Newsletter
Issue 3
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Friday 20th September 2013
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Dear Parent/Carer,
Our extra-curricular clubs
started again this week and it was great to see the children engaged in amazing
learning even after the bell had gone for home time. Whilst capturing images of
our school with my Photography Club members, I was able to have a sneaky look
into some of the other clubs in action. It was fabulous to see children in the
Reception classroom making beautiful cards with Miss Lambert. We also saw
children playing drama games in the hall with Miss Pyatt and Mrs Comstive. As
if that wasn’t enough, a group of children could be seen enjoying netball in
the playground with Miss Mees and Helen Holdsworth, School Games Organiser from
Rodillian Academy. I love seeing the school still buzzing with energy even at
4:00 pm and the joy on children’s faces as they engage in activities which are
of particular interest to them.
Expansion update
I am delighted to confirm that formal expansion has been approved (1.5 form entry to 2
form entry) and that the design is progressing towards a planning submission
for the built solution. I have been advised that there will at this point be a
full school consultation. The Governing Body, along with myself and all of the
staff are very excited about the expansion and see this as a very exciting
opportunity to ensure that more children in the community can enjoy the high
quality education that our learners currently do.
Harvest Festival
Our
Harvest Festival celebration will take place on Friday October 18th
at Lofthouse Church at 10:00 am. The children in Key Stage 1 will be leading
the proceedings. You are all very welcome to come and join us in what I know
will be a fabulous celebration. As part of the celebration, we would like to
give something back to the community, so we are asking that children bring in
food items for us to share with the elderly residents. If you can spare some
“long life” items, such as tins, packets or boxes of food, please send them in
with your child to display in school before our School Captains deliver them
into our community. Thanks.
Two polite requests
Please
can I insist that people do not bring their dogs on site. It has been brought
to my attention that people are ignoring our policy. You will be asked to
leave.
Please
do not use the disabled bay outside of school even when dropping off. This will
help our drivers who are employed specially to collect children from school to
manoeuvre more safely. Thank you all for your cooperation.
Best Wishes to Miss Parker
Miss
Parker will be leaving us today to commence her maternity leave. She will be
very much missed at Friendly Faces and in the school playground at lunchtimes. All
of Miss Parker’s friends and colleagues would like to wish her all the very
best enjoying this precious time with her little one.
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PTA News
Clare,
our Chair, has been very busy this week arranging the dates for lots of fun
events for everyone to enjoy. The first being a Halloween Disco to be held on
23 October.
A message from one of our volunteers
"Robin Hood Puddings - 120g Luxury Christmas Pudding, soon available for
sale". She has promised that there will be more details shortly, I can’t
wait as they sound really scrummy. We have organised a meeting for the10
October to be held at the Half Way House Pub at 8pm. We look forward to
seeing lots of parents, grandparents and carers there as we will be making
plans for our Xmas Fayre.
As usual if anyone wishes to help out in anyway please contact us on robinhoodprimarypta@gmail.com or just turn up at the meeting. |
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Dale
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Next
Parent’s Coffee Morning
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Agenda for discussion
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Monday 7th Oct 9:00am- 10:00 am
Email your views:
gaynor.dale@robinhood.leeds.sch.uk
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Communication
with parents- update on how we aim to improve and what measures have already
been put in place. Your views.
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Spanish
pupil exchanges- a good idea? Your views
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Residential
trips for Y56 abroad- a good idea? Your views
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NEWS
ROUND UP
The children have done fabulously in
their first full week in Nursery and I am sure they are sleeping well at night
(I know that the staff are!) They have coped well at lunchtime and have started
to get to know the lunchtime staff who are: Mr Grenfell (Monday and Tuesday)
and Mrs Butterfield (Thursday and Friday). The whole team are looking forward to
accompanying your child on the exciting learning journey that lies ahead of
them over the next year. Have a look on
the Foundation Stage blog to see what we have been doing. You can find it at: http://foundationstagenewsatrobinhood.blogspot.co.uk/THIS WEEK
Our topic this half term is “Ourselves” so that we have a chance to really get to know the children and build strong relationships with them. We have been assessing their development levels in mark making and book handling/reading skills, mathematics and phonics. This week we will be sending home a shared reading book; please share this book with your child and write a comment in to say what your child enjoyed and could do for themselves. We are practising skills such as holding books the right way up, turning pages and talking about what is happening in the pictures so your help at this stage is very important. If you require any help or support with this please let me know. Thank you.
NEXT WEEK
Next week we
will be talking about the children’s favourite books and book characters so on Monday and Thursday your child needs
to dress up as their favourite book character and bring in their copy of the
book. Please make sure that everything is clearly named! Please also send
in a separate set of clothes in case your child wants to get changed before
home time. In phonics we will be using our ears to explore sounds we can hear and
think about how we can change sounds. In Numeracy we will continue to count to
10 and back and will be working on our number recognition skills of numbers up
to 6
HOW YOU CAN
HELP US
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Please
spend some time every day reading with your child and encouraging them to turn
the pages themselves and talk to you about what is happening in the pictures.
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Please
bring books and reading records into Nursery every week so that we can change
the books and let you know how your child is getting on in Nursery.
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Please
support your child and encourage them to take off and put on their own shoes
and socks as they will be asked to do this in PE.
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Encourage
your child to practice putting on and taking off their own coats.
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Share
anything they have done at home which is amazing! We would love to add things
they have done with you to their Nursery profile books.
Thank you for
your support and enjoy your weekend.
Mrs Steel,
Mrs Chin and Miss Fox.
Reception
newsletter
NEWS
ROUND UP
We
have had another fabulous week in Reception. The children embarked on a magical
mystery tour of Robin Hood and took lots of pictures on their tour, which will
be available to see on our blog. They are now confident with the layout of the
school and even found some rooms they didn’t know existed. A highlight of the
tour was when they popped into Mrs Dale’s office and took a picture of her.
THIS
WEEK
This
week our topic and literacy has been based around the theme of I like. In
literacy the children watched Mr Tumble and learnt about what he liked and then
told us all about what they liked. On Wednesday the children made their own TV
programme called Robin Hood Reception’s big questionnaire where the children
told us all about what they like and don’t like about school. We will act upon
this information to help us plan future learning for the children so that all the
children are always engaged and enjoying their learning. In phonics this week we have been practising
recognising and writing the sounds; i,
n, m and d and reading our key
words of the week which were is, it, of,
off, on and can. It was great to
see that nearly 50% of the children managed to read all these sounds and words
and got to visit Mrs Dale for their head teacher stickers, hopefully even more
children will achieve 100% next week. In topic as well as going on the magical
mystery tour of Robin Hood they made frames for their self-portraits and the
self-portraits are now displayed in our very own Reception gallery, they look
fantastic! On Wednesday and Thursday the children had an amazing time role-playing
a birthday party with Mrs Friar. They wrote each other invitations and cards,
made their party hats and decorated the home corner with balloons. Once all the
preparations had been done they enjoyed a fabulous party and tucked into some
scrumptious buns. In numeracy we have continued to count to 20 and we have
pushed the children even further up to 30. The children have really enjoyed the
maths games we have been playing.
NEXT WEEK
We
are really looking forward to next week as we are learning about our favourite
books. On Monday the children will be able to come dressed up as their favourite
book character and bring in their favourite book to share with the rest of the
class. Throughout the rest of the week the children will be engaging in lots of
role play and drama activities building up to their star write challenge on
Thursday, when they will write a repeated sentence about the book they like
e.g. I like Cinderella. In topic the children will be making the setting of
their book in a show box using Fimo. In numeracy we will be playing the Hairy
McLary game and the bus game which are based around the concept of one more and
one less. In phonics we will be learning to recognise the sounds g, o, c and k and learning to read the words; dad, back, had, and, get and
big.
HOW YOU CAN
HELP US
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Please
listen to your child read for at least 5 minutes every day. Help them spot the
sounds we have been learning and help them sound out and blend simple words.
Don’t forget bug club!
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The
children have brought home a name writing book this week. Please have a look at
their target and help them practise it.
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Please
have a look at our wonderful blog.
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Please
encourage your child to show you their wonderful learning at home.
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Have
a go at the ICT games we have been playing in class.
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Please
ensure all of your child’s
school clothes and P.E. kit are labelled. If your child brings an item of
clothing home that is not theirs please bring it back and we will pass it on.
Have a great
weekend
Miss Lambert,
Miss Pyatt & the rest of the Reception team
Key Stage 1|
Home
Learning:
For
this week’s home learning we would like the children to use their learning
from their literacy lessons to create a poster to get a real animal adopted. Throughout
the last 3 weeks the children have learnt all about factual pieces of writing
for posters, leaflets and will be moving onto booklets. Their poster for home
learning can be designed in any way your child would like with pictures, colour
and interesting writing styles (like bubble writing). Throughout the last
week we have had a very tight focus on using adjectives to describe the
appearance of different things, so please encourage your child to use as many
adjectives to describe the look of their chosen animal as they can think of. This
can be presented most simply with a sub-heading ‘Looks’ with bullet points to
list. The use of text boxes, headings and sub-headings to complete the look
of their poster will be applauded and your child might even like to write a
sentence about their chosen animal. For example, “This bunny rabbit has got long, soft ear and a fluffy tail. Take him
home in time for winter because he will keep you nice and warm!”
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News:
Competition
Winners!
This week Key Stage One received a very
exciting letter through the post from Yorkshire Wildlife Park. As the Year 2
children’s parents will recall, our summer excursion last year saw us taking a
walk through the wildlife park to study all the animals as part of our topic.
On returning to school we set about the task of creating a poster for a
competition the Park was running to promote wildlife conservation. The final
master piece was a painted A1 size poster of the world complete with animals
native to each continent and a sea full of poems the children wrote around the
key words of ‘Conserve, Share, Sustain’. We were all proud of the children’s
learning at the time but are pleased as punch to announce that we won the
competition! Key Stage One are now the happy carers for an adopted giraffe at
the park. To get a better picture of what our final piece looked like, have a
look at the display next to Miss McSorley’s classroom.
Scientists!
Our learning in topic has moved on from
developing our artistic skills and into the realms of science, focussing on
human biology! To get the week started each table drew around one of their
classmates before working as a team to label as many external body parts as
they could think of. We then introduced the children to the word ‘organs’
including the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, stomach, liver and large and small
intestine. On handing each group a picture of each of these organs, we stood
back and observed what they thought each organ was and where in the body it
lived. Well, we had hearts masquerading as toes, livers inhabiting mouths
pretending to be a tongue and kidneys that wanted to hear everything so they
travelled to the side of a head and became ears! Allowing the children this
discussion time and hearing them reason out their ideas is of the upmost
importance as well as being really interesting to hear. Each and every one of
them really engaged with the functions our organs carry out inside our body
(they were amazed that the liver has over 500 jobs!) and posed some thoughtful
and relevant questions to aid their learning. This unit will continue next
week.
Literacy
As some of you well know I’m sure, this
week’s literacy has definitely sparked the children’s imagination! We started
our week by sharing some pictures that we took during a visit to the RSPCA of
some very adorable, fluffy baby animals – you can imagine the children’s glee
at seeing these! However, we then told them that at the back of a shop was a
sign saying, “Pete’s Peculiar Pet Shop – BEWARE!” On entering we couldn’t
believe our eyes as we saw for the first time…Flanimals (odd looking beasties
and monsters based on books written by Ricky Gervais). After sharing adjectives
with one another to describe the looks of these bizarre creatures we all
committed to the task of getting the poor souls adopted (no one wants them
because they look so ugly and scary on the outside but actually they are really
kind and lovely on the inside). We designed our own Flanimal which was the
centre piece for a poster describing its looks with interesting adjectives and
its habits using verbs and adverbs. The children have focused on how to use
bullet points effectively to list and the final pieces of learning are sure to
help these Flanimals get adopted! We heard that someone’s Grandad had promised
them a visit to Pete’s Peculiar Pet Shop…if you find it, tell us where it is!
Numeracy
This week in Numeracy we have continued to
build on our learning around counting and understanding odd and even numbers by
looking at sequences. Key Stage One have become ‘Code Crackers’ by using their
hundred square and fingers to detect the pattern and rules of a range of
different sequences. Becoming more familiar with their hundred squares will
help with future learning and is consolidating the unit around counting. We
have studied sequences that include hops forwards and backwards in 1s, 2s, 5s and
10s remembering and recognising the pattern that these sequences make on our
hundred squares and in writing. We have even started counting in 3s, 4s and 6s!
We can’t tell you the importance and resonance that the effort your all put
into the children’s home learning this week had in class; such tasks provide a
real building block for the children to work from and empowers them within
independent tasks to draw on all their knowledge. Thank you!
Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter
We
have had such a super week in LKS2! All of the children have settled well into
their new routines, and are conducting themselves in a polite and sensible
manor both in and outside of classroom. We have been particularly impressed
with the amount of home learning we have been receiving, and we thank you for
your continually supporting your child!
Our
Achiever this week is Imogen from 3/4B.
Imogen has proved herself to be a real expert when it comes to the topic of the
Vikings showing real enthusiasm when approaching all kinds of activities. She
can explain where the Vikings came from, what they did during the raids on
Britain and give lots of detail when explaining what they did when they
eventually came to settle here. Well done Imogen.
Home Learning
As
part of the children’s home learning in 3/4, we ask that your child is reading
every day of the week. We expect all children to hand in their signed reading record on a Monday morning so we can reward them
for each day they have read. If a child reads every day they will be rewarded
with a sticker.
Your
child will continue to receive numeracy home learning on a weekly basis, which
we ask all children to engage with. The home learning will be handed out in
their blue home learning books every Friday and your child will have until the
following Friday to hand their home learning back to their teacher. As
mentioned above, we are so impressed with the engagement in their home learning
so far!
Numeracy
This
week in numeracy the children have been learning how to extend number sequences
both forward and backwards. We have been teaching the children how to work out
the rule before extending the number sequence. We were really impressed with
the children’s confidence around extending number sequences and most children
even progressed onto extending the number sequences below zero. In addition to
this, the children have also been applying their knowledge of number sequences
to decimal numbers. We have begun to integrate test style questions into numeracy
sessions to build children’s confidence when tackling these forms of questions.
We were blown away with some children attempting level 4 questions. Well done! Home learning: Your child will be able to
consolidate and show off their learning around number sequences in this week’s home
learning.
Literacy
This
week in literacy, the children have continued to develop their understanding of
choosing appropriate conjunctions to form accurate compound sentences. We have
been encouraging the children to generate their own compound sentences about
the Vikings, using higher level conjunctions such as however, therefore, as well as and despite. Next week the children will be writing compound sentences
using adjectives to describe different aspects of Viking life.
Your
child may have been sent home with a list of highlighted key words. Children
are expected to be able to spell 100% of these words by the end of year two,
therefore we ask for you to support your child to learn these words to help
them progress further in their writing. The children regularly use these key
words at school by referring to these grids, so writing sentences at home using
the key words would be a great reinforcement and consolidation activity. Once
again, we thank you in advance for your extra support!
Spellings
These
Spellings will be tested on Monday 30th
September. (The children already have their spellings in their reading
records for the test on Monday 23rd September)
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Group One
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Group Two
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Bee
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Worry
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Feet
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Absorbent
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Knee
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Sorry
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Tree
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Several
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Sheep
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Coffee
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Queen
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Yesterday
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Teeth
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Thousand
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Cheese
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Character
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Wheel
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Understand
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Feel
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Similar
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Reminders
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Please can all Year 4 children remember to
bring their swimming kit and goggles if needed every Friday in a bag large
enough to fit their entire uniforms and shoes in – we don’t want to lose any
belongings. Children may also bring a snack to eat on the coach on the way back
to school. This can be a cereal bar or a piece of fruit – no crisps.
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Please ensure your child’s PE kit is kept in
school from Monday-Friday every week.
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As the weather begins to turn that little bit
cooler and wetter, please ensure your child has a suitable outdoor coat/jacket.
Have a fabulous weekend!
Don’t forget into check out our blog: http://robinhoodprimaryyear34.blogspot.co.uk/
Team 3/4
UKS2 Newsletter
News Roundup:
Splat the SATs:
Well done to the Year 6
children this week, the children attended the Splat the SAT session this week
with enthusiasm and all had their packs which enabled the sessions to run
seamlessly! Please ensure you have your SAT packs in school each week (leave
them in your trays if they are not needed at home).
Leeds Children’s Mayor
The Year 6 children have
received some information about Leeds Children’s Mayor, which is an annual
competition that allows a year 6 child to take part in important duties such as
meeting important people, attending civic functions, presenting their ideas to
councillors, presenting awards at the Golden Owl Awards and even being there to
switch on the Christmas lights! If any year 6 pupil would like to enter the
competition, they need to submit a manifesto of no more than 400 words,
beginning with the sentence ‘If I was Children’s Mayor of Leeds…’, they also
need to have a catchy slogan and create a poster to go with their manifesto by Friday
October 4th. If you require any further information, see your
child’s class teacher for another information pack, or visit www.breezeleeds.org
Achiever of the Week:
Achiever of the week goes to
Caison in 56MO. Caison has blown Mrs Moore away with his great attitude and
willingness to learn since coming back from the Summer. His contributions to
class discussions in topic and Science sessions have been fabulous and he has
come into year six with a very mature attitude towards his learning. Well done
Caison, keep up the great effort!
Core Subjects:
Numeracy:
In Numeracy this week, we
have been learning how to order and compare numbers, including decimals and
positive and negative numbers. The children have been applying this learning to
some Monsters Inc co-ordinates problems to try and locate where the characters
are behind the door!
Next week, the children
will be learning how to round and estimate numbers including decimals. We will
be applying our learning to measures where we will be estimating and rounding
length, mass, capacity and time.
Literacy:
In Literacy this week, we
have been learning about the features of a recount and the history behind the
California Gold Rush. We have begun to write some paragraphs to form our own
recount which we will be continuing with next week.
SPELLINGS: This week, the spellings are: stretch,
castle, island, answer, climb, debt, solemn, should, wrench, muscle.
Your child has received a copy of these
spellings which have been glued into their planner. They will be tested on these
words on Friday September 27th.
Other areas of the curriculum:
PE:
This week, 5/6G have been
developing their street dance moves. We have been attempting to body pop and
have been trying to incorporate high and low street dance moves to form a short
routine. 5/6MO have been combining previous rock and roll dancing moves with
the cross kick and kick ball exchange. 5/6M have continued to build on the
electric slide with heel and toe sequences.
Once again, please ensure
that your child comes to school with the appropriate PE kit each week. PE this
half term is indoors; therefore the children will need to wear black shorts and
a white t-shirt, indoor pumps or bare feet too. Miss Gascoigne’s class may wear
long tracksuit bottoms or leggings for our street dance sessions as we may need
to use our knees at times.
5/6M and 5/6MO PE sessions are on Mondays and 5/6G
PE sessions are on Tuesdays.
Spanish:
In Spanish, the children have successfully
constructed sentences which incorporated a greeting, a question which asked
where a place in school was, followed by another greeting – estupendo!
Science:
This week, the children have been learning about
independent, dependent and constant variables when conducting an investigation.
The children have shown that they can successfully identify each one and can
also understand the importance of ensuring each variable is considered
carefully when conducting any investigation. The children have also constructed
their own line graph and scatter graph by ensuring that each axis increases in
regular intervals and that the data is plotted as accurately as possible.
ICT:
The children have been collating their own American
themed images into their own multimedia scrapbook this week, ready to begin
their moving montage next week.
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