Moulton CEVC Primary School Parent Portal

A message from Mrs Shipp

It has been nice to see a bit more sun this week - it feels like spring is coming.

Monday's Collective Worship focussed on the book, Kind, by Alison Green. We talked about reflecting on the times when we could be kinder, for example, online and when gaming. There is an online version of the story here. On Wednesday, Reverend. Chris spoke with the children about St. Paul - Thursday was the feast of St. Paul. Thursday's assembly was led by Mrs Gilmore - everyone shared a story called Big Wolf and Little Wolf, about how friendships can grow from all kinds of introductions, and we should reflect on potential friendships. Our Reception children continue to do well in assemblies. Well done to them for having the highest proportion of Star Readers this week - 93%.

Staff have been reflecting on some recent conversations with children about mobile phones. We learnt that many of our pupils sleep with their mobile phones in their bedrooms, and that they are receiving lots of alerts, often from group chats, into the early hours. Some children are awake and on their phones until after midnight. We will continue to talk to the children about good sleep hygiene, and thought that it would be useful for parents and carers to look at the phone arrangements in your homes.

At collection time, please keep your child with you in the playground. It is not safe for children to be playing unsupervised after school, particularly when a lot of our play equipment is unsafe at the moment. Scooters, bikes and other wheeled items should not be used on the playground at any time. I will give a gentle reminder about this on Monday in assembly. Ideally, parents should exit the playground soon after collection, to ensure that parking spaces are not occupied for longer than is needed. Many thanks for your support with this.

Special Mentions

Well done to our Y3 pupils who attended the sports event at Midlenhall Hub. Ian Jackson, Sports Partnership Manager, said that our pupils were a credit to us, and they were impeccably behaved - well done, Year 3! A special mention to Evie in Y3, who did really well, despite having acute medical challenges on the day - well done!

Thank you to Kitt (Y1), Harvey (Y1), Zoe (Y5), Molly (Y4), who helped Mrs Barker set up and pack away some hall activities this week - their help was much appreciated.

Well done to Ben Bu (Y1) and Ava S (Y1) who have both done an amazing piece of writing about The Great Fire Of London. Year 1 pupils sang a song about the fire to me, and it was wonderful! Hunter (Y1) did some fabulous drawing with me, and showed it to the whole class - we were really proud of him.

One of our Y1 pupils has made super Lego house at school - we are all really impressed with her tenacity and skills. It was a lovely reminder of our Lego assembly last week. See photo below.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone - see you on Monday!

Year 3

What a wonderful week Year 3 has had! The highlight, and our proudest moment, was the trip to Mildenhall Sports Hub for sports hall athletics. The children participated, behaved and supported each other beautifully. Please see ‘School News’ for photographs.

In English, children have invented some fantastic fairytales from the perspectives of different characters. They created a cold, terrifying atmosphere with their prosody in the whole class reading of ‘The Ice Palace,’ and wrote and punctuated direct speech.

We looked at how light can damage the eye and made posters advertising some rather snazzy sunglasses! In maths, we completed our division learning using arrays and number lines. Databases were created in computing, soundscapes in music and 3D nets in DT.

To round all this hard work off, we became journalists reporting on the Battle of Watling Street, the site of Boudicca’s defeat at the hands of the Romans.

Year 4

We’ve spent a lot of focused time typing our invented argument texts about King Alfred whilst improving our digital literacy skills. We have also made lots of progress in understanding perimeter. In computing, we’ve coded loops for a range of purposes and, in R.E. we’ve enacted and reflected on how Rama and Sita followed their Dharma (duty). Science was all about teeth in humans and animals. It was great to share our wisdom for looking after teeth too.

We are completing a times tables test three times a week now, so please ensure that lots of home practise is taking place on Times Tables Rockstars or otherwise. I feel many children are getting close to a move up!

Thank you for your ongoing support and have a great weekend.

P.S. Please look out for and respond to the letter about our Year 4 residential as promptly as possible. This way, we can get a gauge of numbers. We hope your child is able to come!’ The letter will be sent out early next week.

Year 5

We have been working hard this week to learn/ recap/ refine our knowledge and understanding of short division. It’s been tricky but we have persevered! In English, we have begun to learn about instruction and explanation texts. We’ve learnt how to correctly punctuate a bullet pointed list using : and ; In Geography, we conducted an investigation so see how the slope of the river bed affects the speed of the water. We then discussed how this would affect which features are formed or found at different points in the river course. In computing, we coded our microbits to count votes and then reveal the total number of votes when gently shaken. We will adapt this code in our next lesson.

We dropped down to 3^rd on the Star Reader leader board this week. Reception are holding steady with 93% so we will need almost everyone to be a Star Reader to topple them! Remember, to be a Star Reader, your child needs to have written that they have read in their reading record book SIX times in a week.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Miss Rutter, Mr Coldwell and Mrs Marsh

Year 6

It's been another busy week this week in Year 6.

Maths

We have been working on inverse operations in reasoning problems; calculating missing percentages, and have started to learn about number sequences.

English

We have written cold tasks, based on the gothic genre; we have read a gothic playscript, and we have examined the 'blueprint' for the gothic genre.

Spellings this week: we have investigated adding prefixes to root words and have looked at why some of the final letters in a prefix are doubled when adding a root word.

Geography

This week, we have been learning about depositional processes and landforms and how longshore drift contributes to this.

PSHE

This week, we have been thinking about the harmful chemicals which are contained within cigarettes and the impact they have on the body.

In RE, we were learning about the significance of the Sedar Plate as part of the festival of Passover. We also learnt about how the term 'passover' came about.

Have a super weekend!

Nuala Gilmore