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We’re in the Juniors now!

5th September 2019A Lenney

Welcome to Year 3.

I am so excited and thrilled to say hello to our time in Year 3. This is such an exciting time in our learning journey, we will be building on everything we learned in Key Stage 1 and exploring and acquiring new skills as we move forward.

Our journey starts by travelling back in time to The Stone Age, which we will study as part of our project Tribal Tales. We will be exploring cave paintings, amazing creatures and the lives of those people who lived so long ago.

Some important things to note for Year 3

PE Days are Tuesday and Friday. On a Tuesday we will be taking part in a Yoga class for the first half term, also on a Tuesday we will be taking part in Pedestrian Training, so a Tuesday afternoon will be very busy.

Reading Days will be shared with the children by the end of the first week, and I will also be sending more information out about homework this week.

Mr Mac and I have been absolutely thrilled with the way the children have coped with the challenge of Year 3. Indeed lots of people have commented on how sensible and confident the children have been. What an amazing start!

As ever, if you have any questions or concerns, or just want a chat to find out how things are going, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Thank you for your continuing enthusiasm and support.

Miss Lenney and Mr Mac

Welcome to Reception

4th September 2019J Evans

Image result for every child is different kind of flower Reception team:

Mrs Evans, Mrs Christie, Mrs Murdy and Mrs Kiely.

Useful information:

PE days ~ Wednesday and Friday

Forest School ~ Wednesday afternoon

Children are encouraged to bring a water bottle into school and are welcome to bring a fruit snack for afternoon playtime.

Special request

Please make sure all uniform and PE kits have your child’s name on.

Imaginative Learning Project

Autumn 1 – Do you want to be friends?

Our first project is all about friendship, being kind and working together.

As well as getting to know each other we will be going around school so the children can meet all of the people who are there to help them.

Bring Your Parent To School Day : Maths and Dancing

2nd July 2019Mr G Mcintosh

On Friday 7th June, Year 5 parents were invited into school to work alongside their children. The first activity came from resources from the Week of Inspirational Maths – parents and children first watched a short video aimed at raising awareness of different approaches to maths reasoning and problem-solving. Then, parents and children worked together, using resources, to puzzle out possible solutions to a coin-related challenge. Excellent team-work and logical working was witnessed. Congratulations go to Hayden, Matthew, Lewis and Matthew and Lewis’ dad who found the solution first.

After that, the group travelled back to Tudor times and took part in a few Tudor past-times: they took part in a dance workshop which was made up of several Henry VIII’s activities including tennis and jousting; they also played ’31’ a classic Tudor dice game and ‘Nine Men’s Morris’ which is a Tudor board game and enjoyed learning a classic Tudor branle dance.

Both children and adults enjoyed their morning.

2nd July 2019J Evans

Welcome to Reception

Reception team:

Mrs Evans, Mrs Christie, Mrs Murdy and Mrs Kiely.

Useful information:

PE days ~ Monday and Thursday

Forest School ~ Monday afternoon

Children are encouraged to bring a water bottle into school and are welcome to bring a fruit snack for afternoon playtime.

Special request

Please make sure all uniform and PE kits have your child’s name on.

Imaginative Learning Project

Summer 2 ~ Will you read me a story?

As we launch into our last half term together in Reception we will be stepping into The Fairytale Forest to share stories together with some special guest story teller mums and dads. We will also be writing our own stories following the fairy tale formula using our amazing writing and phonics skills, we are so proud of our children’s progress this year.

In Maths we will continue to explore big numbers and be applying our skills in problem solving activities not just with numbers. We hope you enjoyed our recent ‘Inspirational Maths’ morning.

Our story focus leads us nicely to finding out about castles with lots of role play and fact finding. We are planning a visit to Newcastle Keep to ‘experience’ life in a castle and find out just how amazing (not) it was.

In Forest School we will continue to find out about the mini beasts that live there but we may have to lend a hand to the fairy godmother if one of her fairies goes missing.

We hope you will be able to join us for our Family Picnic in the Park in the last week of term, weather permitting.

Thank you for all of your support, your children are amazing.

Finding germs!

4th June 2019A Lenney

We have been finding out about Louis Pasteur in science, so we decided to carry out an experiment of our own. We had two pieces of bread, we did not handle one piece, but the other piece we all handled. Now we are waiting to see what happens!