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Merry Christmas!

We’re reaching the end of your child’s first term in Reception.  We’ve loved seeing all the children gain confidence and make progress in their learning…

• Well done, Sakina and Leo, for your terrific handwriting.
• We’re really happy to see the increased confidence of Ethan, Jasraj and Rayn.
• Well done, Pollyanna: we’ve enjoyed watching you design and create amazing models and drawings.
• We’ve all enjoyed Noah’s enthusiasm for learning.
• Well done, Henka and Kashif, for making wise choices.
• Will and Albie have kept us amused with their great sense of humour.
• Hifza, Musa, Jessica and Olivia have shown concern and care for their friends.
• We’re all impressed with Taha for eating healthier foods at lunchtime.
• Well done to Felix, Harris, Raima and Jemima for great learning in maths and to Phoebe, Liam, Emma, Emily and Sami for their progress in reading.
• Thank you, Safiya-Mishal and Yusayrah, for helping everyone in the class.
• Everyone has been impressed with Maya and Georgie for their great manners and Isabella for always trying her best.

Have a great holiday and happy new year from everyone in Reception!

12 December 2014

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.  Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 17 December.

The homework is maths and is making sure that the children recognise words in numbers and digits.

There won’t be any homework during the Christmas break but don’t forget about Mathletics and writing thank you letters to keep up those key skills.

Happy Christmas, everyone; thanks for your support this term.

Christmas Party

It’s that time of year again when we get our party dresses out and our posh trousers on and dance the afternoon away at the Christmas party!

KS1 and Reception will be having their Christmas party on Thursday 18 December in the afternoon.  Your child can bring their party dresses and/or posh trousers (and anything else they want to wear) in a named bag so that they can get changed at lunchtime.  Please make sure that all children come to school in their uniform as normal.  You may think that they will not be able to get ready themselves – believe me, they can.  However, there will be help at hand for zips, tights and any other difficult item!

Please do not send any food – there will be a party snack provided.

Thank you.

12 December 2014

The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 17 December.

I understand and can write passive sentences. 

Children have a sheet in their homework book which asks them to complete a passive sentence using a passive verb. To further challenge them, you could ask them to convert some of last week’s active sentences into passive sentences.

An example of each:

• Year 5 won the Cool Class Cup. (This is active – we know the ‘subject’ of the sentence – which is Year 5 – and what they did – they won the cup.)
• The Cool Class Cup was stolen. (This is passive – something was done to the cup, but we don’t know who by.)

It’s Christmas…

…so teachers are not giving new lists of spellings to learn this week.

If your child didn’t do so well in the Spellathon, please make sure (s)he keeps learning the spellings that you teacher has set this term.

The Department for Education has set out a list of 100 words which children in Y3,4 should know, and a further 100 words for children in Y5,6.  If you’d like to give your child a head-start, you might like to support your child in learning some of these.  The lists can be found on page 54 and page 61 of this document.

(This list is new for 2014; teachers have begun to include the words in their spelling lists.)

12 December 2014

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Wednesday 17 December.

I can practise telling the time.

You have been assigned three activities on Mathletics, all to do with telling the time and days of the week. Have a go at these as many times as you want and, if you want to go on and do more, please do! We can then have a look at how we did and what we need to practise more in class. Don’t forget to use the question mark: if you’re not sure how to answer a question, click on the question mark and it will give you some help.

As a challenge, have a go at the test and see how you do then we can take it again later and see how much better we are.

Great homeworks!

Lots of super homeworks this week. Here are a few:

This is Shahban’s mosque

This is Ethan’s review of Walking with Dinosaurs

This is Jennifer’s letter to an author

This is Simran’s book about Divali.

These pictures are of Rayhaan’s Minecraft mosque

KS2 tuck shop free portion

As an incentive for selecting the pre-pay option, we’re able to offer you one week free. Therefore, the cost for one portion of fruit from 06 January to 31 March 2015 inclusive (12 weeks) is £2.20 (11 x 20p) and the cost for two portions is £4.40 (11 x 40p). Please note that if you choose to pay in advance, your payment is non-refundable and must be made in cash with the exact money.

If you prefer your child to continue paying in cash on a weekly basis, that’s fine – we’ll continue to operate this system.

If you would like to pay in advance for your child to visit the tuck shop, please return the slip and money to the office by Monday 15 December 2014.

KS2 fruit tuck shop takes place every Tuesday morning playtime.

05 December 2014

The Practice Makes Perfect homework this week is an English homework.

I can write active sentences with subjects and objects. 

In English we’ve talked about sentences which have subjects and objects. In active sentences there is an active verb. The subject of the active verb does the action and the object has the action done to it.

For example: Stella broke the window. 

In this sentence, Stella is the subject, broke is the verb and window is the object.

The children’s task is to complete some sentences when given either the object, subject or both. An extension is to write some active sentences without an object.

05 December 2014

The spellings this week are all chemistry words which we have learnt in our What’s the matter? science mini-topic.