Moulton CEVC Primary School Parent Portal

A Message From Mrs Shipp

In Monday's collective worship, we thought about the Jewish Festival, Rosh Hashana, which took place this week. All the children were respectful, as we learnt about others' beliefs. I was particularly impressed with Scarlett (Y6), and William (Y2), who shared their knowledge - well done! On Wednesday, the CWC (Collective Worship Committee) did a super job at leading the assembly, where they talked about Harvest. They encouraged all families to donate to foodbank trolleys in supermarkets. On Thursday, Rev. Raul led his first assembly, focussing on 'individuality' - we very much appreciated his visit. The children sang beautifully, and behaved extremely well.

It has been a wet week, which has meant a few indoor playtimes. The children have coped well overall, but have been grateful for the dry days. Please remember to send a coat every day this term, so that we can go outside as much as possible.

Hopefully you will have found a moment to read my email about encouraging healthier snack choices. We plan to speak to the children about this next week. We would really appreciate your support in helping our children to lead healthier lifestyles in school.

Our librarians are doing a wonderful job so far: lots of children have visited to borrow books. Remember, all books count towards being a Star Reader, not just the banded reading books. Thank you to Noah (Y6) and Matilda (Y6), who read to the Y1 children today, and also the library team who supported them.

Special Mentions...

Our KS2 school council members did a brilliant job helping at the cake sale - thank you. Thank you to Gussie and Sarah who helped too - much appreciated. I had a banana Smartie cake, and my son had a green bat cake - delicious! Well done to one of our Y6 pupils, who won some rosettes at a horse riding competition - amazing! (See photo below) Thank you to Alf (Y4), who has helped me to keep our communal areas free from mess - much appreciated. Ben (Y2) and Ben (Y2) have both shown lovely manners this week - thank you, boys! Maisie (Y1) was really sensible and polite when returning an ice pack yesterday, when I was speaking with an adult. Noah (Y3) did some fantastic writing and drawing this week - well done! Since the start of term, Martha (Y5) has shown excellent corridor behaviour - a great example to others. Oscar (R) had super manners and held a door open for me earlier this week - thank you!

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

Year 3

It’s been a super week of learning in Year 3, and behaviour has improved following our focus on ‘rough play’ at playtimes. Let’s keep up the good work Year 3! We were second, again, in the star reader competition. Please try to read six times a week – Year 5 are consistently winning Bookster the Bear, and we think he would be very happy to visit our classroom instead. Keep practising those spellings, too. We saw quite a ‘dip’ in scores this week.

Our main focus in English has been to design a marvellous medicine and plan a set of instructions to make it. The children are including the key features of this text type, with added flair and imagination when it comes to ingredients and side effects! We have been adding and subtracting 1s, 10s and 100s in maths. The children enjoyed setting out and completing neat, long lines of calculations, which has been a joy to see.

In science, we planned healthy, balanced menus using what we have learnt about nutrition and diet. Art saw the children drawing houses, as depicted in the pencil-drawn landscapes of Van Gogh. In French, we recapped animals and played some games to identify them. We read a story about Pierre visiting ‘un magasin aux animaux’ (a pet shop). Mrs March stood in to teach PSHE this week and Mrs Chittock joined the class for RE as usual. We continued programming Pro-Bots in computing, using the repeat function to create a more ‘efficient’ algorithm and considered the reasons why we import fruits and vegetables to the United Kingdom in geography.

Enjoy the weekend – it’s always lovely to start it with the sun shining!

The Year 3 team (Miss Murphy, Mrs Dobson and Mrs Troughton)

Year 4

Well, we are over half way through our first half term already, how can that be? It has been a busy week and the children have been working really hard. We have had several giggles along the way. Unfortunately we were last for Star Reader this week, I cannot stress enough how important reading is to our overall learning. We need to read in all lessons!

Our learning this week;-

English - This week we have finished our innovation ending in writing it up. I am so looking forward to our invention.

Maths - Roman numerals have been fun this week, especially the song! Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1UmAgekzbs . The children also continued with area.

Art - This week we had a quick look at one of the Anglo-Saxon patterns after we finished our Seasonal Card.

Topic - This week we considered how things changed once the Anglo-Saxons took over from the Romans.

PHSE - The children were writing a letter to their local council.

RE - Carrying on with our Christianity unit about Salvation the children looked at the story of Zacchaeus.

Please could I remind you that the spare pair of trainers for use on the field need to be trainers not boots with studs or astros. Yes the children are playing football, well most of them, but it is playtime, not a match!

Have a lovely weekend, with plenty of reading.

Mrs Chittock

Year 5

We have retained possession of Bookster Bear with 93% star readers last week! Excellent effort team - let's keep our winning streak going!

Our 'employed' members have been busy this week. Our school councillors helped set up and run the PTA's cake sale on Thursday. The JRSOs went to Year 2 on Monday to teach them about crossing the road safely. The CWC led their first collective worship, talking to the school about harvest and the importance of supporting food banks. They all have lots more things in the pipeline, so watch this space!

In English this week, we have begun our new writing unit which will focus on recounts and other chronological reports. We completed our cold task, writing about seeing a UFO, and read an account of a famous UFO sighting in Suffolk. In Maths, we have been focusing on negative numbers, in particular calculating the difference between positive and negative numbers. We have seen some brilliant progress on Times Table Mountain. The speed chart is up and running and lots of people have improved their speed this week. We also have our first mountaineers on Diamond B!

In computing, we thought about how the Mars rovers transmit data back to Earth and made posters on publisher about this. It was the first time on Publisher for lots of children and they enjoyed how much better it is at handling pictures than Word! In DT, we designed our own pop-up books on a space theme. We will start making them in the coming weeks. This DT project will take us up to Christmas, so look out for them coming home then.

Dr Matthew Bothwell, an astromer working at Cambridge University, is coming in to talk to us on Wednesday. If you would like him to sign a copy of his book, they can be purchased here. All profits go to school STEM outreach programmes. It's been so lovely to see copies of it appearing in the classroom.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Rutter, Mrs Marsh and Mrs Nichols

Year 6

This week in Year 6:

In maths, we have been working exceptionally hard to consolidate and stretch understanding of multiplication. This has included lots of spotting pattern in number, particularly when trying to solve missing numbers in multiplication challenges. Would could have lit the National Grid with the number of lightbulbs which went on! The children really impressed us with their tenacity, and they really delighted in seeing their reasoning skills paying off! Again, please please encourage your child to play TTR - the ability to see pattern by knowing times table facts makes everything in maths so much easier.

In English, we have continued to read Private Peaceful and have been writing diary entries. On Spelling Shed, there is an assignment set for each pupil.

In history, we have been looking at what life was like for soldiers in WW1.

In RE, we have been learning about how Jesus is depicted in other religions.

Homework this week:

Some children have a planning sheet to complete for diary writing, which has been explained to the children.

Other children have some maths skills to focus on.
There is also an assignment on Spelling Shed for the children to enjoy.

Thanks to the librarians who ran a successful storytime for the Y1 pupils.

I look forward to meeting with the well-being team (all 19 of them!) on Monday.

Have a super weekend.

Nuala Gilmore