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• Children in Need day, this Friday, 13th November. Bring in a donation and wear spots, stripes, bright colours or just clothes that make you feel happy! We will be doing various activities that will feed into our PSHE and our Friendship Week activities next week.
• This week we have our Parent/Teacher consultations. Please make sure you have booked online for these. Let your teacher know if you are unable to facilitate the video call and alternatives can be arranged.
• Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to the learning share last week. Thank you for your understanding on how we needed to carry this out this term due to covid guidelines. I think you will agree that all the children have worked so hard in Term 1. We are all very proud of their achievements.
• We will continue to aim to get outside as much as possible so they really need a warm, waterproof coat each day.

Christmas Card Competition (from the Royal West of England Academy, Queens Road.)

Deadline: 30^th November 2020
Open to Primary school children aged 5-11.
Create a seasonal design in any medium and send in a photograph of it as your competition entry.  
You might like to think about expressing a message of hope, or joy or compassion. You might want it to show art bringing inspiration to many during difficult times – any design is welcome if you think it would look good as a Christmas card! 

The winner will: 

• Have their design printed and sent as RWA Christmas card to the patrons and major supporters of the RWA Light & Inspiration appeal which is fundraising to restore and improve the RWA gallery building. 
• Get a pack of the cards to send out to their friends and family 
• Get an activity worksheet and materials to create an artwork at home 
• See their design featured in RWA online newsletter 

RWA is showing an art exhibition of hundreds of paintings and sculptures that visitors will be able to see once the lockdown restrictions are lifted. A free Resource Pack for primary school children to accompany the exhibition will be on RWA website by 21^st November, for anyone to download and use. It might provide some inspiration for your competition entry! 

To enter:
Send a good quality, high-res Jpeg photograph of your design (no larger than 20cm and 350dpi) to helen.jacobs@rwa.org.uk with ‘Christmas Card Competition’ in the subject line.  
In the body of the email please include; Child’s full name and age, Title of artwork if it has one, Medium and school. 
Deadline: 30^th November 2020

Class 4: Maxwell

Class 5: Harry

Class 6: Zoe

Learning Week 2

Link to plans and resources if you are needing to isolate or quarantine.

English

Whole Class Text – ‘Send for a Superhero’, By Michael Rosen and Katherine McEwen

*Don’t forget to write your keywords into your Sound and Keyword book.
Phonics/spelling
Daily Introduction of Phase 5 Phonics.  
Alternatives to long ‘a’ vowel
ai (rain)
ay (play)
a_e (cake)
Keywords:
Read by sight: make, away, play, day, came, made.
Spell: say, may, way. little, when, out, what 
Also look at HFW to link with graphemes: make, came, made, day, say, may, way, play, away
Other words to use: rain, wait, train, brain, pain, stay, clay, spray, tray, crayon, delay, take, game, same, amaze, escape, lane, mate, bake, snake, late
Vocabulary: phoneme, grapheme, sounds, blend, consonant, vowel, letter, word, sentence

Writing:

• Explore what a superhero is. Link to other professions.
• I can begin to use conjunctions and, but, or and because. These can be used to explain and extend.
• I can make compound words. 
• I can add suffixes to regular words.
• I can create a ‘WANTED’ p[oster for a villain using adjectives.
• I can write a letter to a superhero.

Reading: Change home books on the designated day of the week.

• Read as part of a group and/or individually, recognising and joining in with predictable phrases.
• Whole class reading – explore prediction and inference.
• Look at fluency and comprehension at differentiated levels.
• Read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words. 
• I can use and recognise question words.

Maths

Learning Objectives: 
–Count to twenty, forwards and backwards within 20, beginning with 0 or 1 or from any given number.
–Count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals.
-To partition numbers into tens and ones. (e.g. 13 has 1 ten and 3 ones OR 13=10+3)
-Given a number, identify one more or one less.

We will be using dienes rods and ones (or Base 10 apparatus) as well as introducing the ‘line dot‘ method this week to represent numbers as tens and ones. We will also be looking at how this changes if we want to find 1 more and 1 less.

Wider Curriculum

PE: Floor Movement- Experimenting with Patterns
Learning Objectives
-To master fundamental movement skills
-Dynamic balance to agility – jumping and landing.
-I can help, praise and encourage others in their learning.
-I can work sensibly with others, taking turns and sharing.

Geography– Creating a simple map
Learning Objectives:
-I can use observational skills to study the geography of our classroom to create a map
-I can use symbols and a key
Introduce the idea of maps, symbols and a key to create a map of the classroom.. Focus on the important things to include such as doors and windows. Scale is not important but orientation is.

Science –  Weather
Learning Objectives:  
-I can understand what the weather is like in our country. 
-I can understand seasonal changes in weather
Elicit prior knowledge through partner discussion and ensure any new vocabulary is explained and used to embed knowledge. Make the connection to previous learning of seasonal changes in weather. Seasonal weather sorting activity to be completed in groups. 

PSHE –  Celebrating Differences

Learning Objectives:
-I can identify differences between people in my class.
-I can tell you some ways I am different from my friends.
Follow on from ‘similarities’ lesson last week. After class discussions and circle time, in their pair can they identify 3 ways in which they are different? On the shorts template write the ways they are different and stick to last week’s gingerbread person. 

RE –  Muhammad
Learning Objectives:
-I can recall stories about an inspiring person.
-I can listen to the story of the birth of Muhammad and a story Muhammad told.
-I can begin to learn about the importance of Arabic in the Muslim faith.
-I can say how stories in a selected tradition are inspirational for believers.
Listen to the story of Muhammad. Write the name ‘Muhammad’ and one of the meanings of the name, e.g., ‘praised’ or ‘praiseworthy’, on a bordered piece of paper. Look at it written in Arabic. Explain that Arabic is written from right to left and see if they can follow your movements by tracing the letters in the air. Can they add the Arabic name to their paper?