Learning Academy
Partnership (South West)
The Oaks
Weekly Newsletter
Friday 25 April 2014
‘Excellence for All’
Home Learning:
Dear Families,
I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable Easter Time.
This week in Literacy we have been exploring different
Homework : To be in on Thursday
Reading –All children have been given a
new Reading Journal for this term.
Let’s make sure we fill them up and give
the children the best chances at
successful learning!
Spellings – The children have spellings
that have been loosely in their Home
Learning Books.
Maths – We will be having another mega
multiplication test next Friday. Children
who already know their multiplication
and division facts up to 144 will be
working on multiplying and dividing
decimals. E.g. 7 x 0.3
Literacy – I would like all of the
children to research in order to create
an A4 fact file all about William
Shakespeare. The children should think
about the best way to display the
information they have in a quality way.
sentences types and the different effects they can have
on their reader. We have been examining the grammatical
structure of varying sentence types and how to use this
knowledge to craft them successfully. We then applied
this knowledge to rewriting stories, such as ‘The Gruffalo’
and ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ for a more grown up audience.
This week in Maths, we have been applying our number
skills to solving word problems with more than one step.
Children have been challenging themselves to continually
increase the difficulty of their tasks and work at a higher
level than they ever have before.
We have now begun our new Science topic, ‘Science in the
Sea’ and the children have created an interactive display,
inviting the viewer to answer questions and questions
about marine life.
Last week our attendance was 94.8%. Let’s aim for 100%
next week.
Best wishes,
Miss Saunders
Worker of the Week
Ollie Luke – Ollie has been working very hard on his Maths all week and has shown
perseverance and resourcefulness when coming up with different strategies to
solve tricky word problems. He also wrote an excellent persuasive speech about
putting an end to animal cruelty. Well done Ollie.