Highlights:
We hope you all had a lovely half term and a good rest. The children have settled back into school and the routines well this week. We started our new geography unit by looking at our village. In the unit we will be comparing Brandesburton to Hull. The children enjoyed looking at Brandesburton on a map and recapped human and physical features and talked about what Brandesburton had. In RW we explored the Islam faith a little more and also compared the similarities and differences to Christianity. In English we have started a new unit on pyramid poetry. We have been gathering ideas this week based on sights, smells and sounds of a bonfire. In science we recapped our learrning on different UK habitats such as pond, urban, woodland and coastal. We then mapped these onto a local map of East Yorkshire. In maths we have explored 2-digit addition and subtraction using a variety of manipulatives and resources to support our learning. See our photos below.
What’s happening next week: Monday is Remembrance Day. Next week is also ‘Anti-bullying Week’. We will be completing some activities as a whole school including assemblies and a live lesson. Tuesday is ‘odd socks day’ as part of anti-bullying week. Nasal flu vaccinations will also be taking place on Tuesday.
Class Focus:
We are working on listening to and following instructions as some children are finding this rather tricky at the moment.
Spellings:
This week’s spelling focus has been suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, -less and -ly. The spelling test is on Mondays. Please ensure the children practise spellings at home, the children stick their new spellings in their reading logs every Monday. Below we have posted what they had this week so they can be practising over the weekend. The spelling sheets that the children complete daily in school will also be sent home each week for you to revisit when you can. We play lots of spelling games with our words, ask your child what games we have been playing so you can play them at home too. We also have a good discussion about the meaning of the words if we’re not sure.
Just a reminder that PE days are Tuesdays and Fridays.
Dates for your diary:
W/C 11th November – Anti-bullying week – whole school activities.
11th November – Remembrance day
12th November: Come to school in odd socks day as part of anti-bullying week
12th November: Flu vaccinations
13th, 20th, 27th November: Come dine with me events. Join your child for one of Mrs Gell’s delicious roast dinners
21st November – Well-being coffee morning. See this week’s school newsletter for more details.
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FOR OUR SCHOOL CHRISTMAS FAIR WHICH WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON THE AFTERNOON OF TUESDAY 17TH DECEMBER. WE ARE VERY EXCITED FOR THIS, MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SHORTLY!