Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 17th March 2025

Headteacher's Update

Dear parents, 

It was great to see such a good turnout for parents evening last week. If you didn’t manage to come your child’s class teacher will be in touch because we think it is important you know how they are getting on. 

Mrs Brighton is running the London Marathon on Sunday 27th April and raising money for Neuroendocrine Cancer UK in memory of her mum.  To help with the fundraising we will be holding a CAKE SALE! 

When: Wednesday 2nd April 

Where: School playground 

Time: From 3.25pm  

All items will be 50p  

If you are able to donate any baked goods, homemade or shop bought (and importantly nut free!) then please drop these off on the morning of the cake sale. 

If you would like to sponsor Mrs Brighton directly, please visit: 

https://www.justgiving.com/page/stephanie-brighton-run-for-mum?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

Thank you for your support :-) 

I have had a few eagle-eyed parents who have pointed at that it said underneath my newsletter that children return to school after the Easter holiday on Monday 21st April. This is a mistake and is in fact Easter Monday. Children and staff return on Tuesday 22nd April. 

Another reminder to please not use the staff car park but to use the one at the Village Hall. 

A solid week with attendance. Well-done to year 3 for 100% attendance. 

Have a lovely week ahead.

Mr Jeffery

Interim Headteacher 

Lingwood Primary Academy

Year Group News

Nursery

In Bishy Barney Bees class we have been enjoying being artists this week! Our book is 'The Dot', which is about a girl who thinks she can't draw but her teacher helps her believe she can. We have experimented with using small world animals to make footprint patterns with paint, used a range of tools to mark-make in the sensory tray, explored colour-mixing, and tried to express different emotions in our drawings of people.

Reception 

This week, Reception have been learning about the festival of Holi. They have been learning some new vocabulary, words like legend, festival and forgive and thinking about their favourite colour and how it makes them feel. In maths they have been learning number bonds to ten and practising finding these special pairs using counters and cubes.

Year 1

This week year one have been continuing our work on the Christian story of Easter and thinking about why the cross is important to Christians.  In History we have continued to learn about David Attenborough and his impact on our world today.  Our Maths has been focused on measuring and comparing mass and capacity.  In our writing lessons we finished writing our stories with familiar settings – our writing is coming on leaps and bounds!

Year 2 
This week we have been learning about how to write a personal recount. We lave learned how to use time words and phrases and adverbs to write a recount of something that has happened in the past. 

We have also started to learn about rainforests. We learned that you can find rainforests in South America, Africa, and some parts of Asia and Australia. We enjoyed learning about the wildlife in rainforests and are looking forward to our trip to the Amazona Zoo to deepen our learning! 

Year 3

This week Year three have finished writing their instructions – they have worked hard to use imperative verbs and adverbs. In maths we have started our new unit on measures and have been learning how to read scales. Year three showed how mature they were when engaging with our OM workshop for PSHE this week – Well done.  

Year 4

This week, Year 4 have started a new writing unit on third-person stories, whilst continuing to enjoy their core text ‘Boy at the back of the classroom.’ The children have had some really grown up discussions around refugee children. In DT the children enjoyed creating their own butt hinges in preparation to make treasure chests next week. Year 4 engaged well with their OM Wellbeing workshop – being mature when naming intimate body parts.

Year 5

In Year 5, we have been writing our formal letters to Dragons Den persuading them to invest in our lunch bags that we are making in DT. The class have worked hard thinking about how to use fronted adverbials, flattery and the rule of three. In maths, we have started a new unit on Perimeter and Area.

Year 6

Year 6 finished their disaster narrative this week and edited it; they were impressive. In maths, the class have learned how to calculate the area of a triangle and in computing began to create tables on a spreadsheet. In science, they studied the colour spectrum and Isaac Newton’s role in it.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class  -  Hunter, for always trying his best during phonics. 

Squirrel Class – Mia – for fantastic written work about David Attenborough

Hares Class  –

Fawns Class  –  Autumn – for excellent participation in our PSHE workshop this week

Otter Class - Finlay for his dedication to reading at home and progress in school. Outstanding scores – well done!

Badger Class –  Sam for being ambitious and creative with your vocabulary. Well done!

Fox Class - Zoey for great perseverance when calculating with money this week

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class -  Ruby, for always trying her best to follow the Lingwood Way and being a great role model to her friends.  

Squirrel Class – Evie L – for showing great care and compassion to others during class discussion. 

Hares Class  –

Fawns Class - Harry – for being an excellent role model of the Lingwood Way

Otter Class –    Thea for consistently working hard in lessons, following the Lingwood way and improved attendance.

Badger Class – Kelsey for being accurate and precise with letter and number formation. Well done – I am very proud of you! 

Fox Class –   Arthur for really good work in his arithmetic paper this week.

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