11 years ago
Posted on 11th Nov 2014 by Admin

A little bit of Nativity news!

This afternoon, some children in Class One have received a line or two to learn for the Christmas Nativity play. Please could you support your child in learning these lines at home. They will also have time to learn their line(s) in school time too.

We are hoping to send out the costume letters for all children at beginning of next week.

Please don’t hesitate to come and ask if there is anything you are unsure of.

Many Thanks

L Conde

11 years ago
Posted on 10th Nov 2014 by Admin

Christmas Play

The children have been given their lines today, to learn for the Christmas play. All the children are excited about this and very eager to learn them.

Please could you support your child with learning these at home, five/ten minutes a night would be great!

Any questions about this, please do not hesitate to come and ask.

Thank you

Miss Edwards

11 years ago
Posted on 09th Nov 2014 by Admin

Weekly news 10th November 2014

Bonfire

Thank you to everyone who attended the bonfire on Friday evening. I’m sure you’ll agree it was a great evening and the children seemed to really enjoy themselves. Thankfully the weather stayed mild and fairly dry! Thank you to FOBs and parents who helped organise the evening and made it such a success.

KS1 Football

Jack will be running Football Club on Tuesdays for the next 2 weeks for Reception, Years 1 and 2 after which we will decide if it is still light enough to continue. KS2 Football Club will also continue on Wednesdays after school whilst we are able to do so.

Parking

Please could we ask that people do not park in the disabled parking spaces or the bus lanes. Thank you in advance for your support with this.

Music Tuition Fees

Please can any outstanding music fees for the first half of the autumn term be paid as soon as possible.

Uniform

Thank you for your support this term in ensuring that children are wearing the correct uniform for school. If girls choose to wear headbands, slides, etc. please could these be appropriate for school, as we have noticed some quite elaborate hairbands being worn in the past week.

Children In Need – Dressing Up and Cake Sale

Just a reminder that next Friday, 14th November, is Children In Need day. This year’s theme is ‘Be A Hero’ and children can come to school on Friday dressed up as any hero of their choice for a small donation of 50p per child. It does not have to be a well-known ‘hero’ and children have already shared lots of ideas for what they would like to dress up as; if you have any queries at all, please do not hesitate to speak to a member of staff. To help boost our fundraising efforts for the charity, we will also be holding a cake sale and any donations of cakes or biscuits would be gratefully received. We still have Pudsey ears for sale at the Office for only £2.50.

Letters home this week:

Swimming gala (Y4/5/6 children who have been told that they are involved)
Y6 height and weight check

Many thanks.

Mrs Natalie Johnson

11 years ago
Posted on 09th Nov 2014 by Admin

Class 5 spellings to be tested 14.11.14

YELLOW

GREEN

PURPLE

RED

ie spelling pattern

quiet

tried

friend

field

thief

thieves

chief

shield

piece

science

handkerchief

believe

fiercely

mischief

shriek

quietness

science

obedient

patient

ancient

belief

believe

achieve

ancient

patient

mischief

friendship

quietly

fiercely

variety

achieve

achievement

mischievous

friendliness

disbelief

scientific

obedience

patiently

hygiene

variety

11 years ago
Posted on 07th Nov 2014 by Admin

Class 4 Spellings – to be tested on Friday 14th November

Group 2

Singular and plural words ending in y

Group 3

Words with ‘f’

Phase 6 phonics group

Silent ‘g’

Group 4 & 5

Words with ‘sure’

army

armies

family

families

fairy

fairies

journey

journeys

donkey

donkeys

Tricky Words:

people

something

first

finger

friend

face

fire

flight

fright

free

Revision of Tricky Words:

called

where

gnome

gnaw

gnat

gnarled

gnash

sign

design

reign

Tricky Words:

people

something

measure

treasure

pleasure

enclosure

closure

reassure

insure

leisure

11 years ago
Posted on 06th Nov 2014 by Admin

Cooking club

Today we made lots of scones, some of us had fruit scones and some of us had plain scones. They were very yummy!

11 years ago
Posted on 06th Nov 2014 by Admin

Our Trip to Chester

Class 4 had a fantastic day today visiting The Dewa Roman Experience in Chester. We found out all about life in Roman Britain and became Roman soldiers in training. We got to dress up, do an archaeological dig and march around Chester like Roman Soldiers! We did lots of other fun activities too…..here are some photos of our day!

11 years ago
Posted on 06th Nov 2014 by Admin

Resources Relating to the New Mathematics National Curriculum

As you are aware the New National Curriculum came into place as of September 2014. This has meant some changes in the key aims of teaching mathematics with an emphasis on children being fluent in mathematics and mathematical reasoning.

I have attached some links below which contain useful information on what this means and how you can support your child with their progress in mathematics. The first website is a link to download ‘A parents’ guide to the New National Curriculum’ (for free) and within the other two websites there is some useful information and examples of activities that can be done at home.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask me. I hope you find these useful.

http://www.risingstars-uk.com/curriculumparentguide/

http://www.nnparenttoolkit.org.uk/

www.familieslearningtogether.co.uk

11 years ago
Posted on 06th Nov 2014 by Admin

Homes/Houses

It was lovely to see all of the children in Class One back after a nice half-term break. This week the children spent time sharing their half-term news. They enjoyed telling each other about what they had done over the holidays and quite a few children had different things to show, such as leaflets of where they had been and souvenirs from places they had visited. Lots of children enjoyed playing with friends and of course, enjoyed Halloween festivities.

Show and Tell progressed on to children writing and drawing about their activities. They were encouraged to use phonic mats and their phonic knowledge to attempt to write familiar and unfamiliar words. Some children were set the task of checking their own work and trying to correct any sounds in their writing. They were also encouraged to think carefully about punctuation and how to set out their work.

Some children enjoyed using the laptop drawing programmes to paint pictures of what they did over half term and also lots of children liked making models of things they had done.

Next week, we will be looking at Homes and Houses on Monday and Tuesday. As we will be looking at different types of houses, it would be great if children could bring in a photo of their house for us to look at together. If you would like to do this (this is optional), then please provide a photo clearly labelled with your child’s name. If you would like the photo back straight away then just make a note of this and we will make a copy and send the original back to you. We will be looking at materials used to build houses too, using the story of The Three Little Pigs as a starting point. We hope to look at houses in the village of Bicton and look at the layout of our houses and what we have have in different rooms.

Letters and Sounds is progressing well and on Tuesday we covered the letter ‘Z’. The Year 1 children were finding out about 2 syllable words.

Thank you,

Mrs L Conde.

11 years ago
Posted on 05th Nov 2014 by Admin

Role playing Romans and Celts

As part of our topic lesson this week we have been learning about The Romans first invasion of Britain. We role played the invasion to help us gain a better understanding of what it might have been like for both The Romans and The Celts. Half the class were Roman soldiers, sailing their ships towards the shores of Britain buy finasteride in canada with Julius Caesar leading the way and the other half were a tribe of Celts living by the shores of Britain. As we acted out what happened and the feelings each side might have felt, three children acted as narrators using a script to tell us the events of the invasion.