Dear Parent/Carer,
It’s December already! Only two school weeks left this year…
Positive Feedback
I have had the pleasure of showing a number of prospective parents for our Reception class 2012 around our school during the past few weeks. It has been lovely to hear lots of positive feedback – even from those families who know they have little chance of securing a place with us for their child. It remains a source of frustration for us that we are unable to satisfy more of our average of 75 First Choice Preferences for our 45 Reception spaces.
Christmas Dates
Parents, families and community are welcomed to join us for our Christmas Productions. Here is the full schedule of events this Christmas:
Friday 9th December 10:00am Reception Production
Tuesday 13th December 10:00am Nursery Production
1:00pm Nursery party
2:00pm LKS2 Production
3:30pm Drama Group Production
Wednesday 14th December 2:00pm KS1 Production
6:00pm LKS2 Production
Thursday 15th December 10:00am Nursery Production
11:00am LKS2 Christmas party
1:00pm Nursery & Reception parties
1:45pm KS1 & UKS2 parties
6:00pm KS1 Production
Friday 16th December 10:00am Christmas Service at Lofthouse Church
2:30pm Carols Around the Tree
Christmas Lunch is next Wednesday, 7th December. Unfortunately, we’re up to capacity, so no more orders can be taken.
In the New Year we have a Training Day on the first day back, Tuesday 3rd January. Children return to school on Wednesday 4th January.
Christmas Disco
Our PTA will be hosting Christmas Discos for all children tonight. I’m sure that everyone will have a wonderful time. This is the time for you to bring your input as our PTA re-formulates and grows. Our PTA raises much needed funds that enhance the quality of our children’s experience at Robin Hood. Your support, help and donations are vitally important to helping the experience at Robin Hood be the best it can possibly be.
Friendly Faces
As of the New Year Friendly Faces will be operating as a Term Time Only Club. This means that we will no longer be offering Holiday Clubs or childcare on school Training Days.
Bags 2 School
There will be a Bags 2 School collection on 5th December.
Photographs
Also a note to say: Don't forget to get your photograph orders in by Tuesday 6th December for Christmas delivery.
Have a fantastic weekend,
Mr Wilson
Nursery Newsletter
NEWS ROUND UP
Christmas has finally arrived in Nursery - the children returned to school on Thursday to our super new areas. (Thank you to the support staff for their hard work in getting everything ready!) Once we receive your home learning decorations next week we really will have created a magical place.
THIS WEEK
As well as sharing the Nativity story with the children, we have been rehearsing our own Nativity production. It has been great to see the children retelling the story and making the links between their own performances and the original Nativity story. Well done to everybody who has been practising the songs and rehearsing their lines. Please keep up the hard work as we are nearly ready to impress you with our star quality!
NEXT WEEK
In Literacy we will be creating and writing some secret things which we will be sending home before Christmas (but ask no questions!) as well as printing our own gift wrap! We will also be practising our Nativity production and we will be performing a dress rehearsal. Please make sure costumes are in Nursery for Monday 12th Dec for the first group of children and again Wednesday 14th for the second group of children. Thank you.
The performances will be on Tuesday 13th December at 10am and 15th December in the school hall at 10am. We look forward to seeing you there.... don’t forget your tissues!!
HOW YOU CAN HELP US
The children are making fabulous progress as the year moves along, and we are very proud of all the children. Please continue to support your child at home, sharing stories regularly, playing number games, singing songs and rhymes and also practising to write their own names.
Thank you for your continued support
RECEPTION NEWS ROUND UP
Christmas has finally arrived in Reception - the children returned to school on Thursday to our super new areas. (Thank you to the support staff for their hard work in getting everything ready!) Once we receive your home learning decorations next week we really will have created a magical place.
THIS WEEK
As well as sharing the Nativity story with the children, we have been rehearsing our own Nativity production. It has been great to see the children retelling the story and making the links between their own performances and the original Nativity story. Well done to everybody who has been practising the songs and rehearsing their lines. Please keep up the hard work as we are nearly ready to impress you with our star quality!
In numeracy we have been writing the numbers for our own advent calendar and creating our own baubles to put on our tree.
NEXT WEEK
In Literacy we will be creating and writing some secret things which we will be sending home before Christmas (but ask no questions!) as well as printing our own gift wrap and tags. We will also be practising our Nativity production and we will be performing a dress rehearsal on Thursday to Key Stage one.
Please can you make sure that all named costumes are in school for Monday 5th December. Thank you.
The performance will be next Friday(December 9th) in the school hall at 10am. We will positively be encouraging you to sing along with the songs!
HOW YOU CAN HELP US
Miss Lambert and I have done one to one reading assessments with the children and are thrilled at the progress that the children are making. Please keep reading for at least five minutes every day to ensure we maintain their confidence and the momentum. We are also sending home a list of tricky words and keywords to practice reading and writing before we move onto our new words in January.
If you haven't yet completed and returned the ICT questionnaire, please can you spend a couple of minutes doing that for us too?
Thank you for your continued support
KS1 Newsletter
Key Stage 1 have had a fantastic week of treats and fun! The children have been showing off all their learning so far and taken part in key assessments in Reading, Writing, Numeracy and Phonics. The staff are VERY proud of every member of KS1 for the amazing effort and dedication they show towards their learning.
Beauty and the Beast
The children are all very excited about the upcoming trip to The Carriageworks to see Beauty and the Beast. The children will need to wear their school uniform as normal on Tuesday 6th December. We aim to be back at school for 4:45pm. If there are any delays, school will be informed and a message will be passed on to parents.
Numeracy
This week the child have completed assessments in addition and subtraction, showing the strategies they use when adding/subtracting:
• a single digit number to a single digit number(7 + 9 = ) (8 - 3= )
• a two digit number to a single digit number (27 + 6 = ) (37 - 9 = )
• a two digit number to a two digit number ( 34 + 46 = ) ( 73 - 12 = )
The children have continued to show their skills when adding three numbers together
( 5 + 6 + 5 = ) (31 + 12 + 4 = ). Progressing onto adding and subtracting within the same sum (13 + 6 - 3 = ) (45 - 14 + 5 = ).
Please continue to support your child at home, developing their addition and subtraction skills by giving them sums to complete. Your child can bring these into school so we can celebrate the learning too!
Next week the children will be applying their knowledge of addition and subtraction to word problems such as:
• 12 children are on a bus.
8 children get off.
Then 4 more get off the bus.
How many children are left on the bus?
There are 29 children. 5 children are painting. How many children are NOT painting?
• There are 1000 pieces in a puzzle. 12 of then go missing. How many pieces are left?
Why not provide your child with some word problems ahead of next week....
Literacy
This week concluded the block on Narrative writing with the children writing their final Julia Donaldson style story. The children have particularly enjoyed reading the amazing stories written by Julia Donaldson and they have also had the opportunity to watch the Gruffalo DVD, which has helped to further develop their understanding of the book. The KS1 team are very proud of the stories which include, CAPITAL LETTERS, full stops, text effects (bold text, CAPITALIZATION, .........., !!!!!!!) developed ideas using (so, if, but, because, and, when), adjectives (describing words), verbs (doing words) and even adverbs (describes what the verb is doing, walking quietly, running quickly).
Next week the children will be looking at reading and writing instructions to make Christmas decorations, Christmas Cards and Calendars. The children will look at the structure, organisation and language used within instructions in order to support people following them correctly.
Topic
This week the children have been busy investigating different materials and discussing their properties. They have looked at wood, plastic, glass, brick, cotton, silk and discussed which materials would be good for different aspects of a castle building and why that material would be good to use. The children have also looked at investigating how to test which material would keep Belle warm and dry during a snowy/rainy Christmas at the castle.
Why not ask your child what their predictions were and what they found out from the investigation.......
LKS2 Newsletter
We have had a very busy week in Year 3/4! The children have been applying all their new learning this week and blowing us away with the progress that has already been made this year!
We have also begun practising this year's production "Santa's on Strike!". Please ensure that if your child has been given a speaking part that they are practising at home as much as possible. We are aiming to practise our performance (without scripts) next week as the production will be taking place on Tuesday 13th December 2:00 - 3:00pm and Wednesday 14th December 6:00 - 7:00pm. Both productions will be taking place in the school hall. No tickets are required.
Literacy
The children have been writing an engaging magazine article, targeting families and their need for a fun, stress-free day out. We have been impressed with how the children have been using all the persuasive features we have been learning this half term. Next week, the children will be using their persuasive skills to write to Santa and hopefully persuade him to return from his strike in time for Christmas.
Numeracy
In Numeracy, the children have been applying their written and mental strategies for addition and subtraction. Next week, the children will be continuing to apply these strategies within multi-step problems, including money.
Reminders
Last week we started to learn the songs for this years Christmas production ‘Santa’s on Strike’. All the children have been given the song words so please continue rehearsing at home!
If your child has not been given a speaking part, they will all be participating in the production through singing and dancing. Each class will be performing their own dance.
Mrs Moore’s class = ‘Reindeers’. Please can they wear brown tights / leggings or track suit bottoms and a brown T – shirt. Please can they have ‘antlers-on-an-aliceband’ headpiece.
Miss Thackeray’s class =‘Carol singings’. Please wear Christmas clothes, hats, scarves and gloves. Lanterns are optional.
Miss Nicholls’ class = Domestic jobbers. Please wear Christmas clothes, an apron, rubber gloves, hairnets and have a duster or feather duster at hand.
Santa = Santa should be portrayed in his traditional red suit and beard.
Mrs Santa = wearing red too, or perhaps a ‘homely’ costume including an apron, big slippers and a headscarf.
Rudolph = Please can they wear brown tights / leggings or track suit bottoms and a brown T – shirt. Please can they have ‘antlers-on-an-aliceband’ headpiece and a red nose.
The elves = Colourful tunics/tabards, tights, pointed cloth hats and shoes, aprons etc are a good start, but feel free to experiment.
People playing the part of family members = Pyjamas, dressing gowns, coats and normal casual garments are all that is required. A bit of tailoring or borrowing from parents may be required for those playing adults
Thank you,
Team 3/4
UKS2 Newsletter
News Roundup
•This week’s Achiever of the Week goes to Rosie Soroka, for her excellent letter of invitation to her favourite band, in an attempt to persuade them to attend our school disco! Well done, Rosie!
• The children have brought home details about the Year 5/6 trip to the theatre during the first week back after Christmas. We will be spending the whole day at the West Yorkshire Playhouse taking part in drama based activities in the morning and then watching a performance of Annie in the afternoon. Payment for the trip must be returned to school by Friday December 16th. Thank you.
Numeracy:
This week, we have been collecting data using Mario Kart on the Wii and DS. From this, we're calculating the time it's taken to complete each lap as well as calculating our speed for each lap. Next week, we'll be continuing our analysis of the data as well as finding the average, mode and range for data collected from Wii Mario Kart.
Home learning:
The Times Tables Challenge will be taking place on Wednesday 14th December. Please practise ALL times tables ahead of this!
Try the following website to get you up to speed with your times tables... for a real challenge, why not try this at zero seconds!!!!:
http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/bingo/caller/caller.html
Literacy
This week, we have been writing to a Mario Kart driver of our choice to persuade them to drive for our team. There were lots of very tempting offers made such as heated seats, a car which had low air resistance etc. We focused on including lots of 'stars' in our writing including superlatives and literary features.
Home Learning: This week’s spellings are linked to our Literacy next week which is based around the statement Christmas should be abolished: abolished, merrily, festivities, celebration, nativity, traditional, cancelling, Santa Claus, Bethlehem, ceremonies
This weekend, gather some reasons for and against Christmas being abolished
Other areas of the curriculum:
In DT, we've been exploring flight and have been making prototypes of kites. We're evaluating the kites to help inform the design. Next week, we'll make the kite.
In Music Mrs Brook’s class have been perfecting their performance of Silent Night on the recorders.
Miss Gascoigne’s class have been continuing to create mash-ups of popular Christmas songs using Garageband.
Miss Darroch’s class have been learning sign language to the first verse of Little Donkey.
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