We are wishing all our families a lovely Easter break. A reminder Monday 8th April is a PD day. Therefore we will see you all again on Tuesday 9th April 🙂
We wish you a lovely break.
We are wishing all our families a lovely Easter break. A reminder Monday 8th April is a PD day. Therefore we will see you all again on Tuesday 9th April 🙂
We wish you a lovely break.
The next Friends meeting is Wednesday 10th April, 2.30pm.
All welcome 🙂
Please come to the school reception.
Please could we ask that the school entrance area (by the road barrier) is to be kept clear of a morning when dropping off pupils.
We have noticed this area becoming very congested and difficult for people to pass.
Thank you
We have had a super week this week, reading the story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ where Oliver who only eats chips goes to stay with his Grandad and is challenged to find the potatoes in his vegetable garden. The deal was if does not find them, he has to eat whatever he has found. The children really enjoyed exploring the vegetables (and tasting some beetroot!), role playing the story in the small world area and creating healthy food plates in the creative area.They also drew and wrote about their favourite character as well as imagining a strange vegetable that Oliver might find in the garden and what might happen if he ate it! I loved the idea of the sparkly strawberries that made him invisible and the tiny orange that made him shrink! 🙂
In Maths we have been measuring and comparing length and height, using the words short, shorter, shortest and long, longer, longest to describe length and short shorter shortest and tall taller tallest to compare heights. They had great fun measuring lots of things in the classroom and in our outdoor area – including eachother!
It’s great to hear so many children keen to have a turn in the lucky dip box for reading at home 5 times a week. This runs Monday to Monday and each read must be recorded in their reading record. If they read one or the Collins EBooks, please remember to record that too. Our Little Wandle group read sessions are recorded as Group Read as the children read in a small group with me. When reading with your child, please encourage them to re-read a sentence after decoding (sounding out) so they begin to recognise more words and build their fluency.
Next week we will be completing our learning about Easter and why it is special to Christians. Lots of the children have made Easter Gardens following our discussions around this and will bring these home next week. They are also hoping to complete their carriers to keep an egg safe so we would really appreciate it if you have any general recycling resources they could use – small cardboard boxes and tubes – that you please send these in. Thank you.
On the final day of term (Friday 22nd) we will be having a special dress up day (just for our class) as we did not get to see much of each other on World Book Day due to all the exciting events going on in school that day. I have said to the children that I would love to see them as their favourite characters again and they can bring the book they are from so we can share them (and maybe have a little Easter Egg Hunt in the afternoon!) There will be no PE that day.
Please remember if you have any non-urgent queries, please send me an email on beech@crowmoorschool.co.uk
Hoping you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny
This week we have completed our newspaper reports and will be bringing a copy home to share with you. Â The children have enjoyed writing them and have added detail using vocabulary and quotes from our class text. Â In maths we have been learning how to measure mass and capacity. Â The children have been reading scales, dividing and problem solving. Â In science we have been learning how fossils are formed and the different types of fossil, which can form.
Swimming was great today with lots of children swimming without floats across the pool! We have one more swimming session left next week.
Enjoy the weekend
Miss Roberts
Good afternoon,
The children have worked very hard this week writing a persuasive letter from the main character’s perspective, Cameron, to Dr Bryce. In maths we have moved on to statistics and are currently reading data from pie charts. One child who has shown great focus this week and is our Golden Certificate Winner is Jess – congratulations.
In geography we have continued to explore change across the UK by exploring the development of infrastructure in different locations. This coincided with our history work on place names and their origin from the Anglo-Saxons.
We currently have a word target of 4,000,000 words read by year 6 by Easter and we are currently on 3,543,685. Please encourage the children to keep up the reading so we can reach our target and set up a great start to the Summer Term.
We hope you have a great weekend,
Mr Reynolds, Miss Nicholas, Mrs Davies
Happy Friday!
We have had a lovely week in Elm. It was lovely to see the children in their happy colours for Comic Relief today!
In Maths, we have been practicing how to add 2 digit numbers using the column method. In English, we have been joining descriptive sentences with conjunctions to make them more exciting. In RE we discussed the significance of resurrection and how Easter Sunday is an important day in the Christian calendar. In History, we looked at Victorian workhouses. All of the children said they would rather be in a Victorian School than a workhouse. They did not like the idea of gruel and bread and sharing a room!
We had great fun making our fruit salads this week. So proud of the children for being very sensible when chopping and cutting. Also very impressed with how well they tried new things and could discuss what they liked and didn’t. Honeydew and watermelon were the clear winners!!
Well done to William – who has won the golden certificate this week.
Can I please remind you to be encouraging your child to be reading at home. It makes such a difference. Thank you.
Any issues please email elm@crowmoorschool.co.uk.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Shadbolt, Mrs E and Miss Nicholas.
We’ve had a FUN Friday!
The children all came in dressed in all different colours for Red Nose Day! All we have sung is the Shaun the Sheep theme song! Haha!
In English, we have focused on improving our writing and making it more interesting for the reader. We have begun to write our own story ending to ‘The Jamie Drake Equation’ because we all wanted to know what happened to our alien BZZZ.
In Maths, the children achieved some great scores on their ‘Decimals and Percentages’ end of topic test. We have started our unit on ‘Perimeter and Area’, where the children have been calculating the area of shapes.
In Science this week, the children shared their views and had a debate on their beliefs about Stonehenge. We had some very interesting ideas, including dinosaurs!
Our Golden Certificate Winner this week is Lila! For always being super helpful around the classroom and for her great start to writing her alien story ending. Well Done!
Have a great weekend
Miss Hipkiss and Miss Harris
We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has supported this cause today!
Today free school meal vouchers have been issued for the Easter holidays. Each eligible pupil will receive £30 for the two week break.
Please also remember families eligible for free school meals have already received information regarding HAF projects running this Easter break.
We ask Parents/Carers to check their email inbox including the junk folder for the vouchers. If you have not received your voucher please contact the school office.
If you have not received the voucher you must contact the school office by Monday 18th April, 3.15pm at the latest. Unfortunately after this point we will not be able to assist you with the vouchers.