Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 13th September 2024

Headteachers Update

A great first full week at Lingwood. The children are fully embracing our CUSP curriculum with great enthusiasm and focus. After establishing it last year, we are thrilled with the outcomes it has already produced. It has been wonderful dropping into the engaging lessons being taught and being shown the high-quality work being produced.

Thank you to all the Reception, Year 1 and 2 parents and carers that attended the first reading sessions this week - this was a great success and we look forward to introducing reading cafes into KS2 later this term.

It was also lovely to have the FOLPA team in to join me today with the children for hot chocolate Friday. We are always grateful for your support, time, and dedication.

Thank you for your continuing support.

Miss Laycock and the Lingwood Team

Year Group News

Nursery

This week in Bishy Barney Bees nursery the new children have started their chosen hours, and everyone is settling really well. We are learning the routines and rhythms of the nursery day, while continuing to get more comfortable with the outdoor and indoor environments as they explore all the different opportunities on offer. Linked to our story 'Nursery? Not Today!', children have been sharing thoughts on the things they love most about nursery; making things at the creative table has been a particular highlight so far!

Reception

Reception Rabbits have continued to settle in well to their new class and routines. This week they have been learning numbers to 10, practising writing them and showing different ways to make each number. We have also been reading a book about being kind and talking about how it feels when we pass kindness around our class. Everyone enjoyed their first session of Forest School!

Year 1

This week year 1 have started reading Beegu. We made predictions about different parts of the story and retold the events we had read so far. It was lovely to see so many of you for our first reading morning of the year! In Science we have been talking about the seasons and which months of the year these fall into and in Geography we begun learning about the seven continents of the world.

Year 2   

The children started the week extremely excited that their eggs had hatched! We have worked hard across the week to earn dojo points with our recognition board focus in the classroom being 'one voice.'  In history, we started learning about the Great Fire of London of 1666. We learnt where London is and when the fire happened. We compared London now and London in the 1660's. In reading, we started our first Core Text 'Grandad's Island'. We made predictions using the illustration and words in the text of what might happen next and learned how to retrieve information and mime the character's actions.

Year 3

This week, Year 3 have enjoyed learning about comparative tests. We investigated how fast different leaves fell in the playground and learnt about different variables. In writing we have been learning about main and subordinate clauses and practice writing our sentences.

Year 4

This week year 4 had their first P.E. lesson where we started our unit on football. The children have started with the basics of dribbling a ball through large and small areas to build the skill of controlling the ball. In Maths, we continue to look at place value up to a 4-digit number. In Writing, we continue to build those skills on sentence structuring, this week we looked more at grammatical errors and main clauses. In Art, we created a 3-piece composition of still life drawing using objects in front of us.

Year 5

Badger class have been learning focusing on place value in maths this week and have been reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000. They have been able to successfully identify what the value of each digit is in various numbers. In science, we started our new unit of materials. We looked at the properties of various materials and discussed their suitability. In art, the children created a landscape using subtractive drawing. They loved using charcoal and an eraser to create their masterpieces!

Year 6

Year 6 have begun our unit on writing an autobiography in English and are continuing our Dare To Be You book. The class did a great job in art this week drawing and scaling up fruit and vegetables. Homework will begin next week as well.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class - Benny for amazing letter writing during phonics. 

Squirrel Class – Evie L. - for settling so well into Lingwood and always adding interesting points to our class discussions.

Hares Class – Sami- Showing a really good understanding of recognising tens and ones and explaining her thinking. 

Fawns Class – Dylan for identifying a variable which we could not control during our Science investigation this week.

Otter Class – Willow - for her wonderful handwriting and presentation in her books through all subjects. Even when she makes mistakes she makes them look neat!

Badger Class –  Freddie - For always carefully listening to instructions and for being on task - well done!

Fox Class – Bailey for making really good progress with his place value in maths.

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class - Nelly for super listening and joining in during our learning this week. 

Squirrel Class – Evie N. - for always being ready to learn.

Hares Class – Jenson - for a fantastic attitude to learning, being ready and on task.

Fawns Class -  Harley, for always benign polite and respectful.

Otter Class – Travis - for always being ready for the next task whether this is putting his materials away or simply putting his equipment down. 

Badger Class – Kayden - For being resilient and for not giving up on work!

Fox Class – Kody for always trying his best, following the school rules and being respectful.

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