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Christmas news

We have a number of exciting events coming up:

PTA Christmas Fayre

The Christmas Fayre is taking place on Friday 14 December between 2.30 and 4.30pm.  As well as the popular Bun Stall, there’ll be games, tombola and an opportunity to visit Santa.  If you are able to help at the Fayre, please leave your contact details at the office.

Reception and Key Stage 1 Christmas Production

Hey, Ewe! Why are the sheep so restless?  Reception and Key Stage 1 families can find out by coming along to one of the performances on either Tuesday 18 or Wednesday 19 December.  A booking slip has already been sent home.

Key Stage 2 Carol Singing

To continue making a positive contribution within our local community, we have carol singing arranged for the last week of term.  On Thursday 20 December groups will be singing carols outside Marks and Spencer.  Year 3 and 4 will sing from around 10.30 to 11.00am and Year 5 and 6 from around 11.15 to 11.45am.  Please come along and support your child.  We understand that you may prefer for your child not to attend.  If you do not want your child to participate in this carol singing session, please leave a message at the office.

Class Christmas Parties

Key Stage 1 parties will be on Thursday 20 December and Key Stage 2 parties on Friday 21 December.  Party treats are funded by the PTA.

Finally, we hope you all have an enjoyable Christmas break and we’ll see you when school re-opens on Monday 07 January 2013.

07 December 2012

Spellings this week are all ly words – ‘ly’ is a consonant suffix which usually makes the words adverbs.  Consonant suffixes can be added without changing the base word, except for words ending in y which changes to i.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 December.

• secretive > secretively
• joking > jokingly
• unfortunate > unfortunately
• strange > strangely
• normal > normally
• real > really
• total > totally
• happy > happily
• speedy > speedily

07 December 2012

This week homework is Practice Makes Perfect.

I can describe a scene and create a mood.

Children have been given four pictures of four different settings. The task this week is to describe two of the scenes using the follwing writing skills that they use in class:

• great punctuation
• adjectives
• similes
• adverbs
• metaphors
• alliteration
• a variety of sentence types and sentence starters

Homework is due in on Wednesday 12 December 2012.

What an action-packed week!

A busy week rehearsing for the Christmas performance meant that some much needed fresh air and physical exercise were needed. Some great fun outside in the front playground…

…and some balancing in PE.

This is a good chance to remind you that children must have their PE kits in school every Tuesday and Thursday.

More yoga

Yoga

We were lucky to be visited by Yogabugs who taught us some circus-themed yoga moves. I was very impressed by a lot of the children’s balancing skills!

Dance

We visited Allerton Grange to take part in a dance workshop. Take a look at some of the moves we learnt!

07 December 2012

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. It’s due in on Wednesday 12 December 2012.

I can write instructions.

 Think of an activity such as:

• Brushing your teeth
• Making a sandwich
• Baking a cake
• Playing a game

Write instructions to show how to make, play or do something. Remember that instructions could have:

• Lists (What you will need)
• Time connectives (First, wash your hands.)
• Bossy verbs (First, wash your hands.)
• Adverbs (First, wash your hands properly.)

07 December 2012

This week’s spellings have the suffix ‘ful’. Your child will be tested on Friday 14 December 2012.

• careful
• harmful
• helpful
• painful
• playful
• powerful
• useful
• boastful
• grateful
• thankful

Building!

There was great excitement this week when our new building blocks arrived. We definitely have some budding engineers in our class! Take a look at some of the fantastic construction that went on.

Block play is beneficial in Reception for a variety of reasons including:

• exploring mathematical concepts such as shape, size, length, weight and symmetry.
• investigating science concepts, including gravity, balance, stability and cause and effect.
• language and vocabulary are increased.
• children’s confidence in decision making is enhanced.
• coordination develops so eyes and hands and small and large muscles work together. This prepares children for success in reading and writing.

And of course, it’s fun!