28th November 2017 - AWS
28th November 2017 Winyates News Grafham Water made our Year 5 and 6 classes seem very quiet! I know all the children who went away had a wonderful time (I hope you have enjoyed looking at the photographs on the website). The children in school were also very busy and very creative! Year six have produced some amazing looking art work. In my regular visits around the school, I saw some superb work going on in the Year 5 classroom: they were all challenging themselves to do amazing writing. Year 2 also worked hard thinking about kindness and what makes a good friend: they were really thoughtful. Year 4 have some interesting volcanos in their classroom and I know they are keen for the next part of the science experiment to see what happens next. Mr CarsonDoughty has also been busy praising our reception class on their PE skills! Hot Chocolate Club Last week’s club were very excited to be chosen for a treat to celebrate their hard work.
Attendance and Punctuality Well done to all the classes last week. Class attendance for last week was: Reception 94.33% Year 1 96.90%
Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 School overall
95.28% 95.52% 96.90% 98.00% 92.75% 95.74%
Mrs D Bowles Head of School Year 2 The Giraffes This week we have been thinking about how to be a good friend. We are looking out for positive examples so we can share our successes. We still have a handful of children who do not have a PE kit in school. PE is on a Tuesday and Thursday –please do not hesitate to talk to one of the adults in Year 2 if you are not able to provide your child with a PE kit. Year 3 The Foxes The Foxes have enjoyed drawing and colouring pictures on our stories, mirroring stone age art and we have looked at the properties of stones. Constanca and Yanis took part in a Gifted and Talented sports afternoon last week. Important Dates for December 8th December School Nurse visit Week of 11th December Business week with the Christmas Fayre on the Friday afternoon (1.40 to 2.55pm) 14th December Christmas Lunch 19th December 2pm performance to parents 20th December 10am performance to parents
Year 4 The Monkeys The Monkey class have been studying volcanoes and have designed and written a leaflet that has amazing facts about volcanoes. This week sees us writing instructions about how to build a volcano and will culminate in us conducting an experiment, showing how an eruption happens. Also in science we have built our own version of a telephone, showing the children how the vibrations travel.
In maths we are working on multiplication and division with a particular focus on securing our times tables to 12. As a class we have now learnt to play a song on the glockenspiel
when we should use a capital letter and full stop. They have also written some great questions for characters and have begun to write using time conjunctions (first, next, then, finally). This coming week we are working towards re-telling our story ‘Rex Tries to Juggle’ using all the things we have learnt. In maths, Year 1 are getting really good at using different resources to add and subtract. Last week, the Bears went on an ‘autumn hunt’ to find things to make an autumnal picture with. We talked about what other materials could represent e.g red for fire, brown for tree trunks, black for the dark sky. Then, they wrote about autumn using excellent adjectives!
Year 5 The Butterflies This week the children that went to Sport News Grafham Water residential have Tomorrow our Year 5/6 Football returned. They have said that it Team will be playing in the was amazing. While there, they did Peterborough United Community canoeing, cycling, high ropes and Cup and we wish all of the players went on Tinkerbell the speedboat. the best of luck! In Literacy we are working on persuasive writing in the role of Year 1 The Bears Shackleton and have just started Year 1 have been practising all our multiplication and division unit sorts of skills in their literacy writing in Numeracy. over the past few weeks. They are getting very good at explaining
Reception The Busy Bees Last week we really enjoyed our visit from the Clean Gang. We learnt lots about keeping ourselves healthy. We learnt some songs and got to meet lots of the Clean Gang characters, such as Tommy Toothbrush, Flossy Flannel and Harry Hairbrush. Some of us even got to dress up as the characters. This week we are reading the story ‘Pizza for Pirates’. In the story George goes on an adventure and packs all his essentials in his bag to take with him, including his favourite food … Pizza! He set us a challenge yesterday to investigate the best type of Pizza. We had a vote and Ham and Pineapple was the least popular with 5 votes and the Cheese and Tomato pizza was the most popular with 12. We will let George know our verdict. In number time we continue to think about numbers that are 1 more and 1 less and are using the story Ten Little Pirates to help us with our learning. Yesterday we changed our role play Term Dates Autumn Term 2017 End of Term 20th December Spring Term 2018 Term Starts 3rd January Half Term 12th to 16th February End of Term 29th March Summer Term 2018 Term Starts 16th April
area into a Pizza Parlour. We enjoyed setting it up and look forward to taking on different roles such as waiter, chef and delivery driver. Outside this week we are going to be turning the area in to a pirate ship, painting our own pirate flag on a big bed sheet. Look out for it when you come in to school. Last week we won the kit league for the 3rd week running as all children had PE kit in school. This week unfortunately some children have not got their PE kits in school, so it looks like a different class will be champions. Please ensure your child has their PE kit in school every day especially on a Monday and Tuesday. If they do Multi-skills club, they also need it in school on a Thursday. Lots of jumpers and cardigans are still being misplaced as they are not named. It is extremely hard to reunite unnamed items of clothing in school as we all wear the same if not similar items of clothing. Please name all school clothing and PE kit!
School Lunches 4th December to 8th December MONDAY Sausage Rolls (DW) with Baked Beans and Wedges HLasagne (W.DS.F) with Broccoli TUESDAY HQuiche (W.D) Crispy Chicken (E.W) Smiley Potatoes with Carrot/Swede WEDNESDAY Roast Pork (FCW) & Yorkshire Pudding (WD) HPie (W.C.F) and Roast Potato, Cauliflower/mixed Vegetables THURSDAY HSpaghetti Bolognaise (WFS) HMargaretta Pizza (W.DS) with Chips. Sweetcorn FRIDAY Fish Fingers (F.W) with Mash Potato HHam & Tomato Pasta Bake (W.) Peas & Carrots PUDDINGS: A choice of 3 of the following will be available daily. Biscuits (wds) - Jelly - Fruit Salad - Muffins (wdes) – Yoghurt – Trifle (d) All deserts are Homemade Allegen informationO- Oats D- Diary C- Celery E- Eggs W- Wheat F- Fish S- Sulphur Dioxide H—Homemade
Attendance and Punctuality Well done to all the classes last week. Class attendance for last week was: Reception 94.33% Year 1 96.90%
Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 School overall
95.28% 95.52% 96.90% 98.00% 92.75% 95.74%
Mrs D Bowles Head of School Year 2 The Giraffes This week we have been thinking about how to be a good friend. We are looking out for positive examples so we can share our successes. We still have a handful of children who do not have a PE kit in school. PE is on a Tuesday and Thursday –please do not hesitate to talk to one of the adults in Year 2 if you are not able to provide your child with a PE kit. Year 3 The Foxes The Foxes have enjoyed drawing and colouring pictures on our stories, mirroring stone age art and we have looked at the properties of stones. Constanca and Yanis took part in a Gifted and Talented sports afternoon last week. Important Dates for December 8th December School Nurse visit Week of 11th December Business week with the Christmas Fayre on the Friday afternoon (1.40 to 2.55pm) 14th December Christmas Lunch 19th December 2pm performance to parents 20th December 10am performance to parents
Year 4 The Monkeys The Monkey class have been studying volcanoes and have designed and written a leaflet that has amazing facts about volcanoes. This week sees us writing instructions about how to build a volcano and will culminate in us conducting an experiment, showing how an eruption happens. Also in science we have built our own version of a telephone, showing the children how the vibrations travel.
In maths we are working on multiplication and division with a particular focus on securing our times tables to 12. As a class we have now learnt to play a song on the glockenspiel
when we should use a capital letter and full stop. They have also written some great questions for characters and have begun to write using time conjunctions (first, next, then, finally). This coming week we are working towards re-telling our story ‘Rex Tries to Juggle’ using all the things we have learnt. In maths, Year 1 are getting really good at using different resources to add and subtract. Last week, the Bears went on an ‘autumn hunt’ to find things to make an autumnal picture with. We talked about what other materials could represent e.g red for fire, brown for tree trunks, black for the dark sky. Then, they wrote about autumn using excellent adjectives!
Year 5 The Butterflies This week the children that went to Sport News Grafham Water residential have Tomorrow our Year 5/6 Football returned. They have said that it Team will be playing in the was amazing. While there, they did Peterborough United Community canoeing, cycling, high ropes and Cup and we wish all of the players went on Tinkerbell the speedboat. the best of luck! In Literacy we are working on persuasive writing in the role of Year 1 The Bears Shackleton and have just started Year 1 have been practising all our multiplication and division unit sorts of skills in their literacy writing in Numeracy. over the past few weeks. They are getting very good at explaining
Reception The Busy Bees Last week we really enjoyed our visit from the Clean Gang. We learnt lots about keeping ourselves healthy. We learnt some songs and got to meet lots of the Clean Gang characters, such as Tommy Toothbrush, Flossy Flannel and Harry Hairbrush. Some of us even got to dress up as the characters. This week we are reading the story ‘Pizza for Pirates’. In the story George goes on an adventure and packs all his essentials in his bag to take with him, including his favourite food … Pizza! He set us a challenge yesterday to investigate the best type of Pizza. We had a vote and Ham and Pineapple was the least popular with 5 votes and the Cheese and Tomato pizza was the most popular with 12. We will let George know our verdict. In number time we continue to think about numbers that are 1 more and 1 less and are using the story Ten Little Pirates to help us with our learning. Yesterday we changed our role play Term Dates Autumn Term 2017 End of Term 20th December Spring Term 2018 Term Starts 3rd January Half Term 12th to 16th February End of Term 29th March Summer Term 2018 Term Starts 16th April
area into a Pizza Parlour. We enjoyed setting it up and look forward to taking on different roles such as waiter, chef and delivery driver. Outside this week we are going to be turning the area in to a pirate ship, painting our own pirate flag on a big bed sheet. Look out for it when you come in to school. Last week we won the kit league for the 3rd week running as all children had PE kit in school. This week unfortunately some children have not got their PE kits in school, so it looks like a different class will be champions. Please ensure your child has their PE kit in school every day especially on a Monday and Tuesday. If they do Multi-skills club, they also need it in school on a Thursday. Lots of jumpers and cardigans are still being misplaced as they are not named. It is extremely hard to reunite unnamed items of clothing in school as we all wear the same if not similar items of clothing. Please name all school clothing and PE kit!
School Lunches 4th December to 8th December MONDAY Sausage Rolls (DW) with Baked Beans and Wedges HLasagne (W.DS.F) with Broccoli TUESDAY HQuiche (W.D) Crispy Chicken (E.W) Smiley Potatoes with Carrot/Swede WEDNESDAY Roast Pork (FCW) & Yorkshire Pudding (WD) HPie (W.C.F) and Roast Potato, Cauliflower/mixed Vegetables THURSDAY HSpaghetti Bolognaise (WFS) HMargaretta Pizza (W.DS) with Chips. Sweetcorn FRIDAY Fish Fingers (F.W) with Mash Potato HHam & Tomato Pasta Bake (W.) Peas & Carrots PUDDINGS: A choice of 3 of the following will be available daily. Biscuits (wds) - Jelly - Fruit Salad - Muffins (wdes) – Yoghurt – Trifle (d) All deserts are Homemade Allegen informationO- Oats D- Diary C- Celery E- Eggs W- Wheat F- Fish S- Sulphur Dioxide H—Homemade
