03 February 2012
The homework this week is talk time and your child should be ready to discuss the topic by Wednesday 08 February.
Is it acceptable to test on animals for medical research?
Encourage your child to justify their opinions and try to present a balanced argument. It’s likely that your child will have a strong opinion one way or the other, but helping them to understand an alternative viewpoint will develop their social and emotional skills (such as empathy) as well as their speaking and listening skills.
Encourage your child to use all of the following connectives at least once during the discussion:
- however
- on the other hand
- because
- but
New Residents
Here are the first chicks to hatch in the incubator. There are currently nine chicks that have hatched.
Feel free to come and have a look after school. They’d love to meet you! Be prepared to wash your hands though. We’ve already had a few accidents!
03 February 2012
We’re still practising words which have split digraphs. This week, we’re looking at ‘u –e‘, for example, tub (with a short ‘u’ sound) changes to tube (with a longer ‘u’ sound).
| cube |
| huge |
| tune |
| use |
| tube |
| cute |
These will be tested on Friday 10 February.
03 February 2012
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect – to complete a worksheet on number patterns.
You’ll find the worksheet in your child’s homework book.
This homework is due on Wednesday 08 February.
February Family Fun
Throughout half term, Harrogate Theatre are running a Heroes and Villains Activity Week. On the Thursday and Friday, there are activities aimed at 6-8 year olds. Workshops including puppetry and mask-making are on offer with the theme of Heroes and Villains. Tickets can be purchased from Harrogate Box Office.
Our new friends!
Wonderful writing
Look at the complex sentences Y2 children have been writing! A complex sentence has a main ‘part’ (the main clause) and an extra ‘add-in’ part which doesn’t make sense on its own (we call these opener add-ins, but the grammatical term is a subordinate clause).
03 February 2012
This week’s spellings have the ‘ur’ spelling pattern. Your child will be tested on Friday 10 January 2012.
- church
- burn
- return
- nurse
- purse
- burst
- Thursday
- hurt
- further
- turn
The eggs have hatched!
As we’re sure most of you are aware, Year 3 and 4 and have inherited some eggs this week. We have twelve eggs and so far five have hatched. They are being kept in a same place.
…before a new School Council is elected!
Next week, on Thursday 09 February 2012, we’ll be holding elections in school for new School Councillors.
This follows a recent assembly led by local MP Fabian Hamilton, in which he talked about similarities between the School Council and Government, and today’s assembly about democracy and what characteristics are need to be an effective School Councillor.
Two children are elected from each class, including Reception. In the past, the school councillors have played an important role in major decision-making such as choosing our school charities, selecting playground equipment and even choosing our logo and the colour of our uniform (we changed from dark green to our current red in 2008).
Please talk to your child about the elections and encourage them to stand. They will need to be confident in speaking with older children and adults. If your child would like to stand, they need to tell the class teacher by Friday. Then, next week, they should be ready with a presentation – they could talk about what they would like to do for the school and its pupils if they were elected. They will deliver this speech early next week and the elections will be held on Thursday.