This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 1st June

Week beginning: 1st June

Nursery

After half-term, our nursery topic will be Pirates! The children will start by exploring whether their boats sink or float, before experimenting with the properties of other materials. We will also be practicing our maths by counting out pieces of gold to match quantities to numerals, and going on an exciting treasure hunt.  

Reception

In Reception Classes we will be exploring minibeasts, it is a wonderful topic and encourages curiosity, excitement and hands-on learning about the natural world. Our topic will provide memorable learning experiences that inspire our children to become confident and enthusiastic learners.

In maths we will be looking at number patterns above 20 such as estimating a number of objects and checking by counting, Solve practical problems that involve combining groups of 2, 5 or 10, or sharing into equal groups and counting reliably to 50.

A reminder that we have class photos on Tuesday 2nd June.

Year 1

This week, in Maths, Year 1 will be sharing amounts of objects by division as well as  multiplication using arrays.  In English, Year 1 will be writing their own colour poem using adjectives and nouns.  PE days will be Tuesday and Wednesday.  Phonics books will be changed on Thursday.  

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Year 2

This week in Maths, we will be doing addition using the column method.

In English, we will be starting a new book called 'After the Fall' and looking at how the character is feeling throughout.

Year 3

Welcome back! In English, we are going to look at emotive language and how we can use them in our writing.

In Maths, we are going to look at place value (missing numbers on a number line and number patterns) to secure our knowledge of place value even further.

Year 4

After half term, year four are getting straight back into our times tables practice. With only a week left until the Multiplication Tables Check, we are going to be using every opportunity to make sure we are as confident as possible recalling our tables. In English, we are going to be continuing to learn about features of fiction writing, learning about using the suffixes -er and -est for comparison.

Year 5

This week in Year 5, we are fine tuning our rounding skills to estimate calculations and will be converting between units of measure by multiplying by 10, 100 and 1,000. In English, we will be learning the skills required for persuasive writing, including posters, adverts and letters. 

Year 6

This week, we will be starting our new topic in history, which is all about who has the most power in the UK. We will be researching the different roles of parliament and the different houses. In English, we will be analysing different poems and identifying the differing types of figurative language.  Production rehearsals begin this week - more information to follow.