Week
beginning 11th February 2013
Well, it has been a hard working half term, but
we have reached the last week before a well-earned holiday. Hopefully all the
illness will run its course and everyone will return, fit and well after a
week's rest.
As always, the last week of any half term, is
Assessment and Review week, where we checked what the children have learned
over the last few weeks, how much they have retained and can apply to new
learning, and also plan for the next steps to enable the children to make
further progress in the next half term.
Literacy
We will be checking the children's phonetic
knowledge, and their ability to apply it to blending (reading) and segmenting
(spelling). They will also complete some comprehension checks, as well as some
independent writing. You will receive
information at our Parent Consultation meetings this week, on what you can do
to support your child at home.
a really good game to get children to sort real words and made up words
lots of activities and online games to support spelling
this is a great site for support the 'Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check' method
this is another site for helping with learning spellings. Just input your
child's weekly spellings and they can then mark their own independently
brilliant resources for support blending and segmenting. Children choose the
diagraphs they are learning and create words using them. They can press the
'speaker' icon to hear the sounds blended together.
a list of games to support literacy activities
Maths
This week in Maths we
will be working on Measuring. This will involve measuring the weight of
objects, and reading the time using analogue and digital clocks. Year 1
children will compare two or more weights by direct
comparison, measure weights using uniform non-standard units and read the time
to the hour on analogue clocks.
Year 2 children will know how to estimate,
measure and compare weights in kilograms and grams; and read the time to the
hour and half hour on analogue and digital clocks.
It is important that
your child is confidently able to know and use the language of measurement and
time to achieve this objective and as always your support at home is valued.
Some websites to help
with this are:-
My Maths Level 2 Shape- Measures 2
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.html
Reading comments
Having checked the diaries, the percentages of pupils that have comments in their diaries this week is............
71% across all three classes!
We need a clear winner next week, so keep writing those comments in the diaries, and it could be your child's class next week!
Topic
The children have covered many aspects of houses
and homes and this week will be reviewing their learning from throughout the
topic. The children will also have a chance to look at the paintings of “
Houses” by Paul Klee. They will talk about whether they think the artist
wanted the house to look old or modern. The children will talk about warm and
cold colours. They will look around the classroom to see what colours reflect
different moods.
Parent/Teacher
consultation meetings
We will be holding our parent/teacher
consultation meetings this week. Please remember that these are 10 minutes
appointments. Should you require a longer consultation, you may be asked to
make an additional appointment with the teachers, so that other parents are not
kept waiting. Also, many thanks to those parents who have been as flexible as
possible with their time allocation, as many parents had requested the same
time - we really appreciate it.
FOSV
Tuesday 12th February is Shrove Tuesday. We are
planning to have pancakes on sale after school on that day. We don't need any
donations of food but if there are any parents who can spare 20 minutes to help
out please volunteer by email friendsofstvincents@hotmail.co.uk Pancakes with
choice of toppings will be sold for 50p per portion so please bring some spending
money.
Traffic
/ Parking
Once
again, can we appeal to you NOT to drive your cars into Ditchfield
Road and Finlay Avenue and onto the school premises. To ensure the health
and safety of our children and the good will of our neighbours please use the
parking facilities open to us on the Co-op Car Park. Please pass this message
on to anyone you arrange to collect your children.
We
received a complaint last week from a local resident regarding dangerous and
inconsiderate parking.
PLEASE! GET THE MESSAGE – PASS IT ON
– KEEP SAFE
St
Joseph’s Scout Group
St
Joseph’s Scout Group are raising funds for their forthcoming trip to the
International
Scout Camp in Switzerland. They are collecting
clean, unwanted clothes (no work clothes please) paired shoes, belts and books
for recycling. If you can help, please bring bags into school for the attention
of Mrs Hughes in KS2. Sorry, no bedding, curtains or towels. Thank you.
Book
Fair Open - World Book Day – 7 March 2013
Our School Book Fair will be open from Tuesday 5
to Friday 8 March – 3.00 to 3.45 pm. Please come along and support your school.
School will benefit from commission on every book purchased. The £1 World Book
Day Vouchers may be used at the Fair.
ENTERPRISE
UNIVERSITY – YEAR 5/6
Year 5/6 are organising a CAKE SALE on Thursday
14 February at 3.00 pm. We would be most grateful for any donations of
cakes. All donations can be handed into school on the day for the attention of
Mrs Muckley. ALL WELCOME. Year 5/6 are raising money for their
designated charities
LUNCHTIMES
Could
Parents please provide their children with spoons if anything in their packed
lunches requires one;
ie. Yogurts etc..
Have a good week and enjoy the holidays.
Year 1/2 team
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