6 years ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2019 by Admin

Read Write inc

So far this term the children have covered the following sounds:

‘m’ – Down Maisie then over the two mountains. Maisie, mountain, mountain. m

‘a’ – around the apple and down the leaf a

‘s’ – slither down the snake s

‘d’ – Round the dinosaur’s back, up his neck and down to his feet d

‘t’ – down the tower and across the tower t

‘i’ – Down the insects body, dot for the head i

For more information about how we teach phonics and how to support your child at home – https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/

Year 1 children have focused on word time activities appropriate to their stage.

6 years ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2019 by Admin

Forest School week 3

6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Sep 2019 by Admin

Spelling Patterns

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 2 this week are:

Year 1: the sound /f/ and /s/ spelt ‘ff’ and ‘ss’ e.g. sniff, miss

Year 2: the sound /n/ spelt ‘kn’ and less often ‘gn’ at the start of words e.g. knock, gnome

6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Sep 2019 by Admin

Class 4 spelling patterns

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3: long ‘ai’ sound, e.g. rain, container, brain, strain

Year 4: adding the prefix ‘im’ before root words starting with ‘m’ or ‘p’ e.g. immature, immortal, impolite, impatient

6 years ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2019 by Admin

Weekly news 20.09.19

School Library Launch

Our new school library has been launched this week and our children have been very excited about spending time in there choosing books from what is now a vast selection! Thank you to everyone who donated books last term and also during the past couple of weeks.

From Monday 30th September, the library will be open on Mondays and Thursdays after school until 4:00 p.m. A group of parent volunteers will be on hand to help children choose and borrow books and we look forward to developing this over the coming months.

Weekly Spellings

We have reviewed the impact of children learning spellings by rote and them being given a list of words to learn each week for their spelling tests. In order to equip children in how to deal with spelling unfamiliar words, we have changed how we are teaching spellings across Classes 3 to 5.

Children will be bringing home a spelling menu / spelling activities list, which they are using in school, and they may want to use some of these ideas at home to practise their weekly spelling pattern. The weekly spelling pattern for each class will be uploaded to the website on Monday mornings and children will be tested on examples of words, that use this pattern, on Friday mornings.

Aldi Get Set stickers

We are collecting Aldi’s Get Set to Eat Fresh stickers so if you shop at Aldi, or you know of friends or family who do, we would be really grateful for any stickers towards our collection. Thank you!

Information from the NHS

To check that your child has received all their vaccines on schedule, go to https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/ and refer to your child’s Red Book. If in any doubt, contact your GP practice.

Letters out this week

NSPCC – all classes

Class 3 and 4 visit to Shrewsbury

School lunch menu

Class 5 parents’ lunch

Pantomime – please can all replies (and monies) be returned by Friday 27th September

I hope you all have a super weekend and enjoy the lovely sunshine!

6 years ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2019 by Admin

Balance Bikes Week 2

6 years ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2019 by Admin

Forest School – week 2

6 years ago
Posted on 18th Sep 2019 by Admin

An exciting visitor!

We had an exciting visitor to Class 4 today – Shrewsbury Town Football Club’s mascot Lenny the Lion!

6 years ago
Posted on 16th Sep 2019 by Admin

What’s in the box?

As part of our topic on Light, we used a feely box where we had to describe a mystery object in the box to illustrate the effect of darkness and how we need light to see objects. The descriptions given to describe each object were fantastic and we heard some excellent scientific vocabulary being used to describe everyday objects including: a glass jug, a cork coaster, a foam ball, a plastic vehicle and even a metal curtain tieback!

We definitely have some super scientists in Class 4 and we even started to talk about the pupils in our eyes and how they increase in size to let more light in. Well done Class 4!

6 years ago
Posted on 16th Sep 2019 by Admin

Class 4 role play

Today in English, we read the part of our class novel, Seal Surfer, where the seal pup is nowhere to be seen. We role played what Grandfather and Tom would have felt looking out to sea and what they might have said to each other.