6 years ago
Posted on 07th Oct 2019 by Admin

Class 4 spellings 07.10.19

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

Year 3 – Seals: Homophones (A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and may also differ in spelling.) e.g. hear / here, main / mane, heal / heel, mail / male, not / knot.

Year 4 – Surfers: Homophones (see above) e.g. medal / meddle, mist / missed, bored / board, which / witch, scene / seen

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘air’ phoneme e.g. air, pair, stair, hair, flair, chair.

6 years ago
Posted on 04th Oct 2019 by Admin

Weekly News 04.10.19

Autumn term parent meetings

The online booking system for our autumn term parent meetings, on Wednesday 23rd October, will open on the website next week.

Harvest Services

On Friday 18th October, we will be holding two Harvest services at Bicton Church and we hope you will be able to join us. More information will be sent out next week and, in the meantime, the details are shown below:

9:30 – 10:00 Children in Brooks and Darwin

10:45 – 11:15 Children in Owen and Jebb

Design a Christmas card fundraiser

Children will be bringing home a template today to design a Christmas card. This is part of our annual fundraising activities and, as well as it raising much-needed funds for school, it is a fun and creative activity for the children to do. Please return finished designs to school by Friday 18th October.

Please see further information below.

Letters home this week

12K of Christmas charity challenge – Classes 1 to 5

Design a Christmas card template – whole school

6 years ago
Posted on 01st Oct 2019 by Admin

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We will be holding a DIY and gardening day at school, on Saturday 12th October from 10:00 until 4:00. There are lots of jobs that need doing around the site including painting fences, removing a small tree, replacing worn timbers, etc and we need as many pairs of hands as possible. If you are able to spare a few hours, please sign up at the school office and let us know if there are specific jobs you are willing to do.

Refreshments will be provided during the day.

Thank you in advance for your support.

6 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2019 by Admin

Spelling Patterns

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

Year 1: The sounds /l/ and /k/, /z/ spelt ‘ll’, ‘zz’ and ‘ck’ e.g. well, buzz, flick

Year 2: The sounds /r/ spelt ‘wr’ at the beginning of words e.g. written

6 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2019 by Admin

Class 4 spelling patterns 30.09.19

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

Year 3 – Seals: Words with the /ur/ sound spelt ‘ear’, e.g. earth, early, heard, learn, searched, earning.

Year 4 – Surfers: Adding the prefixes ‘il’ and ‘ir’ before root words starting with ‘l’ or ‘r’ e.g. illegal, illegible, illogical, irregular, irrelevant, irresistible.

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the trigraph ‘ure’ e.g. cure, lure sure, pure, mixture, picture.

6 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2019 by Admin

Miss Polly

This week our Class Nursery rhyme is ‘Miss Polly’. Class 1 have started to learn the rhyme and have been busy looking after the babies in class!

6 years ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2019 by Admin

Weekly News 27.09.19

Pantomime – reminder

We have extended the deadline for returning the reply slips and monies for the pantomime until the end of the school day on Monday 30th. We cannot guarantee being able to obtain extra tickets after this date.

Sickness absence

Just another reminder that parents must contact the school office, if your child is absent from school. If you are unable to get through to the office to speak to someone, please leave a message on the answerphone. Thank you.

FOBS Spooky disco – Halloween costumes on sale

FOBS have several brand-new halloween costumes to sell, in readiness for the spooky disco on Friday 8th November. These are on sale from the school office and are priced at £5 for child costumes and £7.50 for adult costumes.

Class 3 and 4 visit to Shrewsbury

Please can any outstanding permission slips for the visit to Shrewsbury be returned by Tuesday at the latest.

Letters out this week

Reception and Year 6 NHS measurement letters