Phonics

Over the next few weeks the children in Class 1 will be consolidating the letter sounds we have covered so far.

We will be continuing to practise letter formations, reading words containing the sounds – segmenting and blending.  Some children have put the words into sentences and had a go at writing out simple sentences with these words in.  This week we have concentrated on m a s d  t  and the words mad, sad, dad, mat, sat, at, Sam.

The children will be revising the words contained in the Powerpoint below.

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Tag Rugby

Well done to the Year 6s who took part in the tag rugby tournament earlier this week.  They finished 3rd out of the 7 schools taking part and there was some pretty nifty footwork on show by all accounts!

Maths – measure

The children in Class 1 have been busy using cubes to measure objects.  They have been using the language of taller and shorter to compare heights and longer and shorter to compare lengths.

 

Indoor ‘Cross Country!’

Even though we couldn’t go off site on Friday for cross country club, the children really enjoyed the indoor circuit training instead.

 

Class 3 Homework – due in Friday 18th November

Class 3 have been set some homework on Purple mash this week. Their task is to write a book review of the story ‘The Twits’ which we have been reading together in class.

I have given out paper copies to children who needed it and have attached a copy below.

t-l-753-book-review-worksheet

Mexican Day!

Dear Parents,

As part of our geography topic on comparing people and places, Class 4 have been learning about Mexico. We would like to have a Mexican Fiesta and Feast Day in school on Wednesday 30th November.  We would really appreciate it if the children could dress up for that day in some Mexican themed clothes.  For example :  ponchos, sombreros and/or lots of brightly coloured clothes.

We are looking forward to seeing what the children wear and to having lots of fun that day.  If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Many thanks for your support,

Samantha Foster

 

Weekly News 11.11.16

Thank You

We just wanted to say a big thank you for all of your donations towards our charity fundraising efforts over the past couple of weeks.  Our Foundation governor, Mrs Wendy Horan, will be collecting the shoe boxes at the beginning of next week and she has asked us to pass on her thanks for the super response to this year’s Operation Christmas Child appeal.

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Thank you also for all the purchases of poppies and the British Legion merchandise.  This is an amazing response and we will let you know how much was raised once the local representative has been to collect the money.

Children in Need – Friday 18th November

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This year’s theme is spots so it would be wonderful if children could find something spotty to wear to school next Friday! Don’t worry if you don’t have something spotty to wear just come in something colourful.  As in previous charity dressing-up days, we would like children to pay a 50p donation for wearing non-uniform and all monies raised will be sent to Children In Need.

We are not doing a cake sale this year, as we recognise that parents have already donated considerably this term through the shoe boxes, baking cakes for the disco or for purchasing fundraising products and we are extremely grateful for this.  However, we do have some official Pudsey key rings and Pudsey ears for sale at the Office.

We can’t wait to see lots of spotty outfits next Friday!

Letters home this week

FOBs Film Night – whole school

Reminder

All flu letters must be returned by the end of next week, regardless of whether you want your child to have the immunisation or not.

Have a nice weekend.

Mrs Johnson

 

Class 3 Weekly Update

Class 3 have been working hard this week:

English:  We are currently reading the story ‘The Twits’ and are linking lots of grammar and punctuation work to this. This week the children have been learning how to use inverted commas correctly and have been practising this within their work. They have also learned about when to use ‘an’ in a sentence.

Maths: Children have been adding and subtracting in the context of money. We revised our mental subtraction skills and learned how to count on using a number line to subtract.

Science: We carried out an investigation to test the strength of magnets this week. We learned how to record our results accurately and then presented them in a bar chart.

Geography: We continued to learn about counties this week, especially Shropshire. We were finding out about rivers in Shropshire, landmarks, towns and villages as well as famous people who have lived here.

Computing: The children are using an app called videolicious where they are creating a film about the things they love about Bicton School.

PE: The children have continued to practise key skills as well as developing their understanding of the game of hockey.

RE: We have begun to think about what we already know about the Christmas story and the names and importance of key people.

Homework: Your child has been set homework this week, please see post above for details.

Class 3 Spellings – to be tested on Friday 18th November

Orange

End blends

‘nt’

Green

Revision of words with

‘ue’

Blue

Creating adverbs to words ending in ‘al’ by adding ‘ly’

Purple

Creating adverbs to words ending in ‘al’ by adding ‘ly’

went

sent

mint

ant

plant

chant

 

Tricky Words:

can’t

over

 

due

blue

glue

argue

rescue

value

Months of the Year:

March

April

 

actual

actually

total

totally

final

finally

accidental

accidentally

 

actual

actually

normal

normally

original

originally

accidental

accidentally

Red

Words with ‘ough’ spelling making the ‘aw’ sound and adverbs

Yellow

Revision of words with ‘ai’

   
thought

brought

fought

bought

eventually

normally

finally

actually

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wait

detail

again

afraid

complain

explain

Months of the Year:

March

April

 

   

Spellings to be tested Friday 18th November

YELLOW   GREEN BLUE RED ORANGE
EquallyLocally

Bubbly

Lonely

Purely

Carefully

Formally

Normally

Simply

Completely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ConsentContinent

Condition

Conclusion

Connection

Consultation

Constabulary

Construct

Considerable

Consequence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WealthySteady

Ready

Weather

Feather

Health

Tread

Bread

Read

Head

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ElectricityElectrician

Mechanical

Mechanism

Meteorite

Meteorology

Meteoric

Prisoner

Imprisoned

Imprisonment

 

 

BorrowParrot

Common

Dinner

Sorrow

Narrow

Glimmer

Bitter

Pepper

Ferry

 

 

 

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