Falconer's Hill Academy Our children, their future, our responsibility

Learning Round-up

Another great week in Maple. We particularly enjoyed making up animals for our information text in Talk for Writing! What a fun activity to get everybody excited about information text. It has been brilliant to see all of Maple enjoying learning about our environment on eco day on Thursday. Keep up the good work!

Silver Birch - What a great week! Eco day on Thursday was a huge success! It was amazing to see our children so engaged in learning about our environment and ways to help save it! We worked on our researching skills and explored how our plastic is polluting the ocean.

Sequoia - What an exciting week! We have had lots of exciting activities this week. Some members of our class performed a Shakespeare play on Tuesday evening, we had interesting discussions during Eco Day on Thursday and we celebrated Red Nose Day on Friday! Amongst all of this we have continued rehearsing our songs for the Magic Flute. In maths we have been solving problems involving time very successfully and have been completing our Amber writes: an instructional guide for ‘How to Thrive at Falconer’s Hill Academy’.

Another great week for Willow this week. The children have been working hard on their new maths topic ‘time’ and looking at using both analogue and digital clocks. They have also been working on their own independent writing tasks in Talk 4 Writing, they have been using their amazing writing skills to create their own survival guide. Another special mention to the hard work of the Year 5 student weeknts who have taken part in their Shakespeare performance this week, you have been amazing. We have also worked hard on our Eco day, where the children have created some amazing pieces of work.

It has been a brilliant week in Oak. The children have worked extremely hard in their assessments and should be very proud of themselves. In Geography we have been continuing to explore the topic of climate change, comparing the different efforts countries have been putting in to reduce their emission. The class has written some great comparisons around this . Keep up the good work Oak class!

Acer have worked incredibly hard on their assessments this week. Their hard work over the year is evident and I look forward to sharing the results with everyone. Keep up the fantastic work Acer!

Attendance

Whole School 94%

Silver Birch 93%

Maple 94%

Pine 92%

Elder 92%

Willow 97%

Sequoia 93%

Acer 98%

Oak 93%

Dates for your diary

• Parent drop-in catch ups 27th & 28th March - 4-5pm ( Y5 TBC)
• Primary Music Festival 29th April 202
• 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

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 449

Parks 382

Gandhi 473

Pankhurst 474

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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