Class 4 spellings 14.10.19

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3 – Seals: More homophones (A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and may also differ in spelling.) e.g. berry / bury, brake / break, meat / meet, ball / bawl, fare / fair.

Year 4 – Surfers: Words with /shun/ endings spelt with ‘sion’ (if root word ends in ‘se’, ‘de’ or ‘d’) e.g. division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television, revision, erosion, inclusion, explosion.

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘er’ phoneme e.g. term, fern, herd, herb, adder, letter, river, farmer, better, super.

Parent meetings booking system

There has been an issue with the booking system for our parent meetings next Wednesday 23rd October and we are doing our utmost to resolve it. Thank you.

Spelling Patterns

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 2 this week are:

Year 1: Adding the endings -ing, -ed and -er to verbs where no change is needed to the root word. E.g. hunting, hunted, hunter

Year 2: The sound /s/ spelt ‘c’ before e, i and y. E.g. fancy, face

Quiz Trail Competition Time!

Are you looking for ways to entertain the family over half term? Would you like to be in with a chance of winning a brilliant prize? Would you like to help raise money for school funds? Well, you can do all of this by buying a Quiz Trail sheet for only £5.

The trail will take you on a tour around some of the shops and historical monuments of Shrewsbury, prompting you to answer questions on the way.  The trail is approximately 2 miles long.  Enter as individuals or groups – it’s up to you.  100% of the money raised will go to Bicton Primary School and Nursery.

There are 15 prizes to be won which have kindly been donated by Aislin’s Funhouse, Artcadia, Button and Bear, Cineworld, Climbing the Walls, DM Cycles, Hibiscus, Jump In, Orchard Café, Shrewsbury Town FC, Tanners Wines, and The Lion Hotel. The total value of prizes is approximately £270! 

Quizzes will be for sale in the playground at the end of the school day on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays and also at the Harvest services at Bicton Church on Friday morning.  Don’t miss out!

Read Write inc phonics

Over the last 2 weeks the children have looked at:

‘n’ – Down Nobby and over the net.       n

‘p’ Down the plait, up and over the pirates face.      p

‘g’  Round the girls face, down her hair and give her a curl.      g

Reception children have orally segmented and blended CV  and CVC words that can be made with all the sounds we have covered so far  (m a s d t i n p g)

as, at, in

mat, mad, sad, Sam, tin, pin, sat, pat, pit, pad, dad, dig    etc

Year 1 children have put these words into sentences and recorded some.  Year 1 children have also completed word and sentence level work based on the ditties ‘Let’s Run’ and  ‘A fun hat’.

All children have practised handwriting each sound covered.

Resources request

Class 1 are looking for donations of wallpaper rolls, if you have any left over we would love if it can be donated to the class.

Other items we would love donated:

empty kitchen rolls

empty wrapping paper rolls

shoe boxes

pringle or similar tubes

old cards

milk bottle plastic lids

pegs

old sheets / blankets

clothes horse

Thank you

Forest School week 4 and 5

The children have been having so much fun in their Forest School sessions, we have decided to continue the after half term.  Please ensure your child has suitable outer clothes (ones you don’t mind them getting dirty), that are waterproof and warm.

Class 4 spellings 07.10.19

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3 – Seals: Homophones (A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and may also differ in spelling.) e.g. hear / here, main / mane, heal / heel, mail / male, not / knot.

Year 4 – Surfers: Homophones (see above) e.g. medal / meddle, mist / missed, bored / board, which / witch, scene / seen

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘air’ phoneme e.g. air, pair, stair, hair, flair, chair.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We will be holding a DIY and gardening day at school, on Saturday 12th October from 10:00 until 4:00. There are lots of jobs that need doing around the site including painting fences, removing a small tree, replacing worn timbers, etc and we need as many pairs of hands as possible. If you are able to spare a few hours, please sign up at the school office and let us know if there are specific jobs you are willing to do.

Refreshments will be provided during the day.

Thank you in advance for your support.