Congratulations to Tommy in 3DW for his enthusiasm and participation in all lessons!
Well done to Aaliyah in 3HG for her hard work across the curriculum, especially in her times tables and descriptive poetry!
Head Teacher’s Award
6GM Headteacher Award 18.02.2022
6GM Headteacher Award 18.02.2022
Well done Beau!
On behalf of the 6GM family, we would like to say a ‘MASSIVE’ well done to Beau this week for achieving the Headteacher Award. We have all been impressed on how well you have taken on the role as Head Girl. In every sphere of school life, you demonstrate those qualities such as positivity and resilience, which makes you such a wonderful role model. We are all so proud of you! 🙂
Head Teachers Award!
Well Done to the 4 children who received the Head Teachers Award this week, we are extremely proud of you all. Keep up the excellent work!
Well Done to Elsie in 4AT who is always really helpful to anyone around her and is an excellent friend who is always their for anyone who needs her.
Well Done to Grace in 4GW for her improved confidence and effort in Maths
Well Done to Logan in 4PP for his excellent effort during his Maths and English work.
Head Teacher Awards 18th February
6BB Head Teacher’s Award
Well done to Larna for your super fractions, decimals and percentage pizza; it was brilliant!
Windy Days
WORLD BOOK DAY THURSDAY 3rd MARCH 2022
Just a reminder that we will celebrating World Book Day in school on Thursday 3rd March.
For a donation of £1, children can come into school dressed as a well-known children’s story book character. There will also be a ‘free to enter’ poster competition to promote children’s favourite book titles. Posters will be displayed in our school library and there will be a small prize for the winning entries. There will also be a family ‘guess the staff and story character’ competition. This will be a photo competition where you will need to identify the members of staff and the story character that they are dressed up as. This competition will be sent home after World Book Day and will cost £1 to enter. The first correct winning entry pulled out of the hat for each key stage will win a £10 book voucher.
National Storytelling Week
There were lots of lovely reading activities that took place in school during National Storytelling Week, with children from across the school reading and telling stories both indoors and out at our Forest School Site. Year 4 created some lovely artwork too linked to their story telling theme based on The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.
Year 5 Half Term Homework
Above are the links to the games to play for your homework – enjoy!!
Week Beginning 14th February
In phonics this week, the children will be assessed on the progress they have made and whether they will need to move into a different phonics group, after half term. Well done to all the children that have accessed their phonics materials online, it really does make a huge impact on their reading. As well as reading, keep practising letter formation and simple caption writing, at home. The children need to work on the use of finger spaces and presentation of their writing, so as much practise as possible, is fantastic!
In maths this week, we are introducing 9 and 10. The children will be learning to recognise different representations of 9 and 10 and what they notice when we place 9 and 10 counters on a tens frame. Are there any gaps? Is our tens frame full? What does that tell us? The children will then move on to learn about the way we can compose 9 and 10, using double sided counters. To extend their learning, they will try and write a number sentence to show how they have composed the numbers in different ways. We will also be learning how to order numbers 1-10 and then 10-1. The children will order numbers 1-10 with a partner. Their partner will jumble up some numbers when their partner isn’t looking – can they spot the mistake?
In the wider curriculum this week, we will be reading the story ‘Alien’s Love Underpants’. The children will be discussing the structure of the story – what happens at the beginning/middle/end? Later in the week, the children will be designing their own underpants! But uh-oh! Some cheeky aliens will be coming to steal the children’s underpants, in replace of a letter. At the end of the week, we will write a letter back to the aliens, using the children’s ideas on what they would like to say to them.
Please remember to keep reading with your child at home and accessing the phonics materials online. When reading to your child at home, discuss the different characters, settings and events. Delve deeper into the story and broaden their understanding of different texts.
Have a fabulous week and well deserved half term break!
The reception team