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Netball after-school club

High 5 netball club will move to a Tuesday evening after the Easter holiday for four more sessions, until our main Summer term after-school programme starts (week commencing 16 May).

Children who currently attend the club on a Thursday, and also any new members, are welcome to attend. Please return the permission slip sent home this week.

This continues to be a free club subsidised by part of our PE Premium.

Year 1 food technologists

Can your child recall some of the skills used in our savoury scone recipe today?

We’ve also learnt how to get ready to cook and about different ingredients and equipment used in a kitchen.

Hope they enjoyed their scone as an after-school snack.

Eatwell guide

Public Health England have launched a new Eatwell Guide.  This relates to the Eatwell Plate, a key resource used in school, to show how much of what you eat overall should come from each food group.

‘Life’ topic skills review

This morning, we spent some time reflecting on the skills we practised whilst learning about our last Big Topic: ‘Life‘.

We chose to focus on the skills we need in order to learn because these are important for life-long learning. Knowledge is important, too, but it’s crucial not to neglect the skills that underpin our learning.

We worked in groups to create a ‘diamond 9’; the children were given seven skills and also had to choose two of our ‘8Rs for learning’.

  
Then, we reflected as a class and decided on this ‘diamond 9’:

At the top is the skill we all thought was most important: working with others. All the other skills are important, too!

Testing times…

Do you have a child Year 2 or Year 6?

If so, they will be taking the national curriculum tests (SATs) in May 2016. The tests will provide information about how your child is progressing, compared to children the same age nationally. The results are used to ensure that schools are teaching their pupils the essential knowledge and skills in the subjects that are the early building blocks. This is to ensure every child reaches their full potential. There are changes to the tests this year at both key stages. This is because the tests are based on the new national curriculum, which your child has been taught since September 2014.

The Standards and Testing Agency has published a leaflet and short video for parents about the 2016 tests.

PTA event coming up…

PTA writes:

Cheese and wine evening 

Friday 22 April, 7.30pm for an 7.45 start

Dear parents / carers

Over the last year, the PTA has organised some memorable quiz nights for parents and carers. These have been very popular, and thanks to your support we have raised large amounts of funds which have gone towards the new school library and building the field fund.

With this in mind we are pleased to invite you to our first PTA cheese and wine evening. We promise you a fun evening trying out hand-picked wines to compliment a range of specially selected cheese. The cheese will be provided by cheesemonger George & Joseph of Chapel Allerton and the wine by Majestic Wine.

Join us for the evening to find out more about the selected cheese and wine from the experts, and take part in the tasting to see if you agree with their selection! There will be the opportunity to buy your favourite cheese to take away after the tasting, and you could also win great prizes on the night by entering the raffle or taking part in the cheese and wine quiz.

Tickets cost £10 per person, which includes the cheese and wine tasting, and the disco after the tasting. A range of drinks will be available to purchase from the licensed bar throughout the evening.

Please note that this is an over-18 event only, and friends and family are welcome.

Tickets will be sent in book bags prior to the event.

We look forward to seeing you on the night for what will be a fun evening!

Please contact the school office no later than the 18 April to book tickets.

24 March 2016

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 30 March.

I understand what I have read.

Each child has been given a short reading comprehension activity to complete. Your child should read the text independently and then answer the questions. The initial questions simply require your child to identify the correct answer, but the questions at the end require your child to write in sentences. If your child knows the correct answer but doesn’t write this in a sentence, help them to change the one word into a sentence. For example, if the question was, ‘Which animal has a trunk?’ Your child may write ‘an elephant.’ Putting this into a sentence would be, ‘An elephant has a trunk.’

If your child particularly struggled, leave a short note in their homework book and I’ll look through it with them.

25 March 2016

This week, your child has a word study to complete. They must find an A – Z list of words that follow the ‘double up for a short vowel sound’ spelling rule. For example, ‘apple’ and ‘attractive’ have a doubled-up letter to make the ‘a’ in front a short sound (compare the ‘a’ sound in ‘apple’ and ‘able’).

The words your child finds must be words that they feel they could use in their writing in class. I would encourage the use of a dictionary or even the use of an internet search engine. If your child is searching for words online, make sure you speak to them about being e-safe.

25 March 2016

This week’s homework is creative and is due 30 March 2016.

I can present my spellings in an interesting way.

Your child’s spelling homework this week is to find a “double up for a short vowel sound” word for each letter of the alphabet. They could use these spellings to:

• make a poster
• make a crossword
• make a word search
• create a missing letter worksheet
• write a story

This could be done using ICT; the choice is theirs!

24 March 2016

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 30 March.

I can write instructions.

We’ve been writing instructions in our English lessons over the last couple of weeks. Children could write a recipe; instructions / directions for finding a place (this could be a treasure map); instructions for how to do, play or make something.

Follow the instructions below to write perfect instructions:

How to write instructions

Follow this simple guide and you’ll be writing instructions in no time!

You will need:

• paper
• a pen or pencil
• coloured pencils or felt tips (optional)
• photographs (optional)
• ruler

Method:

1. Firstly, find a quiet place and get all your equipment ready.
2. Next, think carefully about what you are going to write about. It might be a good idea to read some different types of instructions before you start. Think about your audience (who will be reading and using the instructions).
3. Write a title which clearly tells the reader what the instructions are for.
4. Write a short introduction which gives the reader a little bit more detail about the instructions.
5. Write down the equipment or ingredients that you will need using bullet points.
6. You are now ready to write your instructions! Use numbered points to make your commands easy to follow. Each new command should start on a new line.
7. Try to use time connectives (firstly, next, after that, finally) to also sequence your instructions. Adverbs (carefully, quickly, silently) Give more information to the reader about how to do something.
8. Add in a ‘top tip’ or a ‘did you know’ box to give readers some extra relevant information or to give them extra ideas or suggestions about what they could do.
9. Read through your instructions to make sure that there are no errors. If there are errors, fix them!
10. Improve your instructions by adding in an extra words like time connectives, adjectives or adverbs. You could also improve them by adding in a question and a question mark (?) or find an exciting sentence in your text which could have an exclamation mark (!)

 

Top tip:

Pictures, diagrams or photographs really help give the reader a clear idea of what to do. Add a few in. Imagine building flat-pack furniture with no diagrams!