Spring Term Learning Journey – The Future is Ours
Reception: This week, we have been developing our understanding of the concepts of past and present. We explored the stories ‘Once There Were Giants’, ‘The Growing Story’ and ‘The House That Once Was’, which inspired some fantastic conversations. We have been making great use of our making links tool, talking about what stays the same and what changes as time goes by. Our biggest highlight of the week was playing ‘Guess the Baby’; we had so much fun looking at baby photos of many of our Reception children!
Year 1 have had a great first week back! It has been lovely to hear all about the children’s holiday adventures and they have really enjoyed sharing these with the class. We have started exploring our new book in Literacy – Iggy Peck Architect and have used our imagining tool to think about how Iggy is feeling at different points in the story. The children were great at using the personal pronoun ‘I’ to write in the first person as if they were Iggy. They came up with some fantastic synonyms for the word ‘sad’. Well done!
Year 2 have enjoyed making links in science as we started our new unit on living things: animals including humans. We used our reasoning tool to explain the key differences between mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds and had lots of fun looking at the young of lots of different animals.
Year 3 have enjoyed getting stuck into our new learning journey for this half term. We have used our imagining tool to write wonderful setting descriptions for our new book Escape From Pompeii. We have also used our asking questions and collaboration tools to discuss and dissect the parts of a flowering plant in science.
Year 4 have embraced the idea that to understand the future, we must first understand the past! Using our imagining and asking questions tools, we have gone way back to the earliest days of our planet as part of our new Literacy book, ‘The Ever-Changing Earth’.
Year 5: This week in literacy we used our making links tool to try and work out the features of science fiction as a genre. We thought about books and films we knew and what they had in common. In science, we used our reasoning tool to work out how far away each planet is from Earth.
Year 6 have had a great start to our final term at Dulwich Wood Primary School. We have been using our planning and imagining tools to write our own prequel to our text ‘Paradise Sands’, using figurative language and dialogue to advance action. We also celebrated World Environment Day, creating artwork using salt dough and watercolours to educate others about plastic pollution in the sea.
House Points Total this week!
183
172
170
Coming Up
Class Photos
The photographer will be taking class photos on Tuesday 17th June.
Primary School Sports Day
Sports Day will be held on Wednesday 9th July at the Dulwich College Track. Year 1 – Year 6 events will take place in the morning before lunch and Reception will take place in the afternoon. We will provide more details closer to the time.
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
In Summer 2 all the year groups will be delivering their RSE lesson sequence.
Please read the Relationships and Sex Education Policy so you know what your child will be learning about and how best to support them at home to talk about this learning.
The lessons are inline with national guidance and are all age-appropriate. If, after reading the policy, you have any questions please contact Miss Bristow.
Friends of Dulwich Wood
Fun Run Reminders:
- Venue: Kingswood House Garden
- Times: Check the poster above for your child’s class time
- Wear: PE/Sports Clothes/Fancy Dress
- Bring: Water bottle & hat (it’s going to be a warm day!)
- Bring: An extra 50p for a mega Fruity Friday!
| Return your completed form/s to the School Office by Fri 20th June Put any cash collected in a well-sealed envelope OR return your completed forms & transfer total to the Friends Bank Account by 20th June. A mix of cash and BACS donations also welcome, please state on form. |
| Friends of Dulwich Wood Federation Bank Account Details SORT CODE: 23-05-80 ACCOUNT NUMBER: 27107397 Please add a reference – your child’s initial and surname/class Example – Bobby Brown 1A = BBROWN1A |
| Gift Aid: make your donation worth 25% more. Please note, you must be a taxpayer paying more than the amount we reclaim in order for us to claim Gift Aid from your sponsorship. |
Dates for your diary
Fri 13th Jun
Friends’ Fun Fair
Fri 13th Jun
KS2 Assembly
Tue 17th Jun
Class Photos
Fri 20th Jun
Rec & KS1 Assembly
Fri 27th Jun
KS2 Assembly
Fri 4th Jul
Rec & KS1 Assembly
Fri 11th Jul
KS2 Assembly
Sat 12th Jul
Friends’ Summer Fair
Wed 9th Jul
Primary Sports Day (Y1-Y6 am, Reception pm)
Fri 18th Jul
Last Day of Term – school finishes at 1pm
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