Friday 23rd November

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We have had yet another amazing week in LKS2 full of exciting and inspiring learning. The children have blown us away with their fantastic and imaginative inventions they’ve designed with the brief to improve people’s lives. We have had teleporters, robots that clean your houses, machines that can make you breakfast, pens that write for you and much more. We look forward to showing off both the children’s designs and the final prototypes of these inventions at our ‘Great Exhibition’ on Friday 23^rd November at 3:15 in your child’s classroom.

Home Learning

Well done to all of those children who have been put on our new Bug Club scheme and managed to log on and read their first ebooks online. Every week there will be a selection of new books for you to enjoy and some fun and exciting quizzes and follow up activities to complete. It is really useful for us to be able to track the children’s progress each time they visit the site and reward them for all of their hard work. This week your child would have received a photocopy of their writing from the previous week’s star write challenge and an exercise book. This is something we will be sending home on a weekly basis for you and your child to read through. Please discuss the teachers comment and new target set with your child and then give them the opportunity to redraft their writing incorporating the new target. We think this is a fantastic opportunity to share the amazing writing that your child is doing and for you to help support them with their next steps.

Literacy

We have continued to develop our superb writing techniques to persuade the reader this week. After evaluating their previous letters to Prince Albert, the children have written another letter, using even more persuasive techniques to persuade him to let them exhibit their very own 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.

Numeracy

This week in numeracy the children have been learning different mental strategies for addition and subtraction. The children have been trying really hard to find number bonds, doubles and halves, and pairs of multiples of 5 and 50 that total 100. They have been racing against time to improve the speed of their calculations and we have been really impressed by their focus and determination. Next week we will be consolidating our new mental strategies and then applying them to different mathematical concepts.

Topic

The children have been working super hard to finish their Victorian zoetrope’s and thaumatropes, and have continued the whole class effort in creating a ride from a Victorian fair ground using the K-nex. The children have also designed a new invention of their very own that will improve people’s lives. We are looking forward to making these next week.

Reminders

·        Next week the children are making their own inventions. Could you please bring in any cereal boxes, egg boxes, plastic bottles or yoghurt pots.

·        Please can you also bring in any jam jars. We are starting to collect them in preparation for our Christmas lanterns.