Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 10th October 2024

Headteachers Update

It has been a pleasure to see so many of you in school for parents' evening this week.  Teachers enjoyed meeting with you to discuss how your children have been settling into their new classes. 

We have also finished updating our library with new books and are excited to let the children choose one to bring home.

Ukulele lessons are going well in year 4, the children love their sessions and we are all enjoying listening to their work!

Thank you to those parents who attended the Reception Curriculum meeting with Mrs Brighton this week.  We hope it was informative.



Thank you for your continuing support.

Miss Laycock and the Lingwood Team

Year Group News

Nursery

This week in Bishy Barney Bees we have been talking more about our families, celebrating the fact that each home is unique. Children have been drawing pictures of who lives in their house, talking about what they love about their families as they do so. Our maths learning this week has moved on to exploring shapes, building language around 2D shapes as children build homes with wooden blocks in our construction area. We have also been taking this learning outside, working together to move crates, planks of wood and heavier blocks as we build homes on a bigger scale. We've then had lots of fun acting out stories and developing our imaginative play! In phonics we are playing games around initial sounds and alliteration, learning the sounds at the start of our names and at the beginning of words for familiar objects.

Reception

This week Reception Rabbits have been measuring and weighing in maths and using words like taller, shorter, heavier and lighter. They have looked at the book, 'It's a No Money Day' and have been learning about what a foodbank is and why they are important. They have also been writing shopping lists and using all the sounds they have been learning to help them with this.

Year 1

This week year one have been writing fantastic setting descriptions using adjectives and have been enjoying reading Where the Wild Things Are.  We created our own monsters based on a poem called The Grabbler and then compared our creations to the Wild Things in our story.  We have continued our work on addition and fact families in maths and have been delving more into the objects used in Puja (Hindu worship) in RE.

Year 2   

During our last lesson on The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, we really enjoyed making our own comic strips with the message: Be happy with what you have. They turned out very funny!  During or PSHE lesson, we discussed what bullying is and gave examples of what bullying is and what it is not and came up with a list of people that we can talk to when were are unhappy. 

Year 3

In Year three this week we have been practicing writing descriptive narratives using adjectives and adverbs. In Maths we have been learning how to add ones, tens and hundreds and have worked hard to apply our learning when crossing the tens or hundreds boundaries. Year three have particularly enjoyed our History topic on The Stone Age periods and this week we have been learning about nomads and survival.

Year 4

This week Year 4 have started their new text The Raven in Reading - a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. They are exploring the personification used to tell the story of a man seeking his lost love. In Writing, we have begun to write our persuasive adverts convincing an audience to stay safe on the internet. In Geography, the children conducted an experiment with Mrs Lal using boiled eggs and salt water to see what effect happens when an egg is placed in salt and freshwater. They then linked this to how a river and the sea meet. 

Year 5

In Year 5 this week, we have started our new writing unit of third person stories set in another culture. We have focused on using expanded noun phrases and have an understanding of the difference between explicit and implicit information. In Maths, the children have been focusing on addition and subtraction, making sure they set their calculations out correctly. In Art, we produced our own abstract art in the style of Hundertwasser.

Year 6

Congratulations to Hollie and Ben for being chosen for head boy and girl! Year 6 have been making burritos this week in DT whilst learning about street food and will be cooking for the next two weeks as well.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class - Betsy for remembering all the new words we have been learning this week and using them in her conversations.

Squirrel Class – Xander for fantastic phonics! Getting full marks in his assessment.

Hares Class – Robin for always working hard to understand the learning and challenging herself.

Fawns Class – Malia for excellent recall of facts about the Palaeolithic period of The Stone Age

Otter Class – Stanley for his excellent behaviour since Miss Walker's return. You have shown readiness and respect in class ALL DAY! We are very proud of you Stanley. 

Badger Class –  Alexander for working hard in place value and scoring 90% on his end of unit assessment - well done! 

Fox Class - Hollie for improving her multiplication methods.

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class - Mayson for being so enthusiastic about his learning and contributing great ideas during our carpet time.

Squirrel Class – Elio for always having interesting and relevant points to add to our learning.

Hares Class – Henry for always playing fairly during PE and listening to others ideas.

Fawns Class -   Jack for showing he is ready for learning and encouraging his peers to do the same. 

Otter Class – Willow for always being ready and producing fantastic presentation in all of her books. You are a role model!

Badger Class – Georgia for being respectful and for always being ready to learn. 

Fox Class – Harrison for making positive attempts to improve his focus and behaviour in class.

Congratulations to you all - we are very proud of you!