will be tested on Friday 30 September 2011.

Cyber-bullying

Cyber-bullying

Next week is our Staying Safe themed week.  Children will learn about safety in a variety of contexts: in the kitchen, in the playground, during sports, during travel – your child might even use a police speed camera to catch out those speeding drivers on Shadwell Lane!

Over the past few years, there have been growing concerns about cyber-bullying – the use of technology, particularly mobile phones and the internet, to deliberately upset someone.

We regularly teach our children about e-safety, but here’s some good advice for parents / carers:

• Be alert to your child being upset after using the internet / phones – they may be secretive or change relationships with friends.
• Your child is just as likely to be a bully as to be a target.
• Talk to your child and understand how they are using the internet and their phone.
• Use safety tools and parental controls – if you’re not sure how, contact your service provider.  Please note tools are not always 100% effective.
• Remind your child not to retaliate.
• Keep any evidence of cyberbullying – emails, online conversations, texts etc.
• Report the cyberbullying.
• Contact us at school so we can take action if it involves other pupils.
• Contact the service provider eg website, phone company etc.
• If the cyberbullying is serious and a potential criminal offence has been committed then consider contacting the police.

The Directgov website has some useful information and support.

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!