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Term 4 Week 2

Thank you for your continued enthusiasm and engagement in the work set. Here is an overview of the learning for this week.

This week we have some live registration and teaching sessions planned and a story time on Tuesday. Please see the ParentPay message sent out on Friday for details of how to access the sessions:

Monday 8:50am Live Registration, leading into our English Activity for the day

Monday 10:40am STEM workshop on Bubbles and Balloons (the link will be shared on Monday’s blog)

Tuesday 8:50am Live Registration, leading into our Maths Lesson for the day

Tuesday 2:30pm Story time

Wednesday 8.50am Live Registration, leading into our English Lesson for the day

Wednesday 10.00am STEM workshop: Rocket Car (the link will be shared on Wednesday’s blog)

Thursday 8:50am Live Registration, leading into our Maths Lesson for the day

If, for any reason, your child is unable to attend any of these live sessions, please contact us using the class email address (willow@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk). 

Reading - please try to read for at least 20 minutes per day. If you need more reading books please contact us via the class email address and we will try to help you.  Remember you can also access books online through the Oxford Owl Website (Username: willow101    Password: pupil).

In Phonics this week, we will be learning about different ways of making the ‘igh’ sound. We will be revisiting ‘igh’, ‘ie’ and ‘i-e’ and will be learning about words where ‘y’ and ‘i’ make this sound.  Activities will be set daily to help you practise.

In English we will be doing activities around the story of ‘Traction Man is Here’ by Mini Grey. On Monday we will listen to the story and talk through some of the events in it. More details of each day’s activities will be sent via the class blog.

In Maths we learning about height and length. We will also be practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

We will also set wider curriculum activities during the week. This will include RE/Science (Monday), Art (Tuesday), Science (Wednesday) and PE (Thursday).

There will be no English or Maths learning activities on Friday. Instead, we will post a series of hands-on activities/challenges. Friday will also act as a chance for pupils to catch up with learning tasks or activities that they were unable to complete during the week.

Please contact us if you need any further help or support.