This week has been assessment week for the children. They have worked so hard to do their best and show off what they have learnt. Well done 🙂 

In between assessments, we have been continuing to read and discuss ‘The fastest boy in the world’. We have reached the part in the story where the main character Solomon and his grandfather travel to Piazza to visit family, but when they arrive, the family are unwelcoming and we predict that something has happened in the past to make them so hostile. 

In our Geography topic of ‘Cities, counties and regions’ we have begun to explore how the United Kingdom is split into these different areas and what their characteristics are. The children completed a double page spread full of facts about counties in England and have created an informative leaflet about visiting a city.

On Wednesday, KS2 had a ‘Growth mindset’ workshop with Rackeem Reid. Rackeem talked about the importance of developing resilience and ‘I can’ attitudes to build confidence and aid in being successful now and in the future. He also explained the differences between a ‘fixed’ and a ‘growth’ mindset and made links to successful celebrities who show/showed dedication and hardwork in their careers. 

Along with asking the children to read regularly at home, practice their spellings and practice regularly on times tables rockstars, we have sent home an extra piece of homework this week which is optional but useful for the children. It’s a question sheet based on watching an animation over the weekend. Our new computing topic is animation so this will help the children make links between what they know already and what we will be learning about next.

Please bring any completed animation homework sheets back into school by next Wednesday 🙂 

Thank you for the continued support.

Miss Taylor, Miss Hodson, Miss Wade and Mrs Cartwright.

We have had another fun filled week in lower key stage 2.
In our English lessons, the children have spent the week writing their newspaper reports based on the comparison between the old school in Shawbury and our current school, they included first hand quotes from the staff interviews and interesting facts about what school life was like over 10 years ago.

In Science, we are continuing to learn about teeth and their role in the digestive system. This week we have set up an experiment to observe how different liquids can affect our teeth enamel, we have used eggs to represent enamel and will be observing and discussing any changes over the next week.

We are getting stuck into maths and developing our place value knowledge and skills.

Homework:

A few parents have asked about Seesaw logins so we just wanted to update you with our homework arrangements this term as we are not currently using Seesaw to post homework tasks on.
Currently the children’s homework is to:

• Read as much as possible to/with an adult (4 or more times a week will earn them a tick on our reading rocket which leads to bronze, silver and gold certificates)
• Practice times tables on Times tables rockstars, times tables are so important in lots of mathematics areas and we encourage the children to practice as much as possible to help with speed and accuracy.
• Practice the spellings that are given to the children in Year 3 and 4 every Monday, they write these in their  ‘log books’ that they bring home each day. They are then tested on these spellings on a Friday. We would like the children to practice reading and writing these words so that they can apply the learnt spelling rule into their reading and writing.

A polite reminder that the children need to wear suitable PE kits on their PE days, a white top/ polo shirt and black  or navy shorts / joggers with no large logos.

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Taylor, Mrs Cartwright, Miss Wade and Miss Hodson.