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28 January 2011

This week we are spelling words that end in ‘ck’.

Don’t forget school is closed on Friday so the test will be on Thursday!

The Great Swapathon

The Great Swapathon is a new initiative from Change4Life and aims to give families tips, help and advice to encourage healthier lifestyles in an effort to deliver one million swaps across England.

Whether you swap fizzy drinks for pure fruit juice, swap snacking on a bag of crisps for a handful of fresh or dried fruit or swap four wheels for two feet there are simple swaps that everyone could try.

Today all children have received information about the campaign and will complete Talk Time homework to show how they can make a healthy swap.  We do have some spare voucher books if you would like more or to pass them on to others.  Please ask at the office.

 The Change4Life website includes a useful new tool to help people find more personalised swaps and also recipes for meals and healthier alternatives to favourite snacks.

 Our Packed Lunch guidance, launched last term, also includes lots of ideas for healthy swaps including:

• swapping white bread for wholegrain and other carbohydrates such as pasta
• swapping sweetened drinks for water provided at lunchtime
• swapping unhealthy snacks every day to once a week. 

We would encourage children who bring a packed lunch to school to consider a swap they could make to their packed lunch.  The Packed Lunch guidance is available from the office or in the Find Out section (meal).

 It would be great to hear about your swaps and more importantly if you have managed to stick to them!

28 January 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges all have the suffix ‘est’.

Apples have some high-frequency words to remember.

Don’t forget – school is closed on Friday so the test will be a day earlier!

28 January 2011

The spellings this week are the same homophones as last week. Children need to keep practising them. They might be tested on any of the words. When practising at home with your child, try to put each word into a sentence so that the meaning of each word and it’s spelling becomes securely embedded.

(For an extra challenge, try creating a sentence with both homophones eg I knew the new toy was a good choice.)

Don’t forget – school is closed on Friday so the test will be a day earlier!

1. new             knew

2. right           write

3. through    threw

4. great         grate

5. their           there

6. hole           whole

7. no               know

8. pair            pear

9. heard        herd

10. poor         pour

11. bored        board

12. peace       piece

13. aloud       allowed

Spellings will be tested on Friday 4 February. Good luck!

28 January 2011

This week’s homework is talk time and is linked to the Change4Life Great Swapathon.

I can make a healthy swap.

If you bring a packed lunch to school you could use the Packed Lunch Guidance document to find a suitable swap.

Use your swapathon resources and / or the swapathon website for more personalised swaps.

Be prepared to share your swap with your class.

28 January 2011

This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘f’, ‘fe’ and ‘ve’. We are learning to write them as plurals.

Spellings will be tested on Thursday 03 February. (Don’t forget – school is closed on Friday.)

Class Poetry

As you know, Year Six studying a unit of work where they are imagining they are ‘Snowbound’ in school. As part of the topic, we have been studying different writing genres.

Today the class worked together to share ideas about writing poetry.

We wrote a poem about sleeping in school that compares the noises, thoughts and fears you may have at night in school to those you may have in a jungle.

Here is our poem.

Classroom Jungle

Darkness… all around.

Wailing wind lashes windows,

Tiger-claw branches scratch.

It whispers: let me in.

Blinds are shadow makers,

Moonlight is squeezing through.

Transforming everything.

Children are snakes,

Tables are fallen trees,

Door keys are panther eyes:

Staring….. staring.

Caged animals line the walls,

Clicking and groaning.

Bat-like paper draped from the ceiling…

Waiting.

To pounce?

BANG!

A drawer falls, eyes open, hearts pound, screams of fear,

Night is disturbed.

The classroom jungle has awoken.

By Year Six

28 January 2011

Spellings this week are based on silent letters.  Learn the spellings for your group and find four more words with silent letters.

Spellings will be tested on THURSDAY 04 February – school isn’t open next Friday!

Birthday ‘treats’

We are currently reviewing our Food in School policy and would welcome parents’ / carers’ views on ‘treats’ brought in for birthdays.

Within school we recognise that providing treats can create pressure amongst parents / carers, reduce teaching time, create problems with allergies and create litter.

A number of parents /carers have given their views to Mrs Taylor before school today in the playground.  However, if you have any views on this and whether we should ban or discourage birthday treats please contact Mrs Taylor via the office.

SEAL statement 24 Jan

Being resourceful is the next of our 7 Rs for learning.  ‘I can be resourceful’ is this week’s statement.

Resourcefulness includes managing your time, resources and ultimately your learning. 

This week, take some time to look at the all the resources available in the classroom to help with your learning.