2018-19

Yesterday a group of children from year 5 were invited to Norwich School to join in with their Chinese New Year celebrations.

There was Chinese calligraphy writing, a tea ceremony, Chinese dragon dancing, the Chinese New Year story and a Chinese reading competition. The event ended with a small Chinese banquet buffet.

Many thanks to Norwich School for inviting us.

Year 6 sing the 12 times table 

Year 5 sing the 7 times table 

Year 4 sing the 3 times table 

As part of our times table focus, children had the opportunity to join in with a pirate themes treasure hunt. As well as hunting round the school grounds to find the hidden clues, the KS2 children needed to answer multiplication questions. Children in EYFS and KS1 were challenged to find all the even numbers and order them in a sequence. We had great fun and there was even prizes! Thank you for everyone who joined in the fun.

1st February 2019

Congratulations to all of the children who were awarded a high table token this week for going above and beyond in their learning. We’re really proud of your achievements. The children got to enjoy lunch with Mrs Sims and Mr Cross on a special lunch table with squash and biscuits. We look forward to seeing who will be on the high table next week!

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Below are some great times tables app to help support your child during the 8 week focus.

https://www.mathschase.com/ – A free website for testing your times tables

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/maths/times-tables/ – an interactive way to learn your tables, with a fun quiz to give you a challenge!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button – A great website for children of all ages! Here you can practise with number bonds, times table facts, division facts and square numbers – simply hit the button!

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html – A great selection of more than 20 games with a times tables theme. How many can you beat

https://www.nationwideeducation.co.uk/www/flash/bso/bso-flash/index.html – An awesome and addictive, MUSICAL times tables game. (Requires Flash player)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g64rd – A selection of fun songs designed to help children remember number patterns

https://www.transum.org/Tables/Times_Tables.asp – A range of free games and activities to play on your own, or with a friend.

Last half-term we introduced a range of initiatives to help foster a love of reading around the school. Staff were filmed reading their favourite bedtime stories, Parents were invited into classes to be a ‘mystery’ reader in their child’s class and prizes were given to classes who read the most at home.

We’d really appreciate it if you could complete the attached questionnaire. It helps us to measure the impact these initiative have had both in school and at home.

Thank you to everyone that came to our bedtime cafe. 

We enjoyed hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows as well as a Christmas story and decorated gingerbread men. 

Thank you to those of you who joined us at one of our workshops focusing on ways to support your child with their reading. It was great to hear such positive feedback from the sessions.

You can now find an online version of the presentation below
Download: Supporting your child with their reading

Christmas is coming! All members of the community are warmly invited to the Christingle event in the school hall on Sunday 9th December at 3pm. Children are welcome to dress up as their favourite nativity character, take part in arts and crafts activities and soup, bread and hot drinks will be served to all.

We look forward to seeing you there!