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Cedar 2023 Week 1 w/e 06.01.23
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello and Happy New Year
Although a shorter week for the children, they have been extremely busy learning skills and knowledge linked to our new overarching topic of Vicious Volcanoes and Fragile Fossils. If you would like more detail of individual subject content please se our updated class page on the school website. I have been bowled over by the children's enthusiasm for the start of our topic and their willingness to share their knowledge already.
In Maths we continue with our multiplication and division units and already have celebrated two more of the children progressing from Bronze to Silver and Silver to Gold Award in their times tables. In addition, look out for your child coming home with post it notes - this is part of them practising their times table knowledge against the Department for Education timings of 6 seconds per question in preparation for the Year 4 Multiplication Check later this year. The post it note will give you and your child a clearer snapshot of their score out of 25 and any calculations that they need to practise more.
Year 4 parents also keep an eye out for further information regarding our Parent/Guardian meeting about the upcoming Residential - a perfect opportunity for you and your child to learn more about the trip and ask any questions before we go.
Well done to all those children who attended the Young Voices concert this week - I think they thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you
Mr Dring
Cedar Class w/e 16.1 to describe things
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
What a fantastic, fun and festive week we have all had this week. Thank you to all of you that were able to attend our LKS2 Christmas Story Carol performance - the children were so excited to share their hard work with you. Also, thank you so much for all of your voluntary contributions for both the Christmas Fair donations and the LKS2 Party donations - we were overwhelmed. It made the children's day. Thank you, we do really appreciate your generosity. The children have been busy developing their multiplication and division skills in Maths, their grammar skills in English lessons. In History we have been learning more about ancient Pompeii and we will finish the exciting end to our class novel The Thieves of Ostia today!
For those parents who have been asking if what they can practise skills wise with their child - the key skills little and often are reading, their recall of the full timetables, using more ambitious vocabulary (not just nice, small, big), a reminder when writing that capital letters for names etc are vital and in preparation for next term being able to read a clock both 12 and 24hrs would really help them. Thank you.
On behalf of the LKS2 team may we wish you a very happy, fun and safe holiday and a wonderful start to your New Year. We have spent time this week reminding them about water safety - particularly around icy water.
Finally, thank you also to everyone who have wished Miss Roberts and I a happy holiday in some way, it has made our day. See you all in 2023.
Thank you
Mr Dring
Cedar Class w.c 05.12.22
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
The children have had another busy week developing their column addition and subtraction skills, calculating the areas of shapes and honing their speed of recall of their times table facts. In their writing, the children have been planning and drafting descriptive formal letters. A reminder this is the last week for swimming this term for our Year 4s and we wish good luck to our cross country runners this Saturday. Finally, we have been busy practising for our Christmas Story singing next Monday and hope that you can join us to celebrate the children's efforts.
Have a happy weekend
Mr Dring
Cedar Week ending 02.12.22
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
I am so proud of the children this week as they completed their Reading and Maths assessments - they worked amazingly both as individuals and as a wider team. Well done! The key areas the children asked for support with in Maths were how to tell the time, multiplication times tables and fractions. In Reading, it was inference questions (how do you know the character felt...because they were frowning...). We will obviously be covering these in more detail in school as the year progresses however if you can check with your child if they require support with any of these skills and practise also at home they will certainly thank you for it.
It is great to see how the children who regularly complete and return their homework on time have benefitted from the extra practice at home. Remember it is given out on a Friday and returned for marking by the following Wednesday. Thank you.
We all enjoy celebrating with your children in assemblies every Friday some of the things they have done outside of school as well. For example, one child made their own replica Torah and another child created their own art work using a replica moustache like Salvador Dali's.
Have a great weekend.
Mr Dring
Cedar week 4 - w/e 25.11.22
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
We have been extra busy this week: from practising our songs for our LKS2 singing performance for parents pencilled in for the morning of Monday 12th December, to publishing our final versions of our time travelling adventure stories. Please practise your child's lines if they bring some home over the next few days to boost their confidence (they don't need to memorise them). The children 'auditioned' today and then the whole class of children held a secret ballot (linked to our British Democracy skills).
On Friday, the Year 4s are practising some vital life saving water safety skills and will be bringing in extra clothes to make it a more realistic scenario for real life. Meanwhile, Year 3 will be continuing to hone their skipping skills.
Yesterday we were very lucky to have our visitors who were representatives of the local Jewish community and who helped bring the children's Judaism learning to life. The children were all extremely respectful and asked some very intuitive questions. Well done Cedar class!
Thank you so much to everyone that has been able to support the School Fayre by providing donations and hope that you can join us at school on Saturday.
Have happy and safe weekends.
Mr Dring