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Learning Round-up

It’s been another busy week in Maple class. In maths this week we have started our geometry topic, In Talk for writing we have been looking at descriptive writing and writing a descriptive paragraph on creatures from our spiderwick book. In science we have been doing some research on insects. Everyone has worked so hard. Well done to all!

As always, Silver Birch have been amazing this week! We've started our Geometry topic and loved hunting for right angles! It's been great seeing all of our characters develop in the class and there has been an overall improvement in our presentation. Well done Silver Birch!

This week Pine and Elder have been working really hard and finished off our Time topic in maths. Try testing us on how well we can tell the time, all practise is good! We also started our Amber writes in Talk for Writing, and enjoyed exploring the mythical creature Nifflers for this piece of writing. In Science we learnt about different stars in our solar system, which we found fascinating!

Sequoia and Willow class has had a great week! The children have worked extremely hard in Maths, furthering their understanding of decimal fractions. In Talk for Writing we have continued to explore instructional writing. We have also imagined we were stranded on a desert island and written letters to put in a bottle and float out to sea. The children were very creative with the dangers that were lurking on their islands. Let’s hope the bottles reach land and we are rescued soon!

In Oak this week we have been continuing with our WWII topic in History learning about the women's land army and child evacuation. There have been some brilliant discussions and input from Oak class showing great engagement with the topic. We have also been continuing our topic of the life cycle of plants understanding vascular and Nonvascular plants, the class created some great comparisons between these in their writing. Great work Oak class!

This week Acer have written letters as children who were evacuated in world war 2, discussing the experiences children had. In Talk for Writing they have written newspaper articles about a crime that took place at The Three Bears house. They have included direct speech from witnesses and thought carefully about their vocabulary choices. Keep up the great work Acer!

Attendance

Whole School 94%

Silver Birch 92%

Maple 93%

Pine 94%

Elder 91%

Willow 96%

Sequoia 94%

Acer 95%

Oak 97%

Dates for your diary

• Primary Cup -14th march
• SSF Y5 - 14th March 2023
• ECO day 16th March 2023
• Parent drop-in catch ups 27th & 28th March - 4-5pm
• Primary Music Festival 29th April 2023
• Class photos 21st 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

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 460

Parks 415

Gandhi 514

Pankhurst 441

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.

My Family Coach -

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