Friday 26th October

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We have had an incredible week in LKS2 and have been extremely proud of the children’s sensible and mature attitudes towards their assessments. It’s been a great opportunity for the children to show off all of their amazing learning from across the half term, well done. We would like to congratulate our amazing achievers of the week from Mrs Moore’s class. Freya Reid and Lily Higgins were chosen for their great team work during ICT this half term. They successfully retold the beginning of the story of Oliver Twist, using animation, written narration and sound effects and Mrs Moore was so impressed with their patience and perseverance, well done girls!

Home Learning

For the children’s holiday home learning, we would like the children to do some research about a Victorian Invention. How they choose to present their information is entirely up to them. It could be a PowerPoint presentation, poster, video or a model! We look forward to the children blowing us away with their creativity in our first topic session after the break. Also next half term we will be sending our weekly writes home with the children every Friday. This gives you a great opportunity to look at and discuss with them how they have hit their weekly target. We would like the children to look at the teacher’s feedback and either re-write the piece or simple add another paragraph incorporating their new target. 

Literacy

We were blown away when marking the children’s fabulous ‘Big Writes’ last week and were so proud that the children worked extremely hard to incorporate lots of audience engaging features, detailed paragraphs and amazing compound and complex sentences. Next half term we are learning how to write a variety of persuasive texts and how to argue opinions effectively. We will be writing letters to persuade Prince Albert to let us exhibit our inventions at ‘The Great Exhibition, adverts for our own inventions and a persuasive pitch to put across to the dragons persuading them to create our inventions.

Numeracy

This week in numeracy the children have carried out assessments covering the different units we have looked at over the last 7 weeks. The children managed to tackle a variety of question types, ranging from level 2 to level 4. We were very pleased to see the huge improvement in the children’s mental maths scores and the ability to answer a question within a time limitation. We can see children in year 3/4 have been busy learning their times tables, well done. Next half term we will be learning both written and mental strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Reminders

·        PE kits need to come in on a Monday and taken home on a Friday. Miss Thackeray’s and Mrs Moore’s class will now have PE on Tuesdays. Miss Snowden’s will have PE on Thursday

·        Those children who have ‘home learning packs’ please ensure they are brought into school every Monday morning.