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• Reading Afternoons

  Fri 31 Jan 2025

  Reading workshop afternoons will recommence in the new term. The dates are as follows:

   

  · Monday 3rd February—Year 2

  · Monday 10th February—Year 1

   

  Tea/Coffee will be provided.

   

  We look forward to seeing you there!

   

• Menu week commencing 27th January

  Mon 27 Jan 2025
  

• Year Group Focus - Year 5

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  In art this week, year 5 were looking at using their origami skills to create a piece centered on                    rotational symmetry. The children really enjoyed practicing their fine motor skills, folding each paper square with precision and care. They especially enjoyed spinning their final artworks to see the magic of the colours swirl together!

   

  In science, we were looking into levers and pulleys, investigating if the position of the fulcrum (the             balancing point of our levers) affected the force we needed to exert to lift the heavy objects. The               children are really enjoying these more hands-on science lessons, becoming mini scientists for an        afternoon and testing their own hypotheses. 

   

  This week, year 5 also completed their final draft for their narrative of our class novel 'The London Eye Mystery'. Both class teachers were immensely impressed with the quality of work produced by the children, so much so that our star writers' washing lines were full to the brim with outstanding  writing! Well done year 5!

   

  In computing, we have started our new topic working with Crumble kits. This week, we learned how to  correctly connect our crumble to a sparkle and to a computer before transferring over a program which allowed us to change the colour of the sparkle! It was quite fiddly to begin with, but both classes really  enjoyed working together to solve any problems and we all managed to change our sparkles to some very funky colours! 

   

  

• Parent Page

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  Promoting language and school readiness in your child

   

  · Read to your child daily from being a baby. Choose a quiet time, turn off the television and music and put your phone away.

  · Use exaggerated voices and facial expressions to help maintain your child’s interest when reading books.

  · Point to pictures in books and describe what you see.

  · Re read favourite books many times and encourage your child to read alongside you.

  · Reading at bedtime helps support calm bedtime routines.

  · Praise all attempts at language or reading, even turning pages and handling books well are behaviours that should be praised in young children.

  · Describe what your child is doing rather than asking questions when you are playing with your child. Use positional language, count, describe colours etc.

  · Notice when your child is being calm, working hard, concentrating well, staying patient or sharing and reward this with positive attention i.e. “I am really proud of how patient you are being, well done”.

  · Look at what your child is interested in and talk about their interests with them.

  · Praise and reward all attempts at independent self care i.e toileting, dressing, washing, eating etc. this will help your child settle in to school confidently.

   

• Captain’s Table

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  Well done to the following children that have been selected to sit at the Captain’s Table.

   

  RA	Huzaifa	3B	Joshua
  RB	George	4A	Aroush
  1A	Maryam	4B	Abeeha
  1B	Hashim	5A	Awais
  2A	Caleb	5B	Aatikah
  2B	Imaan	6A	Kaidon
  3A	Leaena	6B	Lily

• PE Superstars

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  Every week during PE, Coaches will be choosing pupils to be their PE superstars of the week. Well done to the following children who were fantastic in PE last week:

   

  Reception	Isabella, Alina, Huzaifa, Harmain
  Year 1	Daniyaal, Alaya, Subhaan, Raiya
  Year 2	Ayat, Charlie, Zakariyya, Marwah
  Year 3	Aminah, Ibrahim, Toby, Amara
  Year 4	Zainab, Lainey, Zunaira, Amelia. V
  Year 5	Hawwa, Arham, Jordan, Isla
  Year 6	Hamza.S, Luna, Hamza. H, Afnaan

  

• Presentation Week Awards

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  Presentation awards commenced last week. Two children from each class were awarded a presentation award.

  One for best presentation and the other for most improved over the course of the week. Certificates were awarded in assembly

  Well done to all the Presentation Week Award winners!

   

  Best Presentation
  RA	Dahlia	3B	Rohaan
  RB	Hibbah	4A	Alyaan
  1A	Kayden. F	4B	Zaynab
  1B	Maryam. J	5A	Aizah
  2A	Dawud	5B	Sidrah
  2B	Nikolas	6A	M. Yahya
  3A	Olivia	6B	Emma

   

   

  Most Improved
  RA	M. Hussain	3B	Hasnayn
  RB	Ahmad. A	4A	Amelia. V
  1A	Ahmed	4B	Adeem
  1B	Kayden. B	5A	Isla
  2A	Aydin	5B	Esaam
  2B	Arshaman	6A	Aqib
  3A	Emma	6B	Haashir

• Breakfast Club

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  Well done to Harlow and Ruby-Sue for being chosen as Breakfast Club Superstars!

   

  

• Starbooks Reader - Winners!

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  The following children have been awarded ‘Star Reader’ and enjoyed going to the ‘Starbooks’ cafe in the library to enjoy a drink and a treat as their reward. Fantastic!

   

  RA	Hussain. G	3B	Hadija
  RB	Noah	4A	Charlotte
  1A	Sophia	4B	Laibah
  1B	Faith	5A	Aizah
  2A	Phoebe	5B	Maleeha
  2B	Nikolas	6A	Djeny
  3A	Malina	6B	Ayesha

  

• Year 6 Residential

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  The Year 6 residential visit will be to the High

  Adventure Outdoor Education Centre, Cowling, Keighley, BD22 0AA. This will take place

  Wednesday 29th January 2025 until Friday 31st January 2025. Those who have  completed the consent form and paid the £10  deposit will need to pay the remaining  balance as soon as possible. Thank you.