7 years ago
Posted on 30th Nov 2018 by Admin

Class 2 Spellings 30/11/18

Spellings-30.11.18

7 years ago
Posted on 30th Nov 2018 by Admin

Class 2 Weekly Update 30/11/18

Class 2 have been practising for their Christmas performance in church this week and have been gearing up for the festive season together. There has been lots of talk about Santa (for November), so we have tried to take their minds off the big day with some almost equally exciting work!

The children are starting to practise reading real and nonsense words using sounds they have had a weekly focus on. This week we identified that the children needed to learn more about and practise using their split digraphs. They have played phonics games, have done pre-cursive handwriting and have written words and sentences using them.

In RWI they have moved on to their new stories ‘Cluck’ and ‘Tim and Tom.’ Their reading has been delightful and they are taking real pleasure in spotting ‘special friends’ within their words. Special friends for the children are 2 or 3 letters together which make 1 sound in words.

In handwriting, the children have really tried their best to make their lower case letters the same height and size as each other. They have then demonstrated that they can apply this within their written pieces across the curriculum in their exercise books.

In maths the children have been assessed on what they have consolidated in addition within 20 and have had practical tasks to show their abilities of subtracting using a given models and using resources. We have tried to explain how we have come to get an answer and to double check that we have counted objects or diagrams accurately.

Mr Mavin’s favourite story of the week has been Roald Dahl’s ‘The Magic Finger’ which has made us giggle. We are moving onto ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’ next week for some creative letter writing in role as a character. After all, it will be December!

In geography, we have made a start at comparing our own location of Shrewsbury to that of a Polar region. We have a focus on various geographical features such as hills, buildings and bodies of water to consider and contrast.

Thank you again for practising spellings at home with your children. Please ask your children to show you where the special friends are in the word making the sound in which the spelling list focuses on. For example the special friends in the word fear would be ‘ear.’ There is space beside the weekly spelling list in order for it to be used by the child to look, write and then check their spellings. Thank you for continuing to support your children with this.

We have the pantomime next Thursday which we are all looking forward to. Oh no we’re not! Oh yes we are!

Have a lovely weekend together and see you next week.

Mr Mavin

7 years ago
Posted on 30th Nov 2018 by Admin

Turbo Turtle Drops in at Bicton!

We had an unexpected visitor this morning during our annual governors’ visit day. After Mr Street had talked to us about different forms of renewable energy, Laura appeared with the Coop’s new mascot – Turbo Turtle!

7 years ago
Posted on 30th Nov 2018 by Admin

Weekly News 30.11.18

Pantomime

We are all very excited about our visit to Theatre Severn next Thursday morning to watch Mother Goose. Just a reminder that children will need to bring a packed lunch for eating when we return to school.

No Smoking – Polite request

As you are aware, smoking is not permitted on the school car park or anywhere on the school site. We also ask that adults do not smoke on the grass verge/pavement adjoining the pedestrian gate on Bicton Lane, as this affects children walking to school. We thank you in advance for your cooperation with this.

Class 5 Parents Lunch

We are looking forward to Class 5 parents and grandparents joining us for lunch next week.

School Lunches

The school kitchen have asked again if lunches can be paid for on Monday please rather than at the end of the week. Thank you

Letters out this week

Condover residential visit – Year 3/4

Choir singing at the Coop

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Johnson

7 years ago
Posted on 30th Nov 2018 by Admin

Class 3 weekly update

English – At the start of the week the children edited and improved their recounts about their trip to Chester zoo. They all worked really hard to improve their writing by using a range of conjunctions to extend their ideas and using different punctuation. They then planned another recount based on their own experiences and will be writing these up next week. In Read, Write, Inc red group have been reading the book ‘Do we have to keep it?’ and blue group have been reading ‘The dressing up box’. The rest of the class have been focusing on adding extra information to their sentences using the subordinating conjunctions when, if, that, because.

Maths – This week we have been subtracting a 2-digit number from a 2-digit number, first of all not crossing the tens, then crossing the tens by subtracting ones and tens. The children have been using equipment such as Base 10 and number lines to help with their working out and they have solved problems linked to this work.

Science – We looked at and discussed the life cycle of a frog. The children were shown a short video to explain how a frog grows from frogspawn, to a tadpole, to a froglet and finally a frog.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 7th December

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The children have also been trying really hard with their nativity rehearsals this week in church. We thank you for all your help and support with your children learning all their lines.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas & Miss Moran

7 years ago
Posted on 29th Nov 2018 by Admin

Year 5 & 6 spellings to be tested 07.12.18

30.11.18

7 years ago
Posted on 29th Nov 2018 by Admin

Maths

We started the week looking at Numberblocks – ‘The whole of me’ https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lpx3l

We looked at the whole and parts of a number (early addition and subtraction).The children were encouraged to say ‘If the whole is 3 then 1 is a part and 2 is a part’ etc, as they demonstrated partitioning each number.

Composition of numbers – We looked at how numbers 1 – 5 can split and then recombine – numbers can break and be put back together again.

Conservation of number – a number can be partitioned (split ) in different ways but the whole is always the same.

The children had to help Counting Caterpillar to make sure he counted correctly and put numbers in the correct place – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

7 years ago
Posted on 29th Nov 2018 by Admin

Read Write inc phonics

This week the children have continued with word time activities linked to all the sounds we have covered so far. Word-Time-Book-5

The new sounds this week were ‘w’ and ‘z’.

For ‘w’ we say – ‘Down, up, down, up the worm’

For ‘z’ we say – ‘Zig-zag-zig, down the zip.’

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Here is a link to the words the children have been segmenting and blending – green words 1 and using to write simple sentences.

7 years ago
Posted on 29th Nov 2018 by Admin

PE – throwing

7 years ago
Posted on 24th Nov 2018 by Admin

FOBS Planet Superheroes competition – Winners and runners up

Well done to everyone who entered the FOBS Planet Superheroes writing competition and congratulations to all the winners and runners up. We are very grateful to Hayley from Shrewsbury Library who judged the entries and visited school to announce the winners and runners up. Thank you also to Karen and Barbie for putting together the competition and coming along to our special assembly to present the prizes.

Hayley has now created a wonderful display of all the entries in the junior section of Shrewsbury Library, which we hope you will pop along to have a look at.