Woodpeckers 27.05.24

Date: 17th May 2024 @ 3:05pm

Hi Woodpeckers!

Our learning behaviour after half-term is Enjoy Your Learning

Our words for the week are 'chord' (a group of (typically three or more) notes sounded together, as a basis of harmony) and 'Sikh' (a person who follows the religion Sikhism)

Our Value this half term is .Respect

Monday: PE with our coach today so please come in PE uniform. Please make sure you are wearing the correct clothes for PE as outlined on the website under the Parent tab-uniform. PE After school club

Tuesday:  Coding and Lego club after school

Wednesday: 

Thursday:  PE today with Mrs Windmill, so wear your PE kits

Friday: 

Homework - 

Write a ghost story using the address below.  The website gives you tips and ideas.  The challenge is to write it in no more than 250 words!  Think about ambitious vocabulary and phrases, use your Descriptosaurus if you have one, think about using the different sentences you have learned about at school.  Prepare to spook your audience and teachers!

https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/competitions/primary-4-7/ghost-stories-u12

The Times Tables Test is coming up soon for Year 4s. This will be after the half-term holiday. Keep practising!

Log in and play TT Rock Stars! With the children we have now launched  a weekly reward for the person who uses it the most over the week. Year 4 you need to practise as you have the Times Table Test coming up soon. Keep practising the multiplication check on www.timestables.co.uk too!

You will  find the logins for Times Table Rock Stars and Spelling Shed in your planners. Please do log in to these websites to practise your spellings and times tables.

Reading Giants

Please read at least 5 times and note them in your Planners. Remember, this can be reading your school reading book, reading your own books, reading a magazine/comic, listening to a story read by a grown-up, listening to a story on a device (such as a Tonie box), watching a story online/on TV (eg CBeebies Bedtime story). We are promoting a love of reading, so read what you enjoy - just remember to write it in your Planner and ask your grown-up to sign it each week. Mrs Shand will check the planners each Friday and will give you a sticker on our Reading Giants chart if you have had at least 5 reading sessions! Remember - we are working as a team to collect the most reads so if you don't read at home, your  year team won't have a chance at winning the most reads across the school.

Spellings -  

Year 3 - Words where the digraph 'sc' makes a /s/ sound

Year 4 - Words containing 'phon' and 'sign'

Please complete the sheets by adding the correct words into the sentences

Please, please, please - if you can help for a short time slot ( 1 hr, 45 mins) at the summer fete on Sunday 23rd June at the village hall, it would be much appreciated.  The PTA are a few parents who give up their time to raise money for school. In Woodpeckers, we have had a new whiteboard screen which cost £1600 paid for by the PTA. The PTA also contributed £10 per child to our recent class trip to the art gallery, saving parents money.  Woodpeckers children and families have directly benefitted from the PTA so please help if you can for an hour and 45 mins at the fete. Please contact Heidi or the office. Amy, Hannah and Helen (KS1 parents) are also usually around at the end of the day.

Any questions, we're always on the playground at the end of the day- please speak to us.

Mrs Jordan and Miss Cross