Welcome back! I hope everyone had a lovely and relaxing mid-term break. It’s been wonderful to see the children return full of energy and ready to learn. We’ve had a great first week back together, getting stuck into lots of exciting new learning.
Literacy
This week, we continued our work on The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. The children have been developing their vocabulary, participating in collaborative discussions, and practising how to build and punctuate sentences correctly.
- Year 1 focused on writing simple sentences using and to join their ideas, such as “Owls hunt in the dark and have sharp talons.”
- Year 2 explored using and, but, and or to extend their sentences, learning how conjunctions can change the meaning or tone.
We also learned fascinating new facts about owls -what they eat, where they live, and how they care for their young – using both information texts and a short educational video. The children did a brilliant job sorting facts into groups and writing about Plop and his family.
Later in the week, we began exploring how Plop is changing throughout the story, noticing the use of punctuation such as commas and capital letters, and linking this to our own writing.
Maths
| Year 1 Objectives | Year 2 Objectives |
|---|---|
| Find a part | Subtract from 10 |
| Subtraction – find a part | Subtract a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number (across a 10) |
| Fact families – the eight facts | 10 more, 10 less |
| Add and subtract 10s | |
| Add two 2-digit numbers (not across a 10) |
The children are becoming more confident using practical equipment and number lines to show their understanding of addition and subtraction.
IPC – The Stories We Will Tell
We have started our new IPC unit The Stories We Will Tell. The children had great fun exploring costumes and props, thinking about different ways we tell stories, and sorting familiar story characters into groups. They shared lots of stories they already know and love, and we are so excited for all the creative learning to come this term.
TGMC Kindness Carnival – Thursday, November 21st
We are thrilled to announce our upcoming TGMC Kindness Carnival. This event will raise money for St Teresa’s Primary School in Bristol, UK, a fellow TGMC school working hard to support the well-being of their students.
We kindly ask for donations of items suitable to sell at the carnival. If anyone would like to bake or bring in snacks, cookies, or cartons of juice, it would be much appreciated.
Starting this Monday, students will be able to:
- Pay to Guess the Bear’s Birthday (up to 8 guesses each)
- Buy tickets to Pie the Principal (unlimited)
- Pay to Guess the Candies in the Jar (up to 5 guesses)
Each guess costs 500 won. The children are very excited and everyone wants to win the Backpack Bear!
All winners will be announced during the Kindness Carnival on November 21st.
Thank you so much for your kindness and support in making this event a huge success.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the nice weather we have had this week.
Take care and see you all on Monday 🙂
