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Owlets
The Owlets are a class of Reception and Year One children.
Classteachers: Mrs Duncan-Adams and Miss Hodges (Mrs Jose is currently on maternity leave).
Whilst school is closed, please keep up reading with your child. Below is information about this term's topic - can you help your child to find a favourite toy or story to share? Why is it special to them? This forms this basis of essential speaking and listening activities that we will work on in class.
Dear parents/carers
This half term our topic is TOYS. We will be studying:
Literacy-
Author study-Jane Hissey
Jolly Tall, Little Bear, Old Bear (and more!)
Numeracy-
Topic
Moving toys
How do toys move?
What toys do you have that move?
What are they made out of?
What toys did children play with in the past?
How can we find out about toys in the past?
Toys you had as a baby compared to toys you have now.
Do you have toys that belong to your parents or grandparents?
Sharing toys
Looking after toys
SHOW AND TELL Starting week beginning 11/01/10
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Eleanor Kate Indie
William Timms Lydia Tiggs
Ella William Warren Callie
Jack Ben Kyle
Hamish Ollie
Please encourage your children to bring in something related to our topic. We would like the children to bring in items that can remain in school for the half term to be part of a display. It is also really helpful if the children know what they have, what sound it begins with, what colour it is etc.
Many thanks for your continued support
Mrs Duncan-Adams & Miss Hodges
Snowy Owls
The Snowy Owls are a class of Year 2, 3 and 4 children.
Classteachers: Mr Brady and Miss Hodges.
Spring 2010
Hi Snowies! This term we will continue to develop your wonderful writing skills – you did so well last term. We will look at writing stories that are based on the past -stories with historical settings.
Here are your spelling words for this week; (11th – 15th Jan)
57-60 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE
1 boot coal soiled station introduce
2 moon coat spoiled nation produce
3 food loaf pointing relation product
4 room road joining invitation seldom
5 pool throat poise office sigh
6 cool coast toiled notice slight
7 tool soap coin practice delight
8 school toast avoid crevice frightened
9 root after leather journey depth
10 noon afternoon feather thrust growth
11 soon craft death rocket strength
12 spoon craftsman meant platform warmth
13 fish thumb already inform wealth
14 ship climb steady intend fifth
15 dish crumb ahead insist width
16 wish lamb pleasant inspect eighth
We have Science and History topics that you could begin to find out more about.
In Science, we will be looking at ‘rocks and soils’ Do you know which materials are natural and which have been made by people? Here’s a quick test – which of these is natural?
A, concrete, B, granite, C, brick.
Our History and Geography work will look at the ‘Tudors’ – who were these people? When did they live? Where did they live? How did they live? First of all we will learn about the most famous Tudor person – I wonder if you know who that is? Then we will find out more about ordinary people and what their lives were like compared to ours.
Creating a fact file about that famous Tudor person would be a good idea to work on – I wonder what you will be able to tell us when back in school.
Remember to keep up your reading and mental maths work (see below),
see you soon,
Mr Brady and Miss Hodges
MENTAL ARITHMETIC : YELLOW
SPRING TERM : WEEK 1
1. Write the number fourteen.
2. Write the number sixteen.
3. What number comes after 12?
4. What number comes after 14?
5. What number comes before 11?
6. What number comes before 14?
7. Count on 4 from 6.
8. Count on 5 from 7.
9. Count back 3 from 10.
10. Count back 4 from 11. SPRING TERM : WEEK 2
1. Write the number nineteen.
2. What number comes after 11?
3. What number comes before 15?
4. Count on three from 9.
5. Count back 3 from 11.
6. Which is less 14 or 16?
7. Which is more 13 or 18?
8. What is one more than 12?
9. What is one more than 15?
10. What is one less than 13?
SPRING TERM : WEEK 3
1. What is one more than 14?
2. What is one less than 17?
3. What is the sum of 5 and 4?
4. What is the sum of 8 and 2?
5. 6 plus 5.
6. 7 plus 3.
7. Subtract 3 from 10.
8. Subtract 5 from 10.
9. Double 4.
10. Double 6. SPRING TERM : WEEK 4
1. What is the sum of 7 and 3?
2. 8 plus 4.
3. Subtract 2 from 10.
4. Find the sum of 2, 3 and 1.
5. Find the sum of 6, 2 and 2.
6. What must I add to 6 to make 10?
7. What must I add to 9 to make 11?
8. John has 8 sweets. Sunil has half as many. How many sweets has Sunil got?
9. The film started at 2 o'clock and finished at 4 o'clock. How long did it last?
10. Gary spent 6p. How much change from 10p did he get?
SPRING TERM : WEEK 5
1. Add 5, 3 and 2.
2. Add 6, 2 and 1.
3. How much altogether is 5p plus 3p plus 1p.
4. How much altogether is 4p plus 3p plus 2p.
5. Patrick spent 7p. How much change from 10p did he get?
6. Lara had a 10p piece. She bought a chew for 3p. How much change did she get?
7. What day comes after Sunday?
8. If it is Saturday today what day was it yesterday?
9. How many sides do all triangles have?
10. Ria is 6 years old. Jo is 2 years older. How old is Jo? SPRING TERM : WEEK 6
1. Add 2, 3 and 4.
2. Add 1, 5 and 3.
3. Harry drank two glasses of coke and Bill drank four. How many glasses did they drink
altogether.
4. Chewy bars cost 6p each. How much do two chewy bars cost?
5. If you had 5 two pence pieces how much would you have altogether?
6. Gary has 3 coins. He has 8p. What coins does he have?
7. Apples are 7p each. How much will 2 apples cost?
8. How long is it from half past six until seven o'clock?
9. Which two coins make ten pence?
10. Half of a box of 10 chocolates have been eaten. How many are left?
MENTAL ARITHMETIC : BLUE
SPRING TERM : WEEK 1
1. Round 447 to the nearest whole one hundred.
2. Round 791 to the nearest whole one hundred.
3. 500 is 100 more than which number?
4. 200 is 100 less than which number?
5. What number is ten less than 416?
6. What number is ten less than 505?
7. What number is half way between 400 and 500?
8. What number is half way between 600 and 700?
9. Which is lighter: 3.5 kg or 5.3 kg?
10. Which is less: £5.72 or £2.75? SPRING TERM : WEEK 2
1. 7 plus 147.
2. 9 plus 129.
3. 44 plus 16.
4. 73 plus 17.
5. 300 take away 7.
6. 400 take away 6.
7. 603 subtract 599.
8. 404 subtract 399.
9. 300 add 800.
10. 500 add 700.
SPRING TERM : WEEK 3
1. I think of a number and subtract 10. The answer is 27. What is my number?
2. I think of a number and add 12. The answer is 14. What is my number?
3. A ladybird has 6 legs. How many legs do 5 ladybirds have?
4. A spider has 8 legs. How many legs do 5 spiders have?
5. A car has 4 wheels. How many wheels are there on 5 cars.
6. A hexagon has 6 sides. How sides do 2 hexagons have?
7. A box holds 50 candles. 32 were taken out. How many candles were left in the box?
8. There are 52 cards in a pack. 5 cards were lost. How many were left?
9. How many crayons are there in 2 boxes, each holding 50 crayons?
10. A sketchbook has 60 pages. 35 have been drawn on. How many are left? SPRING TERM : WEEK 4
1. Write 356p as pounds.
2. Write 307p as pounds.
3. How much money have I got if I have two £1 coins and three 50p pieces?
4. How much money have I got if I have two £1 coins and three 20p pieces?
5. It costs £3 to go to the cinema. How much will it cost for 4 people to go?
6. It costs £20 to watch a game of football. How much will it cost for 3 people to watch?
7. Isabel gets 50p pocket money each week. She saves her pocket money for 4 weeks.
How much has she saved?
8. Stella saved 20p a week for 10 weeks. How much has she saved?
9. How many 20p pieces in a pound?
10. How many 20p pieces in £2?
SPRING TERM : WEEK 5
1. Make the largest number you can with the digits 2, 5 and 4.
2. Make the largest number you can with the digits 3, 7 and 6.
3. What do you have to add to 428 to make 728?
4. What do you have to add to 719 to make 919?
5. What number comes next: 3, 8, 13, 18, ?
6. What number comes next: 1, 5, 9, 13, ?
7. What odd number comes after 89?
8. What odd number comes after 99?
9. Write the next two numbers in this sequence:
266, 366, 466, 566, ? ?
10. Write the next two numbers in this sequence:
501, 511, 521, 531, ? ? SPRING TERM : WEEK 6
1. Make the smallest whole number you can with these digits: 8, 4, 5
2. Make the smallest whole number you can with these digits: 7, 6, 1
3. Would a door in a house be about 1m, 2m or 10m high?
4. A teaspoon holds 5 ml of medicine. How many
teaspoons are needed for 15 ml of medicine?
5. How many grams in half a kilogram?
6. A TV programme started at 4.50 and finished at 5.20. How long did it last?
7. A film started at 3.00. It lasted one and three quarter hours. What time did it finish?
8. A piece of string, 70 cm long, was cut into two equal pieces. How long was each piece?
9. How many sides has a hexagon?
10. Find a quarter of 20.
MENTAL ARITHMETIC : RED
SPRING TERM : WEEK 1
1. Write in figures the number: ten thousand and twenty.
2. How much is 35 tens?
3. How much is 43 tens?
4. Graham is thinking of the number 276. How many hundreds does he need to add to get more than 1 000 ?
5. What is one less than 6 000 ?
6. What is two less than 5 000 ?
7. What is 1p less than £2 ?
8. What is ten more than 2 458 ?
9. What is a hundred more than 562 ?
10. What is 20 less than 800 ? SPRING TERM : WEEK 2
1. How many £1 coins make £23 ?
2. How many 10p coins make £1 ?
3. How many 10p coins are there in £6 ?
4. Find 40 ÷ 10.
5. Calculate 100 ÷ 10.
6. What is twenty six divided by two?
7. Jenny thinks of a number between 65 and 72. It is a multiple of ten. What is Jenny's
number?
8. The distance from Penzance to Aberdeen is
660 miles. What is this to the nearest 100 miles?
9. Which temperature is lower, –8 o C or
–12 o C ?
10. Which is the highest temperature:
–4 o C, –6 o C or –3 o C ?
SPRING TERM : WEEK 3
What are the next three numbers in this
sequence: 45, 53, 61, 69, ___,___, ___ ?
2. What are the next three numbers in this
sequence: 127, 129, 131, 133, ___, ___, ___ ?
3. Count back six from 135.
What number do you come to?
4. Count back five twos from 26. What number do you come to?
5. Which fraction is the same as two tenths:
One half One third or One fifth?
6. Is five quarters more than one whole one or less than one whole one?
7. What is one quarter of 40?
8. What is one fifth of 40?
9. How do we write one tenth as a decimal?
10. How do we write four tenths as a decimal? SPRING TERM : WEEK 4
1. Add 750 and 50.
2. What is 6 add 8 add 22 ?
3. What is the biggest number you can make with the digits: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 ?
4. How many less than 40 is 23 ?
5. How many more than 25 is 40 ?
6. Double 36.
7. Double 28.
8. Add 26 and 57.
9. Subtract 19 from 124.
10. Subtract 29 from 240.
SPRING TERM : WEEK 5
1. Add 5, 8, 4 and 6.
2. Add 10, 20, 3 and 8.
3. What is 32 less than 450 ?
4. What is 45 + 23 ?
5. Mary has sixteen coloured pencils. Her Grandma gives her another fifteen for
Christmas. How many does she have now?
6. John has a pack of fifty two playing cards. He loses twenty four of them. How many does he have left?
7. How many pence are there in £6.89 ?
8. How many 10p coins make £7.20 ?
9. What do I need to multiply 40 by to get 320?
10. Share 60 between 4. SPRING TERM : WEEK 6
1. What is the quotient of 25 and 5?
2. How many lines of symmetry does a
Rectangle have?
3. Two cinema tickets cost £4.56. How much does one ticket cost?
4. I have 56 cakes. How many boxes will I need for them if each box holds ten cakes?
5. Double 460.
6. Double 380.
7. Simon spent half of the money in his bank account. If he had £23.80, how much
did he spend?
8. If four lots of 23 is 92, what is eight lots of 23?
9. If 6 × 26 is 156, what is 156 divided by 26?
10. What is 55 doubled plus 20 ?
Barn Owls
The Barn Owls are a class of Year 5 and 6 children.
Classteacher is Mrs Burrage.
Barn Owls Spring Term 2010 Newsletter
Acting Head role
This term I will be taking on extra commitments which will enable me to gain a deeper understanding into the running of all aspects across the school. I will be attending some leadership courses to get valuable experience from other leaders.
I will be teaching mainly maths and English with Miss Hewlett taking on the teaching of the foundation subjects.
Maths
Mental arithmetic tests on Wednesdays – please encourage your child to practise these skills. These skills are also linked to the maths lessons for the week.
Times table tests and tips – children are learning these and may bring maths to learn at home, some children will be using percentages and fractions when practising multiplication and division facts.
English
Most children have made considerable progress in spelling and reading comprehension already this year. This term children will write using a greater variety of sentence structures. Children will be encouraged to change the order of words in sentences to create subtle differences in the meaning or the emphasis of what is important.
When reading they should consider why the author has written a sentence in a particular manner.
Children who show they can write using a variety sentence types will achieve much higher levels in writing.
Year 6 children will be making assessments of their learning and may have tailored homework to give further practise to suit their individual needs.
Science
Miss Hewlett teaches the children using demonstration, modelling, experiments and investigation to further their understanding. She will cover separation, dissolving, gases, reversible and irreversible changes. Lessons will also be planned to look at parts of plants, flowers, lifecyles and habitats.
ICT
The children will be using a simplified version of simulation software which they will use again at Okehampton College. They will write programmes and manipulate controls to produce onscreen working models.
Children will also use the computers to support their history work and the whole class will be using the rm maths software this term.
History
Our history topic this term will be about the Tudors and Henry the VIII. Please encourage your children to find out facts for themselves to support these topics. Some of the English work will also be based on this topic.
Art and DT
Mrs Butler and Mrs Houghton teach these subjects on Tuesday afternoons. They will incorporate some Tudor work into this term’s art. The children will also be designing and creating some containers and packages.
Mrs Butler will continue to take groups to do cooking ready for tuckshop on Tuesday mornings.
Music
Music will continue to be taught by Mrs McDougal. We start the term off with an African Drumming Day on Friday 15th January.
French
Children will be increasing their vocabulary and building simple sentences using the vocabulary of the previous term.
P.E.
Children will be swimming each Monday afternoon, Barnowl children will all be taught by qualified instructors in the deeper end of the pool. I will teach the younger children. Miss Hodges, Mrs Crocker and Mrs Whiteley will also be at the pool to assist the children. There will be lessons to improve technique and stamina, distance and lifesaving skills. We will be looking for children who will represent our school well in the summer swimming gala.
We have already arranged some inter schools sporting activities this term including a football tournament, hockey festival, tag rugby, orienteering and cross country running.
R.E and PHSE
These subjects are taught as both individual subjects and links are made to other subjects when possible.
I hope this information is useful. If your child has brought home reading books, spellings, mental arithmetic or homework please remind them to take it home.
If you have any concerns or need further information to support your child’s learning please contact me to arrange a meeting or send in a note or email me
imogen@bridestowe-primary.devon.sch.uk and I will get back to you.
Thank you for your continued support
Imogen Burrage