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Posted on: October 31st 2022
This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 31st October
Week Beginning: 31st October 2022
NURSERY
The beginning of the week the children will be taking part in fun maths activities based on the story of "we're going on a pumpkin hunt"
Towards the end of the week, we will be putting our creative skills to good use making sparkly splatter firework pictures and talk about keeping safe during Firework night.
Please see the board outside the nursery for daily updates.
RECEPTION
In Reception this week the children are going to be finding out about the festival of Diwali. They are also going to be creating firework pictures and thinking about how to stay safe on Bonfire Night. In Maths, the children are going to be exploring repeating patterns and looking at Rangoli patterns and the symmetry they contain.
YEAR 1
Welcome to Autumn Term 2. We hope you have had a restful half term.
This week, in Maths we will be looking at the place value of numbers. We will be using Dienes to help us identify the tens and ones. For example (18- it has 1 ten and 8 ones). Children will have the opportunity to explore making numbers up to 30 using manipulatives (cubes, Numicon pieces, Dienes and cubes).
In English, we are going to look at a new book called Dogger. We will be acting out different parts of the story, using our feelings and emotions. We will be planning then writing a diary entry using main clauses with capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and noun phrases.
Our new Science topic is Materials and in History, we are going to compare old and new toys.
YEAR 2
This half term, Year 2 will be revisiting our habitats in the wildlife area and writing about our experiences. In Maths, we will be looking at number bonds to ten and how the facts link to numbers to 20. We are looking forward to starting our new History topic about Explorers and our RE topic which will be learning about the Jewish faith. In Science we will be learning about living and nonliving things.
YEAR 3
Welcome back Year Three! We are super excited to start our new topic - 'Ancient Egypt' this week.
Over the coming weeks we will find out all about the lives of the Ancient Egyptians in our curriculum lessons and will even start the topic by reading an Ancient Egyptian storybook during our English lessons this week!
In maths we will be exploring place value in more detail and will be looking at time. We will also continue to practise our times table facts - so keep practising!
YEAR 4
Welcome back! We hope you all have a lovely, restful half term.
In Maths, we will be revisiting Place Value. We will be recognising the values of different digits, multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.
This half term, we will be looking at States of Matter in Science and in History we will be looking at Ancient Greece.
Our PE days are staying the same: Tuesday and Thursday. 4 Sycamore will be swimming this half term!
YEAR 5
This week in Year 5, we are excited to be finishing our class book and will be using a variety of conjunctions to retell the story. Our focus in maths will be place value; multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 as well as ordering and rounding numbers and decimals . In history, we will be looking at a number of artefacts and using them to make inferences about Maya culture and in science we are revisiting forces and how they affect the physical world.
YEAR 6
We will be starting our new History topic around Crime and punishment. In R.E, we are looking at Buddhism and in Science we will be investigating light.
