Weekly News 22.03.19

Comic Relief – Grand total

Thank you to everyone who supported our Red Nose Day fundraising efforts last Friday which raised a fabulous £251.63!

Going Going Gone! fundraising auction

Just a reminder that tickets are on sale for our fundraising auction on Friday 5th April from 7:30 to 11:00 pm. Tickets are priced at £10 per adult which includes a complimentary drink on arrival, choice of hot main course (lasagne/chilli/jacket potatoes with various fillings), salads and desserts, as well as live music from Mid-Life Crisis. I personally hope you will be able to join us at what will be a fun evening and help us raise much-needed funds for the classrooms.

Arthog payment

Just a reminder that the second payment for the Arthog vsiit was due on the 1st March. Thank you.

Musical Theatre classes and Easter workshop

Please see further information below about Ready Steady Show musical theatre classes which run at Bicton School every Wednesday after school, as well as details about the Easter workshop running at school during the holidays through the Caroline Lewis dance school.

 

Letters out this week

Easter colouring competition – all classes

Condover meeting for Y3/4 parents – Tuesday 26th at 2:30 pm in the school hall

Class 5 spellings to be tested 29.03.19

Yellow
facial

crucial

special

partial

financial

official

social

artificial

Green
official

beneficial

artificial

partial

confidential

superficial

commercial

financial

social

antisocial

Orange
finance

financial

confident

confidential

benefit

beneficial

social

antisocial

 

Class 5 weekly update

Well done class 5 on a great week!

In Maths we have been focusing on using the grid and column methods to multiply three and four digit numbers by two digit numbers. The children have really worked hard to master both processes and have shown fantastic flexibility with their calculating, presentation and reasoning skills. Next week our focus will switch to division.

In English we have been working on how to describe a scene. The children used evidence from our class novel as well as non-fiction books from the library and their own research to plan out what they were going to include in their description of the front line. We explored how we could use the five senses as a way of describing the trenches and what it would have been like for soldiers during World War One. The children have used an expansive amount of vocabulary to make their work extremely interesting to read as well as creating a flow throughout their writing. Next week we will be re-writing a dream scenario using the events of our class novel as inspiration.

Coach Neil will be in next Monday afternoon so PE kit with trainers would be great.

Have a fantastic weekend,

Mr Sudlow.

Class 6 update

English

The children finished writing their atmospheric descriptions of Mill House from the story ‘Ghost Soldier.’  They then made predictions about how they think the story will end and have begun writing their own final chapters of the story.

Maths

We completed our work on algebra by looking at word problems and problems with various possibilities of answers.

History

The children have begun to research how WW1 ended and how Europe changed following the end of the war.

 

Spellings to be tested Friday 29th March

Out 22.03.19

(to be tested on 29.03.19)

 

Words containing ea

Out 22.03.19

(to be tested on 29.03.19)

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

 

Out 22.03.19

(to be tested on 29.03.19)

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

 

Out 22.03.19

(to be tested on 29.03.19)

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

 

leaf

beak

beans

cheap

clean

dream

 

HFW

said

little

dinner

picture

laugh

guide

different

design

friends

popular

 

 

 

vicious

delicious

special

crucial

substantial

initially

pleasant

significant

current

urgent

vicious

delicious

special

crucial

substantial

initially

pleasant

significant

current

urgent

Class 3 weekly update

English – The children have been working independently to write a story based on the Great fire of London.  They used their plans from last week to write to ensure they included all their ideas.  They wrote some great stories, well done Class 3!

In Read, Write, Inc blue group have been reading ‘So cool!’ and writing about a cool day.  They discussed lots of ideas about their favourite days out including the beach, shopping, jump in and climbing wall.  The red group have been reading ‘Barker’ and writing a newspaper report about Barker the dog, showing how Mr Black’s feelings towards him change in the story.  The rest of the class have been working independently to improve their sentence work by using a range a sentence openers.  They played a game to use as many different types of starters then used this to help them write a short story.

Maths – This week we have been making equal groups by sharing and grouping, then dividing by 2.  The children have been using practical equipment to make groups and share out the objects equally and checking each group has the same amount.  They have also been writing division and multiplication number sentences to explain what their groups/drawings show.

Science – We have been doing some investigation work this week which the children enjoyed getting involved in.  They worked in groups to test how absorbent different types of paper were.  They discussed how they need to ensure they carry out a fair test and what factors they were changing.  Once they tested the different papers they recorded and discussed the results and explained why some were more absorbent than others.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 29th March.  22.03.19.

Sentences to be written in their spellings book please.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas and Miss Moran

Easter Disco Friday 29th March


FOBS have arranged an Easter disco on Friday 29th March from 3:15 to 5:00 pm for Nursery and School. As well as the disco, there will be an Easter egg hunt, egg-decorating and design an Easter bonnet competition.  Children are invited to create an Easter bonnet/hat and bring it to the disco where all the entries will be judged. We can’t wait to see the children’s creations!

Comic Relief cake sale

 

Class 2 Weekly Update 15/03/2019

Class 2 have done English work this week based on the interests they have brought into the classroom. It has synced brilliantly with our Science topic of Animals and Humans; literacy based work on SHARKS! They have experienced visual literacy from media and simple text sources in the first instance. Then they were reading and retrieving, recording ideas for labelling and describing sharks along with facts about them. In addition to this they have been demonstrating excellent reading and sentence building skills in their RWI groups.
In Maths we have been learning about length and height in our measurement unit. We started off making comparisons and describing lengths and heights using new mathematical language. After sorting ourselves into height order we described and compared three objects at a time using words including longer, longest, shorter and shortest. Towards the end of the week we applied our learning to a maths investigation using non-standard units of measurement. We used metre sticks and toilet paper. Their investigation was to see if we could roughly measure and compare the lengths of four of the world’s best known sharks. We compared their lengths and found out how many of the children one above the other made up the lengths of each of them. By the looks on the children’s faces this was mind blowing and they got the gist of how enormous these creatures are in comparison to them.
In history topic work Class 2 have learned about the awful jobs which children were subjected to during the Victorian era. They focused on chimney sweeps and what the child needed to do and why there was a need for such a role. The children then moved onto their own piece of artwork on a chimney sweep after completing an extended piece of writing about this renowned Victorian job. We finished the week making a start on our Victorian clay tiles using various taught techniques. They have started to look fab before they are painted.
The children did wonderfully well on their weekly spellings again this week. A new list has gone in their books. A big congratulations to Cerys too for getting Star of the Week Trophy for some tenacious work done in her Maths and English lessons and for showing good listening skills in class.
I hope you have a lovely weekend together and I will look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Mr Mavin

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