Dear Parents,
What a wonderful week we’ve had! I want to begin by thanking everyone who came to support us at the TGMC Kindness Market on Friday. Seeing so many of you there, engaging with the children and their work, truly meant so much. It was such a joyful and meaningful afternoon, and I felt incredibly proud of our students. Watching them explain the backpacks and share the strategies they’ve been learning reminded me just how much effort, care, and dedication goes into supporting one another’s well-being. Moments like these make all the hard work feel so worthwhile, and I left the event feeling inspired by their kindness and effort.
We have just three weeks left now until the end of term 1. I cannot believe how quickly time is flying by.
Maths
This week, Year 1 and Year 2 completed their end-of-unit assessments, and I’m delighted to share that everyone did exceptionally well, with many achieving full marks! The children took the results home to share with you 🙂
- Year 2 Objectives
- Aut.2.17 –Review Add or subtract 1 or 2
- Aut.2.19 – Mixed addition and subtraction
- Aut.2.20 – Compare number sentences
- Aut.2.21 – Missing number problems
- Year 1 Objectives
- Aut.2.14 – Subtraction: take away/cross out (How many left?)
- Aut.2.15 – Subtraction: take away (How many left?)
- Aut.2.16 – Subtraction on a number line
Literacy
We are focusing on planning our non-fiction reports about owls. The children are learning about titles, subheadings, and key features of reports. To practise these skills, they wrote a report about a cat and will work on drafting their final writing piece before the assessment in Week 14.
IPC
In IPC, we have been learning about animal gods and creating fact files. The children produced beautiful displays and researched fascinating facts. We explored:
- Falcon, Jaguar, and Cat heads from Ancient Egyptian stories
- Thunderbird from Native American traditions
- Jaguar and Feathered Serpent from Aztec culture
This is quite a challenging topic, but the children approached it with curiosity, asking thoughtful questions and engaging enthusiastically throughout.
Christmas Show
The Christmas show will take place on Wednesday, December 10th. I will be introducing the children to their Christmas performance song this week. I am sure they will be as cute as ever. I will be in touch again to let you know what to wear on the day and will send home the link to the song and a copy of the lyrics.
Have a great week ahead,
Mrs Sim
Sofija looking very Proud! 🙂
