Here is a look ahead to our Big Learning for next week!

In Numeracy we will continue to work on Multiplication. Children will each target a times table to work on – learning the stations first in sequence, and then learning to quickly recall multiplication and division facts at random. We will be thinking about multiplication as repeated addition and practising drawing arrays.

We will also be back on track with telling the time next week.

Our focus sound for spelling next week will be ‘ou’ or a revision week. Your child should have taken home their yellow spelling jotter today with the weekly spelling test. There has been a huge improvement in the retention of spelling words this week, so keep up the great work.  

We are making excellent progress in learning our Common Spelling Words in class. Many children have just moved, or are on the brink of moving, up a level. Brilliant effort P2/3, I am very proud of you all!

In Literacy we will start to work on use of the possessive apostrophe for plurals.

We will be reading for information, researching and taking notes on Victorian Schools.

We will begin to look at popular foods in French.

We look forward to seeing you all on Thursday afternoon and we are excited to share our learning with you. 

One of the targets from our termly Learning Overview is to research and present a short talk on a prominent figure from the Victorian era. I would like you to research a famous person from the Victorian era and present a short talk (up to 2 minutes long). It could be an inventor, a scientist, an engineer, a doctor or nurse, an author,  anyone at all who made a difference during Victorian times. You can use pictures, books and posters to show the class.

Some ideas might include: Alexander Graham Bell, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Edison, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Joseph Lister, Charles Darwin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lord Shaftesbury, , Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Sir Robert Peel, Charles Dickens. You cannot use Queen Victoria as we have already done a lot of research on her in class already.

It really is up to you! To avoid too many repeats, make sure you tell Mrs Patterson as soon as you have chosen your important figure, as we will limit each person to three presentations.

What I’m looking for:

• research which includes key facts: who the person was, where they came from, how did they make a difference;
• good eye contact with your audience;
• a good, clear voice;
• good expression and a lively presentation.

You should be ready to present your talk by Wednesday 4th March; you will be told in advance on Monday on which day later in the week you are to give your talk.

After the long weekend we will be starting our Science topic on ‘Forces’. Our Key Assessment Task will focus on Science, Technology and People and Place, requiring us to design and make a model of a toy, in keeping with the Victorian era, which uses push/pull/magnetic forces.

We would love it if you could keep a hold of any small, dry, clean cardboard boxes, tubing, cotton reels, bottle tops, wooden dowling, string etc. which might come in handy for our model building.

The more we have the better!

Thank you in advance for your help

In Literacy, we will be learning to take notes from a PowerPoint and using them to write a report about Queen Victoria. We are going to be discussing different types of questions and creating our own questions for a partner to answer. In phonics, one group will be revising a block of sounds and the other will be focusing on ‘g’ sounding as ‘j’.

In Numeracy, we are continuing to work with arrays and using them to display multiplication questions. We will be starting to work on targeted times tables.   

In Art, we are going to look at Charles Rennie Mackintosh and create some art inspired by his style. We will be learning about special buildings and places in Sikhism. We are going to continue learning about Victorian houses with a focus on home life. We will begin to look at popular foods in French.

On Tuesday morning we are going to the library to change our library books.

Open afternoon slips went home yesterday and thank you to everyone who has returned them today. We are looking forward to sharing our learning on the 13^th of February.

Diversity Day- Bee The Hospice

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Friday 31st January- come dressed in yellow and black and see how long a Conga we can “Bee” in support of Ms MacDonald’s Strictly efforts.

Bobby the Bee will be looking to lead us all in a merry dance. The only sting (sorry) is that we would invite you to bring a donation towards the Hospice. No set amount, just what you can manage. Thank you.

Next week

In Numeracy, we will be introducing multiplication. We are going to use skip counting, repeated addition and arrays. We will be focusing on the 2,5 and 10 times table. We are going using digital clocks to read quarter past and quarter to times.

In Literacy, we will be looking at a factual report. We will recap the features of report writing and begin creating our own report. Our spelling sounds for next week are (ow as in cow/ ve). Yellow jotters have gone home today with our spelling tests. We will be hunting for apostrophes in our reading books and answering written comprehension questions.

We are continuing to look at colours and shades in art. We will be playing games to help us learn colours in French. We are continuing to discuss the key beliefs of Sikhism. We are using the information we gathered from our walk around Crown this week to help us identify and draw Victorian houses. Thank you very much to the parents who helped us this week. It was very much appreciated. We are continuing to work on balances in gymnastics and building simple routines. P.E this term is on a Monday, Tuesday (alternate) and Wednesday so kits should stay in school during the week. Many thanks to those who have returned P.E kits to school.

Helping at Home We will be looking at Multiplication/Division shortly, so counting on and back in 2s, 5s, and 10s is a really good starting point. More confident children could start to work on times tables in this order: 2, 10, 5, 4, 3. Learning the facts in sequence by skip counting is the first step, with the ultimate aim of being able to recall facts out of sequence.

Our Maths focus this term will be telling the time, and so any support you can give with this at home would be great. We should already be confident with o’clock and half past on both analogue and digital clocks; our aim is to master quarter past and quarter to on both analogue and digital clocks. Children who are already confident with this will begin to work on 5 minute intervals.

Throughout the term basic facts may come home for extra practise if children are finding certain questions challenging.

Reading books and spelling words will continue to come home weekly to be shared.

Looking ahead to our learning next week.

In Literacy, we will be looking focusing on answering questions in sentences and using expression when reading our books. Our spelling sounds for next week are ‘ew/ie’. Spelling check-ups from this week have gone home today in yellow jotters.

In Numeracy, we are continuing to work on Addition and Subtraction. We will be using two-digit numbers up to 100. We will be focusing on using the partitioning strategy and we will use empty number lines to show our thinking.

We will be looking at old maps of the Crown area on Monday afternoon and then taking a walk around the Crown area on Tuesday afternoon (weather permitting) to identify buildings from the Victorian era.

In Art, we are going to paint colour wheels. We will be thinking mixing the primary colours to create secondary and tertiary colours. We do take off our sweatshirts and try to take care, but an old painting shirt for school might be a good idea as we will be using paint quite a bit this term.

Following on from our introduction to Sikhism we will be looking at the key beliefs of the Sikh faith.

We will continue to practise naming our colours in French and simple greetings.

In P.E, we will be practising moving around the floor in different ways and using our core strength to hold a variety of balances. Every child should have a gym kit in school comprising shorts or leggings, a t-shirt and suitable footwear.