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Arrangements for children in choir and orchestra for the BPSM concert.

Dear Parents and Carers,

This only applies if you child is part of the BPSM concert.

Please find the attached information sheets which explain the arrangements needed for Tuesday’s rehearsal at the Anvil Theatre and for the evening concerts on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A letter will go home with children on Monday which will include the access passes to collect children at the end of each concert if you are not attending the concert on either night.
All children must attend and if you are unable to arrange transport, please let me know before 4pm on Monday and we will do our very best to help.
Thank you so much for your support to help children perform and enjoy being a part of such a great evening of music.
 
Kindest regards,
Fiona Chapman
 
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Year 4 – Unearthing Angle-Land and Discovering Monsters!

Year 4 have had a very exciting start to the second half of our summer term. Our new topic ‘Unearthing Angle-Land’ was launched with a classroom museum where the children had the chance to explore artefacts and replicas from Anglo-Saxon times.

After learning what each artefact was and what it was used for, the children had a go at writing their name in Runes – the Anglo Saxon alphabet. They then carved them into clay and painted them beautifully.

We have so much to look forward to with our Anglo- Saxon led half term. The children are getting very excited about the residential, as are the adults! It’s going to be a great trip and the children will be experts on this important part of British history by the time they return home.

Our English started with a monster hunt this week. After discovering that a monster had been spotted roaming around the school field, the children were given the task of trying to spot clues of where he might be hiding. The children bravely entered the woods and were shocked to find slime, tuna cans, feathers, bones and broken twigs. Upon this discovery, the children headed back to the classroom to think about what the monster might look like. This exciting start to our new English unit: Beowulf has really sparked the children’s imagination and got them excited for writing. We can’t wait to read their final stories!

 

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Welcome back to Summer 2!

What a fun first week back we have had! The children had such a wonderful time on Sports Day and were super role models for KS1. Thank you for joining us and making the day so special. 

We also had a fun week learning about 'Good News' through our RE unit based around Christianity and the Gospel. This was last half term's unit, but with the shorter half term in summer 1, and the Queen's Jubilee celebrations, we felt that it fitted better into this half term. The children have been so thoughtful and have had wealth of ideas to share. We are incredibly proud of them all. 
You may also hear the children talking about leading a whole school worship. Our Year 2 children, will be sharing their learning about Tanzania and the charity: The Mud House Children's Foundation, with the wider school community next week. They are very excited to do this and have loved learning about the Maasai tribes with the help of the charity project director: Nicky Jarman.  You will be able to meet her and other members of the team on a stall at the Summer Fun Day. We will also be asking children from Year 2 to come and help run the stall at the Fun Day where we will begin to raise money for the charity. This will be optional but we are sure many children will be excited to get involved. We will send out details later this week. 
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We begin our learning for this half term tomorrow, with our learning based around our exciting science and history topics and linked with the theme: Oh, the places you'll go! If you would like to find out more about what we will be learning, then please see our attached knowledge organiser and topic web. 
We would like to remind you that we have our school trip on Friday 24th June. A letter and reminders have been sent via email.  Thank you to all of those of you who have responded and sent reply slips and contributions. If you have not yet done this, then please could you complete this early this week to give us time to make our preparations. If you have any difficulties or concerns, then please contact your class teacher or the office and we'll be happy to help. Any parents who had volunteered to help before half term, have been spoken to by their class teacher and those needed should have, or be in the process of obtaining DBS checks. When your DBS arrives in, please bring it to show the school office team. We will send a reminder of what is needed for the trip later this week. We are sure it will be an enjoyable trip for them all-especially as it will be their first proper trip! 
We can hardly believe how little time the children have left in Year 2 but they are really demonstrating how ready they are to take on their next exciting challenge of moving into Year 3 and KS2. Some parents have asked about this but we won't begin to properly talk to the children about this until later this half term. If you have any concerns about this or anything else, then please don't hesitate to speak to us or contact us via email: Year2@stmarksce.org.uk 
Thank you for your continued support. 
The Year 2 team
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Year 5 – What are we learning about in Summer 2?

How have we reached the final half term of Year 5 already? We can’t believe how quickly this year has gone so far. We are really looking forward to our final topic too – the Vikings!

Attached are our Topic Web and Knowledge Organiser for this half term. The Topic Web gives you an insight into what we are planning on covering in each subject and the Knowledge Organiser gives you lots of facts and information about our Viking topic so that you can learn about these at home too. 

We have lots of trips coming up too – Swimming, Ufton Court and Brighton Hill. Please ensure the forms are completed for these as soon as possible and keep note of these dates. It’s going to be a busy half term! 

Thank you, as always, for your on-going support, 

The Year 5 Team

Year 5 Sum 2 – Knowledge Organiser

Year 5 Sum 2 – Topic web

Year 5 Update – Summer 1

We had the most incredible half term in Summer 1 learning all about the Caribbean! The children fully immersed themselves in their learning about the Windrush and Caribbean culture and we were so proud of their maturity and enthusiasm in this topic.

The children started by learning about the Windrush ship and exploring some sources about the initial event before learning about Caribbean music and making some colourful mindmaps to show all the music genres that have been influenced by this. The children then learned about Carnival and wrote beautiful newspaper reports all about the Notting Hill Carnival – we couldn’t believe some the facts about this event! Then the children moved onto Sport and learned all about the different athletes that are a part of the Windrush generation before designing their own sports kits. Learning about the Windrush scandal a few years ago really shocked the children and they pretended to be MPs writing to the Prime Minister at the time (Theresa May) about their feelings surrounding this. Finally, the children brought all their learning together by reflecting upon the way the Caribbean cultures have impacted British culture today before celebrating everything in our Carnival Day. We made masks, we made flags, we made up dances and we paraded around the school with the other year groups coming out to wave and watch us. It was incredible! We also had a wonderful Jubilee day too celebrating our amazing Queen. What a half term!

Here are some pieces of work from the last few weeks. 

 

 

 

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