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Stonehenge Visit
Even the rain didn’t stop us learning! What a lot we learnt on Friday when we visited Stonehenge! The children were a credit to our school and behaved beautifully throughout the day.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parent helpers that joined us on our trip. We can’t offer these opportunities without your help.
Year 3 Team
Tapestry
Your contributions to Tapestry
At St Mark’s we are keen to promote strong links between home and school and to also recognise children’s achievements in both settings.
We would really like Tapestry to be a collaborative effort between staff at school and parents and carers at home. It’s been lovely to read your comments to our observations sent home so far. Please continue to share your thoughts!
In addition it would be great to begin to see observations which you have made at home. If your child does something that really makes you think ‘WOW’ and you feel it is a particular achievement or a ‘first’, complete an observation to share this with us. Your child can then take a turn to share their WOW moment with the whole class.
Examples of WOW moments could be:
- Riding their bike without stabilisers for the first time.
- Completing some independent writing; hearing and recording sounds in the words.
- Picking up a book and attempting to sound out a word for the first time.
- Being brave and trying something new for the first time.
Instructions for how to write and send an observation can be found in these simple user guides:
We look forward to finding out what the children are achieving at home.
Year R Team
Fire! Fire!
Year 2 have been having lots of fun learning about the Great Fire of London. We’ve used the 5 W’s of Newspaper reporting (Who, Where, What, When, Why) to find out all of the key facts about how the fire started and why it spread so quickly. We’ve used these facts to write some amazing newspaper reports that you will be able to see in their books when you visit us on parent’s evening. Do use the Knowledge Organiser that we sent home to test your child on the facts. We’re sure you’ll be surprised about how much they now know.
We’re currently investigating fire safety in our school to help the children understand that fire safety has hugely improved since the Great Fire of London.
The children are also excited because we have introduced Times tables RockStars today. They will be coming home with their login details tomorrow. These will be inside their homework books. When they log in they will be able to create their own avatar and then will complete a short skills test game called the ‘Gig’. This may contain some challenging questions that your children will probably not currently be able to do. Please don’t worry about this. This is used to create a baseline to show how your child improves with their mental maths skills throughout their school career. The children will then be able to access our year group section of RockStars where they will be able to develop their skills with their 2 times tables. If you have any questions, please pop in and speak to your class teacher.
We look forward to seeing you all at one of our parent’s evenings.
Year 2 Team
Stonehenge Trip
We are looking forward to our school trip to Stonehenge on Friday! We have been watching the weather forecast very carefully and it has constantly been changing. Sadly, it looks like it is going to be a rather wet day so children need to dress appropriately. There is very limited shelter so providing things below is extremely important.
Clothing
School jumpers and polo shirts
Trousers/ leggings
Trainers (That may get muddy!)
Waterproof warm coat with a hood
Lunch
A back pack with lunch in this (bear in mind they will be carrying this all day)
Water bottle
Year 3 Team