Autumn 2 Week 2 Spellings

Spellings to be tested on Monday 12^th November (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)

Group One	Group Two
sigh	force
sight	friction
high	invention
light	persuade
night	exaggerate
tight	exhibition
fight	momentum
fright	weight
slight	resistance
right	movement

 

Friday 26th October

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We have had an incredible week in LKS2 and have been extremely proud of the children’s sensible and mature attitudes towards their assessments. It’s been a great opportunity for the children to show off all of their amazing learning from across the half term, well done. We would like to congratulate our amazing achievers of the week from Mrs Moore’s class. Freya Reid and Lily Higgins were chosen for their great team work during ICT this half term. They successfully retold the beginning of the story of Oliver Twist, using animation, written narration and sound effects and Mrs Moore was so impressed with their patience and perseverance, well done girls!

Home Learning

For the children’s holiday home learning, we would like the children to do some research about a Victorian Invention. How they choose to present their information is entirely up to them. It could be a PowerPoint presentation, poster, video or a model! We look forward to the children blowing us away with their creativity in our first topic session after the break. Also next half term we will be sending our weekly writes home with the children every Friday. This gives you a great opportunity to look at and discuss with them how they have hit their weekly target. We would like the children to look at the teacher’s feedback and either re-write the piece or simple add another paragraph incorporating their new target. 

Literacy

We were blown away when marking the children’s fabulous ‘Big Writes’ last week and were so proud that the children worked extremely hard to incorporate lots of audience engaging features, detailed paragraphs and amazing compound and complex sentences. Next half term we are learning how to write a variety of persuasive texts and how to argue opinions effectively. We will be writing letters to persuade Prince Albert to let us exhibit our inventions at ‘The Great Exhibition, adverts for our own inventions and a persuasive pitch to put across to the dragons persuading them to create our inventions.

Numeracy

This week in numeracy the children have carried out assessments covering the different units we have looked at over the last 7 weeks. The children managed to tackle a variety of question types, ranging from level 2 to level 4. We were very pleased to see the huge improvement in the children’s mental maths scores and the ability to answer a question within a time limitation. We can see children in year 3/4 have been busy learning their times tables, well done. Next half term we will be learning both written and mental strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Reminders

·        PE kits need to come in on a Monday and taken home on a Friday. Miss Thackeray’s and Mrs Moore’s class will now have PE on Tuesdays. Miss Snowden’s will have PE on Thursday

·        Those children who have ‘home learning packs’ please ensure they are brought into school every Monday morning.

 

 

Friday19th October

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We have had another fabulous week of learning in LKS2 this week. The children have made us all feel really proud with their superb performance in their Harvest Festival. I’m sure those of you, who were lucky enough to attend, will agree it was absolutely brilliant!!! Well done to everyone for putting in 100% effort into their singing and for giving a fantastic performance. We would like to congratulate our amazing achiever of the week Lewis Godwin. Lewis was chosen for his amazing attitude towards his learning and for setting a fantastic example to the rest of the key stage.

Home Learning

Every week, the home learning is for the children to practice their spellings ahead of our weekly test on Monday morning. We would also like the children to continue reading as often as possible at home. Please ensure you are noting in the children’s reading records when they are reading at home- if we can see they have read every day they will earn five house points for their team.

Literacy

In Literacy this week your children have had the chance to show off their fabulous learning by writing a full chronological report, all about the Victorians. The children have WOWED us with their amazing use of audience engaging features, detailed paragraphs and amazing compound and complex sentences. We will be photocopying these reports to send home with the children next week so you can see how amazing the standard of writing is in LKS2.

Numeracy

This week in numeracy we have been learning how to interpret data from a range of different sources such as pictograms, bar charts and tally charts. We have also been trying really hard to construct our own bar charts. The children have impressed us with their great attention to detail, and remembered to use all of the key features of a bar chart. Why don’t you make a tally chart at home and have a go at turning it into a bar chart? Can you write some questions about the data you’ve collected?

Next Week

Next week in 3/4 we will have the chance to show off our fabulous learning from over the half term. Your child will carry out both numeracy and reading assessment. This is nothing for your child to be worried about; it is just an opportunity to show off how much amazing progress they have made over the course of this half term.

Reminders

·        PE kits need to come in on a Monday and taken home on a Friday. Miss Thackeray’s and Mrs Moore’s class will now have PE on Tuesdays. Miss Snowden’s will have PE on Thursday

·        Those children who have ‘home learning packs’ please ensure they are brought into school every Monday morning.

 

 

 

 

Aut 2 Week 1 Spellings

 

 

Spellings to be tested on Monday 5^th November (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)

Group One	Group Two
pie	accident
flies	complete
tie	experiment
five	recognise
slide	equipment
smile	separate
bike	comparison
prize	suppose
sky	surprise
spy	whose

 

 

 

Week 8 Spellings

Spellings to be tested on 22nd October (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)

Group One	Group Two
bravely	candle
clearly	ankle
cheerfully	rectangle
carefully	symbol
madly	single
neatly	difficult
nearly	signal
really	athletics
weekly	animal
weakly	Christmas

 

Friday 12th October

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We have had a very exciting, action packed week in Lower Key Stage Two. On Monday the children enjoyed taking part in the fabulous ‘Big Draw’ event. In 3/4 we learnt all about space and all the children created their own stars and journeys around space. On Wednesday we took part in an ICT day; where the children developed their ICT skills by creating their very own iBooks all about the Victorians. We also learnt about computer programming and made our very own video games.

Home Learning

Every week, the home learning is for the children to practice their spellings ahead of our weekly test on Monday morning. We would also like the children to continue reading as often as possible at home. Please ensure you are noting in the children’s reading records when they are reading at home- if we can see they have read every day they will earn five house points for their team.

Literacy

In Literacy this week we have been writing our very own poems about Harvest and Autumn time. The children wrote both acrostic and rhyming poems and we were very impressed by everyone’s beautiful attention to detail when decorating these. We will be performing a selection of these poems during our harvest celebration on Friday 19^th October at Lofthouse Church. Next week is our assessed write, where the children will be applying all of the fantastic learning from the last seven weeks and writing a non – chronological report all about the Victorians.

Numeracy

This week, we have been learning how to make sensible estimations of groups of objects by grouping them into smaller sections. We have also been learning how to estimate the length of various classroom objects, and check how close our estimations were by measuring. Next week we will be learning how to interpret data from pictograms, bar charts, tally charts and Carroll diagrams. Why don’t you try making a tally chart at home about your families favourite food?

Next Week

Next Friday 3/4 will be holding their Harvest Festival celebration at Lofthouse Church. The children have written some amazing Autumn time and Harvest poems. We have been learning a short play and Mrs Moores’ class have been busy practicing a new song on the recorder. To link this year’s celebration with our current topic of the Victorians, we will also be performing a scene from the Victorian novel Oliver Twist. We would like the children to dress as poor Victorian orphans, not only to look the part but we will also be having a Victorian classroom experience when we get back to school. Please don’t rush out and buy anything; grey trousers or shorts, an old top and flat cap will be perfect.

Reminders

·         PE kits need to come in on a Monday and taken home on a Friday. Miss Thackeray’s and Mrs Moore’s class will now have PE on Tuesdays. Miss Snowden’s will have PE on Thursday.

 

 

Week 7 Spellings

Spellings to be tested on 15th October (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)

Group One	Group Two
peas	metal
leaf	petal
meal	capital
team	natural
eagle	hospital
jeans	barrel
peanuts	travel
peach	cancel
teacher	temple
beast	scramble

Friday 5th October 2012

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

This week has been a very busy and productive week in year 3/4. The children have enjoyed learning more about the Victorians and their independence and attitude to their learning has been just fantastic!

Home Learning

Every week, the home learning is for the children to practice their spellings ahead of our weekly test on Monday morning. We would also like the children to continue reading as often as possible at home. Please ensure you are noting in the children’s reading records when they are reading at home- if we can see they have read every day they will earn five house points for their team. We were extremely pleased by how many signed reading records we receive on Monday – thank you! Your child may also have some extra home learning in preparation for our Harvest Festival Performance (Friday 19^th October at Lofthouse Church). Everyone needs to be learning the words to ‘Food Glorious Food’ which has been sent home with them. Some children in 3/4M have ‘Pease Pudding Hot’ to practice on the recorder and some children across all three classes have lines to practice if they are a reader or an actor.

Literacy

In Literacy this week we have been finding out all about Victorian leisure and play. The children were VERY excited to discover that Blackpool Pleasure Beach was built during the Victorian era and that the first ever ride is still there today! We have been watching videos and reading books to practice our note taking skills before putting all our facts and information into some super rainbow paragraphs. The children are getting great at using engaging features (questions, alliteration, brackets) and VCOP (WOW words, connectives, sentence openers, punctuation) in their writing. Next week, the children will be writing their own poems about Harvest. We will be performing these at our harvest celebration on Friday 19^th October at Lofthouse Church.

Numeracy

This week, we have been looking at rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 as well as finding the range, median and mode of a set of data. The children learned Woody’s Round Up rhyme to help them with their rounding skills. Ask your child if they can remember the words! Why not ask them to round some numbers for you when you go shopping? Next week, we will be learning how to make sensible estimations.

Next Week

Next week, we have two very exciting days planned! On Monday, we will be taking part in the Big Draw event. Please ensure your child has an art shirt to cover their uniform for when they are artists in the hall. On Wednesday, we will be taking part in an ICT day, which will see the children developing their ICT skills to create their own IBooks about the Victorians and learn about computer programming to make their own video games. We are very excited about these events and are privileged to be able to offer such diverse learning experiences for the children.

Reminders

·        PE kits need to come in on a Monday and taken home on a Friday. Miss Thackeray’s and Mrs Moore’s class will now have PE on Tuesdays. Miss Snowden’s will have PE on Thursday