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Our Rube Goldberg machine

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Robot Rumpus

You might have noticed a new addition to your families as a robot may have come home from Year 1.  There were some very imaginative and creative robots designed and made in Year 1 this week to finish off our mini topic.  Here are a few of them:

15 May 2015

The homework this week is Creative and is due Wednesday 20 May:

Who do you think you are?

Next week, we embark on five days of learning about identity, diversity and community. Your child is required to think about themselves and what makes them who they are.

Creative homework is a great way for your child to engage with their homework any way they choose. I’ll be looking for homework with some creative flair as well as some refinement and finesse. Ideas could range from:

• a family tree
• a personal timeline
• a comic strip depicting their life journey

I’m looking forward to finding out what makes each child who they are and the themed week is sure to be a successful one!

15 May 2015

This is the third spelling week about verbs. This time, all the verbs end in a y. For the present and past tense forms, you need to drop the y for an I and then add es  for present tense or ed for past tense.

As before, the verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

Infinitive – I cry.

Present – She cries

Past – I cried

Continuous – I was crying.  I am crying.

Group 1 

Group 2

15 May 2015

Year 2 have not got any spellings this week due to their hard work preparing for SATs.

15 May 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a test on Friday 22 May.

Please note that all of Year 1 have got the same spellings to learn this week.

15 May 2015

Who do you think you are?

Next week, we embark on five days of learning about identity, diversity and community. Your child is required to think about themselves and what makes them who they are.

Can they talk about:

• important people in their life?
• a special event in their life?
• what qualities they think they have?

For homework this week, could your child draw a picture of themselves and their family.

Well done, Mrs Weekes

Following months of hard work, I am delighted to inform you that Mrs Weekes has successfully completed her National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL). The NPQSL is overseen by the National College for Teaching and Leadership is a significant milestone in the professional development of school leaders. This is a significant achievement and I’m sure you would like to join me in offering congratulations to Mrs Weekes.

Here are some extracts from the feedback Mrs Weekes has received:

You have a key strength in the seeking of information, using not only numerical data but your knowledge of the school and individual pupils to inform your decisions. Your analytical thinking led to the creation of a complex plan involving the upskilling of teachers and teaching assistants, workshops for parents, material on the school website and working with local nurseries. All of this was underpinned by a strong learning focus, using theory and pedagogy to enhance the experience of all learners.

You are a highly effective teacher and leader of teachers and other professionals supporting their work. Your success in structuring support for pupil premium children has been nationally recognised in praise for the school and you have secured practice which is ensuring sustainable continuous improvement. As a teacher you model excellence in the way you embrace and meet challenges in the classroom and your competence has rightly played a key part in ensuring that you have had wide impact on the way in which other professionals work with children and engage with their families.

You have significant personal drive and display total professional integrity in the way you consider educational research to develop your self-awareness as a leader and by the way in which challenge yourself and others to improve. Your robust and secure evaluation of the work of the school including through forensic analysis of data informs intelligent prioritisation and planning.

15 May 2015

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 20th May 2015.

‘Who do you think you are?’

This week, we want to know all about  you and who you think you are. We’re going to be asking this question all week (beginning 22.05.15), thinking about our individuality, how we are different to those around us and how we belong to different communities.

Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing…

• life journey
• family tree
• self image
• art work/poetry/report
• quiz

Walk to School Week

Walk to School Week will run alongside our themed week where children are encouraged to take a walk in the community on their way to school, maybe even picking up a piece of litter on the way.

Two walk to school competitions will run over the week – firstly, the return of our Where’s Wally challenge (using our walk to school website video) and also a reward for the class who make the most journeys to school on foot during the week.

Each day your child walks to school they should put a counter in their class’ totaliser jar.  Even by parking further away from school your child could then to do the final part of their journey by foot.  By Friday, the class with the most journeys to school on foot will win a martial arts session with John Weatherall, White Rose martial arts.

We hope you will support this initiative in helping children make a healthy start to their day and also helping towards reducing congestion at our gates.