THE FIRST DAY OF TERM 2 IS AN INSET DAY, SO FIRST DAY BACK FOR CHILDREN IS TUESDAY 2ND NOVEMBER.

Noticeboard

Thursday 4th November – **The following amendments have been made due to the increase in COVID cases in the community:
Classes 4 and 6 9-9:45 am – OPEN MORNING – 1 parent for each child is invited to our patio areas to look through your child’s work and look around their classroom in small groups. 
Class 5 2:45-3:25 pm – OPEN AFTERNOON– 1 parent for each child is invited to their patio area to look through your child’s work and look around their classroom in small groups. 
We ask that face coverings are worn both indoors and out and strongly recommend visitors take a lateral flow test on the morning of the visit. Anyone displaying any symptoms associated with Covid should refrain from visiting school.

Parents Evenings will follow in Week 2 These will again be held virtually like last year.

Reading Rangers – During this first week back we will send out further information about the Rangers and then there will be an opportunity in week 2 to join a zoom call if you have any further questions. This is for those of you who feel you are able to regularly commit to reading with children in school. This is instead of the scheduled meeting due to COVID restrictions.

This week your child will be bringing home their Sounds and Keywords books for practicing their phonics and spellings in at home. More information will be in the front cover of these. We will also be launching our new reading incentive, ‘Read for the Stars’ at the end of week 2 so look out for these in book bags.

Author Visit – We are very lucky to have an author visiting us in Week 2 of Term 2. Information was sent out about this in Term 1. Click this LINK to an order form and more information if you have not received it. All replies and monies need to be returned to school by Monday 8th November (Next week!)

Next week we will be mapping our ‘Journeys to School’. Whilst you’re walking/travelling to school this week, help your child to take a note of special features, roads that are crossed and the changes of direction that you make on the way. This will really help them with their Geography next week. Together y9ou may want to jot/sketch out a quick map that they could bring in.

• Children will change for their PE sessions so please continue to ensure that children’s PE kits are in school on their pegs. They need a white T-shirt, black shorts and a change of shoes, pumps or trainers. All the classes had their first ‘changing times’ last week. Thank you for  supporting and preparing your children for this. It is an important part of their learning and promotion of independence to change unsupported.
• You will find below a grid showing the sessions to be taught each week. They do not exactly follow days as each class has different sessions due to support and PE times being different but it allows you to see the week as a snapshot of sessions. 

We will always aim to get outside, whatever the weather, as much as possible so children will really need a waterproof coat each day.

A link to plans and resources if you are needing to self-isolate can be accessed HERE.

To watch Mrs Fricker’s whole school assembly click here.

Phonics for the week be accessed here… ay ou ea ie

Daily Well Being Activities

Tuesday – Take Notice- autumn colouring sheets
Wednesday – Be Active – Warm up activity
Thursday – Keep Learning – Learn to say Hello in a different language
Friday – Give – Tell us about someone who was kind to you today, and they might get a sticker!

English

New Phase Teaching – Phase 5
Phonics /spelling  Daily (4x sessions) Give out new Sounds and Keyword books and get children to write sounds and keywords – Differentiated where necessary
Keywords: Read by sight and spell: Oh  their  Monday Tuesday  Wednesday   Thursday   Friday   Saturday  Sunday
Phonics:  ay (play)    ou (out  )  ie  (pie)    ea  (heap)

Vocabulary: adjective, acrostic, phoneme, sounds, blend, letter name, word, sentence, full stop, onomatopoeia

Writing:
Fireworks – Sounds we hear when fireworks go off and fires are lit. Use phonemes learnt and graphemes to create a word bank. Use the words from the word bank and adjectives collected in the previous session to create a simple acrostic Poem. Children to write their week’s learning – Sounds and Keywords in their new books that they can take home and use to write in to practice spellings. Children need to be able to read the word first before practicing spelling them.

Handwriting: Correct formation of the graphemes and CEW for spelling listed above through the use of our 4 formation families. Complete a dictated sentence.

Reading: Read as part of a group. Look at front cover details and explore making predictions, using phonetic knowledge to decode unknown words and to extend vocabulary. Read aloud and look at increasing fluency and use discussion as a group to discuss comprehension. In reading groups, continue to continue on phonic and CEW recognition gaps identified in assessments from Term 1.

Whole Class – Planned story sessions each day.

Maths

Mental Oral/Warm Up
Missing numbers on number line to 20
Number bonds to 10 – big focus
Number formation to 10 
No. recognition to 20

NC Learning Objectives: 
Count to twenty, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, from any given number. 
Count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals and words.
Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least. 

Small steps:
To count forwards and backwards to 20
To recognise numbers to 20 (Key difficulty point: just because they can partition and complete the activities doesn’t mean they can name the numbers)
To recognise numbers 11-20 are made up of ‘ten and a bit’.
To partition number 11-20 into tens and ones.
To compare numbers using the < > = symbols

Wider Curriculum

PE- SHINE Outside Session – Team Games
Jasmine PE– Social –  I can work sensibly with others taking turns and sharing. I can help, praise and encourage others in their learning. Skills – jumping and landing

R+WV (Formally known as RE) – DIWALI – This year, this festival is to be celebrated on Thursday 4th November by those of Hindu faith. We will tell stories about an inspiring person and say how stories in a certain tradition can be inspiring for believers. People who follow the Hindu religion celebrate the triumph of good over evil with a festival of lights called Diwali. This also marks the start of the Hindu New Year. The word Diwali means rows of lighted lamps.

Art and DT – Fireworks and Diwali – Festivals of Light I can use different techniques to create firework or/and Diwali art and I can chose materials and colours to work with that best represent fireworks/lights.

PSHE – Firework Safety. Create a poster for being safe with fireworks. Think about ourselves and pets. Research different poster styles first. What will make such an important message stand out to the reader?