Some of the children will be working on their life-saving skills in swimming this week and have been asked by their swimming teachers to bring in pyjamas for their lesson.
Thank you!
Fluency Teaser
Thank you to everyone who had a go at our first fluency teaser. Lots of you came up with fantastic ways to give yourself a better chance of winning!
If you didn’t manage to have a go, follow the link below and enjoy!
https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/8016/Strike%20it%20Out%206589.png
Our second ‘Fluency Teaser’ is a wonderful activity called ‘Shape Times Shape’. See how good your working mathematically skills are by following the link and solving the problem.
Send any solutions to Mr Sallis.
Enjoy!
https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/6653/NRICH-poster_ShapeTimesShape.pdf
This week we got a range of solutions from across key stage 2.
Sharing stories for World Book Day
As part of our celebration of World Book Day, children across the school shared stories with their friends in other classes.
Reception and Year 4 paired up to read to each other and enjoy sharing stories together.
Year 1 Reading List
During this week, the children have been inspired by the stories and poems that they have heard in our daily assemblies. I have attached a website which has a list of recommended reads for Year 1 for you to enjoy with your children. These can be found in your local library.
Happy reading!
We’ve been sharing stories!
We’ve been celebrating World Book Day this week with special assemblies where teachers have taken it in turns to share favourite stories or poems with the children in their key stage.
We hope that the stories we share will inspire the children to read on and read the books for themselves or find other stories by those authors.
We will list the books we have share on this page.
Monday
- Mr Hayes (whole school):
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, from Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
- Mrs Hayes (key stage one):
- Mrs Wobble the Waitress by Allan Ahlberg
- All Join In by Quentin Blake
- Mr Hayes (key stage two):
- The Rise of Wolves by Kerr Thomson
Tuesday
- Mrs Teixeira (key stage one)
- Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen
- Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg
- Miss Costello (key stage two)
- Little House in the Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wednesday
- Mrs Ruffell (key stage one)
- The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
- Mr Sallis (key stage two)
- ‘Infinity and Me’ written by Kate Hosford and illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska
Year 1 Home Learning – mix up!
Dear all,
This morning, a parent informed me that some of the words on your children’s spelling list this week are the same as some of the spellings that they have had before. I can only apologise for this! Whilst I was away sick in the middle of last half term, Mr King kindly set the spellings and went from my list. I had not realised this and must have doubled up some of the spellings! However, it would be no harm to reinforce these words and we will continue with the spell check as normal.
Thank you for your understanding.
Mrs Teixeira and Mr King 🙂
Protected: Year 5 Home Learning Spring Week 7 (1st March)
Year 2 worship with Father Francis
The children have enjoyed a wonderful liturgy with Father Francis on the theme of Thanksgiving. As part of the worship, the children all had a role to play and each group planned a different part of the service, including making up their own verses to familiar hymns, writing the prayers and reading from our new class bible.
Father Francis shakes everyone’s hand at the end of the liturgy. 
The children enjoyed preparing the prayer focus.
Father Francis spoke warmly with the children and during his homily, he talked in detail about the importance of the Eucharist as a way of giving thanks in the mass. At the end of the liturgy, the children were congratulated on their singing, which is such an integral part of their everyday prayer life in Year 2. The service ended with Father Francis blessing our food (brioche from France!) and four new bibles which were then delivered to year groups across the school.
Well done to everyone for the very thoughtfully decorated crosses that have come in as part of our class RE home learning. The crosses are all so unique, they look wonderful on the display and reflect the children’s understanding of The Last Supper and the celebration of mass. If your child has not brought in their cross yet, please bring it in by Friday.
I have been asked if there are any books that are recommended for Year 2 children to read. Ideas can be found here: https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-2 and it is also a wonderful idea to visit your local library which is filled with hundreds of age appropriate books for free!
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check Meeting
Thank you for attending the meeting last night about the Phonics Screening Check. I have attached the PowerPoint for you to have another look at. The YouTube videos which are on the slides are particularly useful for listening to how the phonemes should be pronounced and what would be an acceptable answer in the check.
As ever, if you have any questions or would like to know how you could support your child at home with their phonics, then please do just ask.
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check Meeting
Dear all,
This is just a quick reminder that the Phonics Screening Check meeting is tonight, at 6pm, in the Year 1 classroom. I look forward to seeing you there!
Mrs Teixeira