Springvale Primary School

Learning Journal- a parental guide to what is going on!

Issue 1 (Weeks 4 and 5)

Dates Covered: Monday 25th September- Friday 6thOctober 2017

General reminders:

  1. Please ensure that your child’s name and class are labelled on all items, especially coats and shoes!
  2. Please help us to demonstrate progress in reading by recording regular reading support in individual pupil records
  3. Please bring PE kit in on a Monday and take it home on a Friday

Early Years Foundation Stage
Nursery (Foundation 1)
  • Senses week- learning about looking, listening, tasting, touching and smelling
  • Bedtime books and learning letter sounds (m and s this week)
  • PE days on Weds (AM) and Thurs (PM)
/ Reception (Foundation 2)
  • Me and my family- sharing photos
  • Playing listening and phonic games
  • Bedtime books and learning letter sounds
  • Games for home- reading, writing, communication
  • PE days on Tuesday and Thursday (kit needed)

Key Stage 1
Year 1
Topic: All about me & seasons- Autumn
Homework: Daily reading and sound cards
PE Days (Kit required): Thursday and Friday
Maths work: Place value and addition
Literacy work:Autumn stories, songs and poems / Year 2
Topic: Animals (science)
Homework and spellings done weekly
PE Days (Kit required): Monday and Wednesday
Maths work:Counting missing numbers for 1,2,5, 10 within 100 & read numbers as words and numerals
Literacy work:African animals, riddles and simple poems
Shared book:Fantastic Mr Fox
Lower Key Stage 2
Year 3
Topic: Healthy Me (Science)
PE Days (Kit required): Monday and Friday
Maths work:Addition and subtraction
Literacy work:Non-chronological reports about sport
Homework- reading and spellings (months of the year)
Shared book: George’s Marvellous Medicine / Year 4
Topic: States of Matter (Science)
PE Day (Kit required): Wednesday
Maths work:Column addition and subtraction, Roman numerals & rounding
Literacy work:Character/description and fronted adverbials
Shared book: Wolf Brother
Upper Key Stage 2
Year 5
Topic: Tudors- History
PE Days (Kit required): Tuesday and Friday
Maths work: Multiplication tables
Literacy work: Spelling and reading activities
Shared book: The Diary of Tilly Middleton
Spelling test day: Monday / Year 6
Topic: Ancient Egypt (History)
Homework: Weekly- out Friday, in Wednesday
PE Day (Kit required): Friday
Maths work:Negative numbers and arithmetic skills
Literacy work:Mummification instruction and recount
Spelling test day: Tuesday