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12th July 2016

Dates for your diary:

Wednesday 13th—Whole school trip to Great

Yorkshire Show

Thursday 14th—School sports day at Spring

Hall

Reception

Last week Reception enjoyed welcoming the new

children, who will be starting in Reception in Sep-

tember. Reception also really enjoyed their Eid

party and would like to say a big thank you to par-

ents for all the food and help they provided.

Class 1

Year 1 enjoyed their Eid party. They enjoyed danc-

ing and enjoyed trying out all of the different foods.

In numeracy, Year 1 have been learning about how

to use money and working out money problems.

Class 2

Class 2 enjoyed their Eid party and would like to

thank parents for all the different food that was

brought in.

Mrs Hague, Mrs Khan, Mrs McGuire and Mr Shaw

wish year 2 all the best when they move up to

Year 3.

Class 3

Class 3 have enjoyed making papier mache volca-

noes, as part of their South America topic. They

used plastic bottles as the bases and erupted them

yesterday afternoon.

Class 3 have been learning the Haka, a traditional

We hope that you all had a lovely Eid last week. We have

got a busy couple of weeks as we reach the end of the

Summer term. This week there is our whole school trip

to the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate on Wednesday

as well as Sports Day on Thursday.

Next week we will all be moving to our new classes and

getting ready for September.

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Class 4

Class 4 really enjoyed their singing performance in

the hall. The songs have been recorded and can be

found in Class 4 news on the school website.

In maths, Class 4 have enjoyed learning about line

graphs, bar charts and data analysis.

Class 6

Class 6 have been working hard in literacy writing

reports. They have also been reading the poem ‘The

Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll.

In history, Class 6 have been learning about the Tu-

dors and wrote interviews with one of Henry VIII’s

six wives.

Class 7

Class 7 have created charcoal portraits of Shake-

speare as part of their Tudors topic. Also related

to Shakespeare, the class have been reading

Twelfth Night and comparing it to a film version of

the story. Thank you to our parents for bringing in

food for the Eid party!

Facts of the week

The most prolific actor is Mel Blanc, who appeared

in 709 feature films and over 100 TV movies.

It used to take 66 days to travel to America using

sailing ships; today it takes only 8 hours to fly to

America on a jet.

For the Great Yorkshire Show trip can parents make sure

that children wear school uniform and appropriate shoes

(not trainers, high heels or sandals.) The weather fore-

cast for the show is good but children should still bring a

raincoat, sun hat, sun cream and a small rucksack.

The Great Yorkshire Show is held every year in Harro-

gate, North Yorkshire and is one of the largest agricultur-

al shows in the UK.

School website:

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