Newsletter
Issue 27
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Friday 4th April 2014
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Dear Parent/Carer,
Today marks the end of another
successful term. We have had a very exciting week with chicks hatching in
Reception and this morning, a fabulous Easter service led by Lower Key Stage 2
at the church. Thanks to everyone once again who was able to come along and
support us; a lovely, uplifting way to end our Spring Term.
Team
Point winners
This week, not only did our
pupils all enjoy a delivery from our Easter bunnies, aka Kay, Stephanie and
Emma (thank you ladies!) but the Yellow
house team enjoyed an additional treat for being the house team winners for
this half term. Mr Truffles the magician gave an awesome show with very
positive feedback from the children.
Mr Malley
Many of you will know that
Mr Malley suffered a serious leg injury at the weekend. Unfortunately his leg
was broken in two places during a football match. It is unknown just how long
Mr Malley will be absent from school but we wish him all the very best for a
speedy recovery. Thankfully this week, we welcome back Miss Darroch, one
of our most talented and experienced teachers, from her maternity leave. Miss
Darroch will lead the learning in Mr Malley’s class in his absence during the
morning lessons and afternoons will be covered by mostly myself and Miss
Hinton. Although not under the best circumstances, I look forward to getting
into class and doing what I love best!
Gates
Please ensure that you
close the gates behind you when entering the playground and Nursery. It has
been brought to my attention that they are being left open on occasion and I must
stress that security and the safety of our pupils is of prime importance. Thank
you.
Universal Free School Meals
You may have gathered from
news reports recently, that all children up to the age of 7 (not including
Nursery) will be eligible to take up a school meal each day without charge.
This is a government initiative designed to help parents towards the cost of
school dinners and to ensure that all children have a healthy and filling meal
each day to optimise learning. The implementation of this will have huge
implications for the design of our lunchtimes and how we will work this into
the school day. I will keep you informed as plans unfold and more information
is available.
Friendly Faces
Please ensure that if
your child attends our Friendly Faces before or after school care that Jill
Grenfell is informed of the following; when a child has taken up or left a
school after school club, when a child is ill, absent from school or going to a
friend’s house and therefore not accessing the provision one day. This way,
Jill can be certain of the whereabouts of all children in the setting and time
can be saved looking for them. She can be reached via text or email. Thanks.
PTA News
We hope you all enjoyed the Easter
Eggs that were handed out on Wednesday (all the children must have been very
good for the Easter Bunny to make a very early delivery!). A huge thank
you to Mick Carr (one of our Reception children’s Dads) and Tesco for their assistance
with obtaining and delivering the eggs, it was very much appreciated. It
was lovely to see all the children’s faces on receiving the eggs and also it
was a pleasure to hear all the “thank you’s” we received, we certainly do have
very polite children at Robin Hood. Of course none of this would be
possible without the commitment and support from all our parents, carers and
teachers. Should anyone wish to help the PTA with fundraising, a little or a
lot, please contact us on robinhoodprimarypta@gmail.com or
alternatively speak to one of us at school drop off and pick up time. Lastly
we hope you have a very happy holiday and we will be in touch with how you can
all help us in the future.
Have an absolutely BRILLIANT Easter break.
Mrs Dale
Don’t forget:
The next parent coffee morning will take place on
Monday 19th May with Miss Thackeray in Friendly Faces. The agendas
for discussion will be:
· Website and
blogs- how well used are they? How could we make them more engaging/useful for your
children?
· How do you rate
our improved parental engagement this year?
If you
are unable to come, please do not hesitate to share your views with me at gaynor.dale@robinhood.leeds.sch.uk
Nursery
newsletter
NEWS
ROUND UP
Thank
you for all your amazing home learning! Our Easter hats look amazing and we
can’t believe how creative you all are! Hopefully they will have survived the
assemblies and come home safely! Please keep looking on our blog for the latest
information and to see what has been happening in Nursery at http://foundationstagenewsatrobinhood.blogspot.co.uk/
THIS
WEEK
We
have been learning about the Easter story as well as preparing for our super
assemblies, making Easter cards; practising the ‘Big Dance’ and taking part in
an egg hunt in the nursery garden – phew! We have also assessed every child and
sent home their current levels in reading, writing, numeracy and phonics along
with some next step targets. All books have been changed too and children now
have their next level books. We hope that you will be as proud as we are of
their fabulous achievements.NEXT HALF TERM
After the holidays we return to school on Tuesday 22nd April. For the first two weeks we will be learning all about pirates. So that the children enjoy a deep immersive learning experience we will all be dressing up as pirates (yes even the teachers!) for the first two weeks of next half term.
To
support your child’s learning, please can you:
·
Continue
to practice writing your child’s first name (and surname once they have
mastered this)
·
Practice
counting, reading, ordering and writing numbers to 10
·
Try to
encourage your child to read to you for about five minutes each day
·
Make a
badge with a pirate name for your child to wear – it should use alliteration so
for example they could be Jolly Jake or Tilli the Terrible (we will be using
these in our week 1 learning).
PLEASE NOTE the following diary dates:
Nursery will be CLOSED on
Wednesday 2nd July 2014
We will be hosting the
Celebration assemblies on Wednesday 30th April at 11.00am and Friday
2nd May at 2.30pm
HOW
YOU CAN HELP US
· Please complete the home learning task with your
child (see above) and bring it in on their first day back.
· Have a lovely rest and encourage the children
to recharge their batteries for another super half term.
Thank
you for your continued support and Happy Easter!
Mrs
Steel, Mrs Chin, Miss Fox and Mrs Beckwith.
Reception
newsletter
NEWS
ROUND UP
Thank
you for all your amazing home learning! Our Easter bonnets look amazing and we
can’t believe how creative you all are! Hopefully they will have survived the Easter
Parade and come home safely! Please keep looking on our blog for the latest
information and to see what has been happening in Reception at http://foundationstagenewsatrobinhood.blogspot.co.uk/
THIS
WEEK
We
have been learning about the Easter story as well as making Easter cards,
Easter buns, practising the ‘Big Dance’ and taking part in an egg hunt in the
Reception playground – phew! And as if that wasn’t enough to keep us busy, we
have spent all week observing our chicks and writing a day to day diary. The
excitement and wonder on the children’s faces when the chicks finally arrived
was a real pleasure to see. In phonics we have learnt the capital and lowercase
letters, the 5 vowels and the rules concerning the endings ing and ed. In
numeracy we have been completing the number sequences counting in 2’s, 5’s and
10’s and we are now experts at our number bonds to 10. Some children can even
tell you the number bonds to 20 as well! Wow you are stars Reception!
NEXT
HALF TERM
After the
holidays we return to school on Tuesday 22nd April. For the first
two weeks we will be learning all about pirates. So that the children enjoy a
deep immersive learning experience we will all be dressing up as pirates (yes
even the teachers!) for the first two weeks of next half term. So get your
parrots and eye patches ready! No doubt our classroom will have been magically
transformed over the holidays for when the children return.
HOW
YOU CAN HELP US
Following
parents evening we have now photocopied your child’s assessment and sent them
home with some next step targets. All books have been changed on bug club and
the children now have their next level books. It would be great if over the
Easter break you could work on your child’s individual targets. We hope that
you are as proud as we are of their fabulous achievements.
The
children will be assessed again towards the end of next half term and this will
inform us as to whether they have made a good level of development for their
age against government standards. Please read the booklet that we have sent out
as this outlines the early learning goals for each area. If you feel your child
is not meeting one or more of the early learning goals please try to practise
and develop this area with them. If you need any advice or resources to help
you do this, please do not hesitate to speak to us and we will offer
suggestions and do our best to provide support.
Thank
you for your continued support and Happy Easter! We hope that the Easter bunny
delivers lots of scrumptious eggs.
Miss
Lambert, Miss Pyatt and the Reception Team
Key Stage 1
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Home
Learning:
Please continue to support your child in
reading, learning their spellings and counting. Your child’s teacher handed
out individual spellings for each child from their phonics phase, which are
so important for them to learn. Tackle one or two at a time and write them in
many different ways: pencils, paint, tracing in mud or on your mum or dad’s
back. These are sticky spellings for your child so the more they can read
them and spell them the better – once won’t go in!
Keep on giving your child mental maths
questions to solve and ask them to write sums down for you that use all 4
functions. Some feedback from parents’ evening was that the timed quick fire
questions can prove to be a little bit much for some children – please don’t
feel you have to do this if your child isn’t ready for it! Use counters of
any description (raisins, Lego) to help your child add or share out fairly or
double or half. It is SO important that they see what each of the main 4
functions does to a number instead of learning by heart answers if they don’t
know what each number means. Please keep seeking our support with this if you
need it!
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Parents’
Evening:
We hope that you all enjoyed coming in to
school and looking through your children’s books and hearing all about their
learning as much as we enjoyed telling you! We say it often, but we as teachers
and the children are really fortunate to have such strong support from home. It
was really useful to get your feedback on what your child does at home and what
you and they might struggle with – hopefully the home learning section will
help you here but please feel that you can come and ask us questions when needed.
London:
Well we have to bid farewell to London now,
unfortunately! The children have absolutely loved this topic and learnt loads
about their capital city. Hopefully they will enjoy our next topic of “Lights,
Camera, Action!” all about Disney characters, tales and history. We will make mod
rock people, build cars, mime like Charlie Chaplin and learn all about forces.
No doubt it will be another fun term of learning!!
Literacy:
We hope, and are sure, that you all enjoyed
and took huge pride in your child’s writing from assessment week that we sent
home with them! Writing across the phase is phenomenal! This week we have
changed our focus slightly within our recounts unit from writing different
diaries to working with a group to make and present our very own Newsround
report on hand washing! We’ve had songs, raps, actions, little sketches to
illustrate a point and even some ad libs! The children found it quite a
challenge to not read directly from their poster prompts at first but tried so
hard to think about their intonation and audience when they spoke for the final
recording. Keep your eyes peeled for some of the star performances on our Robin
Hood TV channel.
Next half term we will be moving back into a
narrative unit of study, focussing on Disney books to build characters,
settings and stories of our own.
Numeracy:
This week each teacher within the phase has
focussed on specific areas that they felt important, following on from
assessment week. Year one have been practising their doubling skills, both with
counters to visualise what double actually means and also speed doubling for
those children who have grasped the concept. Year 1-2 have used money to
consolidate different functions within numeracy through open ended questions,
such as you have 3 coins in your purse - how much could you have? You lose 1
coin, how much could you have now? You have £1.26 in your purse, use the fewest
coins possible to make this figure, convert £s to Ps and change from £2/£5/£15.
Year 2 have been looking at flipping sums around to fill in missing number
problems, such as 60+?=63, 45 =?+5, ?-10=15, 8X?=40 and so on. It is so
important that children working within level 2 (see your assessment sheet that
your child’s teacher gave you) can manipulate, alter the order of sums and do
the opposite of what is stated in the question to find the answer – like to
find what you multiply 8 by to get 40, you should divide 40 by 8.
Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter
Wow
what an exciting and busy half term we have had in LKS2, the children have
blown us away with their efforts and we are so pleased with the fantastic
progress everyone has made in their assessments. We would like to congratulate
all the children for today’s amazing Easter service. Those of you who were
lucky enough to attend, I’m sure you will agree the singing, Bible paintings and
Spring time poems were of an exceptional standard and it was a really enjoyable
service . Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended a consultation
this week, it has been a pleasure to share all of the pupils great successes
with you all and we look forward to another half term of exciting learning
after the holidays.
Topic
The
children have had a great time this half term learning all about the various
world mysteries and other curious phenomena. Next half term we are learning all
about the incredible City that we live in with our new topic ‘Where we live’.
We will be learning about the Landscape of Leeds, what Leeds is famous for, how
Leeds has changed through the ages and all the attractions Leeds has to offer.
We will also be studying our local area and finding out all about Rothwell and
why it is such a fantastic place to live.
Numeracy
This
week the children have been busy using all of their written and mental
strategies to solve Easter problems and investigations involving the four
operations. Next half term we will be studying fractions, time and shape so any
practice over the holiday will be extremely useful. Please see the blog and the
school website for any additional home learning and support around strategies.
Literacy
This
week we have been writing some spring time and Easter poems, which we shared
during our Easter service. These will also be displayed in the 3/4 corridor so
please pop in and have a look at all of the children’s gorgeous handwriting and
presentation. We have also been writing up a newspaper article and again these
are going to be displayed around school for everyone to admire. Next half term
our literacy unit will be narrative writing so the children will be learning
how to write a successful story ensuring they are writing a detailed opening,
build up, climax and resolution.
Science
This
week we have completed our unit studying flowering plants. We have taken one
final look at our investigations and have used the results to form a detailed
conclusion. Next half term we will be looking at magnets and carrying out
various investigations.
PE
Our
indoor PE unit next half term is dance where the children will be learning this
years ‘Big Dance routine’. We will then perform this altogether with the rest
of the school in the hope to break a world record. We will also be showing the
Big Dance routine at this year’s Sport day event. Our outdoor PE unit next half
term will be
Spellings
These
Spellings will be tested on Tuesday 22nd
April.
Group 1: over, old, half,
could, should, would, ball, call, your, laugh
Group 2: absence, sentence,
commence, defence, offence, finance, exercise, experiment, announced, audience
Year 4 Residential
Thank
you to all of the children who brought back their consent forms for
residential. If any are still outstanding please ensure these are returned to
school as soon as possible. All of the children going on residential have now
received a kit list and itinerary for the trip. These are also available on the
blog. Miss Thackeray and Mrs Brook are holding a meeting regarding residential
on Wednesday 23rd April
at 3:30pm in the school hall to go through the itinerary in more detail and
they will also be on hand to answer any questions. .
Home Learning
Although
we are no longer sending home photocopied resources for home learning, we have saved
many resources onto the phase blog for you to download. These resources are
related to our weekly learning and are entirely optional. Any links to games
and websites that we have used will also be posted to the blog. Paper copies of resources from in class are
often available daily for the children to take home. We would also like the
children to continue to read daily and ensure they are recording this in their
reading records so we can reward their efforts with stickers! In addition to
this, the children should be practising and learning their spellings and Times Tables as this was the key skill
that has let many children down when trying to calculate multiplications,
divisions and fractions this half term. The
times table we will be testing next week is the 3 Times Table. We are really impressed with the children’s
continued effort with learning their times tables and all the children who are
getting 12 out of 12 are celebrated on our
blog ‘Wall of Fame’ on a weekly basis.
Reminders
· There will be no swimming for Year 4 in the first week back after Easter.
· 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.
· Please 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.
· Remember the children have two PE units a
week now, one indoor (Thursday) and one outdoor (Wednesday), so please ensure
they are bringing the correct kit each week.
· Can all children please be provided with a
named water bottle, especially on PE
days?
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/
Enjoy
your weekend!
Team 3/4
UKS2 Newsletter
The Year 5/6 team would just like to wish
everyone a wonderful Easter! We are looking forward to seeing the children
refreshed and ready for an exciting and action-packed summer term!
Friday Celebration Assembly:
· Our next phase assembly will be on Friday
25th April. We look
forward to seeing you there to show off the amazing learning from this half
term! The new school captains will also receive their badges on this day too!
Home Learning:
The Year 5 children have all received some
mental maths booklets to practice at home, at your leisure. There is a question
booklet for parents to read from which also contains the answers. The children
have also received a separate booklet in which to record their answers. This
does not need to be handed back in to school; it is merely a resource to
support with mental maths strategies.
We ask that the children continue to read at
home over the holidays and record this into their planners, a minimum of 4
entries per week is recommended and the children will be rewarded stamps and
stickers for the entries recorded for each week.
The Year 6 children were given their
Splat the SAT packs early this half term to allow them longer to complete the
packs. These are due in on Tuesday 22nd April.
The year 6 children also have their Numeracy
Study Guides and question books to complete at home too. We encourage children to delve into aspects
of Numeracy in this book which they feel they need extra support with. Although
completing the pages is not compulsory, we are keen to reward your child’s
effort. You can support your child by
marking the questions; you will find the answers in the back of the book. Alternatively, your child can mark their own
learning and make any amendments to their answers in pen so we can see the
changes made. After the Easter break,
can we please ask that the children bring their study guide and question book
into school, as we may refer to these during Numeracy sessions in the run up to
SATs.
Year 6 – Rodillian.
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Please note: Due to some confusion with regards to the Training Days at Rodillian, it
has been requested that all parents of our Year 6 Rodillian starters visit
their website: www.rodillianacademy.co.uk,
go to New Students, Year 6 Induction Programme to indicate the days their children will be attending the academy. Thank
you.
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Thursday June 12th 4:30pm
-7:30pm
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Year 6 information
Evening
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Monday 14th
July until Tuesday 22nd July inclusive
(Please
note: Although there are three training days at Rodillian, this
does not apply to the new starters, Year 6 children will still attend
during the three training days.
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Year 6
induction
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Core Subjects:
Numeracy:
This week in Numeracy, the children have been using
and applying the Bus Stop and Chunking Method to divide by single and digit
numbers!
Literacy:
This week pupils have been writing their own
newspaper report about their own chosen theme, some of the themes chosen were:
the environment, sport or world affairs. The children also chose their own
target audience, making sure that their article was written to suit their
audience.
SPELLINGS: There are 19
spellings to learn over the holidays (an odd number, we know), however, these
words are homophones that many of the children become confused with. The
children will hear a sentence which contains one of these words in context.
They are as follows: there, they’re,
their, who’s, whose, peace, piece, aisle, isle, past, passed, steel, steal,
allowed, aloud, herd, heard, threw and through.
Your child has received a copy of these spelling and will be tested on Friday 25th
April.
Other Areas of the Curriculum:
Art: The children have
been very busy getting very creative and a little bit messy (really sorry
parents) this half term. We have been making Koinobori flags, which are
carp-shaped flags which represent strength and determination of children in
Japan, which are flown to celebrate Children’s Day. We have also been adding
beautiful Japanese decorations onto sections of a kimono which will be sewn
together over the holidays. The children have also been designing plates using
glass paints to replicate landscapes from traditional Japanese settings…. All
of which are beautiful and professional outcomes which can be seen on our blog
or at our Celebration Assembly.
PE: This half term, the
children have been incredibly lucky to have been taught Judo by our specialist teachers.
The children showed great discipline and an appreciation for martial arts and
the children all received a certificate to celebrate their efforts – well done,
guys!
Next half term, we will be practising the Big Dance in addition to our
usual outdoor PE sessions. Visit our blog to have a sneaky preview of the Big
Dance for 2014 and to get a little bit of extra practice in before we begin…
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