Friday 16th November

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We have had a fun and busy week in LKS2 and we have especially enjoyed being part of the auditions for out fabulous Christmas Production ‘A Dancing Christmas Party’. We would like to say a big well done to all the year 4’s who had spent a lot of time rehearsing, it really paid off! All children in year 3/4 will have a part in the production by either, dancing, singing or acting and we are looking forward to start rehearsals over the next few weeks.

Home Learning

For the children’s home learning we would like you to encourage your child to read at home as much as possible, and record this reading in their reading records. As we are working hard to develop our reading comprehension, why don’t you ask your child to retell part of the story? Thank you for your support with helping the children to learn their spellings every week. We are really pleased with those who practice hard to get 10/10. If your child is a year 4 who has consistently achieved 10/10 in their spellings test every week, we now have some year 5 spellings up on our blog for them to learn as well, if they so wish. The will continue to be tested on their year 4 spellings on a Monday, but will be tested on the year 5 spellings as well during the week.

Literacy

We have had such a fabulous week developing out knowledge on persuasive writing. The children have wowed us by writing a letter to Price Albert asking him to show off a Victorian Invention in the Great Exhibition. We were blown away with the use of persuasive and audience engaging features such as, superlatives, comparatives, questions, quotes, statistics, and adjectives. In addition to all of this, the children have been learning to sophisticate their sentence structure by using both compound and complex sentence. Why don’t you ask your child what an embedded clause is, and get them to teach you how to use it effectively?

Numeracy

This week in numeracy the children have been learning how to subtract using column subtraction. The children have been working with numbers ranging from 2 to 5 digits, and have also worked with money. We are really pleased at how confident the children are at using this strategy, and pleased with the effort they have shown when learning how to borrow from the ten next door. Well done year 3/4! Next week in numeracy, the children will be drawing upon their mental strategies for addition and subtraction, and learning how to answer questions at speed. Please encourage your children to double and half numbers at home, and find different pairs of number that total 100 – 1000.

Topic

What a busy time we have been having in topic over the last week! The children have been working hard to make a range of Victorian toys such as zoetrope’s and thaumatropes, and have begun making a ride from a Victorian fair group using the K-nex. We have been so impressed with every child’s ability to read and follow instructions, their attention to detail, and their team skills!

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.