Term 1, week 3

Good evening and welcome to week 3!

2 weeks already down! Crazy to think that! Everyone survived swimming I am fairly sure and now we can get cracking into the real stuff.

Character strength of the week:
Creativity is thinking of new ways to do things. It involves producing ideas or behaviors that are original. However, originality is not enough: whatever is created, whether an idea or a product, must also be useful or adaptable. 
For example, you might write a blog post that is unique because it is entirely gibberish. That’s not going to be useful, so it would not be considered creative.
There are two essential components to Creativity- originality and adaptiveness. 

A creative individual generates ideas or behaviors that are novel or unusual and these make a positive contribution to the individual's life or the lives of others group.

Pope Francis says: "Grow in creativity, do not be afraid".

Homework:
We will begin homework this week and we will show the students how to set this up...the focus for the whole school is on reading and times tables.
On your child's One Note section called Homework, you will see a Reading Log that looks the same as the image above.

Your child is asked to record their reading in this log each week (they can type directly into it) and we are asking you to make a comment about their reading for the week.

For example, they showed great expression, excellent sounding out or better pace and fluency. You might simply write that you loved hearing them read!\

They will also have an individualised times tables focus - they are to choose a set of tables each week that they find most challenging. This will be set up in their homework books and will need to be marked at the end of the week ready to be brought in on Friday morning. Reading logs will also be checked on Friday mornings as well.
They are not to pick their 2, 5 or 10 times tables as they should be proficient in these already and being looking to improve on the more tricky ones and to  challenge themselves. They will need to change their tables each week.

This will be explained to the students tomorrow in detail so they understand what they need to do. 

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