Moulton CEVC Primary School Parent Portal - NEWSLETTER NUMBER TEN 2023

A message from Mrs Shipp

As we approach advent, I can feel the excitement beginning to build - I can hear Y1 and Y2 children practising Christmas songs in their music lessons; the PTA Christmas Fair preparations are underway; and I am selecting songs for Carols with Mrs Shipp, which will take place over selected lunchtimes from 1st December. I will let the children know - all year groups are welcome. It's a lovely time of the year in school!

One of the highlights of this week was the performance yesterday from the Theatre Of Widdershins. Andy told two stories: The Magic Porridge Pot and The Gingerbread man, and they were both brilliant. We have not yet covered the cost of this event, so we would appreciate families paying online over the weekend, if you are able to. It is £4 per family, and payments can be made here.

This week's collective worship focussed on Thanksgiving. We heard the story of the first thanksgiving, and looked at some traditions. We hope that our families who celebrate thanksgiving had a wonderful time. The Open The Book team will be in school on Monday, and our Collective Workship Committee will hopefully lead Thursday's Collective Worship.

Just a reminder of non-uniform day next Friday (to support the PTA Fair), and Christmas Jumper Day in two weeks' time. Please do not ever feel obliged to buy special clothes. On Christmas Jumper Day, anything that makes your child feel Christmassy, and is suitable for school, is fine. If your child struggles with not wearing school uniform, we can share a social story with you, which will help to prepare them for each day. We plan to share them in class with all children. If you would like a copy for home, please let me know.

Please only park in the two accessible parking bays if you have a blue badge to display, or if you have prior permission from a member of the leadership team. For safety, please do not open the gates to the drop-off zone. Only staff members should open these. Thank you.

Special Mentions: Well done to Aaron (Y2) for his super morning circuit work this week. Thank you to Daisy (Y4) and Grace (Y4) for looking after some injured younger children earlier today - such kindness and compassion. Thank you to the following Y6 children: Alfie, Artie, Ben, Taylor, Alice, Leo, Jacob, Ethan H, Elizabeth, Erin, Ava and Toby for their excellent contribution to our open morning this week. They showed parents to each classroom, and answered lots of questions. The visiting parents were extremely impressed and gave positive feedback. Well done to Izzy (Y4), who has shown lovely manners and maturity twice this week with me. A huge well done to our Y5 Messy Messiah singers, who did us proud at the cathedral on Saturday: Zoe, Daniel, Noah, Chloe, Riley, Everleigh, Hugo, Amber, Maisie, Eleanor, Edward and Lily.

I hope that you have a lovely weekend - see you on Monday!

Key Stage 2 News This Week

Year 3:

Another wonderful week of learning, with the added treat of the Widdershins theatre visit! Our focus in maths is on multiplication and division. The children have been using arrays (please see the school calculation policy if you are not familiar with these), grouping, sharing, and exploring multiples of 2, 5 and 10. In English, they are using increasingly adventurous adjectives to describe prehistoric animals and have consolidated their use of capital letters for starting sentences and proper nouns (we sometimes forget them, or add a rogue capital in unexpected places). Amongst lots of great learning, we were particularly impressed by their teamwork and independence this week, working in groups to create informative posters about different rock types – well done Year 3! Have lovely weekend.

Year 3 class teacher

Mrs Harper (Monday – Wednesday), Miss Murphy (Thursday-Friday)

Year 4:

‘Well done on the homework front. Our new arrangement with homework being set on a Thursday and due the following Monday is working very well. I can also extend this to spelling homework with brilliant scores this week. Over the course of the week, we have been learning all about King Alfred once again, choosing fabric for our book sleeves,

adding in maths, building circuits in Science and, building our story setting ideas within English. This is all without mentioning super P.E., PSHE and French learning.

Finally, please remember to spend time learning all of the key facts on the Topic knowledge Organiser over this next week. On Friday there will be a quiz’

Year 5:

We’ve had a super week this week. We have been consolidating our knowledge of short multiplication and have been using it to multiply multiples of 10 (20, 30, 40 etc) We’ve had lots of children passing levels on TTM this week. On Tuesday, we had 5 move ups!

In English, we have been writing a letter as Tostig Godwinson. If you haven’t heard about him, he was the annoying younger brother of Harold who was exiled, joined the Vikings and then launched an invasion against his big brother. Definitely one of history’s more interesting characters!

Homework this week was comparing Edgar the Atheling and William’s claims to the throne in early 1066.

Have a wonderful weekend

Year 6:

In Year 6 this week...

In English, we are innovating a text, thinking about a range of vocabulary and sentence structures. From what I have read of what has been written so far, they are fantastic.

In maths, we have been continuing to calculate fractions - this week, it has been multiplying and dividing fractions.

In history, we have been looking at the rise of the dictators in WW2, knowing that not all dictators were not supporting the allied forces.

In PE, the children have been practising their dodgeball skills.

In art, the children have been working on dazzle camoflauge of the RMS Olympic - stunning results!

Home learning this week:

Each child has been set a maths task to complete. (due Tuesday)

Each child has been given a list of spellings on which they will be tested next Friday. All of these spellings are available to be played on Spelling Shed.

Please continue to encourage your child to read: reading stamina is so important at this stage.

Have a super weekend!

Nuala Gilmore