Happy New Year. Welcome Back to a New Term

4 January 2017

Happy New Year. Welcome back to a new term.

There will be a Christingle Service at 2.15pm on Thursday 12 January at St Peter’s church. Children will be making Christingles for this. Please do join us if you can.

For your information, this is what we will be studying this term:

Ancient Greece

Attached to this letter is a summary web of what the children will be learning.

Additional information, dates and resources are available on the school website.

In mathematics, the children will do daily maths activities covering all areas of computation. We will continue to use Maths on Target for mathematics progression. Year 6 children will be given a weekly arithmetic paper to do for homework (some Year 5 children will also be given this homework). We recommend the Usborne mathematics dictionary to help support homework.

P.E. will continue to be on a Monday and Friday with Mr Wellings. In bad weather,children will be transported to the village hall.

The Children will continue to learn Spanish with Mrs Wilson on a Monday. Children will do alternate weeks of English grammar and Spanish.

Homework

Reading

The children have been asked to keep a record, in their home school links book (class 3 – on a bookmark), of all the books they read and the dates they started them. It is important that they read at home every day and can discuss favourite books by author or genre. Please ask your child to hand in their home-school link book if you have any messages. Please do not hesitate to come into school if you want to discuss the books your child is reading; we are always happy to help.

Comprehension activities and reading different texts form an integral part of many lessons. All of this is monitored carefully by teachers and support staff. In addition, there is a quiet reading time every day.

Each Monday the children will be given spellings from the National Curriculum to learn. The children will have a spelling test on a Monday.

Friday mornings will include multiplication tests,mental maths, and homework followup. Key Stage 2 will continue to be split into three groups.

Education City Homework has been a great success with children consolidating class learning at home.

Each week the children will be set English, mathematics and science homework on Education City. Class 3 children will be given homework over 2 weeks. The number of activities each week will vary. The homework requires access to a computer. If this is a problem, please get in touch with us as soon as possible.

Nessychildren will continue to have access to this spelling programme. Once again there will be a prize for the child in each class who learns the most spellings.

Homework project: Children in Key Stage 2 will continue to lead an assembly on Thursday afternoons. Last term this homework was very successful.

The theme is Magical Musical Instruments. Children have been asked to research facts about one musical instrument, talk about the instrument, find a piece of music in which the instrument has a significant part, name the composer of the music and play all or part of the music as part of the assembly. The assembly does not need to be lengthy. Children need to think about their audience and make sure they have rehearsed what they want to say.

It is very important that your child knows when their slot is and is adequately prepared. If your child needs any support, resources, equipment to make something with or wants to print out something at school, please let us know. We have some resources in school. Children have use of the hall computer and projector. Some children prepare work at home and then copy their work onto powerpoint at school. In the past, children have included short videos, models, drama, costumes and artefacts. The rota is below. A similar list will be on the wall in class so that the children can write in the name of their artist once they have decided. This will avoid repetition.

Thursday Assembly rota:

Wider Opportunities

This term, Class 2 and 3 will be split up into four mixed-age groups. Approximately every four weeks, each group will move to a different activity.

Activity 1

Cookery

Leader: Miss Dugdale

Children will learn basic methods and seasonal cookery. In addition, children will experiment with ingredients and create their own recipes.

Activity 2

Gardening

Leader: Miss Carter

Please bring in warm clothes and wellington/ outdoor boots.

The school will provide gardening gloves.

Work will cover RHS levels, sustainability issues, Eco work and the setting up of a school vegetable stall.

Activity 3

Art Design and Church Links

Leader: Mrs Child

Children will research an artist. Their art work will be inspired by this artist.

Activity 4

Design and Technology

Leader: Mrs Gravestock and Mrs Momcilovic

Children will learn about programming. They will build on their knowledge of ‘Scratch’ to make simple programs. In addition, they will create animations based on the Greek Myths.

Activity 5

Knitting

Leader: Mrs McAra

Children will make a knitted gift.

Please let us know if you are interested in helping with any of these activities.

Diary Dates From Spring 2017

We will inform you of any changes, but please keep up to date on the school website

Tuesday 3 January:PD Day (children not in school – Global Learning, CPD with Longnor Primary School

Wednesday 4 January:Children return to school (spring term)

Thursday 12 January:2.15pm Christingle Service St Peter’s Church

Tuesday 24 January:Ks2 Tri-golf, Church stretton

Thursday 26 January:Sal Tonge story-teller with KS2

Tuesday 7 February:Regional netball finals, Ludlow School

Wednesday 8 February:Year 5 STEM day at Church Stretton secondary school

Monday 20 February:Half Term

Monday 27 February:Children return to school

Monday 27 February:Yr 3&4 Dodgeball, Church Stretton

Tuesday 28 February:Regional indoor athletics finals, Ludlow School

Friday 3 March:Wrekin College Maths Challenge – Year 5

Tuesday 7 March:Winter games – KS2- Shrewsbury sports village

Wednesday 15 March:Y3&4 Quicksticks, Church Stretton

Tuesday 21 March:Reception/Y1 sports festival, Church Stretton

Tuesday 28 March:Regional Y5&6 dodgeball finals, Church Stretton

Friday 7 April:9.30am Easter Service, St Peter’s Church

Monday 10 April:Easter holiday start

Monday 24 April:Children return to school (summer term)

Tuesday 25 April:Y2 sports activities, Church Stretton

Friday 28 April:KS 2 regional tri-golf finals, Lacon Childe school

Tuesday 2 May:Y3&4 tennis, Church Stretton

Monday 8 May:SATS Week. All Year 6 children must be in school

Thursday 18 May:Y5&6 orienteering, Cardingmill Valley

Monday 29 May:Half term starts

Monday 5 June:Children return to school. Residential visit Cleobury Outdoor Centre

Tuesday 6 June: Residential visit Cleobury Outdoor Centre

Wednesday 7 JuneResidential visit Cleobury Outdoor Centre

Monday 12 June:Year 1 phponics screening checks all week (includes Y2 retests)

Y5&6 rounders, Church Stretton

Wednesday 14 June:Regional rounders finals, Ludlow Town FC

Thursday 15 June:Concord College Choir competition

Friday 16 June:KS 2 visit to Millichope Estate

Thursday 22 June:KS2 athletics, Church Stretton

Tuesday 4 July:Summer schools’ games finals, Shrewsbury Sports Village

Tuesday 11 July:Reception/Y1 sports festival, Church Stretton

Wednesday 12 July:School end of term concert (2.00pm, St Peter’s Church)

Thursday 20 July:regional athletics finals, Ludlow school

Friday 21 July:9.30 am Year 6 Leavers’ Service, St Peter’s Church

Last day of term

Class 2 Timetable Spring 2017

Mrs Collins

As always, we will keep you informed through the weekly newsletter.

If you have any questions, please ask.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Diane Pye Mrs Kate Collins