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This Week

This week in Maths we have been focusing on partitioning and learning our number bonds. The children need to be able to recall number bond to 10 facts quickly. One good way to practise number bonds to 10 or 20 is to play ‘Ping pong’. In this game one person says a number and the other person has to say the number required to make 10 or 20 whilst pretending to play ping pong. (Ask the children how to play for a clearer explanation). We have also started practising for our Christmas nativity this week, the children should have a copy of their lines in their reading records, please help them to learn their lines.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘aw’, ‘wh’, ‘ph’ and ‘ew’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. Next week we will be learning the ‘ew’, ‘oe’, ‘au’, and ‘ey’ phonemes you may wish to get a head start on these phonemes. Please let me know if you have lost you Phonics book from last year and would like a new one.

Home Learning

In this English this week we have been focussing on the Oliver Jeffer’s Story ‘Lost and Found’. In this story a boy finds a penguin at his door and then tries to help the penguin return to where he came from. For home learning this week I would like the children to use their imaginations to write at least one sentence explaining where they think the penguin came from. For an extra challenge why not write your own lost and found story with a different animal or write your own animal story.

Support tips:

• Talk to your child about how they think the penguin arrived at the boy’s door.
• Discuss different ways of travelling.
• Encourage your child to sound out the words they want to use in their writing.
• Ask your child what every sentence needs to begin with and end with to encourage them to remember their capital letters and full stops.
• Encourage your child to use exciting adjectives in their writing.

FOPS Christmas raffle

We now have our list of items required by FOPS to make our Christmas hamper this year. If you would like to contribute please take the slip for the item and then bring that item in as soon as possible.  Thanks in advance for your contributions. The first class to collects all items wins a prize!

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

Friday 4^th December- NSPCC Bobble hat day 5op donation.

Friday 11^th December- FOPS Christmas cake competition entries £1.

Friday 11^th December- FOPS own clothes day, children to bring in chocolate for Christmas tombola.

Saturday 12^th December- FOPS Christmas fayre.

Wednesday 16^th December- Christmas Lunch.

Wednesday 16^th December 2pm- Year 1 and EYFS Nativity.

Friday 18^th December- Last day of Autumn Term.

Tuesday 5^th January- First day of Spring Term.

Tuesday 19^th January- KS1 parents invited to have lunch in school.

This Week

We started this week with an exciting trip to the Wonderful World of Oliver Jeffers at Cornwall College. The children behaved beautifully and have been inspired by the chance to step into a story. In Maths we have been learning about place value. We have been revisiting one more and one less with two digit numbers and began to learn about three digit numbers. In Design and Technology we painted our Diva lamps and in History we learnt about birthday celebrations in the past.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘oy’, ‘ue’, and ‘ir’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. Next week we will be learning the ‘aw’, ‘wh’, ‘ph’  and ‘ew’ phonemes you may wish to get a head start on these phonemes. Please let me know if you have lost you Phonics book from last year and would like a new one.

Home Learning

This week in our Maths we have been learning all about Place Value.  For home learning this week I would like the children to find out their telephone number. Then put these single digits in order from smallest to biggest. After that choose any two digit number and write down the number that is one more and one less than this number. For an extra challenge find one more and one less than three digit numbers.

Support tips:

• Write your telephone number down for your child. Then ask them to find the smallest number first. Cross out each number as you put them into order.
• Use a search engine to find 100 splat square, an interactive 100 square to help children visualise the order of numbers.

The 99 club

Your child may have discussed the 99 club with you. The 99 club has been developed to help raise standards in Numeracy by encouraging pupils to improve their mental maths and therefore increase the speed and confidence they tackle mental maths problems in Numeracy sessions, across the curriculum and in day to day life. The children have a certain number of number sentences to complete in 10 minutes.  The 11 club includes number sentences involving addition to 10, the 22 club includes number sentences involving addition to 20 and the 33 club includes both of these and number sentences involving 2x table, 10x and addition number sentences.   In year 1 we will be completing the challenge once a week and all pupils start on the 11 club and work their way up. Please see me if you wish to practise with your child.

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

Friday 4^th December- NSPCC Bobble hat day.

Wednesday 16^th December- Christmas Lunch.

Wednesday 16^th December 2pm- Year 1 and EYFS Nativity.

Friday 18^th December- Last day of Autumn Term.

Tuesday 19^th January- KS1 parents invited to have lunch in school.

We had an amazing time today in the exciting world of Oliver Jeffers and at the Heartlands. . .

We dressed up to raise money for children in need . . . 

This Week

This week in Maths we have been learning about shape. We went on a shape hunt in the classroom and have been describing shapes by their properties. In English we have been learning about invitations and wrote our own invitations in our Special Write this week. In Science we learnt about the sun. We made our own suns using oil pastels and recorded our own facts about the sun.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘ou’, ‘ie’, and ‘ea’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. Next week we will be learning the ‘oy’, ‘ir’ and ‘ue’ phonemes you may wish to get a head start on these phonemes. We have just begun phase 5 of our phonics. In this phase we will be learning some new phonemes and the alternative pronunciations and spellings of phonemes we already know.

Home learning

This week in English our learning has focussed on the Charlie and Lola story ‘This is actually my party’. We have created our own freeze frames for parts of the story and written sentences about different parts of the story. For home learning this week I would like the children to write about the best birthday party they have ever been to. I would like all children to write at least one sentence about a birthday party. For an extra challenge see if you can include wow words (adjectives) in your writing.

Support tips:

• Talk to your child about the best party they have ever been invited to.
• Discuss what made it such a good party.
• Encourage your child to sound out the words they want to use in their writing.
• Encourage phonetic spelling unless it is a tricky word (words that we can’t sound out such as the) or a high frequency word that they recognise (e.g. have).
• Ask your child to read through their writing to check that it makes sense and to check for capital letters and full stops.

Oliver Jeffers Trip

We are going on our trip on Monday. Children need to be in their school uniform and to either be wearing or carrying a waterproof coat. If possible please put your child’s packed lunch into a rucksack or bag for them to carry.  Please make sure your child has a packed lunch and a drink (unless you have ordered lunch from the kitchen). As you will be aware we are a nut free school. A pupil coming on the trip has a nut allergy. Please make sure nut products are not included in your child’s packed lunch.

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

Monday 16^th November- EYFS & Year 1 Oliver Jeffers trip.

Tuesday 24^th November- KS1 parents invited to have lunch in school.

Friday 4^th December- NSPCC Bobble hat day.

Wednesday 16^th December- Christmas Lunch.

Wednesday 16^th December 2pm- Year 1 and EYFS Nativity.

Home learning super stars from this week .  . .

We tasted different fruits to put in our jelly with Mrs Davis

This Week

This week in Maths we have been learning to tell the time. The children have enjoyed playing time games and challenging each other to tell the time. In English we have been exploring the Charlie and Lola story ‘This is actually my party’. We wrote excellent sentences using feelings words. In Deisgn and Technology we tasted fruits to put in our jelly. We are learning how to make healthy party jelly with Mrs Davis. We learnt our first group dance in PE and enjoyed creating our own moves.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘air’, ‘ear’, ‘ure’, and ‘er’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. You can find suggestions of words to use in your child’s Phonics Book.

Home Learning

This week in our maths we have been learning about time and in particular telling the time to the hour. This week I would like the children to record what they were doing at 10:00am, 1:00pm and 5:00pm for one day of the weekend. You might like to draw clock faces showing these times. Children can record what they were doing in pictures or in writing or with both.  For an extra challenge you might like to change the time on your clock or watch to an o’clock time or a half past time and ask your child to tell you the time.

Support tips:

• The children should be able to recognise o’clock.
• You might like to discuss the difference between am and pm.
• It may help your child if you refer to the hour hand as the short hand and the minute hand as the long hand.

Parents evenings

Please remember to attend parents evening next week. Appointment times will be outside the classroom in case you need a reminder. If you are unable to attend parents evening please come and see me to arrange a convenient time to discuss your child’s progress.

Oliver Jeffers Trip

Please remember to bring in the Oliver Jeffers trip consent form and money.

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

Tuesday 10^th November & Thursday 12^th Parents Evenings.

Monday 16^th November- EYFS & Year 1 Oliver Jeffers trip.

Tuesday 24^th November- KS1 parents invited to have lunch in school.

Friday 4^th December- NSPCC Bobble hat day.

Wednesday 16^th December- Christmas Lunch.

Wednesday 16^th December 2pm- Year 1 and EYFS Nativity.

Friday 18^th December- Last day of Autumn Term.

We finished our wolf masks . . .

We made our own houses in Design and Technology . . .