This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 9th March

Week beginning: 9th March

Nursery

This week in Nursery, we are celebrating the special people in our lives! In honor of Mother's Day, the children will be hand-crafting personalized cards and sharing heartfelt reasons why their loved ones are so important to them. To keep the love growing, we’ll also be planting individual seeds, giving the children a chance to nurture their very own plants from the ground up.  

Reception

This week our children will be learning about  a new topic,  The Life Cycle of a duck and The Life Cycle of a frog.

Exploring life cycles is a wonderful way to help  our children understand how living things grow and change over time.

In maths we are concentrating on numbers with 15,  recognising and ordering them and finding one more and one less than a given number.

Please continue to read daily with your child and return all  reading books  every Wednesday. Thank you for your support and cooperation.

Year 1

This week, in Maths, Year 1 will be looking at partitioning numbers to 50, using part part whole.  In English, we are writing a diary entry as the Beast, explaining how we went to find a friend.  PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday.  PLease sign the Reading Record every day.  Thank you.  Phonics books will be changed on Thursday,

Thank you for your continued support.

Year 2

Next week we'll be completing Reading and Maths test during our morning sessions. The afternoons will remain the same. We’ll be
learning about the artist Olga Nikitina in art. In science, we’ll be looking at what a plant needs to grow and in RE, we’ll be learning
about equality.

Our PE days are Monday and Thursday for this term.

On Thursday 19th March the whole school will be going to church for an Easter service. Year 2 need six parents to help us on the day
(morning). Please let a member of Year 2 know if you can.

Year 3

In English, we are going to look at how to use past tense accurately.

In Maths, we are going to revisit the four operations and how we can solve questions with more efficiency.

On Friday, it is a whole school Science Day.

Year 4

In year 4 this week, we are very excited for our Roman wow day happening on Wednesday. Children can come in to school dressed up as an Ancient Roman, an archaeologist or their normal school uniform. In English, we are continuing to write persuasively, creating travel brochures to convince people to visit Africa. In maths this week, we are going to be completing our NTS tests giving us a chance to show off all of our wonderful learning!

Year 5

This week in Year 5 we are focusing on our reasoning skills in maths, identifying which operation is needed and creating equations from written word problems. As it is NTS week, we will be showcasing our learning and applying all of our calculation skills and place value knowledge. In English, we are writing a narrative and empathising with a character using our class book 'Anglo Saxon Boy'. Our focus in our writing will be cohesion across and within paragraphs, using fronted adverbials and conjunctions to extend our sentences.

Year 6

This week, in year six we will be looking at different aspects of maths, which will include - finding the area and perimeter and identifying how to find the mean. In English, we will be using role-play to help us add action to our speech. In History, we will be learning about the impact that 'The Blitz' had on people's lives.