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06 January 2012

This week, the spellings are all words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 13 January.

Welcome back!

I hope you’ve had an enjoyable break. I’m pleased to say that the children have returned to school refreshed and ready to learn! You can help your child at home this term in the following ways:

• Practising the 2, 5 and 10 times table.
• Doubling and halving numbers (you could show this by using coins or other objects).
• Encouraging your child to use ‘because’ to explain their answers about books that they have read.
• Handwriting – you can download our handwriting guide here

Parents’ Evening will be in February so I look forward to seeing you all again then.

06 January 2012

This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 11 January 2012.

I can find different materials around the house.

Remember, all objects are made of a type of material (wood, glass, pottery, metal).

06 January 2012

This week’s spellings begin with ‘th’. Your child will be tested on Friday 13 January 2012.

• three
• throat
• throne
• thigh
• thin
• thing
• thick
• throw
• threw
• think

Star Wars Anti-bullying

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWY5FSBI_Ic&feature=youtu.be

An example of one of our brilliant anti-bullying homeworks

06 January 2012

Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 11 January 2012.

I can produce a piece of work for our Snowbound display.

Create a piece of work about snow, ice or being snowbound. Your work could be:

• Art work about snow or ice
• Collage or a collection of snow vocabulary – in other languages, too, perhaps
• Poetry
• Recounts or reports of snowy days
• Weather forecasts
• Your own idea

For this homework activity, your efforts should not go in your homework book. It should be bright, colourful, attractive and ready to be put up on display.

Our new SEAL theme is…

Rights and Responsibilities

SEAL stands for Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning.  This is a national scheme that promotes self-awareness, managing feelings, empathy, social skills and motivation. 

At Moortown Primary, we’re dedicated to the value of SEAL in promoting a happy and healthy place to learn.  However, we’re always thinking about other ways to meet our children’s needs and interests.  That’s one of the reasons we choose to sometimes break away from the national SEAL themes to do something different.

This half term, we’ll think about our rights and responsibilities and, importantly, that if we have rights, we also have responsibilities.  We last taught this in Spring term 2010 and it was very successful.  For example, children said:

• We have the right to resources; we have the responsibility to look after them.
• We have the right to have money; we have the responsibility to earn it.
• We have the right to live in a clean and tidy city; we have the responsibility to not drop litter.
• We have the right to food; we have the responsibility to make healthy choices.
• We have the right to play sports; we have the responsibility to follow the rules.

As you can see, some important messages are promoted.  Each week this half-term, we’ll concentrate on a different area:

• Week beginning 03 January: being healthy
• Week beginning 09 January: community and making a positive contribution
• Week beginning 16 January: learning
• Week beginning 23 January: jobs and money
• Week beginning 30 January: staying safe
• Week beginning 06 February: general

Perhaps you can support your child’s learning by discussing and promoting rights and responsibilities at home, too.

It’s Party Time

On Thursday 15 December it will be the Christmas party for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 after lunch.  The children must come to school in their school uniform but are welcome to bring some party clothes to change into for the party.

Please ensure that the clothes are easy for the children to put on themselves and that they are in a named carrier bag.  Please remember that they will be playing party games and dancing so make sure that the shoes that they bring are sensible. 

Thank you.

09 December 2011

To spell words with the “ch” sound.

09 December 2011

The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 14 December.

I know what Christmas means to different people.

We want you to have a discussion at home about what Christmas means to different people. Try to think of lots of different people and what they do at Christmas time.