A huge welcome back to everyone for the new term, hope you all had a safe and fun summer. We have certainly hit the ground running this half term!

As we always do at this time of the school year, we are doing reading tests for the next couple of weeks, followed by spelling tests. The reading tests are a useful tool, so that we can look at how the children are doing: whether we are teaching them effectively; what areas they need challenging in; what areas they need further support and so on. The children are very familiar with the procedure and many of the children even like doing them! If you have any questions or concerns, please just ask myself (Mrs Hanigan) on a Tuesday or Wednesday.

Our new project will be starting in a few weeks’ time (once all of the reading and spelling tests are completed and marked!), until then please come along to our room and have a look at the information about our brains- see if you can find out something you didn’t know before. There are also some great posters there, looking at the different ways we are all ‘smart’. What ways are you smart? The posters look at ‘self’, ‘nature’, ‘word’, ‘music’, ‘practical’, ‘people’, ‘body’, ‘2D and 3D’ and ‘number’. Are there other ways of being smart that you can think of? Let me know.

We’ll start as we mean to go on, so here are the challenges for this week:

Infant Challenge

How many ways can you make the number 8?

     How about... 4 + 4 = 8, or 10 - 2 = 8, 2 x 4 = 8...can you think of a division (sharing) calculation to make the number 8?                

 

Junior Challenge:

 

Complete:

40,000 + 7,000 + 600 + 7 = ________

6,000 + 50 + 300 + 1 = ________

5,000 + 200 +  _______  = 5,280

30,000 + 900 + 3 +   _______ = 36,905