Weekly News 02.02.18

£10 notes

Please note that we will be unable to accept the old style £10 notes after 28th February.

Health Notice

We have been informed of a case of threadworms in school at the moment.  If you find that your child is also affected, information can be found on the NHS website on how to administer treatment http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Pages/hub.aspx

Cancelled Clubs

Due to the Valentine’s disco next Friday 9th February, there will be no cross country or BRILL club.

Condover Medical Forms

Please can all outstanding medical forms for the residential visit to Condover be returned by Tuesday. Thank you.

Letters out this week

Ms Carr maternity cover – Class 5

Second letter to parents following Ofsted – all classes

Data collection sheets – Class 4

Swimming – Year 4/5

Hope you have a nice weekend.

Class 4 Update

English

We have been working on persuasive writing this week.  The children have been acting as Lucy from our class novel trying to persuade her siblings to enter the wardrobe with her.  We have practised using techniques such as exaggeration, superlatives and rhetorical questions.

Maths

We have continued our fraction work this week looking at comparing fractions using bar models and equivalents.

Geography

The children did some map work this week, locating the 10 most active volcanoes on  a world map.  When they joined them up they could see ‘The Ring of Fire.’

Homework

Homework this week is on Purple Mash (or paper copy if requested).  Linked to our Geography topic on volcanoes, the children are asked to choose a volcano picture and then describe it in as much detail as they can.  The children are enjoying this topic so I look forward to reading their work.

Spellings to be tested Friday 9th February

YELLOW

 

RED BLUE ORANGE PURPLE GREEN
please

increase

stream

mean

east

feast

cheap

leap

because

people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

affable

assortment

attempt

attain

attitude

affix

attract

assume

assistant

assemble

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

write

scissors

wrist

build

thistle

receive

believe

chief

eight

difficult

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day

play

stay

tray

clay

people

said

have

you

according

disagree

shrink

guilty

interfere

aim

ashamed

inspired

comment

similar

 

bow

elbow

blow

below

flow

glow

know

snow

mow

row

Class 3 Homework

Year 2: The Year 2 children have been asked to complete pages 12, 13 and 14 from their Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling workbook.

This is due in on Friday 9th February.

Year 3: As the Year 2  children are being set weekly homework to work towards their assessments, the Year 3 children will also be set extra homework. Due to the type of activities they will be given, I am allowing them longer to complete their homework so the due in date for their homework set today is Wednesday 14th February.

The children have been given a story opener and have been asked to finish it. They need to focus on neat handwriting, spelling, capital letters and punctuation as well as other grammatical features they have learned such as inverted commas, conjunctions and different sentence openers.

y3 writing

Class 2 weekly update

English: Blue and red group have been doing RWI this week with adult support. Green and Yellow group have been reading Little Red Riding Hood and acting out the story. They have completed story maps showing the main parts of the story and put the story into the correct order. On Thursday the children were writing invitations to Beegu asking her to a pretend picnic and today they have written an independent letter as Beegu, to the children in the playground saying thank you for being so kind to her when she was lost.

Maths: The children have been learning how to subtract in a range of different ways this week. They have been practising counting back, using equipment and counting backwards on a number line to support them.

Science: In Science the children were making posters about a chosen material and describing their properties. They were then challenged to write sentences to describe their materials and a partner had to guess which material they were describing.

Handwriting: The children have been focusing a lot on their handwriting in Class 2. We have been learning how to form our letters correctly (starting in the correct place), practising leaders and descenders to lead onto joining our writing later in the term and remembering to check that our capital letters are much bigger than lower case letters and tall letters are tall, etc.

Computing: In Computing the children were learning about the different features of a laptop and had to label a laptop with a partner. They have been learning how to turn a laptop on and off safely.

PE: The children have been enjoying gymnastics on Mondays and placing movements into different sequences. Mr Bebb has been very impressed on Friday afternoons with the children’s enthusiasm in PE.

Spellings: To be tested Friday 9th February 2018.

Spellings 2.2.18

We said goodbye to Miss Roberts yesterday who has been working with the children in Class 2 for the last half term. We wish her well in her next placement and with the rest of her PGCE!

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Edwards

 

Special Places – school walk

This week we talked about our School as a special place.  We drew a map of  all the rooms we knew about and then set off to explore.

The children discovered new rooms and investigated the purposes of different areas.

Some children even managed to sneak into a very important room -Mrs Johnson’s office…

 

Addition

This week we have concentrated on addition. We started the week by looking at one more.  Our theme story was ‘The Enormous Turnip’, so the children started by acting out the story and then working out how many people /animals were helping to pull the turnip the out.  We used fruit and vegetables and the farm animals to make our own addition stories,

Read, Write inc

This week we have revised:  m   a    s   d   t  i  n  p  g  o  c k u  b f e l h sh ck   r j v y 

New sounds:

ou – shout it out 

oy – toy for a boy 

ea – cup of tea  

The children have applied phonic knowledge to read,  make (magnetic letters) and write words containing this weeks sounds and form CVC words.

This week’s words:    red, run, rat, jog, jet, jam, vet, yap, yes, yum, web, win, wish, wet, sock

 

 

 

Class 3 Weekly Update

English: This week the children have continued working on recounts through our Class book ‘Tuesday’. The children have continued to focus on key features of a recount, such as time connectives and conjunctions and have applied these to writing a diary and recounting Mr Burston’s visit to class last week.

Maths: The children have continued their work on money this week. They have been working out how to find the difference between different amounts of money and have been learning about giving change. The children have been using the number line method for this and have been counting up.

Science: The children have had a brilliant time building skeletons this week and then playing a game in the hall to label the bones with both the common and scientific names.

Geography: The children have been learning how to use an atlas this week and have been learning how to find and locate cities of the UK.

RE: The children have continued to learn about prayer and being thankful. They have written thank you cards as part of this.

 

 

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