This week in class 1e we celebrated 3 children being awarded their pins! Mia and Emily both earned their Determined badge and Alex achieved his Open, Grow, Believe pin. We are so proud of every single one of you. You are great year 1 role models!
Thank you to the families who came in to celebrate with us!
Year 1
Home Learning Project
Date Set: Monday 23rd November
Date Due: Thursday 3rd December
As we move into the next stage of our topic we are beginning to focus on stories and reading within the school, therefore this week the tasks are themed around our new book of the Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.
For your home learning we would like you to choose from the following options. You may choose to do one task or you may want to try more than one!
| Option 1
Can I write a poem using wow words?
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Option 2
World Book Day Competition This year the World Book Day organisation have set the challenge of creatively answering the question: |
| Option 3
Can I create a storyboard for the Three Little Pigs? Success Criteria
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Option 4
Can I design or create a book corner for our classroom? Success Criteria
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Remember to bring your home learning into school on Wednesday 2nd December . We will be joining together in a circle to share homework. The children will get to talk about their work with the rest of their class and their class teacher. We are looking forward to seeing your learning.
Thank you Year 1 Team.
Here are year 2 practising for our lantern festival later today!
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The r is not doubled if the –fer is no longer stressed.
co transferred
referencing
refereeing
preferencing
buffering
differing
offering
reoffering
suffering
interfering
pilfering
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Most prefixes are added to the beginning of root words. Super super– means ‘above’.
supervision
supersonic
superman
supermarket
superstar
superfan
superglue
superfast
Maths
There are 3 different types of triangles. Create a rhyme/song/poem or rap to remember them.
isosceles – 2 sides have the same measurement.
scalene – all sides have different measurements.
equilateral – all sides have the same measurements.
SC:
-Use rhyme and other poetic techniques to help remember the 3 types.
-Understand what the 3 types of triangle look like.
Literacy
As part of our cycle of literacy we are going to be starting our imitate section on Monday. We are looking at playscripts and we have given each child a character from the playscript and they need to try their best to remember their lines ready for their performance at the start of the week.
SC:
-Be expressive.
-Be confident and loud so people can hear you.
-Practise so you remember the words.
Due to the lantern festival, most children don’t have book bags so homework is going to be given out on Monday. There is an extension so homework isn’t due in until Friday 27th November.
If you would like to do it over the weekend here is the homework:
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Mr Gray’s Class Homework Group A
Please complete and return the homework by Friday 27th November.
Project
The final aspect of our project will be to create an original viking character and dragon as if we were pitching to Dreamworks in their upcoming film How to Train your Dragon 3.
Labelling the dragon
Maths
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Mr Gray’s Class Homework Group B
As we had lantern festival, there is an extension on the homework.
Please complete and return the homework by Friday 27th November.
Project
The final aspect of our project will be to create an original viking character and dragon as if we were pitching to Dreamworks in their upcoming film How to Train your Dragon 3.
Labelling the dragon
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Mr Gray’s Class Homework Group C
As we had lantern festival, there is an extension on the homework.
Please complete and return the homework by Friday 27th November.
Project
The final aspect of our project will be to create an original viking character and dragon as if we were pitching to Dreamworks in their upcoming film How to Train your Dragon 3.
Labelling the dragon
Well done to 1b, who last week had 100% attendance! Here’s a few of us proudly lifting the attendance trophy..
Parents,
We are fizzing with excitement about tonight! Please remember it starts at 5pm and the children are staying in school until the festival starts. The main event will be taking place on the mugga pitch but we are kicking everything off with dances on the balcony so get here early to secure a good spot!
See you later,
Year 6 team
Choir rehearsals are now running again on Thursday lunchtimes in Mrs Odell’s classroom at 12 o’ clock.
Please support the school choir by reminding your children to attend if they are a member! We are currently working towards public performances and need to ensure all the members are performance ready!
The choir is aimed at children in Year 2 and above although keen singers in Year 1 are also welcome.
We are currently practising for the Broughton and Brooklands Community Carol Service which will be held at the grounds of Broughton Pavilion on Friday 11th December at 6.30pm. It will last approximately 45 minutes followed by mince pies!
Letters with further details about this event will be sent out in due course.
What a fantastic and BUSY start to the half term!
Most of you by now will have met our trainee teacher, Michael Edwards who is a PGCE student from Edge Hill University. Michael will be with us until February and is already a popular member of our class!
Our Ignite event went incredibly well last week. The children learnt so much from the chocolatier and it really helped to bring our chocolate project to life! I would also like to thank parents for helping the children with their chocolate related homework. The children already had so much knowledge so we were off to a flying start!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who came to parents evening. It was great to share your child’s learning journey so far and hear some of your thoughts about how the year is going so far.
This week the children have started learning about fractions and have really blown me away with their attitudes to learning something new! During curriculum tea, many of you expressed concern about your children learning fractions. I am pleased to inform you that the children are already able to talk about and explain the role of the numerator and denominator as well as recognising fractions of shapes and writing fractions 1/2 1/4 2/4 and 1/3! The children also noticed the link between division and fractions and keep talking about “equal groups”! Such super stars!!
Finally, we have had so much fun practising for the lantern festival and we are excited to share this amazing event with you all once again! Please remember to leave your children at school on Friday! The festival begins at 5pm and should last approximately 45 minutes. I will escort the children back to the classroom and will hand them over to you as normal at the door. Please DO NOT take your children from the Mugga! It is of upmost importance that I hand your child to you personally to ensure their safety.
Thank you for you continued support. As always, I am around to answer any questions at the beginning and end of the day. Alternatively, leave questions or comments for me via our website and I will get back to you.
Lisa Odell
We were very busy making lanterns in preparation for our lantern festival this morning. With help from our resident artist, Paul Smith, we used willow and masking tape to create the structure for our lantern. It was very fiddly and we had to be very determined as we worked as a team.
We then covered our structure with tissue paper and glue.
It was fantastic to see such good team work and determination. Thank you to the parents who attended the parent’s lantern making workshop. It is really helping to build the community spirit at Countess Way.
We can’t wait for you to see our lanterns tomorrow evening!
