Well, what a week it has been!

SPORTS DAY

On Wednesday we had a super sports day. The carousel of sporting challenges ensured everyone was involved and all competing for their house saint.

After  8 rounds of competition, we all gathered for the final result. ….

St Francis ( Hooray!)

RACE FOR LIFE

As if that wasn’t enough.

Today, Friday 29th June we had our Race for Life.

Another glorious day in the sunshine. We started with a prayer and lots of memories shared and then we were off…

The children ran, walked, skipped or flossed their way around the field over and over again accompanied by Mr Baker’s playlist.

It was lovely to have parents and other family members joining in and cheering us on.  Alongside this there was feverish activity on the JustGiving page and a fantastic final total of £660.

A hot exhausting week but so much fun. An enormous thank you to Mr Baker for putting it altogether and many thanks for the PA support.

A little later than anticipated, here is our June newsletter.

School Newsletter – June 2018

Please find below the planned teaching and learning for RE this half term.

RE Newsletter EYFS – Summer 2 2018 – Our World

RE Newsletter – Summer 2 2018 – Discipleship

John Lewis Innovation Challenge 2018

Pupils will work in teams to design, plan and create an innovative solution to the following sustainability challenge, set by our Sustainability Managers:

How would you reinvent a school blazer to give it a new life?

Roxanne and Jamie:

“Year 5 took part in the John Lewis Challenge. we came up with creative ideas and then made them come to life. These are what our five groups made:

  One group also made a top hat.

We think all the groups did brilliantly and will be tough competition.

Our current topic of Pentecost is coming to a close and the final piece of work required the children to describe the actions and rationale of people they identified as Pentecost people. Thanks to our parents and grandparents we were able to represent a range of faiths including Judaism, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism. Father Denis kindly agreed to join us and be interviewed by the different classes about his life in faith.

This is excellently captured by Abigail Gage in Year 3 who reported her understanding of the interview:

“Father Denis said, “Faith is about seeing Jesus in everyone, loving people and treating others like you want to be treated.Believing in Jesus is moral choice because you can choose to follow in the footsteps of God or not to follow in the footsteps of God”

Many thanks to Father Denis and our other contributors.

Please enjoy our newsletter for May.

School Newsletter – May 2018

Please enjoy our newsletters about the RE learning for this half term:

RE Newsletter EYFS – Summer 1 2018 – From Easter to Pentecost

RE Newsletter – Summer 1 2018 – From Easter to Pentecost

Please enjoy our April Newsletter.

School Newsletter – April 2018

The bar model is a valuable tool which helps children recognise what the question is asking them to do. It is not a calculation strategy and as such does not replace column addition or subtraction but goes alongside to add clarity. The key language is  the whole and the parts and to reinforce that we subtract from the whole to find parts and add parts together to find the whole.

Please find attached the PowerPoint for the workshop last night. We hope to provide another opportunity in the summer term with a focus on multiplication and division.

Mathematics BAR Model