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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.

Tennis competition

Well done to the Year 3/4 tennis team who fought off all the local opposition and got through to the Leeds City Finals.

The finals took place last Wednesday, at John Charles Sports Centre, where the Moortown team did us proud and took fourth place overall.

Well done to the whole team – you played some fabulous tennis!

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings are a revisit of words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are still struggling to read these words and / or write them correctly.