BLWYDDEN NEWYDD DDA!
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Newsletter Issue 534 Friday 6th Jan 2016
BLWYDDEN NEWYDD DDA! A big welcome back. We hope you enjoyed the Christmas holidays and we would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. The children have settled in very well to the new term. This is an important term as the children will be sitting their National Tests in May. Therefore it is essential that they attend school regularly and are punctual so that they do not miss out parts of their education. The school council have been reviewing their action plan. Last term they managed to ensure Ipads were in all classroom and helped each class to have a new selection of books. They also made sure that every classroom had a school menu available for children to look at. This term we will be updating our action plan and we will be raising money towards accomplishing some of our bigger goals such as, having astroturf on the MUGA! Please could we also remind Year 3 and 4 to bring in their trip form and letter for next Friday.
MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE Please can we just remind parents athat we need up to date telephone numbers and email accounts. Please can you just call in at the office and provide us with them. Thank you. YEAR 5 and 6 HOMEWORK CHALLENGE Year 5 and 6 have received a grid of fun homework tasks about China to complete over the term. For each task they attempt they will receive points. The points will be turned into raffle tickets for a prize draw at the end of the term. The more challenges they complete, the more chance they have of winning. Enjoy!
YEAR 3 NEWS Happy New Year. I hope you all had a fantastic break. This week we have started our new context topic, The Tudors. The children have been writing their own research questions and using a range of resources to find information about the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor Britain. We are heading to the St Fagans Museum next week (Friday 13th). We will be spending some time outside so please make sure we are all wrapped up warm! I have put together an overview letter for this term. These were sent home on Wednesday, however please let me know if you didn’t receive it! Have a great weekend.
YEAR 4 NEWS A great start to the Spring term. The children enjoyed looking at the features of play scripts and we've had some great acting from some Year 4s! Please remember to bring in PE kits on a Wednesday now instead of a Tuesday and reading books should be brought into school everyday.
PARENTS DATES FOR THE DIARY Drop in coffee morning Starting Monday 9th January 9- 10 am and every Monday there after. An ideal opportunity to get to know new parents. Tuesday 17th Jan 9-10 am Tea, toast and tales literacy session for reception parents and their children. Friday 20th Jan 9-10.15 am All infant parents are invited to a Read, Write Inc session - to learn how we teach phonics, sounds and word building. Friday 27th Jan 9- 10am ELSA information session open to all parents. Friday 3rd Feb 9- 10 am Nursery parents and any parents with a child due to join the nursery in September are invited to an introduction of how we teach phonics, sounds and numeracy
YEAR 6 NEWS It has been great to welcome back Year Six to their last calendar year at Millbank. They have settled back into routines very well and have been learning about China, starting to research and write non-chronological reports as well as creating lanterns and our own proverbs. In science, we are starting our topic on Forces with some excellent subject knowledge being shown already.
RECEPTION NEWS Reception have had a really fun and exciting start to the new year. We are happy to have started our new context for learning ‘The wonderful world of colour’ and did this by talking and writing about our favourite colours. In maths we have been learning to recognise coins. This is something that you can help us with at home. We are constantly trying to update our outdoor area and are eager to create a den building area. Have you got any unused sheets at home that could be sent in to use for this? YEAR FIVE NEWS Year 5 have been working hard this week researching the author Michael Morpurgo. They have done oral presentations and are writing biographies about his life. In Maths we are learning how to measure angles. Congratulations to Seren B who won our 100% spelling raffle! There is a new prize waiting for this term. Who will be our next winner?
Happy Birthday to: YEAR ONE NEWS We have had a fantastic start to our second term in Year 1! After hearing everyone's lovely Winter holiday stories, we were interrupted by an alien transmission. As a result, we have been busy writing character descriptions about Oonog the alien, so we can identify him. In maths, we have been learning about different coins up to the value of £2. We have been creating our own money banks and challenging ourselves to count up our totals.
YEAR 2 NEWS It has been lovely to welcome back Year Two after the Christmas Holidays. This term our context for learning is 'To infinity and beyond.' A big well done to some of the children who have already gone home and researched information about Space! We have already made a passport to Space, been finding out about Tim Peake and been using library books to research information.
NURSERY NEWS A big welcome back to all our existing Nursery, they have all come back to school with a smile and settled so well. A super welcome to our new rising 3's who are starting this week and next week. Please can you help your child to recognise their name and begin to write it. Look out for our newsletter next week as this will tell you all the things we will be covering this term and don't forget to check out the website as this is updated on a weekly basis.
Who are all celebrating their birthdays in the next week. Bobbi Nursery 4th Jan Maisie Year 2 11th Jan Ellie May Year 4 13th Jan Finley Reception 13th Jan Penblywydd Hapus i chi pawb!!
UNIFORM We will be writing to individual parents if children have wrong uniform on such as jumpers which are not navy blue.Please ensure you follow our uniform policy.
Well done to Year 6 with 97% attendance. Bendigedig! Morning Nursery Afternoon Nursery Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
96.8% 87.1% 95.0% 96.0 % 89.3 % 93.8 % 87.9% 89.6% 97.0%
@MillbankPrimary
Newsletter Issue 534 Friday 6th Jan 2016
BLWYDDEN NEWYDD DDA! A big welcome back. We hope you enjoyed the Christmas holidays and we would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. The children have settled in very well to the new term. This is an important term as the children will be sitting their National Tests in May. Therefore it is essential that they attend school regularly and are punctual so that they do not miss out parts of their education. The school council have been reviewing their action plan. Last term they managed to ensure Ipads were in all classroom and helped each class to have a new selection of books. They also made sure that every classroom had a school menu available for children to look at. This term we will be updating our action plan and we will be raising money towards accomplishing some of our bigger goals such as, having astroturf on the MUGA! Please could we also remind Year 3 and 4 to bring in their trip form and letter for next Friday.
MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE Please can we just remind parents athat we need up to date telephone numbers and email accounts. Please can you just call in at the office and provide us with them. Thank you. YEAR 5 and 6 HOMEWORK CHALLENGE Year 5 and 6 have received a grid of fun homework tasks about China to complete over the term. For each task they attempt they will receive points. The points will be turned into raffle tickets for a prize draw at the end of the term. The more challenges they complete, the more chance they have of winning. Enjoy!
YEAR 3 NEWS Happy New Year. I hope you all had a fantastic break. This week we have started our new context topic, The Tudors. The children have been writing their own research questions and using a range of resources to find information about the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor Britain. We are heading to the St Fagans Museum next week (Friday 13th). We will be spending some time outside so please make sure we are all wrapped up warm! I have put together an overview letter for this term. These were sent home on Wednesday, however please let me know if you didn’t receive it! Have a great weekend.
YEAR 4 NEWS A great start to the Spring term. The children enjoyed looking at the features of play scripts and we've had some great acting from some Year 4s! Please remember to bring in PE kits on a Wednesday now instead of a Tuesday and reading books should be brought into school everyday.
PARENTS DATES FOR THE DIARY Drop in coffee morning Starting Monday 9th January 9- 10 am and every Monday there after. An ideal opportunity to get to know new parents. Tuesday 17th Jan 9-10 am Tea, toast and tales literacy session for reception parents and their children. Friday 20th Jan 9-10.15 am All infant parents are invited to a Read, Write Inc session - to learn how we teach phonics, sounds and word building. Friday 27th Jan 9- 10am ELSA information session open to all parents. Friday 3rd Feb 9- 10 am Nursery parents and any parents with a child due to join the nursery in September are invited to an introduction of how we teach phonics, sounds and numeracy
YEAR 6 NEWS It has been great to welcome back Year Six to their last calendar year at Millbank. They have settled back into routines very well and have been learning about China, starting to research and write non-chronological reports as well as creating lanterns and our own proverbs. In science, we are starting our topic on Forces with some excellent subject knowledge being shown already.
RECEPTION NEWS Reception have had a really fun and exciting start to the new year. We are happy to have started our new context for learning ‘The wonderful world of colour’ and did this by talking and writing about our favourite colours. In maths we have been learning to recognise coins. This is something that you can help us with at home. We are constantly trying to update our outdoor area and are eager to create a den building area. Have you got any unused sheets at home that could be sent in to use for this? YEAR FIVE NEWS Year 5 have been working hard this week researching the author Michael Morpurgo. They have done oral presentations and are writing biographies about his life. In Maths we are learning how to measure angles. Congratulations to Seren B who won our 100% spelling raffle! There is a new prize waiting for this term. Who will be our next winner?
Happy Birthday to: YEAR ONE NEWS We have had a fantastic start to our second term in Year 1! After hearing everyone's lovely Winter holiday stories, we were interrupted by an alien transmission. As a result, we have been busy writing character descriptions about Oonog the alien, so we can identify him. In maths, we have been learning about different coins up to the value of £2. We have been creating our own money banks and challenging ourselves to count up our totals.
YEAR 2 NEWS It has been lovely to welcome back Year Two after the Christmas Holidays. This term our context for learning is 'To infinity and beyond.' A big well done to some of the children who have already gone home and researched information about Space! We have already made a passport to Space, been finding out about Tim Peake and been using library books to research information.
NURSERY NEWS A big welcome back to all our existing Nursery, they have all come back to school with a smile and settled so well. A super welcome to our new rising 3's who are starting this week and next week. Please can you help your child to recognise their name and begin to write it. Look out for our newsletter next week as this will tell you all the things we will be covering this term and don't forget to check out the website as this is updated on a weekly basis.
Who are all celebrating their birthdays in the next week. Bobbi Nursery 4th Jan Maisie Year 2 11th Jan Ellie May Year 4 13th Jan Finley Reception 13th Jan Penblywydd Hapus i chi pawb!!
UNIFORM We will be writing to individual parents if children have wrong uniform on such as jumpers which are not navy blue.Please ensure you follow our uniform policy.
Well done to Year 6 with 97% attendance. Bendigedig! Morning Nursery Afternoon Nursery Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
96.8% 87.1% 95.0% 96.0 % 89.3 % 93.8 % 87.9% 89.6% 97.0%
