Welcome back to the Summer term ! It was lovely to see all the boys again after the Easter break . Everyone settled straight back into school happily. We had a lovely start to the term with the sun out and lots of fun playing in the outdoor area.

The boys jumped straight back into their reading and writing and did some lovely shape work in Maths.

Next week we will start our topic on ‘growing’ which will be lovely as the sun starts shining more and we can get outside and observe all the signs of growth and the coming summer.

Please remember to send the boys with a sun hat now that the weather is improving.

Our show and tell boys for next week are

Monday Raphael

Tuesday Sathiya

Wednesday Soren

Thursday Taylan

Friday Zane

Please can the boys bring a photo of themselves as a baby as we talk about growing.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

Our final week of the Spring term has been super busy. In Maths we began learning about capacity and had great fun filling and emptying containers in the water tray.

We have continued to work hard on our writing , writing our news from the weekend and finishing off our Easter cards.

Harry’s Mummy told us all about Ireland and St Patricks day. It was super interesting and great fun to learn about another country. If you visit anywhere with your boys over half term we would love to hear about it at school or you could send us a postcard !

We finished our week by taking a walk to Green Meadow where the boys enjoyed exploring the big space.

All the boys were very good at sitting still and listening in our final assembly and they sang beautifully. Well done to the boys who received  awards this term

Next term we will begin the summer by learning about growing. The boys will be planting seeds and watching how Spring turns into Summer. As part of our topic on growing please bring a photo of your son as a baby when it is their show and tell.

Our show and tell boys for the first two days of term are

Thursday-Max

Friday- Raphael

 

We hope you all have a lovely Easter break with your boys

 

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

 

 

This week we have enjoyed a scientific and Maths focused week. The boys have been very engaged in learning how to measure. We have talked about standard and non standard units of measuring and have had great fun measuring ourselves and lots of things around the classroom.

They even measured Mrs K with bricks , she was 27 bricks tall !

All the boys showed a great sense of collaboration as they worked together in pairs to measure and record their findings.

For our Maths challenge this week, continue with measuring at home, talking about the different things we use to measure length and weight.

In science we had great fun and super learning in our science workshop on Wednesday. We learned about sound, electricity , evaporation and wind We also mixed together sugar,citric acid and baking powder to make sherbert!

Alongside all our Maths and science we have been listening to and writing about the Easter story as a Christian celebration and have started to talk about all the fun Easter traditions that are ahead !

Our show and tell boys for next week are

Monday-Leonardo

Tuesday -Lewis

Wednesday-Maaran

Next week there will be no reading books or library books sent home.

On Wednesday it is our Easter Bazaar at 3pm. If you would like to go to the bazaar with your son , please collect them at 3pm from the classroom.

On Thursday there is no P.E as it is our final assembly. Please send the boys to school in full school uniform on Thursday.

 

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacahria

 

What a fantastic week we have had ! On Monday we had a visit from the poet Zohab Zee Khan. He told us how we could all be poets and shared some of his poems , stories and his music.

On Wednesday it was the final of our own poetry competition and we really enjoyed hearing the poems from all the boys in Pre Prep. Well done to  Sterlin from RMC who was our Reception winner

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On Thursday we had a wonderful time at the RAF museum. We saw lots of planes and enjoyed the workshop where we had to find teddy’s lost medal by following lots of clues.

Our favourite part was going inside the big aeroplane and playing on the planes in the play area.

In Maths we have been looking at pattern this week.

Try and look for repeated patterns in the environment with the boys and point them out. Also make your own patterns at home with everyday items or toys. Challenge the boys to make sound patterns also.

 

Our show and tell boys for next week are

Monday-Dhruv

Tuesday-Gabriel

Wednesday-Harry

Thursday-Hector

Friday Kaya

 

I did it challenge for next week is to sit smartly on your chair and tuck it under the table.

 

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

 

This week we have been enjoying hearing all the wonderful poems the boys have been learning. Thank you for working hard with your boys at home to practice the poems. They have all been amazing . It takes a lot of confidence to stand up in front of the class and speak aloud so well done to everyone. Next week 2 boys will go through to the final on Wednesday.

In Literacy we have been preparing for our trip next week by writing about transport and using our imaginations and communication skills as we play in the new airport role play area. We have been jetting off to some wonderful places !

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We continue to work on letter formation and handwriting and the boys are making great progress. Practice this at home if you have time to embed their cursive script.

In Maths we have been continuing our work on number bonds to 10.

A good game to support this is bowling:

Bowl up to 10 skittles in teams. How many have you knocked over? How many are still standing?

Challenge: Try numbers to 20.

On Thursday next week it is our trip to the RAF museum. Please bring the boys in to school in full school uniform with a packed lunch and a water bottle.

 

Our show and tell boys for next week are

Monday-Aari

Tuesday-Agustya

Wednesday-Ayden

Friday-Chris

Our new topic for show and tell is sharing some art work or a favourite picture.

Our ‘I did it’ challenge is to say please and thank you.

 

Have a lovely weekend Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacahria

A busy last week of half term in RKZ . We met a whole new group of monster friends to help us talk about our feelings . The colour monsters can help us to share how we are feeling. This week we were all yellow monster shining brightly like the sun and twinkling like the stars!

 

In Maths we have been doing number bonds to 7, using counters and numicon to help us put numbers into two parts. Practice this at home sharing each number into two different groups.

The Maths activity this week is:

Can you roll dice and create your own number sentences? You can use objects to find the answers. Can you work out the answer by looking at the objects rather than counting them?

Our trigrams this week was ‘ure’ This is a tricky one to use ! Think about words like picture, mixture and pure.

We have  continued to learn about Chinese New Year. We made animal masks and lined up in the correct order of the great race. we used our positional language to say which animal was in which position. In computing we created animals from the Great race.

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On Tuesday it was Shrove Tuesday ie Pancake day. The  boys enjoyed pancakes for dessert at lunch and had fun designing their own pancakes in the afternoon.

On Thursday, we had a lovely visit from a parent from RMC and we spent some time decorating home made pancakes with berries and a choice of sweeteners, including jam, maple syrup and honey. The boys were invited to try to make their initials on their own pancake using a berry font and some explored their own berry patterns. Once decorated, they moved onto the tasting table and enjoyed their delicious treat! They really enjoyed this!

Our show and tell boys for after half term are

Monday-Max

Tuesday Raphael

Wednesday-Sathiya and Soren

Thursday-Taylan

Friday-Zane

 

Have a wonderful half term break

Mrs Kennaugh, Mrs Zacharia, Miss Barr

We are so proud of the boys this week for their amazing performance of our class assembly. It is not easy standing up in front of all the boys and the parents and remembering what to say. They all spoke clearly and with confidence. We hope you all enjoyed hearing about what the boys have been learning and seeing some of the photos and videos of our day. It was great to see the boy’s music achievements as well. They are blossoming into great singers and instrumentalists! You can see some photos of the assembly on Tapestry.

In the classroom this week we have started to learn some trigraphs. These are three letters that make one sound. We have learned air , ear and igh. See if the boys can tell you any words with these sounds in.

In Maths we have been looking at more and less and building our work on number bonds. Keep counting 1-10 at home and trying to make number bonds using everyday objects and toys.

We started to learn about Chinese New year this week. We were very lucky to have Williams Mummy talk to us all about the celebrations and traditions around this time of year. The boys enjoyed the story of ‘The Great Race’ and also had good fun

making lanterns and animal masks.

On Thursday we had an amazing puppet workshop.Rosa and Ollie from Little Angel Thetare told us a story about caterpillars transforming into butterflies. We listened to the story and the music and looked, listened and interacted with all the puppets and props. After the drama workshop we made our own puppets in the classroom. The boys loved all the actions and seeing the story unfold.

 

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Our show and tell boys for next week are

Monday- Hector

Tuesday-Kaya

Wednesday-Leonardo

Thursday-Lewis

Friday -Maaran

Our challenge for next week is to continue to line up smartly and quietly.

 

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

 

 

This week has been all about aeroplanes. We started by looking at the parts of a plane and labelling pictures using the digraphs we have been learning. Next we looked at different types of planes and talked about how they fly, where they land, and what they look like. Lots of the boys have been on a plane and enjoyed sharing their experiences with everyone. We painted aeroplanes and made airports from the bricks.

The boys are really working hard at writing sentences using the sounds and digraphs we have been learning. This week we looked at ow, ur and nk.

In Maths, the boys used a counting all strategy to combine two sets up to 10. They are all getting very good at recognising ten frames and counting two sets to find a total.

For The Maths challenge this week you will need:

Number cards and objects (counters, cars, etc)

Pick a number card

Using the objects, can you make a number pattern? For example, 2 cars and 1 car makes 3 cars altogether. 

 

Our weekly challenge is to line up quietly.

 

On Monday next week it is our wellbeing breakfast. Please remember to bring in a small breakfast item for your son to eat as we sit together and start the day.

Also, don’t forget our class assembly on Wednesday at 8.30 which the boys have been practicing very hard for. We hope your will all be very proud of their efforts and enjoy finding out about all our learning.

On Friday we are asking the boys to wear a red top for the British Heart Foundation fundraising day.

Our show and tell boys for next week are

Monday-Ayden

Tuesday-Chris

Wednesday-Dhruv

Thursday-Gabriell

Friday-Harry

 

Have a lovely weekend

 

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

This week we started our topic on Transport. We thought about all the different types of transport we could think of and wrote a list in our literacy books. We focused particularly on trains this week and looked at trains we see today and those that were used in the past. In art  we made train pictures by printing with shapes (You can see these on our window).

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In Maths we have been focusing on 5 and 10 frames. We are learning how to look at the frame and know the number of counters without counting 1-1. We are also combining 2 sets to start learning about addition.

We did Maths in Art too , printing with blocks to combine numbers to 10.

In P.E we have been practising ball skills in teams and in cookery we practised our cutting skills with peppers and tomatoes.

 

We have also continued to use the woodwork bench to fine tune our sawing skills !

Our show and tell boys for next week are

Monday-Soren

Tuesday-Taylan

Wednesday-Zane

Thursday-Aari

Friday-Agustya

Monday to Wednesday we can still talk about our Christmas . After that we will start talking about a form of transport and 3 facts about it.

Our challenge for next week is to use a knife and fork.

 

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Kennaugh, Miss Barr and Mrs Zacharia

 

 

We have had a cold and frosty week at school but we have been as busy as always,

We have continued our learning about the weather and have written about the things we wear in different weathers. Our digraphs this week have been or, ie,oo. The boys are getting very good at spotting them in their reading books and trying to use them in their writing. We continue to work on our handwriting and the boys all enjoy using our Think Write programme to help them form the letters correctly.

We had great fun doing our rainfall experiment. The boys used shaving foam and food colouring to create the effect of rain dripping through the clouds.

In Maths we have been counting forwards and backwards and thinking about positional language.

Here are some games you could play to support our Maths learning.

Take turns to think of a number, your partner must guess the number.

Give clues, e.g. my number comes after 2 but before 4, my number is 1 more than 9.

Now choose some toys and place them in a line.

Can you point to the first toy in the line? the third? fifth? second? ninth?

Can you move the first toy to become the third? the fourth to become the tenth? the second to become the fourth?

For an extra challenge, please may you use your number cards to recognise numbers 10-20.

Welly time was exciting this week as we had to make nests for dragons eggs! We thought about the natural materials we could use and collected sticks and dug them into the mud to keep them safe.

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Show and tell boys for next week are

Monday-Lewis

Tuesday-Maaran

Wednesday-Max

Thursday-Raphael

Friday-Sathiya

 

Our weekly challenge for an ‘I did it’ sticker is to continue remembering to put our book in the right box each morning

 

Have a lovely weekend

 

Mrs Kennaugh, Mrs Zacahria and Miss Barr