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27 March 2015

Group 1 – This week, the spellings are all words which have a doubled consonant after a short vowel sound. These words are all taken from the National Curriculum spelling list.

Group 2 – The spellings this week also contain a double consonant after a short vowel sound. These words also have an ed ending as they are in the past tense.

Fantastic feedback

Yesterday, we were visited by a headteacher and senior school leader from a school in Stoke. They came to find out more about our creative curriculum – how we plan our topics to ensure we have exciting topics that cover the National Curriculum. Here’s some lovely feedback…

I just wanted to thank you for the time you spent with us yesterday. The curriculum was everything we hoped it would be and is exactly what we need to help us move our provision to the next level. I appreciate the hard work you have obviously spent on this area and it is good to meet another team who are committed to ensuring learning is truly personalised to the pupils’ needs and are dedicated to working to achieve it.

As I said yesterday it was great to meet another head who has the same vision, enthusiasm and excitement for education that I feel I have… not to mention the same attention to detail!

Your school is an absolute credit to you and I hope that we will have opportunities to work together in the future.

27 March 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Thursday 02 April.

All of Year 1 have got the same spellings this week – I think you can tell the theme quite easily!  Take care: these can be tricky…

• Monday sounds like Munday (perhaps talk about the origins of the word… Moon day)
• Tuesday is often pronounced ‘Chooseday’, so make a special effort to pronounce the ‘T’
• Wednesday has three syllables, but that middle one is often said lazily! Again, make a special effort to say ‘Wed – nes – day’
• It’s Saturday, not Saterday
• …and don’t forget to make sure your child is using capitals because they’re all proper nouns!

Variety is the spice of life!

If you ask your child what they’ve done today, you may be surprised!  From learning Mandarin to finding out about geysers, it was all going on.  All the children were mixed up for the morning and took part in four different lessons – there are eight different lessons altogether so there will be some more mixing up going on tomorrow.  These lessons have been part of our Enrichment Week where children have thought about a variety of subjects in lots of different ways.  Here are some photos to give you a taste of what has been happening: learning Urdu or Mandarin, art work, music, PE, geography, programming and DT.

A sentence looks like this.

This was one of the key messages from the theatre production today based around the Gruffalo story.  We, as the audience, helped to create a story by choosing the correct punctuation and looking at when to use it.  Some great adjectives, for characters and settings, were suggested to improve the writing.  We also learnt an important message about cheating – the best story rightly won in the end.

Hopefully this will inspire lots of budding story writers.

Fascinating fingerprints

As part of our themed week, Year 1 found our whether they had loops, arches and/or whorls on their fingerprints.

Science Day

There’s been a robbery in Year 2!

Poor Ziggy the Zebra was stolen from Year 2 on Monday night and all that was left was a ransom note. Don’t worry though – it turns out Year 2 are super-detectives and they used all of their forensic skills to get him back.

The suspects

Mr Wilks                                         Miss Valentine                                             Mrs Weekes

We used chromatography to work out which of our suspects pens had written the ransom note. It needed a lot of accuracy, careful handling and great listening skills.

We had the evidence ink on filter paper already. Then, we added the pens of our three suspects. Once placed in water, it travelled up the filter paper and spread the ink out so we could see what different colours each one was made up of. Each pen changed in a different way and we could see which of our suspect’s pens matched the evidence.

It was Mrs Weekes! 

Super scientists

Year 1 have been biologists, physicians and chemists as part of our themed week.  We can predict, question, plan, discuss our results and conclusions.

What will happen when the lemon juice invisible ink pictures are dried and placed in the oven?

Will the water and marbles stay in the bucket?

You could try these at home!

CSI Fingerprinting

Today was science day and we’ve been learning all about fingerprinting. We’ve learned that all fingerprints are different and have arches, loops or whirls.

Even identical twins have different fingerprints! However, our twins’ were incredibly close!

The Skeleton

We’ve also been learning about the skeleton this morning with students from Leeds University.

We’ve learned about the joints and how muscles work in pairs to allow us to move our bones at the joints.