Welcome to the last week of this half term. We
can’t believe how quickly it has gone.
Literacy
We are
continuing onto the second week of our poetry.
The
children will be working towards writing a winter poem using a variety of
adjectives.
This
week we will read:
How to Catch
a Star
by Oliver Jeffers. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf_sNUaZi 0
The
children will work in partners to discuss their own ideas and what types of
things we see in the sky at night.
Towards
the end of the week the children will be writing their own poetry about winter.
Websites
you can look at:
Numeracy
This week in Maths we will be describe position: above, below, beside, left, right.
This week in Maths we will be describe position: above, below, beside, left, right.
The Year 1 children need to know direction and movement:
forwards, backwards, up, down, left, right.
The Year 2 children will need to know that a right angle is a
measure of a quarter turn; recognise right angles. They also need to be able to
recognise clockwise and anticlockwise turns.
Some websites to help with this
are:-
Please keep learning the number bonds
Number bonds to 10
0 and 10 are big strong men 
1 and 9 are feeling fine 
2 and 8 are never late 
3 and 7 come
from Devon 
4 and 6 like
to play tricks 
5 and 5 come
alive
6 and 4 hold
open the door 
7 and 3
visit for tea 
8 and 2 are feeling blue 
9 and 1 have just gone 
10 and 0 are
superheroes. 
Please use these number bond websites to help with your child’s learning:
http://www.rainforestmaths.com/ a favourite of mine! Click on level B or C and then any of the number activities
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/units120.html how many questions can you answer in 2 minutes?
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/numberskills.html click on any of the timed activities to help with number bonds knowledge.
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf select the number bonds activity and then make 10 or 20. How many can you get right before the clock runs out?
http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/make10.html make 10
http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum20.html make 20 - the dance will really make you giggle!
http://www.ictgames.com/brilliant_beadstring.html move the beadstring to make patterns to 10 and 20
http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html match the pipes to make the number bonds to 10
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html make up your own number bond games
http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/colquiz.html for each question you get right, it colours in a part of the picture!
http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/bugs/bugrace3.html a
great game for two players. Choose 0 as the lowest number and 9 as the highest,
it will create a game to practice and reinforce those number bonds.
Science
The children will continue to learn that humans
need food and water to stay alive; the children are tasting different juices
and choosing their favourite flavour. The following sites will show the type of
vocabulary the children will be expected to know by the end of the topic.
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/healthy_eating/eng/Introduction/default.htm we
will be using this website in class to introduce the topic this week
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=platehtml The
balanced plate – sort the foods into the correct category as they come along
the conveyor belt.
http://www.welltown.gov.uk/school/dining_game.html sort
the food from the plate into the correct category
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Activity.aspx?siteId=3§ionId=37&contentId=55 make
your own balanced plate of food
http://www.greatgrubclub.com/?location_id=71 a
great site, with lots of fun activities to share. It does involve cooking,
which is great activity and covers so many areas of the curriculum. Why not
have a go at making the ‘eye-ball eggs’??
Topic
The children have started their topic and Healthy Humans. We talked about the importance
of how we use our lungs. We will be
discussing the question:
“What does a skeleton do?”
To support this learning at home you could
talk to your child about the importance of different bones in our bodies.
Come and See
The children will be in their final week of
the topic of “Books.”
Here are some key questions we have been
asking the children during this topic?
What
does the Gospel mean?
Why
is the bible so important to us?
What
many part do we have to the bible?
What
are these parts called?
Why
should we show reverence to the bible?
How
many Gospels are there?
What
are the names of the Gospels?
How
do the Gospels help us?
What
is your favourite story about Jesus and why?
We
will be continuing to learn these new words and their meaning:
thurible, incense, lectern,
Can
the children choose a favourite story from the Bible and retell the story to
someone in your family?
The
children can continue to bring their own bible into school. We can put them on
our class collective worship table for display.
Homework
All of the children need to bring in their
homework folders every week. We can place the speaking and listening homework
inside the folders for the following week.
Year 2’s you need to bring your completed reading
comprehensions in every week.
If you have any questions please do not
hesitate to come in and see one of the one and two team.
Thank you for your support.
Reminders
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Parent/Teacher
consultations (10.02.14,11.02.14,12.02.14)
You should have received your
time slot allocation for your parent/teacher consultations next week. Please
remember that appointments are for ten minutes. Should you feel that
additional time is needed, please don’t hesitate to make an additional
appointment with your child’s teacher. We look forward to meeting you.
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Contacting School
We would like to take this
opportunity to remind parents that it is important that you contact school as
soon as possible if you know that your child is going to be off for any
reason. It is also important that we are able to contact you if your child is
ill or been involved in an accident, so if you change your telephone number
or address, please remember to let us know straight away. Many thanks.
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Thank you for your continued support.
Year 1/2 Team.
Below is a copy of the Friends of St Vincent’s newsletter:
NEWSLETTER: 7th
February 2014
Dear
Parents,
Just
to give you all an update on our fundraising and upcoming events for 2014.
FUNDRAISING GOAL
Our totaliser is now up at
school in the area outside Mrs Worrall’s office. As you will probably aware we are currently
saving for new learning screens in the junior classrooms, something which all
our children will benefit from as they move through the school. Our target is £8400, and the totaliser
currently stands at £4967.82.
With all your help we are truly hoping to raise the difference and have
these screens up by the end of the year!
CHRISTMAS EVENTS
Following the Christmas
fair and sale of the Christmas performance photo cards we are proud to announce
that we could add £867.82 to our
totaliser in January.
A huge thank you to all
of you who helped in any way for these events, and parents for supporting.
UPCOMING EVENTS
DISCOS
Infant Disco to be held on the evening of Thursday 27th February. Letters will be going out next week for you
to get your tickets.
Junior Disco to be held on the evening of Thursday 6th March.
Letters for tickets will be given to juniors in the first week back
after half term.
IMPORTANT – We must insist that
children are collected from the school hall following the discos. We cannot let any child leave the school
premises to meet parents waiting outside school grounds.
We have quite a good stock
of uniform, currently. This will be on
sale at the start and end of the discos – please come and have a look as you
drop off your child or pick them up.
(Infant parents, we have
some brand new boys summer polo t shirts in some smaller sizes. Have a look if you need any for summer (its
not that far away? Honest?), at only £1 each they will be quite popular, but
when they are gone they are gone.)
HALF TERM CHALLENGE
For the benefit of
reception parents or any families new to the school, we ran a sponsored
challenge last February half term. It
was like a treasure hunt to keep children entertained over the holiday and
raise funds too. A lot of the pupils
enjoyed searching for 100 small costless items for the challenge. We raised over £600 for school funds and some
children won cash prizes for their efforts.
We will run a similar
challenge again this year due to its popularity in 2013. Look out for guidelines and instructions
coming out via pupils bags next week, and lets see if we can raise more than
the £600 we raised last year!? It will
be “The same, but different” – a little
clue as to this years theme!!
OTHER NEWS
EASTER:
Following these events for February/early March, the next event
will be Easter. We will be holding an
Easter Event nearer the time with an Easter Egg Tombola, Egg hunt, and
refreshments with prize bingo in the school hall one afternoon after school. To be confirmed.
CAKE SALES:
We are still looking for volunteers to run a series of cake sales
after school over the school year. We
are looking for a small group of mums who are willing to take on the cake sales
(perhaps one every term or half term.)
Cake sales usually raise at least £50 each time, so are a worth while
fund raising event if we can find helpers.
The usual helpers who do so much for other events are not always
available immediately after school as they are taking up other roles as their
children move further up the school, which is why we are hoping to recruit new
helpers to our cause.
SPONSORSHIP
Does your company
operate any charitable donation schemes or fund matching sponsorship? If you feel your company may make a donation
to a local concern, please get in touch.
In the past, company sponsorship has acted to boost fundraising. Can your company help?
Thanks for reading,
CONTACT DETAILS:
Emma Williams (Chair, FOSV) friendsofstvincents@hotmail.co.uk
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