10 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2015 by Admin

Welcome back Class One!

Class One have settled back into class well and have worked hard together today.

Our new topic for this term is ‘Poles Apart’. We will learn about the Arctic and Antarctic regions and many features of both of these areas. I have attached our medium term planning document for you to see the types of activities the children will be doing this term.

I have also attached a topic poster to give you an overview of additional activities and learning opportunities that will take place this term.

Today the children enjoyed sharing their Christmas holiday news with each other. They produced written work, models, paintings and drawings to show and tell what they had been up to over the festive break.

Letters and Sounds was a busy session – we focused on the ‘ure’ sound found in words such as sure, pure, cure. Some children explored the split ‘o-e’ sound and how it differs to the ‘oe’ sound. For example, in words such as awoke, alone, explode.

The children spent some time this afternoon looking at informative powerpoints about the Arctic and the Antarctic regions. I have attached the files so that you can look at these with your children. They are a brief introduction to our new topic.

The children worked in pairs to decide upon four topic related things they would like to find out about over the next few weeks. Some of these include arctic animals, such as foxes and hares. They also want to find out about how people live in the polar regions and polar expeditions.

6thJan2015 Introduction to Poles Apart

topic web

topic poster

6thJan2015 Letters and Sounds

arctic powerpoint intro

Antarctica powerpoint intro

10 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2015 by Admin

Welcome back Class 2!

The children have had a brilliant first day back!

We started with a Letters and Sounds lesson to see what we could remember from before the holidays and then focussed on the alternative spelling of the ‘oa’ phoneme. The children came up with lots of words that have the ‘oa’ phoneme present e.g. boat, flow, smoke, dough, etc.

Class 2 then had a Numeracy lesson on doubling numbers. We recognised that we have to add the same number to make it a double and used dominoes to help us count. Some children had beads to help them double greater numbers and worked in pairs to work these out.

Before lunch Mrs Tan came for Ocarina, the children were very impressive with their behaviour and knowledge today and I enjoyed hearing them play the tune they learnt.

After lunch, I introduced our new topic ‘Towns and Country’, we made a mind map of all the ways we could recognise a town and how we could recognise the countryside, the children had some fantastic ideas!

We finally finished the day with PE. The children had fun in the hall with Jack, making up their own games with the equipment provided.

10 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2015 by Admin

Class Spring Letter

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back! I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and New Year and have enjoyed the break. I just wanted to let you know some key bits of information about this term.

PE – Wednesdays and Fridays – Please could children ensure they have both indoor and outdoor kit in school as at this time in the year our lessons are very much weather dependent!

Stottesdon – During this term we will be holding a meeting about Stottesdon to discuss any questions you might have. We will let you know a date for this meeting in due course.

Class 4 Topic

Our main topic for this term is a geography topic called ‘Our Kingdom’. We will be doing a study of the UK looking at both physical and human features. We will spend time looking at different cities and regions of the UK as well as comparing different regions. We will complete art work linked to this relating to maps as well as looking at things people associate with the UK. If you would like to support your child with this topic at home they would benefit from becoming used to using an atlas or a globe to locate countries, continents and lines of latitude, becoming familiar with the four countries that make up the United Kingdom and key physical and human features associated with this – landmarks, mountains, rivers etc. We will also be covering the Water Cycle within this topic.

Other ways in which you can support your child at home are with handwriting practise, spelling practise and the opportunity to read and have a go at writing a variety of texts. Before Christmas, we were focusing on how to extend our sentences by using conjunctions such as because, so, although, despite, however, then, when. Children could practise writing sentences which include these at home. In terms of supporting your child with maths, it is beneficial to keep learning and practising times tables. Practising written addition and subtraction methods will also help them.

If you have any questions please feel free to come and speak to me at the end of a school day.

Thank you for your continued support.

10 years ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2015 by Admin

Class 5 spellings to be tested Friday 9th January 2015

YELLOW

GREEN

PURPLE

RED

are and air graphemes

careful

carelessly

compare

declared

awareness

unfairly

airtight

wheelchair

repaired

despaired

carelessness

unawareness

preparedness

undeclared

ensnared

repairable

millionaire

questionnaire

despairingly

impaired

prepared

declared

carelessly

awareness

compared

nightmare

unfairness

despaired

questionnaire

impaired

carelessness

unawareness

unpreparedness

thoroughfare

ensnared

millionaire

questionnaire

repairable

despairingly

impairment

10 years ago
Posted on 21st Dec 2014 by Admin

Thank you!

On behalf of all the staff, thank you all for your support in the last week of term with all the events taking place. Classes 4 and 5’s Carol Service on Thursday evening was a great success and there were smiles and much laughter all around at the Nativity on Friday morning.

Thank you also for our many cards and gifts and we all hope you have a happy and hopefully restful Christmas!

Mrs Johnson and staff

10 years ago
Posted on 15th Dec 2014 by Admin

Christmas Jumper Day

Thank you for the donations for ‘Christmas Jumper Day’ or ‘Wear Something Festive Day! We raised £135 which will be sent off to Save The Children this week.

10 years ago
Posted on 13th Dec 2014 by Admin

Santa comes to visit Class 4!

10 years ago
Posted on 12th Dec 2014 by Admin

When Santa Visited Class 5…

10 years ago
Posted on 12th Dec 2014 by Admin

Weekly News 12.12.14

Christmas Fair

Thank you for supporting the Christmas Fair yesterday and to the children, staff and parents who have worked hard in the last few weeks making such a fabulous range of gifts to sell. We will let everyone know how much money was raised, on Monday.

Christmas Jumper Day

Who would have thought that there were so many different Christmas jumpers around! Thank you for your donations towards Save The Children today.

School Calendars

The school calendars are on sale at the Office priced at £8:00 each or £7:50 each for 2 or more. If you are unable to get into school to purchase a calendar, please contact Helen or Lisa at the Office who can arrange for a calendar to be sent home with your child. Cheques should be made payable to Bicton C.E. Primary School.

Christmas Parties

Please can children remember to bring their party clothes and any food etc. which you have offered to send in, for their parties on Monday or Tuesday.

Christmas Lunch and change to Wednesday’s menu

Christmas lunch will be served on Thursday so there will be a change to Wednesday’s menu instead of the usual roast dinner. Wednesday 17th will be pizza or southern fried chicken.

School Uniform Supplier

We have a few items of school uniform left in stock as listed below. We will be selling these items at a slightly reduced price before we change to the new supplier in January.

We have the following stock left:-

Sweatshirts: sizes 24, 32, M £8.75

Cardigans 26, 24, 28, 30 £10.50

Shorts 22/24, 26/28, 30/32 £4.25

T Shirts 22/24, 26, 30, 32 £4.95

Letters home this week:

Safeguarding warning – all children