Category: Our Classes

I would like to say a huge thank you for all your kind words, cards and gifts but also for your support since I have been teaching year 1.

I have really enjoyed teaching the class through the summer term and watching them blossom ready for year 2 with Mrs Hayes, where I am sure they shall continue to be enthusiastic learners.

If you find yourself with a spare minute, please try to fit in some reading with your child and ask them to write any adventures they get up to, practising joining letters together.

I wish you all a very relaxing summer and hope the warm weather continues!

Miss Perry

Key dates :

Tuesday 16th July: Children to come to school at 6.30 pm to get changed for the performance which will begin at 7.00 pm.

Wednesday 17th July: Leavers’ Mass 7.00 pm

Thursday 18th July : Leavers’ Assembly 9.00 am

Please could children bring a plastic bag to school on Monday to take their books home in.

Many thanks,

Mrs Butterworth

Reading

Please continue to read as much as possible and when responding ensure you are asking increasingly challenging questions. Many of you are now asking more challenging questions with the help of the question stems provided. This will really support your understanding when responding to the texts you read.

If you are looking for some great books to read, below are two lists that should have something for everyone.

Spelling

You have been given the Y5/6 spelling list. Please ensure you are continuing to practice these words at home –  use the spelling pattern revision posters attached to help you. You could pick one to focus on each day, writing three sentences using words that fit that pattern in your spelling journals. 

Please find the year 5/6 National Curriculum spellings attached. You should continue to revise these over half term.

HWT English

It has been a very busy week for year 1, but I would like to cast back to last weeks class assembly which the children put so much effort into. Mrs Ruffell and I were so impressed with the motivation and confidence year 1 had to showcase just a handful of their recent learning to you and the school. The children really did us proud. Thank you for helping them learn their lines at home. This helped greatly with their confidence and projection.

In science &D&T we are learning the uses of materials to build house for the Three Little Pigs. Last week we usedlego to ensure secure structure and a solid roof to keep the Big Bad Wolf out. This week we have started to use a range of materials to build another house which we shall then test to see whether they are wind and rain proof.

Miss Perry

This week’s home learning is located in the Year 5 home learning drop down menu on the right hand side of this page.

Dear Parents and Carers,

The English homework this week will be reading comprehension on evacuees and a Grammar sheet on word play.

For maths, everyone has been set some work on ‘mymaths’ ( fractions – Mr Creaton and Decimals- Mr Sallis)

Please complete the homework by Wednesday.

Children have been given hard copies of the English homework.

Thank you for your support,

Mr Creaton

This week we were lucky to have Rush from Judaism for Schools to teach us about her faith. On Thursday she led a workshop for year 1 and provided lots of information about The Story of Moses which we have also be learning about during RE.

Year 1 had lots of fun learning about Judaism and sampling some of the food they have during Passover.

Miss Perry

Wednesday evening:

More fun in the sea:

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Thursday Morning 7 am:

“Morning boys”

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Louder- “Wake up boys.”

“Ugh Ugh”

Yes, its getting increasingly difficult to get the boys up in the morning, so soundly are they sleeping after a day’s activities.  Today is surfing then Robin Hill then the Disco –  I’m already toying with the idea of a sharpened stick for tomorrow’ early morning wake-up call.

We went surfing with the same company as last year (I-Surf)  and once again, they totally engaged with the children bringing the best out of them.  The children had a thoroughly enjoyable time.

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After this it was off to Robin Hill where we had lunch, tried the 4 D Cinema and Swinging Galleon Ride. 

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Then came the maze challenge.

For the maze challenge, two groups of boys are pitted against two teams of girls and they race against the clock to complete the maze. Mr Creaton and Mr Sallis coaching the boys while Mrs Hawkes coached the girls. I’m informed that in the last 15 years, the boys’ teams have only beaten the girls once. How can this be?  That question was soon answered when Mrs Hawkes drilled the girls with her pre-maze prep talk with the conviction and ferocity akin to that of an competitive/ambitious mother to her  baton-twirling, 9 year old daughter just before entering a Texan Beauty Pageant.

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The girls beat the the boys again.

But there was a twist….

How about Mr Sallis and Mr Creaton V Mrs Hawkes and Mrs Butterworth? Game on.

Mrs Hawkes and Mrs Butterworth emerged from the maze in self-congratulatory mode only to see that Mr Creaton and Mr Sallis had already finished 1 second earlier.  After it had sunk in, Mrs Hawkes gave a perfuntory ‘Well done’ and then went strangely quiet. However, she was later to recover her voice:

“I wouldn’t say we let you win, but we weren’t really trying”

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“Besides, the girls were still the overall winners”

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“It’s not really fair and doesn’t really count because Mr Sallis had a height advantage”.

Better luck next year Mrs Hawkes!

There was still some time for an ice-cream and a ride on the toboggan run before catching the tractor ‘train’ back to the car park.

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Its time to pack the bags and get ready for tonight’s dico.

As a footnote, all the staff and pupils would like to say a big THANK YOU to Vinnie, our coach driver from Welham Travel, for whom, nothing was too much trouble and who has been proactive in  helping us at every turn.