Midweek News 03.04.19

Fundraising Auction

If you haven’t already bought your tickets for Friday evening’s auction, why not pop along to the office and buy a couple for only £10 each. As well as the delicious food on offer and the great entertainment, we have some amazing lots to bid on, including our star lot of a week’s stay in a villa in Turkey!

Celebration Assembly

Just a reminder that it is our Easter Celebration Assembly this Friday starting at 9:25Please can we ask that adults park at the Village Hall once the school car park is full. Thank you.

Garden Day

FOBS have organised another Garden Day this Sunday 7th April from 10:00 until 4:00. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day and we would love to see family and friends from the Nursery or School community.

We would really welcome any donations of plants or even seeds (runner bean seeds, Californian poppy seeds,  or seed potatoes.) Our next project is to build an irrigation system for the poly tunnel.

This Sunday we are making the Sensory Geo Trail, so if you have any rocks, pebbles, fossils, old crocks / broken pottery / old clay pipes or even painted pebbles, to add to our Bicton Rocks collection, we would be very grateful.

Thank you

 

Class 5 spellings to be tested on 05/04/19

Yellow
brilliant

elegant

tolerant

brilliance

elegance

tolerance

vacancy

infancy

Green
extravagant

fragrant

triumphant

abundance

arrogance

radiance

annoyance

buoyancy

hesitancy

vacancy

 

Orange
brilliant

vacant

tolerant

brilliance

balance

tolerance

vacancy

infancy

Class 5 weekly update

Well done class 5 on your fantastic work last week!

In English we were re-writing a dream sequence using creativity to add detail and description to the character’s surroundings, actions and experiences. The children came up with some interesting alternatives to ‘boring’ words that we shared as a whole class to create a word bank for everyone’s benefit. It was brilliant to see the children using such expansive vocabulary and it highlighted the hard work they have put into widening the range of words that they incorporate into their writing.

In Maths we looked at division and the bus stop method. The children’s confidence with this topic really took off during the week and they made great strides in terms of their buy phentermine online in canada efficiency, accuracy and understanding of how to use the method effectively. We looked at how to complete the process step-by-step as a whole class to begin with, before applying it independently. The next step was progressing onto problems that included a remainder in the answer. The children used their methodology to provide some brilliant reasoning where they analysed where a calculation was incorrect, what the mistake was and how to fix it so that the calculation was right.

This week we are looking at writing a series of diary entries that details how a character has escaped from a prison, as well as starting our new unit of work in Maths which is fractions.

Class 2 Weekly Update 29/03/2019

I would like to start by saying how lovely it was to witness the parent child dinners this week. Thank you so much for coming in to enjoy the Bicton Michelin-starred cuisine and spending some time in your child’s daytime setting.
In class the children have been working on their speaking and listening through whole class sharing time. They have used the 5 W’s very thoughtfully and have tried to find out more instead of just making a statement to their classmates. In Read Write Inc English the children are ready to move onto different book stages as they have just finished non-fiction texts on animals that can swim, parties and snow. They have made sure that when recording their ideas they have used conjunctions and adjectives.
In Maths we have been learning about mass and weight and have done lots of practical lessons using scales in order to predict and compare if items are heavier, lighter or the same mass. We measured in non-standard units of measurement which the children embraced and used lots of mathematical vocabulary and reasoning along the way. We finished the week by comparing masses and responding to questions like, ‘What can you say that is true about the apple and the weights?’
In Science the children have continued with their everyday materials topic by sorting materials by what they believe their properties to be. They have also been learning about transparent and translucent materials.
In History they have had a wonderful time comparing Victorian toys to their own today. They have also been practising their Victorian song which you will hear in the not so distant future.
In PE they have shown off their sports skills involving control, balance and speed with Embrace. They have had various apparatus circuits to master which all looked very exciting.
Well done to everybody for learning their spellings. The new list has gone into the children’s books for next Friday. A huge well done to Elodie too for getting Star of the Week trophy. Elodie has done amazingly well in every lesson and her attitude to learning has been outstanding.
I hope that you have a lovely weekend together and I look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Mr Mavin

Weekly News 29.03.19

Romany Wood Choir Performance

I would like to say a huge well done to all of the children who performed at Theatre Severn on Monday evening, as part of the Romany Wood production. It was a wonderful evening and the chidlren should all feel immensely proud of their performance.

Thank you to Miss France for the time and effort she put in to prepare the children so well.

Click below to see the Shropshire Star’s review of the performance.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/theatre-and-comedy/2019/03/26/review-romany-wood-theatre-severn-shrewsbury/

Shropshire Council Public Transport Consultation

We have been asked by Shropshire Council to share the information below with parents.

The Council’s financial strategy for 2019/20 includes a budget reduction of £405,000 in public transport and £50,000 for Shrewsbury Park & Ride.

To achieve these reductions a number of initiatives will have to be implemented and the attached consultation asks for views about these proposed changes.

We very much look forward to hearing from parents regarding this consultation & would encourage responses to be sent to the following E-mail address by 6 May 2019: passtrans@shropshire.gov.uk

Please click below to see the proposed changes.

Public Transport consultation letter – Final 250319

Letters out this week

Condover information sheet – Class 4

Swimming letter – Class 4

Class 6 update

English

Following our special visit from Mrs Johnson’s dog Cocoa, we have been researching therapy dogs and how they are used, ready to write information texts about them next week.

Maths

We have done some work revising units of measure and converting between units this week.  We have also revised positions of shapes on co-ordinate grids and translating simple shapes.

History

The children completed their work on researching the end of World War 1.

spellings to be tested on Friday 5th April

Out 29.03.19

(to be tested on 05.04.19)

 

Words containing oy

Out 29.03.19

(to be tested on 05.04.19)

Common spelling patterns which you have learnt during KS2 and which may be tested in the SATs in May.

 

Out 29.03.19

(to be tested on 05.04.19)

Common spelling patterns which you have learnt during KS2 and which may be tested in the SATs in May.

 

Out 29.03.19

(to be tested on 05.04.19)

Common spelling patterns which you have learnt during KS2 and which may be tested in the SATs in May.

 

Y6 BLUE Y6 YELLOW Y6 GREEN Y6 RED

 

boy

enjoy

toy

annoy

employ

loyal

 

HFW

are

there

 

dropped

length

surprising

decreased

belief

various

peculiar

potential

 

 

 

sufficient

environment

tournament

accidentally

appearance

nuisance

experienced

audience

convenience

efficiency

sufficient

environment

tournament

accidentally

appearance

nuisance

experienced

audience

convenience

efficiency

Class 3 weekly update

English – In English the children have been identifying features of instructions by looking at the layout (e.g. subheadings, numbered lists), imperative verbs and time conjunctions. They then wrote their own set of instructions, remembering to include all the features they looked at.

In Read, write, inc the green group have been reading a non-fiction book about ‘Hens’ and using the information in the book to write about how to look after hens and what they do.  The yellow group have been reading a non-fiction book called ‘Jim’s house in 1874’ and using the information to write about houses in the past compared to houses today.  Red and blue group have been working independently looking at and using apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spellings (contractions).  They have changed two words into one using the apostrophe (e.g. can not = can’t).  They have also been using these words in their own sentences.

Maths – This week we have finding odd and even numbers and dividing numbers by 5 and 10 using the 5 and 10 times table to find the answer more efficiently.  For example 5 x 10 = 50 / 50 ÷ 10 = 5.

Science – The children have been investigating how strong different types of paper are.  They tested a range of papers to find out how much weight they took until they broke.  They all worked well in groups to carry out the investigation and shared lots of good ideas to include in their conclusion, including looking at which papers were thick/ thin and strong/weak.

Spellings- To be tested on Friday 5th April.   29.03.19

Please can children write at least 3 sentences in their spellings books using the spelling focus words.

The children have also been practising for the celebration assembly next week and they all sound fantastic!  Thank you for all your help with learning the song at home.  A letter went home yesterday about what costume they will need.  Thursday 28th March 2019

We welcome Miss Francis into class 3 this week, who will be with us until the end of the summer term.  Miss Francis is a PGCE student and will be working with the children  and teaching lessons during her time here.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas and Miss Moran

Class 1 round up

Read Write inc, Phonics

The children have looked at ‘ea’ – a cup of tea, ‘oi’ – spoil the boy and ‘a-e’ – make a cake.   We discussed what a spilt digraph is – special friends that need to split up but still hold hands behind their backs.

ea      oi      a-e

Literacy

Our story this week and for the next few weeks is Jack and the Beanstalk.  The children have focussed on how the story develops and how the characters are feeling.

The children have planted their own ‘magic’ beans and have discussed what a ‘bean’ needs to be able to grew healthily.  We have set up an experiment to see what happens if a bean has sun but no water, no sun and water, sun and water.  The children have made predictions about what they think will happen.

Maths

This week we have concentrated on measures, comparing height and length.  A beanstalk appeared in  the classroom and the children needed to work out how to measure it.  They came up with lots of different ideas – ‘measure it with cubes, then count how many’, pencils, feet, hands etc.  They discovered that Jack’s footprints are smaller than the Giant’s feet, so he had a higher number.

We have been very busy practising our class celebration song and the children are all looking forward to performing it next Friday morning.

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