Newsletter
Issue 16
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Friday 10th January 2014
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! I trust that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a good break. It was wonderful to see the children’s faces on Tuesday. As I did my “Happy New Year” visit of the classes, I can say wholeheartedly that they have all come back to school with brilliant attitudes to their learning. There was an instant sense of calm and purpose right across school.
Baby
news!
I am delighted to inform you
that both Mrs Moore and Miss Snowden have given birth to their babies. Both
ladies are now proud Mummies of beautiful baby boys. Mrs Moore welcomed Charlie
James Moore into the world on Sunday and Miss Snowden welcomed Finlay James
Wilson just a day later on Monday. I would like to send both them and their
partners lots of love and best wishes at this exciting time.
Golden Owls
Please note that the submission
date of short films for the Golden Owls award has been extended to 31st
January. Miss Thackeray and Miss McSorley will be running a lunchtime club
during January to support interested children in their film making but we can
still accept home made films as long as they are less than 10 minutes long.
P.E
We have started our extra
outdoor PE sessions with Years 1 to 6, this week. Thank you to all parents for
supporting the success of this by providing the children with suitable
clothing; it is very much appreciated. We have already received some wonderful
feedback from children who have enjoyed the first outdoor session and from
parents who are very supportive of our increased P.E teaching and involvement
in sports. The teachers are also very much enjoying wearing their fancy, green
Robin Hood hoodies. They really do look the part!
Miss McSorley, actress
extraordinaire!
Our teacher’s talents are
endless! Miss McSorley will be appearing in Panto from 17th to 25th
January at the Carriageworks Theatre in Millennium Square. The Panto is Puss in
Boots and Miss McSorley will be playing the character of Principal Boy. If you
are interested in purchasing a ticket, please see Miss McSorley for a flier.
5 Star hygiene
Following on from the 5
star hygiene grading of our Friendly Faces setting last term, I am very pleased
to tell you that the school kitchen has now also been awarded 5 stars for its
level of hygiene. I am sure you will find it very reassuring that your
children’s meals are prepared in such a safe and clean environment. My
congratulations to Debbie Nash and all of the kitchen staff for their fantastic
hard work.
Return dates after Summer
For
those of you who are now looking at booking your summer holiday please be aware
that the school will open to children on Thursday 4th September. Staff
will return on Monday 1st and the first 3 days of term will be
training days and final preparations for changes in classrooms following the
expansion.
Have
a lovely weekend everyone.
Don’t forget!
Our next parents coffee morning will be on Monday
10th February 2014 between 9 am and 10 am with Miss Thackeray in
Friendly Faces. You are invited to come along with positive suggestions which
are relevant to the agendas that we set. Any other issues can come directly to
me. It is important that we use the limited time that we have together to best
effect. The agendas for next time will be:
· Home learning-
Do you think the children get too much/too little? Is it purposeful? Any ideas
for improvement.
· Holiday
projects- what do you and your child think of them?
· Just a question
for discussion- what would we think of a shorter summer holiday but longer half
terms?
If you cannot make it, we
value your views so you can email me at gaynor.dale@robinhood.leeds.sch.uk
Nursery newsletter
NEWS ROUND UP
Welcome back and Happy New
Year! It was lovely to see the children back today and we loved their
enthusiasm for our new areas!
THIS WEEK
We have been learning about
pets and have been thinking about the types of pets people have (or would like
to have if they were allowed!). The children have been painting pictures of
their pets and we have been tallying and making pictograms in mathematics. They
have also been exploring the jungle area and looking after poorly pets in our
vets.
NEXT WEEK
Next week we will be
learning about Farm animals, focusing on Old Macdonald and his farm. For home learning this week please can you
ask your child to draw or create a farm animal that we can display in our classroom. During our literacy sessions, we will be
talking about farm animals and practising saying sentences about where they
live; for example ‘The ducks live near the duck pond’. We will be creating some
amazing large scale animals to display and in our maths sessions we will be
measuring out milk and making milkshakes!
On Wednesday (11am) and
Friday (2.30pm) the Nursery children will be hosting Celebration Assembly in
the hall, so please put the dates in your diary and join us to support the
children (grandparents and child minders are very welcome too).
HOW YOU CAN HELP US
· Please continue to read every day with your
child and bring in book bags Mondays and Wednesdays so we can change their
books.
· Keep practising writing the first letter in
your child’s name and beyond as soon as they are ready (all children were given
a name book just before the Christmas break)
· Please complete the home learning task with
your child (see above) to give them
a head start for our new learning next week
Thank you for your support. Have
a great weekend!
Mrs Steel, Mrs Chin, Miss
Fox and Mrs Beckwith.
NEWS ROUND UP
Happy New Year! We hope you
had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and that the children had a well-deserved
rest. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your children for
all the lovely Christmas cards and gifts we received, we are now all a stone
heavier! We would like to say a huge thank you to you and your families as £195
was raised from our foundation stage Christmas Shops. It was great to hear so
many positive comments about the shop and was definitely an invaluable learning
experience for the children, which they thoroughly enjoyed.
THIS WEEK
It was great to see how
excited the children were to be back at school on Tuesday and they have settled
straight back into the swing of things. Our classroom has been transformed into
an exciting jungle thanks to our amazing classroom assistants! We have our very
own mysterious jungle tunnel and the children have reported that a ferocious
snake has been spotted along with lots of cheeky monkeys. We also have our very
own veterinary surgery and it is great to see how well the children have been
looking after the pets. You can see pictures of all our new areas on the
Foundation Stage Blog. This week we have been learning all about our pets and
the children have written some great fact files about their pets or the pet
that they may like to own. We have also thought carefully about what our pets
need and how we can look after them properly. We were very lucky on Thursday as
our learning was brought to life when we had two visits, one from the PDSA and
the second from the dogs trust who brought in some dogs to meet us. Then today
Chelsey and her mum brought her parrot Robbie in for us to meet which the
children loved, so thank you so much for bringing him in Chelsey. The children
were ever so excited and behaved impeccably for our visitors. They made us very
proud! In numeracy we have been
concentrating on data handling and interpreting graphs. The children recorded
what pets they had and each group discovered what the most popular pet was in
each group. In phonics this half term we are recapping the Phase 3 digraphs
that the children learnt last half term so they become more confident at
writing them. This week learnt to read and write the Phase 3 sounds ch, sh and th and learnt to read the words; it’s, went, from, just, help and children.
NEXT WEEK
Next week we will be
learning all about farm animals. In literacy we will be reading the story The
Little Red Hen and the children will be learning to retell the story through
actions, so please encourage them to show you what they have been doing at
home. In topic to support our learning about The Little Red Hen we will be
carrying out the process she does in the story to making our very own bread. I
can’t wait to eat some! In numeracy we will be learning about capacity. The
children will be comparing three glasses of milk and ordering them from the
glass with the least milk in to the glass with the most milk in. We will then
be discussing and thinking about different shapes of container as just because
a container is taller does that means it holds more liquid? The vocabulary we
will be using will be full, half full and empty so please use these words over
the weekend with your child. In phonics we will be learning the phase 3 sounds ng, ai, ee and igh and reading Phase 4 key words so, do, have, like, some, come.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Lambert, Miss Pyatt and the Reception team.
Key
Stage 1
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Home
Learning:
Firstly we would like to say a massive
thank you for the time and effort spent on the home learning across the
holidays. We have seen some fantastic posters, drawings and information on
the amazon rainforest and the different animals that live in it.
This week in Numeracy the children are
learning all about 2D Shapes. Across the term the children will also be
continuing to use their addition and subtraction skills to become even
quicker at adding and subtracting mentally. Please support your child in
completing the following sheets attached:
·
2D properties worksheet (A different sheet is provided
for Year One and Year Two children).
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An addition worksheet adding small numbers together. A
useful strategy to do this is putting “the biggest number in your head” and
then counting on. You could also look for number bonds such as 6 + 4 = 10 or
you could even just see if your child can do it in their heads.
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Outdoor PE
Next week will be our first week of outdoor
PE. This will take place on a Monday afternoon for all classes. Please make
sure that your child is provided with: Warm hooded top (any colour), warm
jogging bottoms, white t-shirt and outdoor trainers. Please make sure your
child brings an extra carrier bag for their trainers as there may be a
possibility these will get dirty from going out on the field.
Numeracy
This week in Numeracy the children have begun
a new unit of learning on shape. They have been developing their learning of
shape names which have included a circle, rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon,
pentagon, octagon, trapezium, parallelogram and quadrilateral. The children
have also been describing the properties of the shapes with words such as
‘corners’, ‘sides’ ‘edges’ ‘straight’ and ‘round’. Next week the children will
be drawing different 2D shapes and begin to learn the different shape names and
properties for 3D shapes. They will be learning all about: cubes, cuboids,
cylinders, spheres, square based pyramids, triangular based pyramids and
different types of prisms. They will be describing the shapes by using the
words; ‘vertices (edges), sides, corners and faces. The children will also be
given more opportunities during mental maths to continue using their adding and
subtracting skills.
Literacy
This week the children have begun their new
topic for this half term on invitations. Each class is inviting a different Mr
Men character to a special party in their classroom.
Year 1: Mr Silly Year 1/2: Mr Greedy Year
2: Mr Strong
Across the two weeks the children will be
learning about the importance of persuasive language and how we can use this to
make sure each of the characters come to our parties! They will be using
adjectives (describing words) and alliteration (where two words start with the
same letter – e.g. juicy jelly) capital letters, full stops and exclamation
marks. The children will also be developing their skills of using conjunctions
such as ‘and’ or ‘because’, ‘but’ and ‘however’. The children will be learning spellings
of different useful words to help them in writing this invitation. Just to get
you started possible words you could also help your child to spell at home are;
please, come, into, my, party.
Topic
Thank you so much to all parents and carers
who have provided their child with a plant! We have begun our new topic of the
rainforest by focusing on science and how plants grow (light, air, heat or
water). They have worked in groups to devise their own experiment to find out
what happens if we take one of these things away. The children have devised
interesting experiments such as keeping the plant in the dark (no light) and
covering the pot with cling film (no air). Across the term the children will
take turns in watering and looking after the plants and will make weekly
recordings of what is happening to all of the plants in the classroom. The
children have really enjoyed this learning! Next week the children will begin
two weeks of learning using their geographical skills. They will learn about
the weather and the people who live in the rainforests.
This term the Key Stage Showcase assembly
will be held on: Friday 24th
January at 2.30pm
We really enjoyed sharing much more of your
children’s learning in our first showcase assembly and we are sure our next one
will be even better!
If your children have any out of school
achievements or any other successes out of school that you wish to share please
give this to your child to pass on to their class teacher across the coming
weeks.
The Key Stage One Team
Happy
New Year! Well, what a fantastic start we have had to the new term. We have
been impressed once again by the amazing attention to detail given to the
holiday home learning. World War 2 has and always will be a very interesting
and engaging subject and we have been blown away by the variety of subjects
researched and outcomes produced. We have seen posters, models, diaries, photo
stories, ration books, real medals and even a gas mask or two. We are always
thrilled to see what the children can produce at home as a result of their own
self-directed learning and would like to congratulate everyone for their super
efforts once again (including parents – thank you).
We
have started the New Year with a new timetable. Due to the changes in our PE
curriculum, we now have 2 hours of PE every week. Our indoor sessions take
place on a Thursday in the school hall and this half term we will be looking at
the basics of football skills. Our outdoor sessions take place on a Wednesday
afternoon and we are looking at developing our ABCS multi-skills – Agility,
Balance, Co-ordination and Speed. Please ensure your child has the required kit
in for each session.
Home Learning
As
well as the children reading daily and practicing their weekly spellings, we
would like everyone to be learning their Times
Tables. We will now be testing the children weekly on a different times
table as this will help us all greatly when solving multiplication and division
problems. Links to any on line games to support your child with this will be on
our phase blog. The times table we will be testing next week is the 3 Times Table. Keep an eye on the phase
blog for the Times Table Wall of Fame.
Numeracy
This
week in numeracy the children have been looking at measures of length. They
have studied the different tools for measuring length and have identified the
differences between the metric units (mm, cm, m, Km). They have developed their
measuring skills to become more accurate when measuring to the nearest mm and
have begun looking at how to convert measures from one unit to another (e.g.
2.5cm = 25mm). These conversions did prove a little tricky for many children so
we have provided a worksheet for home learning as a bit of practise. Next week,
we will be continuing to develop our measuring skills on a larger scale and
will apply these skills and our knowledge of conversions to tackle some tricky
length problems.
Literacy
This
week in literacy, the children have begun writing their very own diary from the
perspective of an evacuated child during World War 2. This week’s entry is
focussed on the day the children found out that they were going to be evacuated
to the countryside and focussed on the immediate emotions and feelings
experienced. They have included audience engaging features and a variety of
conjunctions to help them develop their thoughts and ideas. Next week, we will
be continuing to write our diary entries detailing many of the events
encountered during the evacuation. The completed diaries will be on display at
the end of the half term.
Topic
Our
topic sessions this week began with a showcase of so many impressive outcomes
from the home learning task. We then moved on to looking at how World War 2
began as well as which countries were involved. We also began looking at what
happened during the evacuations when hundreds of thousands of children were
removed from the inner cities and sent to live in the countryside. Next week,
we will be continuing to look at the evacuation process – looking at what items
a child would have packed for their stay as well as the journey to their home.
I wonder how the children and the host families felt about it all?
These
Spellings will be tested on Monday 13th
January.
Group 1: see,
bee, deep, keep, queen, teeth, cheek, fifteen, weekend, cheerful
Group 2: army,
armies, berry, berries, city, cities, fly, flies, witch, witches
· Please ensure your child has an art shirt in
school at all times.
· The current weather is very changeable and so
we ask that your child brings a suitable coat to school every day.
· Just a gentle reminder to ensure all of your
child’s belongings (especially PE kits, hats and gloves and school jumpers) are
clearly labelled with your child’s full name.
· Children will be required to bring an outdoor
PE kit (t-shirt, jumper, jogging bottoms, outdoor trainers) every Wednesday and
an indoor PE kit (shorts and t-shirt) every Thursday.
·
Our next phase assembly will take place on
Friday 31st January. We look forward to seeing you there.
Don’t forget to check out
our blog where you will find lots more information about this week’s learning
as well as important reminders and dates for forthcoming events. http://year34rhps.blogspot.co.uk/
Have
a superb weekend!
Team 3/4
UKS2 Newsletter
We would like to applaud all the children on
their fantastic efforts and attitude after a much deserved Christmas break. All
pupils have certainly hit the ground running which has been great to see!
Home
Learning
Congratulations are in order for all the children
who completed their home learning piece all about Greece. There is no doubt
that these wonderful pieces have helped to enhance the learning that is taking
place in the classrooms this half term. We would also like to give a special
mention to all our year 6 pupils who have worked hard over the holidays to
complete their SAT’s pack. Well done to all, it has certainly been a productive
time with some fabulous learning taking place.
West
Yorkshire Playhouse Trip
We would like to commend all year 5/6 pupils on
their impeccable attitude and behaviour whilst on our trip to the West
Yorkshire Playhouse. The pupils impressed in drama workshops which linked with
our topic of Ancient Greece. In addition the performance of the Jungle Book was
wonderful and pupils were able to appreciate the talent, hard work and skill
that go in to making a top theatre production.
Year 6
Parent Consultations
Another reminder that Year 6 parent consultations
are as follows:
5/6CH –
Monday January 13th
5/6G – Tuesday
January 14th.
5/6M –
Wednesday January 15th.
The class teachers will discuss progress and targets
and are more than happy to discuss any questions you may have, especially in
the run up to SAT’s.
Core
Subjects:
Numeracy:
This week pupils have used mental addition and
subtraction skills and have been finding missing numbers to make 1, 10, 100 and
1000 by using the inverse. Next week we will be developing our understanding of
fractions; including calculating fractions of amounts, equivalent fractions,
common denominators and simplifying fractions
Literacy:
This week pupils have been introduced to a series of
traditional Ancient Greek fables and their moral meaning. Pupils have then
developed character profiles and improved a section of the fable the hare and
the tortoise. Next week pupils will be planning their own fable and developing
the story to include a key moral message.
SPELLINGS: This week, the spellings are: emigrate, emigration, invent, invention,
satisfy, satisfaction, complete, completion, relate, relation, imitation,
contradict, contradiction, pollute, pollution, reflect, reflection, destroy,
destruction. Your child has received a copy of these spelling and they will
be tested on Friday 17th January.
PE:
Next
term pupils will be receiving two hours of PE. One session will be held indoors
and the other hour will be outside on the field or the yard. The PE units next
term will be rugby league and the other session will focus on fundamental
movement skills. The timetable for PE sessions is as follows; 5/6M and
5/6MO PE sessions are on Monday afternoon and 5/6G PE sessions are on a Tuesday
morning. The outdoor sessions will be held on a Thursday afternoon for all
classes. Outdoor kit includes; a warm hooded top or jumper, warm jogging
bottoms, a white t-shirt and outdoor trainers.
Please ensure that your child has the appropriate
kit in school for each session. Thank you in advance.
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