This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 13th October

Week beginning: 13th October

Nursery

Nursery will be continuing to learn about autumn, as the children have been really engaged investigating the natural environment and learning about Harvest .

To further enhance their interest we will be exploring nocturnal animals and how we can help protect them.

Reception

This week  in Reception Class we will be exploring the season Autumn.
Learning about the seasons helps children understand the passing of time and teaches them about change.
Children will have the opportunity through first hand experience to explore the natural world through our Forest School.
In maths we will be revisiting number bonds within 5.
Please ensure you continue reading the sound blending books with your child and practise using their phonic cards.

Year 1

This week in Maths, we will be measuring length and finding capacity using non standard units.  In English, we will be learning how to write instructions on how to make a muffin pizza.  Design and Technology days are Monday and Tuesday for this week.  PE will be on Thursday only this week.  Please remember to sign your child's reading record every day.  Thank you for your continued support.

Year 1 Team

Year 2

In English, we will be finishing our story "The Planet in a Pickle Jar" and focusing on using the past tense. In Maths, we’ll continue our work on money, using our prior learning to practise addition and subtraction. We will also spend a day and a half on DT, where we’ll be making our own pizzas.

Year 3

In Maths, we are going to focus on Statistics.

In English, we are going to finish the second week of our class book 'The Lost Homework'. We are going to look at simple past tense and how to use it in our writing.

Have a lovely half term break!

Year 4

This week, year 4 are very excited to make scones in DT! As well as this, we will be continuing to practice column addition and subtraction with exchange, applying this to finding the perimeter of shapes. In geography, we will be writing non-chronological reports using subheadings to show off our learning about longitude and latitude.

Year 5

This week in Year 5, we are finding equivalent fractions, fractions of a given amount and calculating the lowest common denominator to add and subtract two or more fractions. In English, we are considering our language choices to write a descriptive poem and in our wider curriculum subjects, we will be showcasing our learning in our end of topic quizzes. 

Year 6

This week, in our DT lesson, we will be making and evaluating our rolls. We will be using our rolls as the basis for our English lessons, where we will be writing a set of instructions using imperative verbs and bullet points. In addition to this, we will be writing persuasive adverts about our delicious rolls, where we will be looking at the use of hyperboles and exaggerated language.