The Week Ahead ...27 February 2026 (by Abigail Winter (awinter)) |
To all our wonderful Highflyer families
We do hope you all had a ‘belated’ relaxing and refreshing break; as ALL the children seems brilliantly ready to start term 4! Thank you …
As mentioned previously, our topic this term is historically based – ‘How Did We learn To Fly?’; however, please do pop onto our Class web page re: our curriculum letter for a quick glance at our ‘more detailed’ overview ...
As per the main Friday ‘Round-Up’ from the School Office today, this coming week we are, as a whole school, celebrating World Book Day 2026 this Thursday (5th). This year, the children will, as a slight variation enjoy taking part in four themed learning sessions across subjects including Sports, Geography, History, and Science. Each classroom base will be offering engaging, book‑inspired activities designed to help pupils discover the joy of reading; which is, of course, the central focus of World Book Day this year :)
Throughout the day, all pupils will create group‑written sports stories, explore stories and cultures from around the world, make historical artefacts and, finally, have the chance to design imaginative, science‑based inventions.
The activities shall all be completed in a ‘collaborative’ way, with all the children (mixed across year groups) working wonderfully together in their House teams.
If required, please don’t hesitate to find more information on the ‘official’ World Book Day website at www.worldbookday.com.
On a final note, as per previous years, all children are more than welcome to dress up - if they would like to; however, as in the past we always encourage the children to either reuse or exchange costumes whenever possible :)
In terms of our topic session, and English lessons, this week we be also be learning more about the actual flight of the Wright Flyer 1 (in 1903) and writing about what happened - whilst imagining what it must have been like to see it happening ‘live’!
Forest School continues, as usual, on Wednesday morning (from 10.00am) and Outdoor P.E. on Thursday - as per our regular timetable …
Our phonic focus for Week 2 encompasses Irregular plural nouns alongside revising the rule for –s /-es, with Common Exception Words as half, woman, women whilst adding a further contraction of ‘haven’t’ to our growing repertoire …
Maths will include additional learning about money (for a second week) to ensure the children are gaining invaluable ‘extra’ confidence to know/apply the difference between each coin/note re: understanding the value of each. If you happen to have started any 'shops' role-play, we will also be looking at adding and subtracting amounts of money up to 20p and 50p, then extending to £1. A further focus during our mastering number group work will be to our deeper understanding of strategies that enable us to continue to calculate efficiently; with a primary focus on using a ‘making 20’ or ‘bridging through 20’ strategy when adding either one o two 2-digit numbers, e.g. 18 + 15 (using a structure of Now ... Then ... Next ... number stories).
Our Spelling ‘quiz’ in class will take place, once again, on Monday morning – with our weekly maths homework happily ‘collected in’ on any day to suit :)
Our new Class Reader is ‘Anna’s Homework’ – and, fingers crossed, has already made it home; using our daily Story Maps to reinforce all terminology, concepts and context retrieval etc.
With continued thanks for all your ongoing support – as was just SO lovely to see some ‘war glimmers of sunshine peeking through – if only briefly - last week … alongside all the gorgeous mini daffodils already beautifully visible on the main school pathway heading to/from the car park :)
Terrific stuff!
Wishing you all another a great week …
With very best wishes – as always
Mrs Winters and our fabulous ‘HF Team’