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14 June 2013

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. Your child will have a calculation worksheet to complete. I have included a 100 square in the back of the homework book, if needed.

It’s due in on Wednesday 19 June 2013.

Next week is Bike Week

Next week is National Bike Week (www.bikeweek.org.uk).

The more times your child comes by bike to school, even for part of the way, the greater the chance of winning a competition running throughout the week.

Each day, we’ll take photos of seven randomly selected bikes in school. Pictures will be put into a hat for a raffle on Friday.

Results from our school survey showed that 34% of children would like to bike to school.

Did you know we have a bike storage facility beside the Year 3 and 4 cloakroom, available to store bikes and scooters?

14 June 2013

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix ful. The suffix ful means ‘full of’. Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end it loses one of its ls. For example, wish and full becomes wishful.

14 June 2013

There will be no usual spelling test next week, and so no new words to learn this week. Instead of the normal test, the national phonics screening test will take place.  There is no date set for which children will be tested on which day; as always, avoid unnecessary absences.

I suggest children spend each night looking through old spelling lists. Get your child to read and sound out the words.

Please see me if you have any questions.

14 June 2013

The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in Wednesday 19 June.

I can reflect on my learning.

As we approach the end of the year, this is a great chance to reflect on what the children have achieved over the three terms. Discuss with your child what they think they have got better at concerning their learning. You may want to consider:

• their proudest achievement
• their most challenging learning
• what they think they will have to focus on next year

Nothing needs to be written in books as it’s talk time homework. However, make sure your child has considered their strengths and weaknesses over the year and that they are ready to discuss them by next Wednesday.

14 June 2013

Over the next couple weeks, we’re going to be learning about suffixes.

This week’s spellings all end with the suffix ‘ful’, Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end, it loses one of its ls. For example, wonder and full becomes wonderful.

A couple of the words follow a similar another familiar spelling rule when ‘full’ is added. Do you know what it is?

14 June 2013

This week’s spellings look at adding a suffix where the root word does not change eg. care – careless (care has not changed in any way when the suffix has been added).

• careless
• thoughtless
• homeless
• lifeless
• fearless
• jobless
• thankless
• headless
• speechless
• endless

14 June 2013

This week’s homework is talk time.  It’s due in on Wednesday 19 June 2013.

Why do some farmers prefer to make their farms organic?

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

We had a great day at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

Fun in the sun

Well done to the all the Year 1 children who took part in the Roundhay Primary Schools’ Fun Run.  Here are a few who I saw cross the finish line.