Mr Christofa

PE Days: Monday and Friday

Pencil cases: sharp pencils (no clicking pencils), blue writing pen (if you have a pen licence), whiteboard pen, rubber, ruler, selection of colouring pencils, red pen, highlighter and a glue stick.

Important dates

Tuesday 3rd November: Winchester school trip

Homework 

Reading (10–15 minutes a day): Remember to complete a Blooms question once you have finished your book (choose different Blooms questions each time and that you are writing in full sentences using a capital letter, full stop and correct spelling of everyday words). 

English (30 minutes):  Find 10 words around your home that contain a spelling pattern from this week's learning. This week's spelling rules were the prefixes 'il,' 'im' and 'ir' and we also reviewed using 'w' or 'wh.' 

Maths (30 minutes): This week, we learnt our 12s. Can you write out your 12x table from 1x12 to 12x12. Then, practise and see if you can remember the answer without looking. 

Picture News

Class Reader

This term's class reader is 'Iron Man' by Ted Hughes. 

A Taste Of Our Learning

Design technology

This week, a company called 'Show me' visited our school wanting to test a new product they are going to bring to the market. We saw this as a great opportunity for our children to see design technology in action: designing a product, testing the product and trying to find improvements that will make the product the best it can be. The children loved being a part of the process and had many ideas regarding what worked well and how they could improve the product. Some of the pupils also did a 'strength' test by pushing and pulling on a strength meter. 

Geography

Over the past two weeks in geography, we have explored North America, the third-largest continent on planet Earth. We used maps to find where North America is, labelled our own world maps to ensure we understand what is around North America (such as the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean) and then, this week, we found out that there are 23 countries on the continent of North America.

PSHE

This week, we explored two famous black individuals from history who worked hard to change the United States of America and, in doing so, helped to change the world: Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks. I tasked Bee class with creating a speech, just like Martin Luther King Jr famously delivered during the march on Washington in 1963. They could choose the topic, be it climate change, bullying, our rights, etc. They delivered wonderful speeches! Everyone tried hard to deliver with passion and I was so proud of their BRAVERY, standing up in front of the class to deliver them. 

Reading

During our first week (StartRight), we created our own theme parks based around our favourite books. We had to brainstorm a variety of books we have really enjoyed and would recommend to others, think about the kind of ride, attraction, restaurant, etc that would fit with that book (meaning we really had to know the book well!) and then created our theme parks. I don't know about you but I would definitely want to visit these theme parks! 

Rights Respecting Charter

Learning Behaviours