Remember, Remember…
… Thursday 10th November!
It’s our class assembly. We look forward to seeing you there at 2.40.
04 November 2011
This week’s homework is Practice makes Perfect.
I can add numbers using a number line.
R2 (Remember to)
- Start with the largest number (circle it on your number line).
- Count on the amount of the smaller number.
- The number that you reach is your answer.
The children have different calculations depending on which maths group they are in. Please see their homework books for the correct calculations. Do ask me, Miss Hewson, or Mr Roundtree, if you’d like some help in supporting your child.
04 November 2011
This week’s spellings are ‘ly’ words. Your child will be tested on Friday 11 November 2011. It’d be great if the children could think of some of their own ‘ly’ words too!
- bravely
- proudly
- loudly
- sadly
- wisely
- quietly
- shyly
- weakly
- sweetly
- kindly
This week’s phonemes
This week, your child will be learning the letters s, a, t, p, i, n and the sounds they make.
The children will be taught some of the terminology we use. So that you don’t feel left out, here are a few definitions:
- A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.
- A grapheme is the letter, or letters, representing a phoneme, such as t, ai, igh, ch.
- A digraph is two letters, making one sound; a consonant digraph contains two consonants (sh, ck, th), whilst a vowel digraph contains at least one vowel (ai, ee, ar, oy).
- A trigraph is three letters making one sound, like igh, dge.
- Blending is recognising the letter sounds in a written word (for example c-u-p), and merging or synthesising them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word ‘cup’ (this is essential during the reading process).
- Segmenting is the opposite of blending; it involves identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word (eg ‘him’ = h – i – m) and writing down letters for each sound to form the word (segmenting supports the writing process).
- A c-v-c word is a consonant, vowel, consonant word such as c-a-t and also sh-o-p.
Encourage your child to read and write cvc words, especially using letters and sounds that you know we’ve covered in school – this week, lots of words can be blended and segmented using s, a, t, p, i, n.
Hobby Half Day
Check out our fantastic photos of our first Hobby Half Day!
Children from Year 1 to Year 6 had the opportunity to participate in an afternoon of learning something new. The activities ranged from everyday baking and cooking to the unusual: creating their own carbon footprint.
Even easier ways to vote for Bronwen!
Following a previous item urging people with a Leeds Learning email account to support Bronwen (a Y6 pupil) in her bid to be Leeds Mayor for the Day, they’ve made it even easier for everyone with email to vote.
Voting opened on Leeds Learning Network (LLN) on Monday 17 October and since then over 1,700 votes have been cast. In addition to this, following feedback from schools and in the interests of a fair democracy, organisers at Leeds Children’s Services have now enabled individuals without LLN accounts to vote via the city’s ‘Breeze’ website.
So, to summarise:
- if you’ve a Leeds Learning account, please use this to vote for Bronwen;
- if you don’t, please use the Breeze site and then send a quick email with your vote.
Voting closes at midday on Friday 04 November. If you haven’t yet voted please take three minutes to do so – as a smaller school than other candidates, it’s really important that as many as possible vote. The results have been so close in previous years that every last vote can make a difference!
Our new SEAL theme
Our SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) theme for the second half of the autumn term is Getting On. This theme covers four main aspects:
- developing the social skills of friendship
- working well together in a group
- managing anger
- resolving conflict
Group work takes place across all lessons and even at lunchtime and playtimes. Some questions for children to consider are:
- Did everyone take turns?
- Did everyone listen to what other people thought?
- Did each person have chance to tell the group what they thought?
- If people had different ideas could the group reach a compromise?
It’s the holiday…
…so there are no homework or spellings.
However, there are lots of ways you can support you child’s learning, first and foremost by visiting our Help Your Child section.
There are lots of things to do in or near Leeds, from geo-caching on Monday to a spooky Halloween walk on Sunday. Here are a few other ideas to fill the October half-term holiday with activities…
- take your child for an autumnal walk in Roundhay Park to collect chestnuts for a game of conkers or autumn leaves for an autumn collage;
- on a cold, autumn day, stay indoors and spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
- take a trip to Leeds Art Gallery – the Damien Hirst exhibition should prove a great opportunity for lots of discussion, description and possibly disagreement!
- and, as always, enjoy some relaxing reading (why not read some Tintin stories from a local library in preparation for the forthcoming film?)
School re-opens on Tuesday 01 November 2011 (following a training day on Monday 31 October 2011).
An Amazing Assembly
Last Thursday, Year 1 shared their learning in “a really fab assembly”. The children have been learning about the people in our community and showed this through drama and singing.
“What a wonderful show. Excellent theme for them to appreciate all the people that help us.”
As you can see from the quotes, our parents thought the children did really well. Thank you to all the parents for your support.
“What a fantastic performance – such confidence from all of the children.”
Green Fingers in Y5
On Monday 17 October, a group of Y5 children did some fantastic work in our local community. We have created a partnership with Moortown in Bloom and over the past few months we have been helping them develop a patch of land at the end of Stonegate Road and Scothall Road. Here are some of the children in action!
