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Learning Round-up

Another great week in Maple class. We have been working hard learning our new model text in Talk for writing ‘From The encyclopaedia of nasty creatures’ the children enjoyed creating their own list poems, in maths we have completed our short topic on multiplication and division, in PSHE as class we have set ourselves a new goal to be more active, in science this week we have been looking at classifying. Finally we celebrated world book day by dressing up in our favourite characters from our first loved books and enjoyed some time in our houses doing an assortment of activities.

We’ve had so much fun this week! Especially during World Book Day on Thursday. What a joy it has been to see our year 3’s exploring things with their houses and making connections with other year groups. We have continued thinking about our text - The Tin Forest and children are showing a great understanding of the text. Well done Silver Birch.

Year 4 have started looking at Time in maths this week and have really been persevering - well done everyone! We had lots of fun on World Book Day and we all looked fabulous in our costumes. In Science we enjoyed learning about our solar system and acting out the orbits of the Earth and moon.

Another great week in Sequoia class! We have worked really hard in our assessments and seen lots of improvement which has been fabulous to see. We have been enjoying reading this week, answering retrieval questions about our text ‘The Road Not Taken’ and participating with great enthusiasm in World Book Day!

Another fabulous week this week, I have been so impressed with Willow’s focus particularly in their assessments. We have been enjoying writing some diary entries in geography in the form of explorers of Antarctica. We have also been creating our own poetry based on our current text ‘The road not taken.’ This week we have also enjoyed taking part in World Book Day, the children had some wonderful costumes and had fun sharing their favourite stories.

Another great week in Oak class, in Geography I have been highly impressed by the in depth discussions around what climate change is and the impact that it has on our environment. We have also been focusing on formal language in writing which the children showed great engagement with.

We have had a fantastic week. I have been extremely impressed with the determination Acer have shown in Maths and reading, in preparation for the SATs. They have completed their No More Marking stories based on an image and came up with great ideas. Keep up the hard work!

Attendance

Whole School 94%

Silver Birch 97%

Maple 94%

Pine 94%

Elder 94%

Willow 91%

Sequoia 92%

Acer 95%

Oak 98%

Dates for your diary

• Primary Cup -14th march
• SSF Y5 - 14th March 2023
• Science Museum 7th March
• Class photo - 14th March
• ECO day 16th March 2023
• Parent drop-in catch ups 27th & 28th March - 4-5pm
• Primary Music Festival 29th April 2023
• SATS - week commencing 8th May
• Parents Evenings 22nd & 23rd May
• Y3 Hazard Alley 6th June 2023
• Sports Day 3rd July (provisional weather permitting)
• Y6 Residential 10th July
• Annual reports 11th July
• Transition week 11th July

Developing experts visits- personal development

Science Museum 7th March 2023

Hampton Court Palace 15th March 2023

Victoria & Albert Museum 29th March 2023

Healthy Eating Award

We are working towards out Healthy Schools Award. Please take a look at our draft Healthy Food and Physical Activity policies. Please remember to send your child in with water in their water bottle and a healthy packed lunch. Don't forget to consider the fresh cooked balanced meals from Caterlink.

Reminder - snacks at playtime must be healthy e.g. fruit, low sugar/salt bars. This should not be crisps. Water bottles need to contain water and not squash OR fizzy drinks.

Allergy awareness - we are a nut-free school. Please ensure Nutella sandwiches and Celebrations and other sweets containing nuts are not brought into school.

House Points

King 418

Parks 466

Gandhi 538

Pankhurst 475

Totals to date:

Gandhi 7631,

King 7165,

Pankhurst 7146,

Parks 6538

Reading

Your child should have come in with their Accelerated Reader book and reading journal. Please remember to record when your child is reading at home. A target of 3 times a week or more is great.

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