friday 23rd february 2018 issue 20 - brigstock primary · looking at cinquains which are 5 line...
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Y Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. PROVERBS 3:5
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope that everyone enjoyed a lovely half-term break. Everyone has had a good first week back and we have
all been particularly pleased to hear from our Year 4 children about their residential in Derbyshire. Mrs Leaning
and Mrs Griggs were very proud of them, and their positive and enthusiastic approach was noticed by everyone.
The children had a wonderful time…
“I had a great birthday, and I got to do all my favourite things. I had the muddiest birthday ever!” (Oscar M)
“My favourite part was on Oscar’s birthday when we went through lots of tunnels. We came out of our tunnel,
and when Oscar and Alex came out, they were covered in mud!” (Charlie K)
This week we have also enjoyed sharing the children’s hard work and achievements with you at our Parents’
Evenings. We think our children have been working with great commitment and creativity and we hope you
enjoyed sharing their work.
PANCAKE RACING
Our annual pancake race took place on Tuesday, and everyone had so much fun! We want to thank Mrs Boyers
for the magnificent pancakes, and we say congratulations to Lyveden and Fermyn houses for their joint victory
this year. Well done to everyone for taking part in such great spirit.
Friday 23rd February 2018
Issue 20
This term, all classes will share their work and experiences at a class assembly. You are warmly invited to join us
for your own child’s assembly at the following times:
FRIDAY MARCH 2nd - Year 3 and 4
FRIDAY MARCH 9TH- Reception
FRIDAY MARCH 16TH- Year 1 and 2
FRIDAY MARCH 23RD- Year 5 and 6
All the assemblies will be held at 3pm, unless you receive a communication nearer the time. We hope you will join
us for these celebrations.
HOUSE NEWS
Every week, we look forward to finding out how many house points
have been earned for acts of kindness, good behaviour and manners.
Our winning house for last half term was LYVEDEN, and they received
the trophy this week in assembly. Thank you to all our House Captains
for all their hard work every week.
LOVELY HOMEWORK!
Thank you to everyone who completed the School Council homework over half
term. There have been some lovely, creative responses, and we will be displaying
them around the school.
BOOK WEEK REMINDER…
Next week we will be holding a range of events linked to World Book Day. Parents of Key Stage 2 children are
invited to share breakfast and a book with their children. In Key Stage 1, the children will have toast, jam and
juice in their classroom during the first session of the day. We have sent home a separate letter, and we hope that
we will see many of you on Tuesday.
S.Ettridge and V.Bull
Attendance Attendance in school the week before half term was 79%. Well done to Cherry
Blossom class who had the highest attendance at 90.3%.
Upcoming Events
24th February – Brigstock PFA Curry Night
27th February – World Book Day
Headteacher’s Awards
The class teachers have selected the following children this week:
Reception – Alyssa Turner for her excellent work in all areas, and some outstanding pieces of writing this week
Year 1 – Charles Nall for being a kind and helpful member of the class and for being such a great
role model Year 2 – Charlotte Saunders for her beautifully presented work in maths this week
Year 3 – Noah Millard for his fantastic descriptions in his Cinquain
Year 4 – Bethany Clark for her determination when using a written method to multiply
Year 5 – Tallulah Marsden-Findlay for completing so many answers in her comprehension. Excellent
– well done
Year 6 – Emma Tetley for calculating the area of parallelograms and triangles accurately. Beautiful working our – well done
E-SAFETY CORNER
We know that children, particularly younger children, can be bothered by
things they see online, and filters can be a helpful tool in reducing the chances
of coming across something upsetting.
Remember that filtering is only part of the solution
No filter or parental controls tool is 100% effective, and many of the risks that young people face online are
because of their own and other’s behaviour. It is therefore important to talk to your children about staying safe
online and make sure they know that they can turn to you if they get into any difficulty.
Awards and Certificates outside of school
Well done to Jack Wise for his outstanding achievement at the Premier Sport
Gymnastics club
Congratulations to Charlie Kidd for his outstanding achievement at the Premier
Sport Fencing Club
Services that are popular with young people also provide tools that are helpful to activate in addition to filters.
Find out more about safety tools on popular online services.
Devices that connect to your home internet
In addition to content filtering offered by your ISP, many devices such as games consoles, smartphones and
tablets have their own parental controls, for example to limit spending or restrict access to apps based on age
rating. Likewise, many web browsers have built-in tools and features to help you control the kinds of content
users can view. You can find out more about this in our Parents’ Guide to Technology.
Staying safe when out and about
If children are taking their devices out of the home, it's worth bearing in mind that they could connect to public
wifi, for example, in a shop, cafe or restaurant. Look out for the Friendly WiFi symbol which shows that the wifi
has filters in place to limit access.
https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-centre/parents-and-carers/parental-controls-offered-your-home-
internet-provider
WILLOW CLASS
It has been lovely to welcome everyone back after the holiday. Thank you to Chloe, Anna and Juno who gave our
dinosaurs such a lovely holiday, too!
This week, our focus has been Chinese New Year and we have had so much fun learning about how this festival is
celebrated. We read the story of the Chinese Zodiac and we recalled so many details of the story. Our focus in
Maths has been ordinal numbers, and we have ordered the animals from ‘The Great Race’. We have also written
our own versions of the story, and everyone is showing such improvement in their writing.
It has been a hard-working, busy and fun-filled week- well done everyone!
Next week we will be enjoying Book Week. Can we please remind everyone to bring in their favourite book if they
haven’t already done so. We will keep the books in school all week and we will be doing a range of activities
linked to them. We look forward to sharing some more amazing work!
MAPLE CLASS
Our focus in literacy this week has been to write a recount of the things we did during the holidays. It was really
interesting to read about all the fun and exciting things the children did during the holidays and they used time
conjunctions to great effect. We also wrote some instructions about how to make a pancake. The children had
great fun trying to work out how to write clear and concise instructions.
In Maths we have been looking at shape and the children have enjoyed going on a shape hunt around school.
The children have continued to work hard in science and have enjoyed learning about animals, their habitats,
their structure and what they eat.
The children all had a great time during our pancake race on Tuesday afternoon and they all performed to their
best with some great flipping!
Finally please could the children bring in their favourite book (named) for Tuesday 27th February for our activities
relating to World Book Day.
CHERRY BLOSSOM
Our first week back means we have started a new topic in Science, Maths and Literacy. In Literacy, we have been
looking at Cinquains which are 5 line poems. They have very specific features that the children have had to stick
to when writing their own. They then copied them onto water colour paper and illustrated them beautifully.
In Maths, everyone has been using a written method to multiply. Year 3’s started off with TO X O and some have
moved on to HTO X O. Year 4’s have all managed to multiply HTO X O and some have looked at the shortened
method now as well. A really tricky method that everybody has worked hard to understand.
We have started looking at The Water Cycle in Science this week, we started off by thinking about how and why it
rains then went on to think about where the water goes once is does. The children learnt lots of scientific phrases.
Our favourite event of the week was obviously our pancake racing, I’m really pleased that everyone took part and
encouraged their friends.
OAK CLASS
In literacy we have continued to think about passive and active sentences. We have rehearsed the skill of taking
notes. The children were limited to selecting 20 words per section when reading about the Shang Dynasty; this
really made them think about the key words that were needed. Over the next few weeks we will continue our
focus on a range of sentences starters to ensure we avoid unnecessary repetition and help to engage the reader
in our factual reports.
We have calculated perimeter and area this week focusing on compound shapes as well as moving on to an
investigation about the volume of different containers.
In Science we have started the topic ‘Earth and Space’. We had a very interesting discussion as to how we can
prove the earth and other planets in our solar system are spherical, although some did want to prove otherwise!
In RE we looked at the religions and the buildings we will be seeing in our Faith Tour next week. A reminder that
the children will need a strictly vegetarian lunch and ALL children need a headscarf.
On Thursday we were all very excited with the unveiling of the ‘I pad suitcase’. It was wonderful to use these to
research and identify answers about the location of China and surrounding countries. A big thank you to the PFA
for funding this purchase. They were a real asset to our geography lesson and we look forward to using them
again.