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30 January 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday o6 February.

Our class assembly

Thanks to all who attended our per-historic class assembly this week, which tied in with our history learning as part of the Time Travel topic.

Here are a few comments:

• “Very informative.  I was impressed that the children all knew their lines without needing a script.”
• “Very interesting and entertaining as usual.”
• “Very educational and very funny.  I learnt a think or two.  Well done!”
• “Great cavemen!  Lots of information.”

30 January 2015

Group 1

The spellings this week are all words which end with cious. If the root word ends in –ce, the sound is usually spelt as c. Eg. vice – vicious, grace – gracious.

Group 2

For the next couple of weeks we’ll be investigating words which contain silent letters. This week,they are mostly at the start of the word. Can you spot the one which isn’t?

Congratulations from the Minister of State for Schools…

We’re delighted to have received a letter (26 January 2015) from Rt Hon David Laws, Minister of State for Schools, congratulating us on our work with disadvantaged pupils:

It gives me great pleasure to write to you and congratulate your school on your key stage 2 results for disadvantaged pupils since 2012.

Your results show that you are highly effective in educating your disadvantaged pupils.  It is clear that you and your staff have provided your disadvantaged pupils with a good start in life and prepared them well for secondary school.

[The letter then refers to the Pupil Premium Awards.]

I would like to congratulate your staff, governors, parents and pupils for their hard work and success, and thank you for your leadership in making such a difference to the future success of your pupils.  Finally, I would also encourage you to share your achievements with other schools so that they learn from your strengths and experience.

Yours sincerely

David Laws MP

30 January 2015

The homeworks this week are Creative and Practice Makes Perfect.

The Creative homework is to design a section of our ‘contraption’ display. We are currently taking inspiration from ‘Rube Goldberg machines’ to make a contraption out of things we have in and around the classroom. Children have to plan and explain how their section would work and suggest materials which we could use to make it. The trickiest part of this is that most of the contraption has to hang from the wall.

A Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered or overdone to perform a very simple task in a very complicated fashion, usually including a chain reaction. For ideas and inspiration, just ‘Rube Goldberg machine’ into youtube.

The Practice Makes Perfect homework is a Mathletics activity on our next unit of maths: measures.

30 January 2015

This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 04 February.

I can write a story set in a Norman castle.

R2s (our ‘remember to’ reminders…):

• capital letters and full stops
• adjectives
• conjunctions

Before you write your story think about these questions…

• Who would live in the castle?
• Do you have a goodie and a baddie?
• What does the castle look like inside and out?
• What main event happens to put one of your characters in danger?
• How do they get out of this danger?
• Is it a happy ending?

Thanks for coming to our class assembly…

…and thanks for your compliments!  Here are just three of them…

• “Very entertaining assembly.  Impressed by how talented the class are.”
• “Lovely assembly – kids had great fun sharing their talents with the school.”
• “Good work by Year 1 – very committed performances by all the children.”

Phonics

Thank you to everyone who attended the phonics sessions last week. We hope you found them useful.

Following on from the feedback you gave, here are some captions and sentences your child can write at home. More will be added as we introduce new phonemes.

Phase 2 captions with tricky words: to, the, no, go

• socks on a mat
• an egg in an egg cup
• a hug and a kiss
• on top of the rock
• to the top of the hill
• get off the bus
• no lid on the pan
• pack a pen in a bag
• a doll in a cot
• sit back to back

Phase 3 sentences

• We can get the bus to the fish and chip shop.
• Gurdeep had a chat with his dad.
• Max and Vikram sail a wooden boat.
• Yasmin sits on a rock and looks for fish.

Thackray Medical Museum

Check out how we got on learning about medicine from the past and how our bodies work…

23 January 2015

The homeworks this week are Practice Makes Perfect and Talk Time.

The Practice Makes Perfect homework is a couple of Mathletics activities linked to our learning on fractions.

The Talk Time homework is a SEAL themed one, asking children: Why is it Good To Be Me? Lots of children (and adults) find it difficult to talk about things which they are good at. I’d like children to have a conversation about their strengths and why it is good to be them. We’ll talk about these next week in class.