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): The autumn reading challenge is in full effect and I wonder, this week, can you read double the amount and get logging in your reading record? On top of the usual reading requirements, can you complete two stars on the challenge? 

Maths (30 minutes): The White Rose booklets on Place Value have been sent home. Spend this week completing this. 

Picture News

Class Reader

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

A Taste Of Our Learning

PSHE and Oracy - The qualities of a good friend

This week, we put our oracy skills to the test and spent much of the lesson talking as groups. The first question we discussed was whether we would rather have one friend who was kind or a hundred friends who were sometimes unkind. We had to listen to each other and wait our turn, building and challenging when appropriate whilst one person tracked who shared their ideas. Then, we discussed the qualities below, deciding which quality was the most important to us in a friendship. 

Finally, we had to be reflective (one of our learning behaviours) and decide which one we should work on in the future. Make sure you share with your grown-ups, what you are working on and why? How can you be an even better friend?

PSHE – Being kind and understanding our feelings

We received an e-mail from Harold about his day at the Diversity Kingdom. It sounded like him, Kiki and Derek went through a RANGE of emotions throughout the day. We discussed what these emotions might look like (acting them out). We discussed what these emotions might feel like. Then, we arranged a range of emotions (pictured above) from really intense to not very intense (unpicking what intense means). Finally, we discussed how we can be kind and support each other when we are feeling these big, strong and intense emotions.

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