Interesting facts about Bank Station

Bank and Monument are actually interlinked underground stations named after the nearby London landmarks of the Bank of England and the Monument to the Great Fire of London. It not only appears on the central line but serves the Northern, Waterloo & City lines as well as the DLR.

You might get easily lost at this station with no less than 12 exits, that’s more than any other London station! Another reason to get lost at Bank is the station’s DLR concourse which is a whopping 41.4 meters underground, the city’s deepest station below street level!

Class teacher and LSA

Hello, I’m Miss C Gooding. I am so pleased to be teaching Bank this year! I cannot wait for us to embark on all of our learning we will complete this year. We have lots of exciting themes to make our learning as exciting and enjoyable as possible.

I particularly like teaching Science as I love investigating and finding out information from observations, I am hoping we will be carrying out lots of experiments this year.

In my spare time I thoroughly enjoy baking lots of different treats, especially American bakery goods, but I also enjoy doing exercise, going on lots of walks and looking after my guinea pig Boris.

I am also really looking forward to us all getting to work with Miss Humphries. Most of the children have already been lucky enough to have her supporting their learning and know how amazing she is!

Miss Humphries - Hello! I'm Miss Humphries and I will be supporting Miss C Gooding in Year 3 this year.

I really enjoy supporting the children with their learning and watching them grow and succeed and hope I can do just that this year.

Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my son. We particularly like sharing stories together, playing Lego and having fun on days out, one of our favourite places to go is the Zoo!

Useful information:

• Please make sure you have your water bottle, reading diary and reading book in school with you every day.
• Water bottles need to be cleaned every day and bought back into school.
• PE takes place on a Wednesday with an aditional shorter session on Friday afternoons. Please remember to bring your PE kits on these days and take them home at the end of the week to be washed.
• PPA sessions are on a Wednesday and these will involve ICT, French and PE.

Maths

In the Summer term, we will be continuing to work on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, money, statistics and length through arithmetic sessions to help with skill retention, however our Power Maths focus will be on fractions, leading to a unit on time just before we break up for the half term. Snappy Maths lessons will involve a lot of practical representations of numbers, fractions and  related problems to get the children fully involved in their learning.

English

We will be using various themes and texts linked to rainforests to inspire our English work throughout the summer term, which will link to our connected curriculum topic. Our main focus will now be on applying all the skills we have been practising in the Autumn  and spring terms to more sustained writing, creating a more writerly tone to our work. We will look at The Great Kapok Tree as well as The Abominables as our class books.

For our Teach Reading sessions we are going to focus on fluency and reading with not only comprehension but intonation and expression. We will practice retrieval, vocabulary, inference, prediction and explanation type questions to ensure children not only word read but interpret the storyline behind the words.

Science

This term we will be working on our scientific skills, observing, taking samples, recording findings and interpreting findings through the topic of plants. We will learn the requirements for growth and the parts of the plants that help with water transportation as well as seed generation and dispersal.

Connected Curriculum 

Our focus this term is Geography, in particular rainforests in the first half of the term, leading to volcanoes in the second part of the term. This will allow us to develop our understanding of the world and the different ecosystems relating to where they are in the world, the equator and which hemisphere they are located in.

It is really important to practice your spellings and times tables at home as well as during learning time in school, Ed Shed is a great place to be able to practice your spelling through activities whilst at home. This year we will be focusing on the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. Try not only learning these in order but backwards and in a random order to thoroughly test your knowledge! Flash cards are a good way to develop instant recall facts, as well as counting in 3s,4s and 8s forwards and backwards. The faster we are at recalling these facts they better we are at using them to solve related maths questions and arithmetic questions. 

Contact email:

templarsbank@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Reading

Reading with your child as well as letting your child read independently is very important. This allows questioning of the text and comprehension skills to be developed. We encourage reading and quizzing of the children's books in class, with in class rewards when the children reach certain milestones for the amount of times they have read at home. The children also get their names entered into the school raffle every three times they read at home (this has to be recorded in their reading diaries). The amount of words the children read is also recorded when they quiz and this counts towards the whole class word count for the week. If in lower key stage two our class scores the highest we receive the trophy for the week! Quizzing can be completed on MyOn or on Renaissance, your child should have their login for this in their reading diaries.

To take a quiz enter student login details and then select accelerated reader, enter the book title and take the quiz!

Spellings

Although spellings will not be tested every week via a formal end of week test, they will be taught on a daily basis and formatively assessed through their work. Please still take time to learn spellings with your child to reinforce the learning taking place in school.