13 March 2015
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 18 March.
Choose a time in the past. What have you learnt about it?
Use all your creative juices to show what you have learnt through our Time Travel topic. We’ve travelled from 600BC all the way into the future; meeting the Celts, Romans, Vikings, Normans, Tudors, Victorians and our modern day selves along the way. Choose one of these periods of history and show (in any way you wish) what you have learnt about them.
You could:
- Create a leaflet
- Do a quiz
- Make a house from that time
- Prepare a verbal presentation
- Write a story with characters from that period
- Conduct an interview with somebody from that time…or…
- any other creative idea you might have!
Attendance matters
So far this year, our attendance rate is about the same as last year, which is impressive considering the amount of bugs going around just before Christmas. Here are the attendance figures for the first three half-terms (with last year’s data in brackets):
- Reception: 96.4% (95.7%)
- Year 1: 97.7% (97.1%)
- Year 2: 97.3% (97.9%)
- Year 3: 98.2% (97.5%) …This is great: the highest attendance in school!
- Year 4: 97.0% (96.9%)
- Year 5: 95.7% (98.3%) …Please do make sure your child is at school unless it is absolutely necessary.
- Year 6: 97.2% (96.9%)
- Total for the whole school: 97.1% (97.2%)
Don’t forget we have another 100% attendance competition this half-term! Currently, 175 children have 100% this half-term so far!
Amazing inventions!
There were some fantastic creative homeworks this week. Children were asked to invent something which would make our lives easier. Below are five of the homeworks the children particularly liked this week. A special mention should also go to Ahmed, Jennifer and Ravinder, who produce some amazingly creative digital homeworks.
Brandon’s invention to solve the problem of annoying siblings:
Linda’s brain bending invention:
Sam’s genius spaghetti fork:
Jaskirat’s very useful ipad case and stationery box:
Molly’s maid:
Creative homework
A few samples of this week’s homework which was to respond to a piece of art.
06 March 2015
This week, the words all end in tial. Usually tial is used after a consonant letter but there are some exceptions like initial.
| Group 1 | |
| 1. | confidential |
| 2. | essential |
| 3. | influential |
| 4. | initial |
| 5. | partial |
| 6. | residential |
| 7. | torrential |
| 8. | martial |
| 9. | substantial |
| 10. | potential |
The spellings this week all have the suffix ful.
| Group 2 | |
| 1. | successful |
| 2. | beautiful |
| 3. | cheerful |
| 4. | delightful |
| 5. | painful |
| 6. | peaceful |
| 7. | powerful |
| 8. | skillful |
| 9. | grateful |
| 10. | meaningful |
06 March 2015
I can respond to a book
As it’s recently been World Book Day, please read and talk with your child about their favourite book.
Perhaps they could draw a picture and write about why they like it.
Building the dream
Iggy Peck, Architect inspired Year 1 to become architects themselves today. World Book Day was celebrated with drawings, thoughts, painting and actual building. Iggy Peck built towers out of nappies (dirty ones!) – you will be glad to hear we didn’t do that but we did construct our own structures:
We did some sketches and line drawings:
…and we did some printing:
What a creative day!
06 March 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 13 March 2015.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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scrape |
hair |
couldn’t |
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tape |
chair |
shouldn’t |
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relay |
there |
wouldn’t |
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paint |
where |
didn’t |
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cake |
everywhere |
isn’t |
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pay |
nowhere |
can’t |
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fade |
care |
I’m |
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rain |
stare |
they’re |
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tear |
you’re |
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wear |
we’re |
Class assembly
Thank you to those of you who could make it to class assembly today. We really enjoyed preparing for it and, from my point of view, it was made an easy task because of the children’s concentration and naturally clear voices.
- ‘Lovely assembly – liked the communal story at the end.’
- ‘Great story, loved the fire props and well remembered lines.’
- ‘Really enjoyable as always. The audience participation was a nice touch and the humour that was included.’
- ‘First time at school assembly. Could see the kids enjoy it by the number of children joining in. Well done.’
…and a well done from me too!
06 March 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 11 March.
Everybody has the right to have a house. Discuss.
Talk about your and other people’s opinions and write a couple of sentences to help you join in the discussion in class.
From our Homework Policy:
Talk Time homework
This involves a discussion topic eg ‘Should animals be kept in zoos?’ Children should make notes (even pictures, diagrams etc) ready to participate in a class / group discussion on the topic. Please make sure you write a comment about the Talk Time discussions in the homework books.
Top Tips: Turn the telly off! Sit around the dining table! Have a chat and share opinions and ideas! Children should talk with family, friends and each other. (Your child should write some notes in their Homework Books.)