Newsletters
This term’s newsletters have been emailed and paper copies will be sent home later this week.
This year, we’ll publish the newsletters on the website, too. Here are the first half-term’s…
- Year 1 and Year 2 newsletter
- Year 3 and Year 4 newsletter
- Year 5 and Year 6 newsletter
- The whole school newsletter
Reception provide their own newsletters and lots of photos, top tips and news on their class news page.
Rugby world cup activities
As the Rugby World Cup approaches, Roundhegians are organising activities for both children and adults at their local facilities.
News from Year 1
We’ve had an exciting day today; children have shown some brilliant maths skills and others have been acting out our story ‘The Leopard’s Drum’. Can your child retell the story to you?
Just a reminder that PE is tomorrow (Tuesday) and Thursday.
Having fun!
11 September 2015
Children have been given a new Learning List book, which gives lots of great tips for learning spellings as well as being designed to allow children to practise independently.
This week’s spellings are all words that include ough:
thought
bought
ought
nought
brought
ought
rough
tough
enough
cough
Every minute counts…
Is your child ever late for school? Did you know…
- 5 minutes late each day = 3 days of school lost in a year
- 10 minutes late each day = 6.5 days of school lost in a year
- 15 minutes late each day = 10 days of school lost in a year
- 20 minutes late each day = 13 days of school lost in a year
- 30 minutes late each day = 19 days of school lost in a year
- 19 days lost in a school year is likely to lead to one whole grade lower in SATs across all subjects
Welcome to Year 3
We have had a fantastic week getting settled into our new classroom. All the children have shown an impressive attitude to learning which is great as it means we can get on with all the learning I have planned.
It has been great meeting some of you in the playground. Please feel free to pop in anytime after school if you have any questions.
11 September 2015
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 16 September.
I can talk about what I am going to do to make sure I have a successful year.
For more information about homework and the types of homework, please read the first page of your child’s homework book. If you have any questions, please ask.
11 September 2015
The spellings this week are the numbers one to ten.
| one |
| two |
| three |
| four |
| five |
| six |
| seven |
| eight |
| nine |
| ten |
This links to our work in maths this week. Common mistakes are writing the word two as tow and four as for. You might look at the corresponding tens numbers and see how the spelling changes or stays the same. Unfortunately, there are some frustrating differences. For example, four changes to forty and five to fifty.
The children will be tested on all ten spellings on Friday. If you have any questions, please ask.
Too much screen time?
You might have heard about this research recently. Although it focuses on older pupils, we think it’s just as relevant for primary-aged children: too much screen-time can undermine learning.
An extra hour a day of television, internet or computer game time in Year 10 is linked to poorer grades at GCSE, a Cambridge University study suggests, as reported by BBC on-line.
The researchers recorded the activities of more than 800 14-year-olds and analysed their GCSE results at 16. Those spending an extra hour a day on screens saw a fall in GCSE results equivalent to two grades overall.
The researchers analysed the habits of 845 pupils from schools in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk at the age of 14 years and six months. They researchers correlated the data with the pupils’ GCSEs, taken the following year.
Pupils who did an extra hour of homework and reading performed better than their peers.
On average, the 14-year-olds said they spent four hours of their leisure time each day watching TV or in front of a computer. The researchers found an additional hour of screen-time each day was associated with 9.3 fewer GCSE points at 16 – the equivalent of dropping a grade in two subjects. Two extra hours of screen-time was associated with 18 fewer points – or dropping a grade in four subjects.
Interestingly, a teacher in school accidentally discovered similar results. When teaching about data and statistics, she asked the class how many TVs were in the home. Broadly speaking, those who reported fewer TVs in their homes were children who were making the best progress.