Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Goldfinches WB 31.1.22
Date: 27th Jan 2022 @ 6:25pm
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
What wonderful enthusiasm you have shown in your learning this week!
Friday Superstar: Gabriel
Top Table: Connor and Yara
This week:
Worship: We have shared and discussed our school mission statement and the talked about the beautiful new bible quotes which are around school. Ethos group have also asked the class for ideas for our new school prayer.
Next Week:
Writing: We will learn how to use and punctuate direct speech, organise ideas in to paragraphs and write a diary entry from the point of view of Tranio (the main character)
Reading: We will read and record information from our non-fiction text: Volcanoes.
Reading homework- I have set Goldfinches a little challenge to try and fill up more of their diary pages with little and often reading at home. Please support your child to get into a routine of reading regularly at home and recording this in their diary.
Spelling homework: This week’s spellings are words with the prefixes il, un, in, im and dis
This week’s words: illegal, illogical, illiterate, unkind, unclear, incomplete, incorrect, impolite, disagree, dislike
Maths: Monday with Mrs Judge will be learning about Kilometres and Maths with Mrs Evans will move onto our new focus of multiplication. We will recap multiplying by 1 and 0 and move on to multiplying by 10 and 100.
Times Tables Homework:
Have a go at using MATHSFRAME to begin to get used to the way the multiplication tables check will be carried out later in the year.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
Try times tables memory to practise 9x and 7x times tables
https://www.timestables.co.uk/times-tables-memory.html
RE: we will find out about how a mosque is an important part of the community.
Science: We will learn about the importance of a healthy and balanced diet and what each type of food is important for within our bodies.
Computing: In our e-safety lesson we will learn how to keep our data private and learn how to choose sensible passwords.
History and Geography: We will use atlas and mapping skills to identify the countries and capital cities the Romans would have travelled through in order to conquer Britain.
PE: Monday and Friday- Mr Ault Team-building and Dodgeball. Thursday- Swimming
PSHCE: Our Heartsmart focus is ‘Too much selfie isn’t healthy’
Music: We will continue to learn Ukulele.
German: We will learn the months of the year.
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your child. Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Evans and Mrs Judge