Newsletter Issue 37 |
Thursday 5th July 2012
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Dear Parent/Carer,
Date Reminders
Tomorrow is the final Training Day of the school year.
Our Sports Day is due to take place on Monday 9th July. If the Sports Day cannot go ahead due to the weather, we will notify you via text and via the Noticeboard on the school website.
Arts Review
We held the Arts Review on Wednesday afternoon in school. Well done to all of our performers and to Miss Thackeray, Miss Bradshaw, Miss Nicholls and Mrs Comstive for their work in preparing the show. A further showing for the parents of the Drama Club members is being held tonight.
Meet Your New Teacher Day
Our Meet Your New Teacher Day on Tuesday went very well. Our new teaching staff were present to meet their classes and the after school parent meetings were all well attended. I hope that you feel re-assured about next year and are speaking positively with your child about the exciting next year ahead of them. Certainly on Wednesday all the children were buzzing and couldn’t wait to tell me who their new teacher and classmates were. Our Year 6 children enjoyed a positive Transition day at Rodillian. They too are all looking forward eagerly to their next steps. We will be sad to see them go.
Reports
I have been delighted to be reading through end of year reports for the last week or so. Our reports are wonderfully positive and are a real reflection of the individual child. I have been pleased to add my own personal comment to each report.
Pret-a-portrait
The Pret-a-portrait class photographs are displayed on the external doors around school. They can also be viewed on the Pret-a-portrait website. Our school ID number is RHOE230512P.
Dinner Money
All dinner monies need to be paid up to date by Monday 16th July to allow for all the money to be banked before we finish for the summer holidays, please.
James Wish To Walk
An incredible £2697 has so far been raised for James’ appeal through the various fund raising events at the school. James and his family thank you very much for your kind donations. I look forward to bumping into James at
Elland Road
in a few years time as he’s walking down to the hill to the ground..
Celebration Assembly
Friday 13th July will be my final Celebration Assembly at Robin Hood. We have no Assembly the following Friday due to Golden Day and the final, final Assembly on Monday 23rd July is our Leavers’ Assembly.
My Thanks to the parents and families who have supported our Assemblies over the past seven years. They have been part of what makes Robin Hood unique and have been, for me, important school and community events that have celebrated the distinctive ethos of our school.
It would be great to see you if you could make it to the Assembly. It is our last chance to celebrate all of the children’s achievements this year before celebrating our Year 6 leavers on their final day.
Have a great weekend,
Mr Wilson
Nursery Newsletter
NEWS ROUND UP
It feels like we’ve had a very short week in Nursery this week between transition day and the training day, but as always we’ve made the most of our time together! I would just like to say a big “well done” to those boys and girls who spent the day in their new classes at “big school”. They settled incredibly quickly and incredibly well as they had a taster session of what their new school life is going to be like! As much as I missed them, it was lovely to hear what a fabulous time they had!
THIS WEEK
We have moved into a new phase in our topic and have been sharing our experiences of different journeys we’ve been on. The children have been thinking of different ways of travelling and made their own vehicles in the box modelling. We have also shared the story The Train Ride, and made a large scale painting of the different things we saw along the way!
NEXT WEEK
We will be continuing with our journeys topic and moving onto holidays! The children will be taking turns to make bookings in the travel agents and sending postcards from their chosen destinations!
How you can help us
· Continue sharing stories, following the words with your fingers.
· Practice drawing simple pictures and adding detail, and labels.
· Play games outside that help develop your child’s throwing and catching.
REMINDER
· Nursery is closed Friday 6th July for teacher Training day.
· Sports day is Monday 9th July. Children who attend nursery on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday a.m. will be taking part all day and need to wear the specified coloured top, tracksuit bottoms / shorts and trainers Parents are welcome to watch. Wednesday p.m. Thursday and Friday children will get their own fun day on Golden Day.
Many thanks for your continued support
Have a fabulous weekend!
Miss Bradshaw and the Nursery team
Reception newsletter
NEWS ROUND UP
We have had another great week in Reception and the children continue to amaze us with their knowledge and enthusiasm. They all seem to have had a fabulous time in their new classes and it was lovely to see them step into year 1 with confidence and a real belief in themselves.
THIS WEEK
We have started our new topic of ‘Journeys’ and have been learning about what a journey is, where we might go and how we could get there. We have shared the story of the Train Ride with the children and have looked at a clip of Rosie and Jim on their narrow boat. We have talked about what types of transport we could use to travel across England
NEXT WEEK
Next week will be another very busy week in school. On Monday we have our sports day (weather permitting) so your child will need their sports kit and trainers including a coloured T shirt. All children have had a slip sent home to inform you of this. In the event of bad weather, please check the notice board on the school website for further information. During the rest of the week we will be improving our knowledge of time by looking at o’clock and half past as well as practising the split digraphs o-e, a-e and i-e. In literacy we will be doing a keyword assessment of the 45 reception words so please practice reading and writing the words ahead of this (the full list will be on our blog).
HOW YOU CAN HELP US
· By ensuring you listen to your child’s fabulous reading every day and writing a comment in their book. We have some BRILLIANT reading in Reception so please keep it up!
· By ensuring your child has chosen a poem to learn and is rehearsing it ahead of our auditions in class NEXT week.
· By ensuring your child can write their full name and the numbers up to 20 with super formation.
Thank you for your continued support and enjoy your weekend.
KS1 Newsletter
We have had another super week in KS1, and we are all very proud of how sensible and brave the children were on transition day. Well done!
Don’t forget that it is sports day on Monday, so please send your child to school with the appropriate colour top. We look forward to seeing you there.
Numeracy
In numeracy this week, your child has been using their knowledge about time to make estimations. Your child has been making estimations in a lot of fun contexts, for example, estimating how many star jumps they can do in one minute. In addition to this, your child has been developing their strategies for solving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems. Next week in numeracy, your child will further develop these strategies, alongside learning more about money. This will involve children adding up different coins, and finding change.
Literacy
Your child has been learning to recognise the key features of a poem this week, and then applying this knowledge to write their own poem. We have seen some fabulous similes, alliteration and rhyming strings, and we look forward to developing these further over the next two weeks. Feel free to look on the blog to listen to some of our amazing rhymes. Next week in Literacy, your child will be learning how to successfully perform a poem, and take part in the poetry competition at the end of the week.
Topic
This week in topic, children have been learning how to accompany a piece of music with different backing beats. We have been learning very sophisticated beats, and how to keep a variety of different beats going at the same time. We have also produced our very own radio show, which will be uploaded onto the blog. Next week in topic, children will be visiting Scarborough to enhance their learning about the seaside, and then be using the pictures taken there, to create a Photo Story of their visit.
LKS2 Newsletter
We have had a brilliant week in 3/4, full of fantastic and exciting learning. Tuesday was our transition day and our year 4 children had a great time meeting their new teachers. All of the 5/6 staff were blown away by the children’s mature and sensible attitudes towards their learning and are very excited for September. Our year 3 children also did us proud in welcoming our new children into the phase and setting a brilliant example with their mature behaviour.
We would like to congratulate all of the children who took part in our Arts show on Wednesday afternoon. The keyboard and guitar club, cheerleaders, choir and drama were absolutely brilliant! It was a fantastic opportunity to see the incredible talent we have at Robin Hood and to share this with all of the children.
Our Sport’s Day is being held on Monday and would like to welcome you to come along and join us for the events. Your children have now all be given their colour for the day which determines which group they will be in. At 10:00 until 12:00 our fantastic cheerleaders will be opening the events followed by a round robin of activities. At 1:30 until 2:30 you are invited back to come and watch all the children compete in the running races.
Poetry competition
The children have been set the task, as part of their home learning, to read and recite a poem for our annual competition. The poem must be no less than 7 lines and we are looking forward to seeing the children perform these with the fluency and expression we have been practicing in our Guided Reading sessions. We will be picking two children from both year 3 and 4 to go into the final on Thursday 19th July.
Literacy
We have been very busy in literacy, learning all about our chosen sports personality of the week, Andy Murray. The children have used a variety of sources to create a detailed mind map all about his life. The children worked extremely hard to group the information they found and used this to write a detailed biography about his childhood, sporting achievements and family. We are so proud of the children’s beautiful presentation and are looking forward to displaying their biographies in our 3/4 corridor.
Next week we are learning all about Amir Khan and again using all of the information we find out about him to create more fantastic biographies. We are looking forward to using all of the information we have collected about different sports people to vote for whom we think should win sports personality of the year!
Spellings
Group 1
1. taught
2. caught
3. straight
4. weight
5. eight
6. tough
7. cough
8. rough
9. enough
10. through
Group 2
1. explosion
2. corrosion
3. profession
4. session
5. discussion
6. passion
7. mission
8. contribution
9. information
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
The 3/4 Team
UKS2 News Roundup:
- We would like to say a big thank you to all parents and carers of Year 5 children who attended our short meeting after school on Transition Day. It was also lovely to see so many children sharing their learning from the day. Your child will have brought home an information leaflet with more details about next year. They will have also brought a list of high frequency and Key Stage 2 spellings. These are simply for your reference as well as a resource for helping your child with spelling practise over the holidays and into next half term. Please take some time to digest all of the important information on these letters.
- A quick reminder to parents of Year 5 children. If you would like your child to go on the Robinwood residential next year, could we please ask that a non-refundable deposit of £50 is sent to school by 16th July to secure the booking. Thank you.
- Year 6 have received details of the costumes required for the end of year performance. It is not essential to go out and buy brand new outfits; many of the costumes can be created with everyday clothes that you have at home. If you are unsure or need a little bit of inspiration, please get in touch. Please bring any costumes to school in a labelled bag.
- All children will be taking part in our Sports Day on Monday 9th July and the children know the colour of the t-shirt they need to wear. They need to ensure they also have suitable footwear and a water bottle. Sunhats and sun cream may also be needed. Keep a check on the weather over the weekend. Our morning events will be held between 9:30 and 12:00, and the afternoon activities will begin at approximately 1:30. Parents and carers are welcome to come and watch.
- On Monday, we will be holding the class heats for the Poetry Competition. 3 winners from each class will go through to the Year 5/6 final which will be held on Thursday. There will be 4 children chosen from this to go through to the Poetry Competition final on Thursday 19th July.
- Reminder! Year 5s who wish to be considered for the role of School Captain need to prepare a presentation outlining why they wish to stand for this position. As well as this, consider the qualities that you can bring to the role. We are looking for presentations which are really engaging and have that extra little something that makes them stand out from the rest!
Dates for your diary:
· Monday 9th July- Sports Day
· Wednesday 11th July- preview for parents and carers of the Changing and Growing film at 4:30pm
· Thursday 12th July- School Captain elections
· Friday 13th July- Year 6 Fashion Show and new school captains announced in assembly at 2:30pm; Celebration Friday after school
· Monday 16th July- Year 6 performance of Hoodwinked at 2pm
· Tuesday 17th July- Year 6 performance of Hoodwinked at 6pm
· Thursday 19th July- Times Tables Challenge; Poetry Competition Final
· Monday 23rd July- Leavers' Assembly at 2pm
Numeracy:
- This week, Year 5 have been continuing their focus on decimal numbers by applying their addition and subtraction strategies. The children have used both mental and written strategies to add and subtract various numbers including whole numbers and decimals and have then applied their learning to solving problems around handling money. Well done Year 5. Your skills are really improving - keep up the fantastic work!
- Next week we will be learning about division methods, including bus stop and chunking methods.
- Home Learning: Next week, our mental maths focus will be on all of the times tables we have been learning about this half term.
- Visit http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html and http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/interactive.htm for interactive games to practise times tables
- Year 6s, in teams, have been continuing to develop their Numeracy help sheets for a number of concepts including 2D and 3D shape, time and angles. We're planning to make these available for classrooms around school and on the school website.
Literacy:
- This week, Year 5 have been learning all about narrative poetry. We have used the opening scenes from the Pixar movie 'UP' to help us tell the life story of Carl. This character experiences many highs and lows throughout his life, and the children have used their poetry skills to help tell the story using rhyming couplets and emotive language.
- Next week the children will be applying their poetry skills to write a narrative poem about their time at school over the last year.
- This week's sentence level focus has been around the correct use of nouns and pronouns to make sure our sentences make perfect sense. (For example: 'Jack were going to the shops. becomes 'Jack was going to the shop.'
- Year 6 have been practising their lines for the production. By now, the children should know most of their lines and their focus over the next week will be to begin rehearsals without scripts and to start adding actions and stage directions. You are doing a fantastic job, year 6. Keep up the enthusiasm and effort - we're all looking forward to a fabulous show!
- Home Learning: Year 5s have been revisiting key words this week and any that need practice have been recorded in planners. There are videos and games to practise spelling rules and patterns at http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/spelling
Other areas of the curriculum:
- In TOPIC, the children have been customizing their own PE kits using a variety of customizing techniques. We have seen painting, cutting, stitching, appliqué, buttons, zips and ribbon being applied to the various garments that the children have brought in. These items will be showcased in next week's assembly, along with the backdrops and soundtracks created by the Stage Direction teams.
- In PE we have continued to practise all of the events for sports day including sprinting, skipping and relays, and trying to beat our own times and distances.
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