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04 November 2011

This week, the spellings are all adjectives that we will be using in our promotional writing next week.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 11 November. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.

04 November 2011

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 09 November.

I can multiply.

The children have a sheet stuck into their homework books which they must complete and hand in.

04 November 2011

This week, we are learning to spell words with the ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sound.

These will be tested on Friday 11 November.

04 November 2011

The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 09 November.

I can read and write numbers in figures and words.

Read through the sheet with your child. Then allow him / her to complete it as best they can.

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!