Newsletter Issue 3
Friday 23rd September 2011
Dear Parent/Carer,
Parent Forum
I am delighted to announce that our Governing Body are keen to launch a regular opportunity for our parents to meet with them to share a coffee and discuss school matters at a Parent Forum, the first of which will take place from 9.00am on Friday 4th November in the Friendly Faces building. Mrs Ann Parker, Governor, will be accompanied by our Deputy Headteacher Mrs Dale. The Parent Forum is designed as yet another way for our parents to be active participants in the life of our school by providing yet another avenue for dialogue between you and the school.
Clubs
We have had an enormous response to our Clubs offers. Club notifications are coming home today. Most Clubs begin next week – please check the start date for your child’s Club. Some Clubs are suspended for the week after – due to the large contingent of staff that we are sending to meet with our European partners and learn about schools in the Czech Republic. Again, please make a note and make the necessary arrangements if your child’s Club is affected that week. Clubs are provided voluntarily by our staff – we are very fortunate to have such a hard working and dedicated staff. Please ensure that staff are notified if your child will have a scheduled absence from a Club and please ensure that your child is collected on time from his/her Club.
There are still a few spaces remaining on Thursday 3.15-4.15 for Beginner Guitar Lessons. Anyone interested, please see Mrs Dale.
Dates for the year
Our second half of the week Nursery Parents have their Celebration Event on:
Thu 6th October, Thu 8th December, Thu 29th March, Thu 24nd May, Thu 12th July
The Big Draw takes place on Monday 3rd October. We will be opening our doors as The Robin Hood Gallery of Art from 3:15p.m on Tuesday 4th October. We hope that you will be able to join us to view the wonderful outpouring of creativity that we expect. There will even be the chance to purchase some of the Art treasures on display.
Robin Hood’s Got Talent
We want to encourage as many children as possible to put themselves forward for our fantastic Robin Hood’s Got Talent. Please help us and help your child by ensuring that the songs they choose for audition are appropriate and do not contain ‘adult’ themes and references.
Have a fantastic weekend.
Mr Wilson
Nursery newsletter Autumn 1 week 3
Well done to everybody for another fabulous week in Nursery. The children are becoming really confident in their new surroundings! As the weather is getting a bit damper, please make sure you send your child with a waterproof coat every day as we will be taking full advantage of our fabulous outdoor provision.
Please have a look at our Nursery blog at http://robinhoodnursery.blogspot.com/
This week
The children have been sharing information and photographs with their friends, talking about their family members and have created some beautiful frames to put around their photographs. They have also been exploring the natural environment and have produced some stunning Autumn printing which is currently displayed in Nursery. Please do take a look! In numeracy we have been practising counting and using numbers to help us play games and share the toys. Please do encourage your child to count at home too, e.g when walking down steps putting on shoes, fastening buttons etc.
Next week
The children will be finding out more about the different body parts and will be learning songs and ring games to help identify where they are! We will be sharing some 'Funnybones' stories and clips and creating our very own moving bodies! In our number sessions we will continue to practice counting as well as collecting data about eye colour which we will then be putting into pictograms. We will be using an ICT programme to produce our finished outcomes.
How you can help us
Please ensure your child completes the home learning task and brings into school on Monday morning / Wednesday afternoon. This week it is to create a simple family tree (as far as grandparents) We also ask for your support in reading with your child at home sharing stories everyday. Please refere to your childs reading record for hepful tips. Thank you.
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Reception newsletter Autumn 1 week 3
Well done to everybody for another super week in Reception. The children are writing with us every day so please ask them to show you how fabulous they are.
As the weather is getting a bit damper, please make sure you send your child with a waterproof coat every day as we will be taking full advantage of our fabulous outdoor provision.
Please have a look at our Reception blog at: http://mrssatrobinhood.blogspot.com/
This week
The children have been sharing information and photographs with their friends, talking about their family members and creating super zig-zag books. They have even been recorded on the dictaphone by Miss Johal and some of their comments appear on our blog. In numeracy we have been practising counting in 1's, 2's and 5's as well as number spotting in the environment. Please practice counting to ten and back with your child every day!
Next week
The children will be finding out more about the different body parts and we will be using our phonic knowledge to help us label them correctly using the initial sounds (eg 'l' for leg and 'h' for head). We will be sharing some 'Funnybones' stories and clips and will be writing about what we have found out. In our number sessions we will continue to practice counting as well as collecting data about eye colour which we will then be putting into pictograms. We will be using an ICT programme to produce our finished outcomes.
How you can help us
Please ensure your child completes the home learning task and brings into school on Monday morning. This week it is to create a simple family tree and we would like the children to write the initial sounds themselves. We also ask for your support in reading with your child and spending five minutes practising the sounds of the week and the keyword flashcards we have sent home every day. Thank you.
Sounds of the week
these are c and g
Keywords of the week are: of, off, can, on, is, it
Tricky words for this half term are: no, go, the, I, into, to
KS1 News
It's been another fantastic week in Key Stage one! The children have been enthusiastic towards all of their learning, which has included making their own Flanimal and showing off their map reading skills! The Key Stage One staff would like to say thank you to all of the parents/carers who are ensuring their children come to school with their reading records on a Monday morning. We can see all the wonderful reading and other learning the children are doing at home and it has been great to read such positive comments! We will be using the reading records to record the spellings for each week. Please support you child in continuing to use these words in their learning at home.
Literacy
This week the children have been very enthusiastic learning about and making their own Flanimals! Their creations have been fantastic and have allowed the children to produce outstanding booklets. They have included sections such as, describing their appeareance, who their family and friends are, what their hobbies are and what they like to eat.
Next week the children will be starting a two week piece of learning all about why it is important to be healthy. They will be understanding all about the different food groups; fats, fruit and vegetables, protein and carbohydrates. At the end of the two weeks they will be creating their own healthy eating booklet. Please support your child when they are eating to talk about what foods they are and why they may be good or bad for them. A useful website you may want to look at it is http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Activity.aspx?siteId=3§ionId=37&contentId=55
Numeracy
This week in Numeracy the children have been learning all about different sequences. They have looked at sequences in 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's and have been describing patterns in the numbers. The sequences have not only been forwards, but backwards and had missing numbers! The children should be very proud of their efforts as these are very difficult concepts to grasp. Well done to you all! Take a look and see how fantastic your children are!
Next week the children will be using lots of maltesers! They will learning about place value and ordering numbers. To help your children with the understanding of place value, one small packet of maltesers is labelled as one ten, so if they have four packets of maltesers, they will have four tens. Please ask your child about this system next week and see how they explain it to you!
Topic
This week in Topic the children have been developing their map reading skills. This has ranged from understanding 'birds eye views' and what different symbols and colours mean on a map. The children have also navigated themselves around school and created their own 'virtual tour'. Watch out for these on the blog!
Next week the children will be learning all about Rothwell! They will be visiting Morrisons, where they will be able to see the fishmongers and bakery. They will also take a short walk in the centre and look and see what parts of Rothwell are new and what parts of it are old. It is an action packed week and we are sure the children will really enjoy it!
LKS2 Newsletter
We are very proud of everyone in year 3/4 for yet another full week of fabulous learning. Well done to everyone who brought their reading record in on Monday, it was lovely to reward all the children for their home learning!
Literacy
This week we have been practicing our note taking skills whilst finding lots of information out about the vikings from many different resources. We have been using these notes to write super rainbow paragraphs including many different features to entice our reader. Next week we are continuing to entice our readers by adding lots of text effects to our writing and extending our ideas into compound and complex sentences.
Numeracy
The children have been super mathematicians this week ordering both negative and positive numbers. We have also been finding the patterns in different number sequences and continuing them. We had lots of fun solving the Fibonacci sequence. Why not ask your child to explain this to you? Next week we are looking at rounding different two, three and four digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand.
Science
This week we have been creating amazing displays in our classrooms to show off our scientific knowledge of thermal insulators and conductors. We were blown away by the children's explanations of how to keep things warm or cold.
Topic
Next week we are beginning Viking weaving and creating some Viking moving pictures using linkages and levers. We are looking forward to showing you all our fantastic outcomes at our next Friday celebration!
Important notices
As our Danelaw Viking trip is fast approaching please can you ensure that you have returned conformation and payment so that your child is able to attend. Thank you to everyone who has already done so.
Please can you ensure your child has their PE kit in school every week. Miss Thackeray's and Miss Nicholls' PE session is every Tuesday and Mrs Moores' is on a Thursday.
Have a great weekend from the 3/4 team!
UKS2 Newsletter
News Roundup
· A BIG well done to those children who have made a real effort with their reading since the start of term. We really do appreciate the commitment that both children and parents put in at home and it has been a joy to read so many positive and detailed comments. We hope this will continue for the rest of the year.
· There will be an information meeting for Year 6 parents and carers about the residential to Robinwood in Cumbria next year at 5:30pm on Wednesday 28th September
· Next week our topic sessions will focus on the Science unit of Sight and Sound. We will be carrying out our own investigations as well as finding out about how we see and hear. Could we please ask for any cuboid juice cartons or boxes to be sent into school, as we will be using them to make a device to help us see? Thank you.
Numeracy
Next week we will be applying our knowledge of addition and subtraction to real life situations involving calculating percentages. We will be increasing and decreasing values by varying percentages as well as continuing to develop our mental strategies. To get a head start, why not have a look at the following website: http://www.funbrain.com/penguin/index.html
Home learning: please continue to practise your 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables as well as other number facts (e.g. number bonds to 100, 1000, etc). Any additional resources related to specific strategies will be provided for those who wish to practise at home. These resources are NOT compulsory; however we hope that children will choose to use these to help them with their understanding of the units of work.
Literacy
Next week in Literacy, we will be using a variety of resources (including websites, biographies and film clips) to research and write about four famous American film stars. These will include: Clint Eastwood, Judy Garland, Tom Hanks and Miley Cyrus, who are all famous for varying reasons. The children will be organising their information about each individual and then writing a detailed paragraph ensuring they include all of our Star Criteria from the last 2 weeks. We will also be focussing on making links between our paragraphs as well as within paragraphs.
Home Learning: This week’s spellings are linked to our focus on science: investigate, instructions, information, vision, optician, transparent, opaque, translucent, reflection, science.
Other areas of the curriculum:
In Topic, we’ve been finding out about the troubles faced by Native Americans in 1607 when Captain John Smith sailed the Atlantic in search of new land for English settlers. We have also begun to look at the excitement of the Great Oklahoma land rush of 1893. Did you know that some people even rode bicycles to try and stake their claim on a piece of American land?
In PE, we have continued to develop our street dance, line dance and rock and roll dance routines. We will be showing some of these performances in a celebration assembly very soon.
In ICT we have been looking at the artistic collages of American Artist, Robert Rauschenberg. We have begun to collect our own American images and will be creating a ‘moving collage’ using Smart Notebook.
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