Welcome to Term 3

On the first day of term the teachers were busy having a PE INSET day. As you will see on our curriculum overview on the school website we have begun to implement a new PE Scheme of Work called’ Real PE’. To compliment the new SOW, we will put a quick and easy Home Challenge on the blog. Here is the first challenge.......

For how long can you balance on one leg?

Can you improve your time?

 Don’t forget to try the other leg too!

Here are a few pictures of our visit from ‘Sir Ralph’:

The children have been very enthusiastic about our ‘Newbridge 50’ learning question ‘Who discovered what?’ Thank you to those who have already brought things in for the learning wall about Christopher Columbus or other explorers. Please do keep bringing things in.

In Science, we are looking at ‘Animals including humans’ for ‘Show and Tell’ we thought the children might like to become experts on a particular animal of their choice and share their knowledge with the class! Also, if the children have explored another country, perhaps whilst on a holiday, they might like to share their experience during ‘Show and Tell’ time.  If you have a photo, we would love to display this in the classroom.

As I am sure you all know, we have now started giving the children spellings to learn. These will be will be handed out on a Friday and tested the following Wednesday. The children have been told the spellings and that they should use the ‘look’ ‘say’ ‘cover’ ‘write’ and ‘check’ method to help learn them. The children will be learning to spell tricky keywords and some of the words they learn in their daily phonics lessons. If your child has difficulty remembering the whole word, please encourage them to write as many sounds as they can hear. If your child is a confident speller, encourage them to write sentences which include these words.

Here are the spellings for the next few weeks just in case they don’t make it home in the book bag.  Some children may find these challenging so we have provided them with easier ones.

Harder spellings:

 Spellings to be tested 21st January

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

about
then
have
good
may
way
Monday
Tuesday

Spellings to be tested 28^th January

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

from
them
that
down
made
make
nine
time

Easier spellings:

Spellings to be tested 21^st January

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

mum
dad
look
me
and
on
the
am

Spellings to be tested 28^th January

Remember to ‘Look, say, cover, write, check’

see
my
at
yes
can
he
she
play