This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 23rd March

Week beginning: 23rd March

Nursery

This week, we are continuing our Easter celebrations! We will be exploring beautiful pastel colours  and examining the different parts of a daffodil, from the bulb to the bloom. We’ll also be practicing our numeracy skills by counting how many daffodils we can find in our indoor and outdoor environments and comparing what we see.

We hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing Easter break!

Reception

Our last week of term we will be learning about Easter and why it is an important celebration for so many Christians. We will share the Easter Story with the children in a simple and age appropriate way. We will focus on our themes of hope, new life, kindness and new beginnings. Alongside the story the children will be taking part in a range of fun Easter activities such as Easter arts and crafts, Easter egg hunt  and learning about flowers and new beginnings.

In maths the children will be focusing on doubling and halving.

Friday is our Easter bonnet parade and we can not wait to see what wonderful creations they make. Please bring in their bonnets on Friday 27th March and join in with the Easter parade from 9am onwards.

Year 1

This week, in Maths. Year 1 will be comparing numbers using concrete manipulatives.  In English, we will be writing instructions on how to plant a seed, linked to our science topic.  Please sign your child's Reading Record every day.  Thank you.

Year 2

In English we will be retelling the last part of our story from the book 'We're going to find a Monster' book. In Maths we will be moving on to time.

On Friday 27th March we have the Easter bonnet parade in the morning. It's also an early finish, year 2 will finish at 1.15pm from our
normal doors.

Have a wonderful Easter.

Year 3

In English, we are going to use all the skills that we have learnt this term.

In Maths, we are going to add and subtract amounts (mass).

On Friday, 27th March, it is early finish, children need to be collected at 1:20pm.

Year 4

This week Miss Wigfield's maths group will be finishing their learning on the bus stop method for division. Mrs O'Brien's group will be learning all about using bar charts to present data. In English, year 4 will be focussing on their grammatical knowledge, practising using apostrophes for possession and commas to separate clauses.

Year 5

This week, some of our Year 5 children will be on a camping residential trip. Those that are staying behind will be working together on a project that they will share with their classes when they return to school on Thursday.

Year 6

This week, we will be completing our mini mocks tests by taking part in our Arithmetic test on Tuesday.  In History, we will be creating information text to explain how the citizens of Britain protected themselves from air raids during WW2. We will also be looking at the impact that rationing had. To help consolidate our learning on WW2, we have our year six trip to Chislehurst Caves.