Goldfinches WB 14.3.22

Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 5:14pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Thank you for all of your hard work this week.

Friday Superstar: Kyan

Top Table: Taylor and Gabriel

This week:

British Science Week

Tuesday: Cross country competition at Rudheath Academy (If your child brought a letter home)

Wednesday: It is Goldfinches’ turn to have an extra PE session with Mr Ault on Wednesday Morning. Please come in PE kit. The field is still quite wet so please bring spare shoes and socks to change into in case of wet feet.

Worship: We loved welcoming Open the book back into school this week and enjoying worship together in the hall.

Writing: We will be developing our rich vocabulary and descriptive writing based around our beautiful new text ‘When the Giant Stirred’

Reading: We will find out more about our new shared reading text ‘Ariki and the Island of Wonders’

Reading homework- Please support your child to read 5 times a week minimum to enable them to become fluent and confident. This can be a mixture of them reading aloud to you, you reading to them and reading quietly to themselves.

Spelling homework:  This week’s spellings are words with the g sound spelt ‘gue’

Spellings: fatigue, colleague, catalogue, dialogue, league, tongue, vague, rogue, analogue, Prague.

Maths: Monday with Mrs Judge will be learning about time and Maths with Mrs Evans will focus on multiplication problems, multiplying 2digits by 1 digit and 3 digits by 1 digit.

Times Tables Homework:

Goldfinches have been challenging themselves in class to get quicker at the Maths Frame Multiplications check game. This is also helping them to recognise which times tables they need more practice on.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

Hit the button 7x tables this week and then challenge yourself with 11x and 12x tables. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://ttrockstars.com/ - Who is top of the leader board this week?

RE: We will ask ourselves why Jesus chose to be a saviour to Zacchaeus.

History: We will begin to explore the questions: Who has made a difference to the world?  How do people influence others?   We will learn about the environmental activist Jane Goodall.

Science: As part of our Science week focus on growth, we will be learning about the impact of growing cities on the ocean and finding out about ocean habitats and food chains. We will be exploring the impact of oil spills and how we could solve an oil slick problem.

PE: Monday and Friday- Mr Ault Hockey, Gymnastics and agility. Thursday- Swimming will continue until Easter. This week only: Extra PE session on Wednesday.

PSHCE: We will look at the next part of our Health education to learn about managing our feelings and our friendships in a positive way and continue with our Heartsmart lessons- too much selfie isn’t healthy.

Music: We will continue to learn Ukulele.

German: We will learn about classroom objects.

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your child.

Mrs Evans and Mrs Judge