Dear Parents,
I hope you have all had a good Easter holiday and I look forward to welcoming all the children back in their summer uniform. If you need other items, don't forget the forthcoming uniform sale!
We are finalising the summer club list and you will be able to sign up later this week ready to start in Week 2.
We are having an Open Morning on Thursday 27th April 9.30 - 11.30 am. Don't forget that there is a Bank Holiday on Monday 1st May so no school!
Jan Caddy
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Form 6 this week
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Please note that SATs booster sessions will begin again on Wednesday 26th April!
In English, we are starting a new classic fiction unit based on 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien. We will be looking at the graphic novel version as well as the original text and aiming to write our own scene featuring Bilbo Baggins.
In Maths, we will be looking at measurement and measurement problems, covering time, metric and imperial and applying some of our skills to problems involving the area of shapes.
In Science, we are moving on to the biology topic of 'Living things and their habitats', beginning with the classification of living things.
In topic, we are starting a local area geography study on the Isle of Wight (ahead of our visit to the island for our residential on 15th May!). We will be starting by using map evidence to evaluate the physical and human geography of the island.
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Form 5 this week
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I hope we are all feeling refreshed and ready to go in Year 5.
We start the term in English delving into classic fiction. We will consider what makes a good story and why some stories have lasted over time. We will also think about modern stories that may become classics over time.
In Maths we start with angles of different shapes from rectangles to squares to triangles. We will then find out how to work out missing angles from the information to hand and then move onto translating and reflecting shapes.
In Geography we are coming to the end of our marvellous Maps topic by investigating how Southampton has changed over the years and some of the reasons why this may have happened.
In Science our topic this half-term is forces. We will spend this week thinking about the concept of forces and looking at balanced and unbalanced forces.
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Coming up in Form 1
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Maths: This week is all about adding! Form 1 will begin the week by consolidating what they have already covered, using number lines to add one digit numbers to two digit numbers before moving on to investigate some of the different strategies they can use when adding bigger numbers together.
English: This week we will start our new topic, where we will be centralising our work around the story of 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch'. This week the children will be familiarising themselves with the events of the story and identifying and describing the main characters and settings that are in it.
Science: This week we will be starting our brand new topic of 'Oceans of the world'. We will begin by looking at naming and locating the main oceans of the world. Later in the week we will be travelling underneath several of the oceans and exploring some of the different creatures that live and lurk within them!
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Coming up for Form 3
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In English this week, Form 3 will start a new topic on plays and dialogues. We will be studying The Witches by Roald Dahl and looking at proverbs. The class will be learning about verbs and investigating homophones and near homophones.
In Maths this week, we will be working on mental multiplication and division. We will use the 4 times table to learn the 8 times table, recall 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables and use them to divide with remainders. We will also be choosing which calculation to use to solve a word problem.
In Science this week, we will discover which seeds get carried furthest on the wind? Form 3 will work together to create an enquiry to answer this question in the classroom. Their fair test will identify how far seeds travel and a graph will be drawn up to make the conclusions clear.
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This Week:
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Monday 24th April
Start of Summer Term
Swimming as usual
No After School Clubs this week
Tuesday 25th April
Uniform sale shop
8.30-9.30am
3-4pm
Thursday 27th April
Open Morning 9.30-11.30
Monday 1st May
Bank Holiday School Closed
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Advance Dates:
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Saturday 13th May
Grounds Day 9-3pm
15th - 17th May
Form 5 & 6 residential trip
Saturday 17th June
Summer Fete
Wednesday 21st June
Sports Day
1.30pm at The Gregg School
Friday 7th July
Speech Day
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In Form 2 this week
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English - We will begin a new unit of work on stories from the same author. We will read and discuss some wonderful books by Anthony Browne, including, 'Willy the Wimp' and 'Silly Billy'. We will look at the features that make them distinctive and use our skills of inference to interpret the stories beyond the immediate text. We will write a book review and learn how to write a story blurb that hooks the reader without giving the ending away.
Maths - We will sort and classify irregular 2D shapes according to different criterion including, right-angles and lines of symmetry. We will identify 3D shapes and their properties. We will practise telling the time on an analogue and digital clock to the nearest quarter of an hour and begin to tell the time to 5 minute intervals.
Science - We will find out about the plants we eat and plants that we grow for specific uses. We will look in detail at where and how these plants grow. We will sort and classify food items according to the different parts of the plant we eat.
We will begin our new History topic 'Victorian Children'. We will learn about Queen Victoria and find out why she is a significant person. Form 2 will learn about the key events in her life and create our own timeline. We will find out what life was like for rich children in Victorian times.
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Reception and Preschool in the coming week
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Early Years are starting their new theme this half term on Growth and Change. This week we will be reading 'Titch' by Pat Hutchins and 'When will it be spring'
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In Reception the children will write together a non-fiction list of signs of spring and looking at the photos of them in the environment. They will be sequencing the story Titch, creating freeze frames using drama and then writing speech bubbles of what Titch could be saying. In Maths the children will be comparing and ordering three or more items by length and height.
In Preschool we will have a discussion about signs of spring. In Maths we will be comparing sizes & shapes.
Our letters and sounds focus is: Environmental sounds
Our phonic of the week is: 'p'
Early Years Easter Holiday homework!!
In preparation for the new term theme, please can you provide a picture of your child as a baby for our 'Guess the baby' quiz. The children will have to guess which picture is what child.
We would also like your child to take a picture of themselves showing signs of Spring. It would be great if this could be uploaded onto your child's Tapestry learning journal or brought in to show the first week back.
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Form 4 this week
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English: We are continuing to explore Fairy Tales and uses of pronouns and telling stories in the past tense using the third person. We will also look at designing our own twisted stories retelling famous fairy tales from alternative viewpoints.
Maths: We kick off our new term with a re-cap of place value where we will u
se place value to add or subtract to and from 4-digit numbers and to two decimal places. We will be placing 4-digit numbers on a line and rounding 4-digit numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000. We will find ways to count on and back in steps of 15, 20, 25, 75 up to 1000 whilst also perfecting our ability to write Roman numerals to 100.
Science: We begin a new topic on Electricity this week where we will explore where electricity comes from and different types. We will also look at creating circuits to power light bulbs and understand what components are required to create a circuit.
Topic: We begin a new topic on Weather this week where we will ask what is weather and why do places around the world have different weather. In our first week we shall explore measuring wind and use various methods to record wind speed.
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There are NO after school clubs this week
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