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Penhaligon Newsletter

13 June 2014

Dear Parents and Carers,

First of all, we would like to say a huge ‘Well done’ to the children for their fantastic assembly.  We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.  It was lovely to see so many parents and other adults come in to share the children’s work in the classroom afterwards as well.  Thank you for coming.

Another ‘Thank you’, this time to the New Wave Church for all their hard work on the swimming pool.  It was a lovely surprise to see it all painted and cleaned ready for the children this week.  It would be a good idea if children had sun hats for playtime as well as when they are sitting by the pool waiting for their turn to swim.

In class this week, we have been continuing our work based on The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.  We have also begun learning how to code in Computing, the children have all had a go at writing algorithms to move objects around the computer screen – we were all very impressed with their efforts!  In numeracy, we have practised column addition and telling the time.  Please encourage your child to look at the clock at various times during the day, focussing on o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to and then when they are confident with this, moving onto five minute intervals.

Well done to Eryn for winning the school Diamond Ticket prize draw last week – she chose a Tea Party with Jade, Eva and me, which we enjoyed out in the sunshine today!

Please read the other letters which have been sent home today, one is regarding our school PSHE sessions (Personal, Social and Health Education) and the other is about our class trip to the Hall for Cornwall in July.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop in to see either of us.

Many thanks,

Mrs Burns and Mrs Willetts.

6^th June 2014

Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you to everyone who came to Sports Day yesterday. The children had a great time, and it was lovely to see them support and encourage one another.

Our topic this half term is ‘Town Mouse, Country Mouse.’ The key areas of learning will be:

1. Science – Living things and their habitats.

2. Geography – The differences between town/city life and rural life.

3. Art and Design – Design and create model habitats and food chains; Learn about the digital artist Slinkachu.

In Literacy we will be reading the fable ‘Town Mouse, Country Mouse’, and we will write a report about nocturnal animals.

We will be swimming in PE this half term. Our swimming sessions will be Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning. Please ensure your child has their full swimming kit in school on these days. The main purpose of swimming in Year 2 is to develop your child’s water confidence and to encourage different arm and leg actions to propel themselves through the water, at first upright and then horizontal, using swimming aids and support.

Please remember that it is our Class Assembly on Wednesday 11^th June at 2.00pm in the hall. After assembly the children will invite you back to the classroom so that they can talk about their learning and share some of their work with you. We hope you will be able to come!

Please continue to read regularly with your child at home and remember to record this in the reading diary. In addition to their school book, it would really help us to know which books they read for personal enjoyment at home so please record those in the diary. Also, please remember to encourage your child to complete the reading activities.

Your child has homework to complete this week. Please support and encourage your child to complete homework activities and check that your child’s homework book is brought to school each week. Homework is given out on Friday and needs to be returned to school the following Wednesday. Thank you!

Please remember to visit the class blog on the school website where you will find the weekly spelling lists as well as photographs and fun information about what your child gets up to in class.

http://perranporth.j2webby.com/?cat=11

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs. Willetts and Mrs. Burns (Class teachers)6^th June 2014

(Class teachers)

Penhaligon Newsletter

23^rd May 2014

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have had a lovely half term with the children.  They have worked hard on our Blown Away Topic and have really enjoyed it.

Next half term, our first topic will be based on The Town Mouse the Country Mouse.  We will be thinking about different animal habitats and finding out about places in the UK which contrast to Perranporth.

Just a reminder about Sports Day, we will hopefully run it on Thursday 5^th June at 2pm.  If it gets rained off again, we will do it as soon as we can on a sunny Thursday or Friday.  Unfortunately this may mean that we cannot give you any notice about when it will happen, although we will use the school text service to get messages to you.  We are sending home PE kits, please remember to return them on Monday 2^nd June.

We will be having a special assembly on Wednesday 11^th June at 2pm.  You are all invited to come and see the assembly and then join us in our classroom where your children can show you the work they have done this year.  We hope you can all make it.

Have a lovely half term!

Thank you.

Mrs Burns and Mrs Willetts

Spellings WB 12-5-14

Here are the words your child needs to learn this week. Your child will know which group they are in. We have a spelling dictation in class every Friday.

Group 1: important – unimportant – trained – untrained – zip – unzip – popular – unpopular – lucky – unlucky

Group 2: he – me – she – we – be – mind – find – wild – kind – child

We use the ‘Look, Cover, Write, Check’ method in class to help learn our spellings. If you are unfamiliar with this method, please ask your child to explain it to you. Thank you!

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you for all the donations towards our Blue Day for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.  We raised £19.46 in Penhaligon Class – well done!

We are really pleased to announce that we have a new member of staff helping in Key Stage 1.  Miss Bennett will be replacing Mrs Drohan supporting children in small groups and teaching our intervention work.

We will not be setting any more homework this half term as the children have been working hard on their SATS.  We will, however, start again after the half term break and the homework will be more formal as we begin to get the children ready for Key Stage 2.

Just a reminder that it will be Key Stage 1 Sports Day on Thursday 22^nd May at 2pm on the field.  Please come along and support your child – we have been practising hard and they are all looking forward to it.

And finally, a huge thank you to Mr Hamilton who has given us access to a web link, allowing us to view the data collected by the wind turbine at Bolingey. It has been fascinating for the children to see how the weather can be used in such productive way so close to home.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop in to see either of us.

Thanks,

Mrs Burns and Mrs Willetts.

A couple of useful websites for your child to visit and practise Literacy and Numeracy skills:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-1.html

Group 1 are learning to add prefixes to words and understand how this alters the meaning of the word. This week we will learn to use the prefix ‘dis’.

dislike – disown – displease – disagree – disappear – disobey – dishonest – disallow – disbelieve – disapprove

Group 2 are learning words with the Phase 5 phonemes (sounds).

when – who – glue – blue – June – cube – use – wash – want – what

Dear Parents and Carers

As you are aware, end of Key Stage 1 SATs are administered in Year 2. These consist of ‘tests’ in Reading, Writing and Maths which along with Teacher Assessments give an indication of how well your child is learning. They will be carried out over the coming weeks and you will be informed of your child’s results towards the end of the summer term. Whilst the SATs are important, we do not want you or your child to worry or become anxious. You can help by giving your child a healthy breakfast, plenty of water to drink and a good amount of sleep. It is also very important to make sure your child attends school every day. If you have any questions or worries please do not hesitate to pop in and speak to us.

We have continued our learning about the weather this week. We have discussed how best to use our weather instruments and what data can be collected from them. We are collecting data on wind direction, wind speed, temperature, rain fall and cloud coverage. Once we have collected enough data we will analyse the results and write a weather report.

In Literacy we learnt an African traditional tale called ‘The wind and the Sun’. We created our own story maps and storyboards. We also had a Big Write session on Poetry and we wrote our own weather poems. The children were very creative with their ideas. Gracie wrote about how the gentle wind makes the flowers wave at you. Super!

In Number we have been learning how to use the column method for addition and subtraction. Please ask your child to show you and explain how the column method works.

Please continue to read regularly with your child at home and remember to record this in the reading diary. In addition to their school book, it would really help us to know which books they read for personal enjoyment at home so please record those in the diary. Also, please remember to encourage your child to complete the reading activities.

It is really great to see Penhaligon class having a high percentage of attendance during this half term so well done! Remember that extra playtime is rewarded each week to the class who has the highest rate of attendance.

Please remember to visit the class blog on the school website where you will find the weekly spelling lists as well as photographs and fun information about what your child gets up to in class.

http://perranporth.j2webby.com/?cat=11

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs. Willetts and Mrs. Burns (Class teachers) 

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