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Class News Autumn Term 2024

13.9.24

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to the first Macaws Class email of the academic year! I hope you all had a lovely summer holiday…I can’t believe we are already at the end of our first full week. We have been very busy indeed!

We are so proud of how well the children have settled back into school life and life in Lower Key Stage Two.  We have really enjoyed hearing all about the wonderful activities that they completed over the summer and getting to know each other through a variety of activities and games.  All of these things have helped us to get ready for our learning journey together over the next year, which we are very excited about.

In our first week, we enjoyed whole school assemblies that were led by Mrs Lang. We consider how we all have four rights in school; the right to be happy, to be safe, to learn and to be included and how our school and class rules are in place to protect each of those rights. Having discussed and agreed our school and class rules, we then went on to explore the many, many ways that we can be rewarded in school; from house points to coloured coins and from stickers to class awards, there are so many rewards we can earn!  The children have certainly made a fantastic start to collecting these already this year.

It was so wonderful to hear the children talking so enthusiastically about our summer reading challenge book ‘The Wild Robot’ and so keen to share the work they had completed linked to it.  Thank you so much for supporting your child with the challenges set.  The children have all been rewarded with lots of house points in recognition of all their hard work … a great start to the year.

This week has seen children begin their English and Maths lessons and complete some introductory tasks and baseline assessments that they have thoroughly enjoyed. In English we have also begun to read our new book, ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. Children have made predictions about what they think the book may be about, using the Chromebooks to record our ideas on a jamboard. 

We have been introduced to our foundation subjects that take place in the afternoons each day. Topics that we will be looking at included Forces and Magnets in Science, a geographical study of Dunstable and the surrounding area, the history of Dunstable in addition to Music, Art, French, Computing , Religious Education and worldviews and PSHE lessons.  For more details on these topics, please refer to the half term overview that has been sent home to you.

I am sure that you will have all seen the exciting new planners that are being used in Lower Key Stage Two this year. Children have been really responsible for taking care of these, bringing them to school each day and using them to record important information to support their learning, such as login details. When children are awarded with house points, these are also recorded within their planners.

Our Macaw of the week is Teddy. Well done!  When the children receive this award they get a special certificate to keep and our Macaw class bird that they can keep over the weekend and then return to school the following Monday. 

Our handwriting hero and heroine are Baine and Annabelle; well done on some beautiful handwriting children!

Here are a few other reminders for you:

  • Everyone in LKS2 has swimming on a Tuesday and should come into school in their PE kit.  The Leisure Centre have requested that every child with long hair wears a swimming hat so please ensure that these are packed in your child’s swimming bag this week if they need it.

  • Miss Spokes’s Maths group also have their second PE slot on a Tuesday

  • Mrs Waterman’s Maths group have their second PE slot on a Wednesday

  • Mrs Shilvock’s Maths group have their second PE slot on a Thursday

·         Please remember to send your child into school wearing their PE kit on these days with any earrings removed or taped up and long hair tied back, both for health and safety reasons. 

 As per the newsletter, no homework will be set until 20th September however, we would like the children to log onto TT Rockstars and read their Accelerated Reader book daily.

I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to another fantastic week next week.

Miss Spokes and Miss Seaborn :-)