Welcome to Owls Class!

We hope you had a lovely break and are looking forward to meeting you all.

You will find our September Newsletter under the heading to the right. You will also find this terms Topic web and optional home learning grid under Home Learning. For your information, PE days will be on a Monday and Thursday.

Week beginning 15th September

Spelling

Every Friday I will put on the website our weekly spelling pattern that we are learning the following week. We will also be practising some 'harder to read and spell' words each week too. There will be no spelling test. We are just practising these words in lessons.

Our spelling pattern focus for next week is g, ge and dge. Some of the words that we will be practising in our lessons are:

page, giant, charge, large, edge, fridge, was and they.

English

We have been trying to form our letters clearly when writing this week, really trying to improve our handwriting. We have also been looking at how using interesting adjectives can really impact our sentences. 

Art

Over the last 2 weeks we have been trying to draw portraits. When doing our self portraits we had to really think about where to draw all of our features. Using our drawing skills to carefully sketch our eyes, nose, lips, ears and hair. The Owls self portraits were amazing - we definitely have some future artists in the class!

Topic

This week we were looking more closely at London. Where it is and what you might see if you went to visit. We then compared it to London in 1666 and looked at how jobs, clothes, transport and buildings have changed.

We have also enjoyed a couple of trips to Forest School. We had a challenge - To work in small groups using team work to create homes for creatures and bugs who live there. See our gallery for some photos.

Week beginning 8th September

The Owls have made a great start to Term 1. It has been lovely to see them settle into new routines with enthusiasm, kindness and a positive attitude to their learning! We came up with our Classroom Charter and decided together what was important to help us have a happy classroom where everyone can learn together.

English

We all showed resilience this week when we wrote our cold writes - a recount about how someone escaped from The Great Fire of London. We have also just started to learn our new story map - we hope to share this with some of the other classes as we get better at remembering the actions.

Maths

We have been learning about place value this week. Identifying how many tens and ones are in a number and how to partition numbers to 100. Using a part, part whole model has really helped us.

Topic

We began our Great Fire of London topic this week. We came up with some interesting questions about what we would like to learn about. Here are some of the questions we thought of:

1. When did it start?
2. How did it start?
3. How did they stop the fire?
4. What happened after?

Computers

We had a great coding session this week. We learnt how to set a background for a game and then create our own sprite. We worked together to edit and change our backgrounds and sprites.