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Weekly update 7.1.22
Posted: Jan 7, 2022 by: K Simms (k.simms) on: Willow Tree Class Blog
Hello everyone,
I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas… Happy New Year to you all! It was lovely to see everyone back in school this week, the children have made a brilliant start to 2022.
- In geography / ICT we introduced our new topic for the Spring term – India & Fairtrade. The children developed their enquiry skills by using Google Earth to ‘go for a walk’ in India. We discovered a wide range of geographical features – including mountains, deserts, forests, jungles, lakes, huge cities and tiny villages.
- In English we read the first chapter of our new class reader - the brilliant ‘Grandpa Chatterji’ by Jamila Gavin – after making predictions and learning new vocabulary.
- In maths we developed our multiplication and division skills – and learnt to solve real-life problems involving scaling and proportion.
- In science, we used the properties of materials to sort them into solids, liquids and gases.
Well done to everyone who kept reading over the holidays! As always, the biggest impact parents/carers can make on their child’s learning is to encourage a love of reading for pleasure – and by listening to them read at least five times per week. It is little surprise that the children who read the most at home last term, also made the most progress in their end-of-term reading comprehension tests.
I’ve also been really impressed with the super effort children have been making with TT Rockstars. A huge congratulations to the following children who won times tables badges this week: Viraaj, Amber, Eva and Jakub.
REMINDER…BRONZE BADGE = x2, x5, x10SILVER BADGE = x3, x4, x6GOLD BADGE = x7, x8, x9SUPER GOLD = x11, x12 and all others at speed
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Simms