We visited the HMS Belfast as part of our learning about World War II
Hope you are all keeping well! The children have been very busy this week going on a bear hunt! We have been role playing the story and enjoying being bears. We have been making a big story map and stick puppets to retell the story in their own words. You can enjoy the story at home with you child by clicking on the link below.
In maths, the children have been learning about tens frames and exploring addition and subtraction up to 10.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt performed by Michael Rosen (youtube.com)
Home learning is now being given out every Friday. We kindly ask that you return this by Wednesday to enable us to mark it and put the new homework in the books. Next week, we will be having the story of ‘We’re Going On A Leaf Hunt’.
Here are some photographs of this week’s lovely learning! Children were amazing during our two minute silence on Monday as part of Remembrance Day. Throughout the day, the children were inspired to make poppies, as a mark of remembrance.
Hope you have a lovely weekend ahead!
Regards,
The Reception Team
This week, we begun our learning about the area of shapes. We enjoyed working in groups to create regular and irregular polygons using squares of the same size. After some exploration, we found that all of our shapes had the same size area (space inside the shape), even if they looked completely different!
This week in Nursery, we’ve been enjoying the story Day Monkey, Night Monkey by Julia Donaldson and exploring the differences between daytime and nighttime. In Maths, the children have been working hard on their counting skills, learning to identify colours, independently counting numbers and using various tools to support the development of their fine motor skills. We also encourage you to read with your child every day, as this will greatly support their reading comprehension and help foster a lifelong love of books.
Please take a look at our lovely pictures from this week…
Thank you,
Nursery Team
Science trip
We wanted to thank the parents and carers who supported on our year group trip to the South London Botanical Institute.
This was a very interesting experience for many of our children who had the opportunity to observe edible plants using a microscope! The children had opportunities to explore an exciting variety of food plants in the beautiful botanical garden, and they developed a better understanding of parts of plants which are edible.
Best Black Briton
For Black History Month, year 3s got to know about Mary Phillip. Mary Phillip is a retired English footballer who made history in women’s football. She played as a defender for the England national team and became the first Black woman to captain the national team. Mary played for clubs like Millwall Lionesses, Arsenal, and Charlton Athletic. During her career, she won five Women’s Premier Leagues and seven FA Cups. Did you know that she was born and raised here in Peckham? What an inspirational individual to learn about!
To show what we learned about Mary Phillip, we created a display board for our school’s Best Black Briton competition. Have a look at our board below.
Emotion Explorers
Year 3s had interesting sessions across the term with Rebecca, Dilshad and Charlotte from Groundwork London. We hope you had the chance to look through the folders they brought home before the half-term break. They discussed the different Zones of Regulation and were able to develop some strategies to manage the different emotions they experience throughout the day. The children were taught how to get into the Green zone or stay in the Green zone through Positive Self-Talk (where we say kind and positive things to ourselves, such as “I am kind”, “I try really hard with my school work”, “I am a good friend”), doing a Body Scan, and thinking about what makes us happy!
We will continue to build on the work done during Emotion Explorers throughout the year.
This week in Year 5
This week the children in year 5 have started learning about the First World War, looking at the causes of the conflict and understanding the differences between countries in 1914 and now.
Also this week Calipso children have started to study fractions in Math, finding equivalent fractions is a key skill that relies on a strong grasp of Timetables, children need to continue to use timetables rockstars to support their learning.
This week the children have been fortunate enough to have Cricket coaches come in and teach them key PE skills, this will be happening every week until Christmas.
Notices
PE day, is now Thursday instead of Tuesday, kits must be brought in and not worn
Individual and Sibling Photos Thursday 14th November
Winter Fair Thursday December 5th 
Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely half term holiday. This week, the children have been learning about nocturnal animals and hibernation, through the story of ‘It Was A Cold Dark Night’.
As part of our learning, the children have been practising their cutting skills to make hedgehog pictures and using paint and glitter to make beautiful, sparkly fireworks paintings. The children are continuing to make progress learning their letters and sounds and counting to 20. Here are some pictures of our wonderful learning!
Many thanks for your continuous support!
From the Reception Team
In year 2, we are learning about The Arctic and Antarctica with a focus on penguins.
In class we have been discussing how penguins care for their delicate eggs to protect them from the harsh conditions of Antarctica.
We wanted to give the children the experience of caring for a precious egg and so they have been given a hard boiled egg to care for over the month of November.
It is very important that penguins stay with their egg at all times to stop it dying of cold or breaking on the ice so we will be checking the children have the egg with them in school every day.
If they wish, they can build a nest for their egg to keep it safe and warm!
Any children who’s egg survives until the end of November with their egg in tact will receive a certificate for being a successful penguin parent.
Good luck!
The Year 2 Team
We hope you’ve had a restful half term break. This half term, our topic is the Shang Dynasty and we are looking forward to learning all about this ancient civilisation. We will be reading The Magic Paintbrush by Julia Donaldson and using this to write our own traditional folktales. In Maths, we will continue our learning on multiplication and division, and will be introducing area. In Science, our topic is sound.
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Some quick reminders for you:
Homework (Maths and LATC) is due on Tuesdays.
Swimming is continuing every week this half term. Children in Pioneer will go every Tuesday and Hubble will go every Wednesday.
Here we are this week practising our rounding skills as we learnt about estimating in Maths:
Take a look at our learning in action through pictures! We’ve been having a fantastic time exploring through play, taking turns, counting, working with playdough, enjoying our favourite toys, and building our own dens. In maths, we are continuing to practise counting to 10 and linking quantities to numbers. In literacy, we are focusing on understanding characters’ feelings and the different emotions we experience, as well as learning what we can do when we feel angry or sad. We are also exploring the fascinating world of nocturnal animals, discovering creatures like owls, foxes, hedgehogs, and bats that are active at night, while others prefer to rest during the day.
