1. Printing: Your printer might not print the same way our printers do, so make sure to try a couple of test prints. If things aren’t aligning quite right, experiment with the Scale to Fit Paper setting. It’s located in the Print dialog – just click Full Page Slides to get to it. And did you notice we made fold marks for you? They are really light, but if you don’t like them showing on your brochure, click View, Slide Master, and delete them before you print. Customizing the Content: If you need more placeholders for titles, subtitles or body text, just make a copy of what you need and drag it into place. PowerPoint’s Smart Guides will help you align it with everything else. By the way, if you need to move or copy the red lines, you can select them by clicking the dotted outlines. PLACE STAMP HERE How Can I help with my child’s learning at home? There are lots of things that you can do as a parent to assist your child with their learning.Here are some things you might like to do at home: Please keep going through the sounds with your child, playing games such as I spy and odd one out( find two objects that begin with the same sound and one that doesn’t. Can your child pick out the object that starts with a different sound?) These games will help them to hear the initial sounds in words Your child will bring home a log in for Teach your Monster top Read game. – a great way to help them secure their phonic knowledge. St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School Curriculum Newsletter Autumn Term 1I 2015 From smallest to greatest … Sycam ore Mrs. Southworth Sycam ore Mrs. Southworth Useful websites for fun learning activities www.ictgames.comwww.ictgames.com - both literacy and numeracy - covers KS1 too so some activities will be more challenging Try Phoneme Pop and CVC pop. Attendance Please ensure that absences are kept to a minimum this term. Our aim is to achieve at least 97% attendance this year. With your support we can achieve this. Please inform the office of any absences on the first day. Requests for leave during term time will continue to be unauthorised in line with our policy and Government guidelines. If you wish to discuss any issues around attendance do not hesitate in contacting Mrs Gradwell our School Attendance Officer, Mrs Ankers, Mrs Brice or Mrs Southworth. C o nt ac t 01253 852457 admin@st-teresa.blackpool.sch.uk www.stteresasprimary.co.uk St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School St George’s Avenue Thornton – Cleveleys Lancashire FY5 3JW @STTeresaFY5

2. Printing: Your printer might not print the same way our printers do, so make sure to try a couple of test prints. If things aren’t aligning quite right, experiment with the Scale to Fit Paper setting. It’s located in the Print dialog – just click Full Page Slides to get to it. And did you notice we made fold marks for you? They are really light, but if you don’t like them showing on your brochure, click View, Slide Master, and delete them before you print. Customizing the Content: If you need more placeholders for titles, subtitles or body text, just make a copy of what you need and drag it into place. PowerPoint’s Smart Guides will help you align it with everything else. By the way, if you need to move or copy the red lines, you can select them by clicking the dotted outlines. Science This term we will focus on Autumn and why leaves go crispy. We will explore how the seasons change. We will then look at why animals hibernate during the winter months. Religious Education Activities There will be many exciting activities this half term including:- Making bonfire muffins Making 3D fireworks as part of our first parent child session – Fun Friday 6 th November Investigating colour mixing to create autumnal pictures Making leaf pictures Going on and creating trails Making salt dough decorations Preparing our Christmas Nativity A note from Mrs. Southworth…… Welcome back to the new term. This will no doubt be a very busy term culminating in the excitement of Christmas and our Nativity Production. As the weather is now changing please make sure your child has suitable clothing for the outdoors, including a hat, scarf and gloves. English In English we will be looking at writing for different purposes, these will include:- basic sentence work writing captions writing lists simple poems using alliteration labels. English In English we will be looking at writing for different purposes, these will include:- basic sentence work writing captions writing lists simple poems using alliteration labels. Mathematics During our number work we will cover recognising, estimating and counting numbers up to 20 Addition Subtraction using money understanding time in relation to days of the week, times of the day ie morning, afternoon and evening and how to tell the time to o’clock. We will look at patterns and 3D shapes. Mathematics During our number work we will cover recognising, estimating and counting numbers up to 20 Addition Subtraction using money understanding time in relation to days of the week, times of the day ie morning, afternoon and evening and how to tell the time to o’clock. We will look at patterns and 3D shapes. Worship Children will continue to celebrate worship sessions within the classroom, some linked to the Sunday scriptures others linked to various themes in the RE lessons such as God’s Family, Our family and the special celebration of Jesus at Christmas. The children are very much involved within the worship sessions with them setting the worship table out, choosing which artefacts to put on the worship table and, now they know a number of songs, they will be able to choose which song they would like to sing. Curriculum God’s Family and will link into the birth of Jesus at Christmas. Physical Development Mrs Tickle will be teaching Physical Development this half term with a focus on dance and gymnastics. Please ensure your child’s PE kit is labelled and that hair is tied back.