Happy Friday, everybody - we hope you are all doing well! It has been lovely to welcome all the children back after half term and hear about all the exciting things they have been up to during their time off!
Poppies
Next week, the children will have the opportunity to purchase poppies within class. As well as the poppies, there are some other Royal British Legion merchandise (such as key rings, wrist bands and stationery) which can be purchased. The suggested donation for these items are 50p for a poppy and £1 for other items. If you wish your child to get any of these, then please send them in with their money any day next week.
New Collection Arrangements
From today there will be a slight change to the collection arrangements at the end of the day. At 2:55pm, parents will be invited onto the playground by the Down Hall Park Way entrance. Please wait opposite your child's class line and the teachers will send your child to you as we see you.
School Council Elections
Article 12 of the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) states that every child has the right to have their voices heard in matters that affect them. With this in mind we cannot wait to get the School Council up and running so that our children can share ideas, take discussions back to classes and ALL children can be involved in decision making in a democratic way. A huge well done to everyone brave enough to put themselves forward. Classes have now voted and the results have been counted! Congratulations to our new School Councillors:
Amethyst: Ivy
Diamond: Eliza
Emerald: Peony
We know you will do a great job of representing your classmates in meetings and keeping us informed. The first meeting will take place very soon!
WHOLE SCHOOL ENGLAND SUMDOG CONTEST
Calling all of you amazing mathematicians!
You have been entered into the Sumdog England Competition. It starts on Friday 5 November at 3.30pm, and finishes at 3.30pm on Thursday 11th November at 9am
Why not have a go and get your class on the school leaderboard?
I will be monitoring how well each class is doing. The winning class will get extra playtime!
Let's show our school what great mathematicians we are!
Good luck.
Mrs Hurley
Maths Homework
This week we would like you to look at pages 18-19.
For Year 1's this is looking at ordinal numbers and patterns. Look at how we represent first, second and third with 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Create your own simple patterns and then ask which shape is 6th in the pattern? Where are the triangles in the pattern? Below is a link to a game to explore patterns and a chance to use ordinal numbers to describe these patterns.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
For Year 2's this is looking at solving worded number problems. This is an extremely important aspect of maths as it is where we use maths skills the majority of the time in our lives. Think about the operation that you need to solve the problem (addition or subtraction) and the language clues that help you know which one to use (altogether +; left -). If you want to explore some more examples of worded problems, have a look at the following websites:
https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/math-word-problems/#addition
https://www.education.com/slideshow/easy-word-problems/simple-word-problems-2/
Don't forget to keep up all your fantastic efforts with your reading at home. We are still updating the Big Cat online library for all our children as they move up reading levels, so don't forget to use this resource if it is useful to you.
