Happy Friday everybody! Hopefully you will have seen our castles beginning to take shape in this week's newsletter. As we tend to do these sessions at the end of the week, the photos are a week behind where we actually are but suffice to say next week the photos will involve a lot of grey paint!!!
Class Dojo
It is lovely to see so many of you signed up to our Class Dojo app. The children are loving seeing their Dojo points increase and we are all working towards our class goal of 1000 points to get an extra playtime! We will be looking to use Class Dojo's messaging system to replace our Key Stage emails, so if you have any messages for us please feel free to use this.
A reminder that any messages relating to changes in collection arrangements during the day should still be sent to the office who will bring the message to us. If you need any help in signing up and joining Class Dojo, please come and see us.
Well-being Day
Next Friday (16th February), we will be having a Well-being Day. Children can come to school wearing comfy clothes, not their school uniform. There will be activities planned to enhance everyone's well-being such as mindfulness activities, art, music and yoga!
Maths Homework
This week, we would like you to look at pages 36 & 37.
For Year 1's this focuses on halves. It is helpful when discussing fractions to relate it closely to division. So when discussing finding half, relate it to the same as dividing it in 2. The games below explore how to recognise halves in shapes and how you can find half of amounts by sharing.
For Year 2's this focuses on doubling and halving. As usual, relate these mathematical concept back to the basic operations of maths - doubles as times by 2 and halving as divide by 2. The game below has a mode for finding half and double of different amounts to help develop a rapid recall of these facts.
If you have any issues or questions, please, please come and see us at the end of the day - we would love to see you!
Have a super weekend!
Best Wishes
Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille & Miss Smith
