Term 2 Week 2

It’s been another busy week with lots of exciting learning. Thank you to all the parents that made the time to come and chat to us this week about their child’s learning. We hope it was valuable time and please don’t forget if we can help with anything just let us know. Just on another note please can you make sure sign onto TEAMS as soon as possible. We use this as a method of regularly keeping in contact with parents about things that are happening in school.

Gentle reminder:

We’ve had a number of jumpers and cardigans go missing recently, and unfortunately, many of them haven’t been named, making it difficult to return them to their rightful owners. Please could you ensure that all items of your child’s school uniform are clearly labelled with their name? This will help us reunite lost items more quickly and reduce the number of unclaimed belongings.

English:

This week the children have been focusing on the landmark Paddington Station. The children have watched videos to learn as much as possible about the station. They recorded key facts about the station, orally rehearsed sentences and then wrote these sentences down using colourful semantics to support them. Orally rehearsing sentences is an important skill for the children to practice in order to ensure that they remember key words in their work and their sentences make sense.

Maths:

This week the children have developing their skills of subtracting, they started the week using practical resources to subtract. This then moved on to the children learning how to use a number line to solve subtraction calculations. The children finished the week learning how to find the difference between two numbers.

Science:

This week the children have learnt about different material names and some of their properties. The children identified a range of objects around the classroom and sorted these into the materials they are made of. They labelled the different materials some of the objects were made of.

DT:

This week the children learnt about being an engineer and how the skills of an engineer help them to plan, create and evaluate models. The children learnt about the importance of working collaboratively to build a house that would withstand a ‘wolf’ blowing it down. Once the wolf had attempted to blow the houses, the children evaluated their work and identified things to develop next time.

Music:

The children are now in the full flow of Christmas nativity song rehearsal; we worked collaboratively as a key stage to learn the words and actions for some of our Christmas Nativity songs.

RE:

The children continued their learning from last week about the beliefs that Christians have about God. They all came up with their own ideas and beliefs about God and drew pictures to represent their ideas.

Computing:

The children learnt about the artist Piet Mondrian. They used their drawing skills on ipads to create their own examples of the artwork of this artist. The children used lines and shapes in their drawings to create their own Piet Mondrian pieces of artwork.

History:

The children continued to learn about ‘The Gun Powder Plot’ and created their own examples of artwork to show why we now celebrate Bonfire Night. The children also learnt about Remembrance Day and created their own artwork to commemorate the lives of the soldiers that died.

Please continue to send in recycling to school for the children to use this term. Please can I ask that these boxes are left as complete boxes and not flattened though.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Ivy Class team