A big welcome back to you all and a Happy New Year!

We hope that the following information will be useful to you:

Outline of some areas of topic work to be covered: This Spring Term we will be investigating Light and shadows, the human body, our partner school, Sikusi Primary in Mbale, an introduction to e-mail, exploring simulations, printing, painting with sound, design a party hat, dance and gym, Judaism, home and synagogue and citizenship and lifestyles.    Information and artefacts, which would be useful: We would be grateful if you have any interesting artefacts, photographs or books related to any of the above that we might borrow, or if you have any personal experiences or expertise in these areas, you might like to share with the class. Any internet research will be more meaningful to your child if it is restricted to pictures or materials specifically prepared for children.

Suggested ways in which you can support Literacy and Numeracy: It would be really helpful if you could practise mental addition/subtraction, 2,3,4,5, 6 and 7 times tables. Please help your child by testing and reciting the tables in a fun way. In addition to this please help them to read and tell the time through everyday activities.   Each child needs to bring to school their reading book every day as they will use it during our group reading sessions.   Your child might like to make a simple comment, relating to likes/dislikes in their reading record. Asking questions such as “Why did he/she do that?” or “What do you think happens next?” would help children in understanding text and aid comprehension work.

Other information: During this term we will be practising, creating and performing for the Eisteddfod.   P.E. is on a Thursday – all children need to bring their P.E. kit to change into for every lesson. Please make sure that the children bring the correct P.E. kit for lessons in the hall.   Homework will generally cover activities from Literacy and Numeracy lessons, however, there may be pieces of homework relating to topic work.

Thank you for your continued support
Mrs Dobbins

 

Happy new year to you!

I hope you all enjoyed the Christmas break. 

 

Here is some information regarding your child's learning during the Spring term 2013. I hope it will be helpful and will enable you to support your child’s learning at home.

Outline of some areas of thematic work to be covered:

The uses of electricity and its control in simple circuits, forces of different kinds and the way forces can affect movement and how they can be compared. Roman villas/Tudor homes, Cardiff Bay, Developing images and modelling effects and dream/fantasy landscapes.

Information and artefacts, which would be useful:

We would be grateful if you have any interesting artefacts, photographs or books related to any of the above that we might borrow, or if you have any personal experiences or expertise in these areas, you might like to share with the class. Any internet research will be more meaningful to your child if it is restricted to pictures or materials specifically prepared for children.

Suggested ways in which you can support Literacy and Numeracy:

It would be really helpful if you could regularly practise mental addition/subtraction, 2,3,4,5 times tables please and, when your child is ready, the 6 and 8 times tables. Please help your child by testing and reciting the tables in a fun way.

Big Write – Please can you talk with your child every day about the chosen topic for that week as this will help in the Big write lessons on Friday.

Each child needs to bring their reading book every day to read during registration. Your child might like to make a simple comment, relating to likes/dislikes in their reading record. Asking questions such as “why did he do that?” or “what do you think happens next?” would help children in understanding text and aid comprehension work.

Other information:

P.E. is on a Tuesday – all children need to bring their P.E. kit to change into for every lesson. Please make sure that the children bring a P.E. kit for lessons in the hall and for outside as we will try and get outside as much as possible in the fine weather!

Homework will generally cover activities from Literacy and Numeracy lessons, however there may be pieces of homework relating to our theme.

 

Thank you for your support.

Welcome back I hope you all had a lovely summer holiday. Here is some information about this term which might be useful to you. This Autumn term we will be learning about the characteristics of materials, keeping warm, textiles, the Romans and Tudors and our local area.   We would be grateful if you have any interesting artefacts, photographs or books related to any of the above that we might borrow, or if you have any personal experiences or expertise in these areas, you might like to share with the class. Any internet research will be more meaningful to your child if it is restricted to pictures or materials specifically prepared for children.

It would be really helpful if you could practise mental addition/subtraction, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables as well as the 6 and 7 times tables. Please help your child by testing and reciting the tables in a fun way.   Each child needs to bring their reading book every day to read. Your child might like to make a simple comment, relating to likes/dislikes in their reading record. Asking questions such as “why did he do that?” or “what do you think happens next?” would help children in understanding text and aid comprehension work.

P.E. is on a Tuesday – all children need to bring their P.E. kit to change into for every lesson. Please make sure that the children bring a P.E. kit for lessons in the hall and for outside as we will try and get outside as much as possible in the fine weather!   Homework will generally cover activities from Literacy and Numeracy lessons, however there may be pieces of homework relating to topic work.

Welcome to the SUMMER TERM 2012!! I hope that you all had a good Easter holiday. Hopefully the following information will be useful to you and will enable you to support your child’s learning at home. Our topic work this term will be ‘Our World’. We will be investigating helping plants grow, habitats, Roman people of importance, improving the environment, designing and making a pop-up book, introduction to databases and collecting and interpreting graphs. We would be grateful if you have any interesting artefacts, photographs or books related to any of the above that we might borrow, or if you have any personal experiences or expertise in these areas, you might like to share with the class. Any internet research will be more meaningful to your child if it is restricted to pictures or materials specifically prepared for children. It would be helpful if you could continue to practise mental addition and subtraction, and the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 times tables. Please help your child by testing and reciting the tables in a fun way. Don’t forget to keep asking them to tell the time through everyday activities. Some of the Literacy activities will develop different styles of writing. Your child will continue to be given spellings to learn in class each week. We encourage the use of “look, say, cover, write, check” when learning spelling patterns. Each child should bring their reading book on their reading day and the children will be given opportunities to read a variety of library books. Your child might like to make a simple comment, relating to likes/dislikes in their reading record. Asking questions such as “why did he do that?” or “what do you think happens next?” would help children in understanding text and aid comprehension work. P.E. is still on a Tuesday – all children need to bring their P.E. kit to change into for every lesson. Thank you, once again, for your continued support.

Spring term 2012

Our topic for this term is 'Colour and Light'. We will be investigating light and shadows, circuits and conductors, our partner school Sikusi Primary in Mbale, an introduction to email, exploring simulations, printing, painting with sound, design a party hat, dance and gym, Judaism, home and synagogue and citizenship and lifestyles. during this term we will also be practising, creating and performing for the Eisteddfod.

It would be really helpful if you could continue to practise mental addition and subtraction and the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 times tables. Please help your child by testing and reciting the tables in a fun way. In addition, please help them to read and tell the time through everyday activities.

Thank you, once again, for your support.

Welcome

Welcome to the new Autumn Term

This term our topic is 'Materials'. We will investigate the characteristics of materials, keeping warm, textiles and the Romans. Any internet research will be more meaningful to your child if it is restricted to pictures or materials specifically prepared for children.

It would be really helpful if you could practise mental addition/subtraction, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables as well as the 6 and 7 times tables. Please help your child by testing and reciting the times tables in a fun way.

P.E. is on a Tuesday - all children need to bring their P.E. kit to change into for every lesson. Please make sure that the children bring a P.E. kit suitable for lessons in the hall and for outside as we will try to get outside as much as possible in the fine weather!

Homework will generally cover activities from Literacy and Numeracy lessons, however there may be pieces of homework relating to topic work.

Thank you for your support.