Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 19th January 2024
Headteachers Update
It has been a great week!
The children loved the snowy playground on Thursday - venturing out to play at lunchtime. Please ensure your child comes to school with the appropriate cold weather clothing as many children didn't have a coat in school.
It was great to welcome the Broadland Mental Health Team into school on Monday, supporting our parents to support their children's anxieties and worries. I would like to thank them for their continuing support.
All staff would like to congratulate Mrs Luck and her husband who are expecting their first baby in May. What an exciting year ahead for their family!
Thank you for your continuing support.
Miss Laycock
Dates for the diary
- w/c 29th January - Travelling Book Fair - more details to follow
- 5th - 11th February - Children's Mental Health Week
- 7th February - E-Safety Day
- 8th February - Reception vision and hearing check
- 14th February - International Mother Language Day
- February Half term - 19th -23rd February
- 8th March - World Book Day
Year Group News
Nursery
Our nursery rhyme focus this week has been on 'Humpty Dumpty'. Children have been building their own walls using small blocks inside and larger construction resources outside, and acting out the story with small world characters. We have been practising our cutting skills by making our own Humpty Dumpty pictures, and drawing specific features on his face to make him look sad or shocked when he fell down.
Reception
This week, Reception have enjoyed the colder weather and have loved exploring what happens when water turns to ice; we were also lucky enough to have a short period where we got to have fun in the snowy weather! We have read the traditional tale, The Three Little Pigs, joined in with the repeated phrases and wrote speech bubbles for the different characters. We also thought carefully about building our own houses using different construction materials both inside and outside. In maths we have continued learning about the part whole model and have sorted people and different objects to parts and then combined them to find the whole. A great week of learning- well done Reception!
Year 1
Year one have been learning more about the equator and hot and cold parts of earth in Georgraphy this week. They have been continuing their work on numbers to 20 in maths and have begun writing recounts of familiar events in English. In RE we have been retelling the Jewish creation story that we learnt last week.
Year 2
In History, we started learning about Norwich through time and what life is like today. We designed our own coat of arms for Norwich which shows the best of Norwich. In Science we are learning about materials and this week we investigated what would happen if we squashed, bent, twisted and stretched a variety of different objects.
Year 3
Year 3 have had another very creative week! They have made their final art piece for their textiles block and have started using the website Scratch for coding. In maths, year 3 are still challenging themselves by learning how to divide 2 digit numbers and have begun to write a descriptive narrative about a forest animal. Well done year 3!
Year 4
This week year 4 have started writing their culture narratives! We are writing a third person narrative based in Lingwood on Bonfire Night. We have written some fantastic openings! In Maths, we have finished our unit on multiplication and division and have started length and perimeter. In Science, we have been studying human teeth AND animal teeth - we can explain why certain animals have different sets of teeth and their purpose. Year 4 have been loving their music lessons as we are learning an anti-bullying rap song. The children have learned the chorus, verse 1 and have even added actions!
Year 5
Year 5 have been learning all about forces in Science, including gravity and air resistance. We did many experiments and made predictions and conclusions! Badgers Class have been working really hard and are all impressing me. Their stories set in another culture (Egypt) are coming along nicely. We are now concluding our learning on multiplying and dividing. Well done class and keep up the hard work!
Year 6
This week our creative juices have been flowing as we have started writing our own adventure story in English. We have been building the tension in our story to hook the reader in. We have completed our unit on Ration and Proportion in Maths and we are starting a new unit on decimals! Thank you to those children that have completed all three pieces of their homework this week and have been reading at home at least three times
Launchpad
This week in Launchpad we have been planning our own information texts about vehicles. We have been making notes and will be using these in our lesson next week. In Maths, we have been working on multiplication skills and completing practical activities to learn our times tables. In Science, we have been investigating pushes and pulls. In RE, we have been using role play to learn about the story of Moses.
Achievement Awards
Rabbit Class - Hayley, for being a kind and caring friend to others. Thank you, Hayley!
Squirrel Class – Amelia for her effort and enthusiasm in her Maths and English lessons.
Hares Class – Jack wrote a fantastic non-chronological report about Big Ben using a heading and subheadings.
Fawns Class – for challenging herself and working more independently in maths
Otter Class – Louis Morris for his fantastic resilience in maths. He is willing to help others in explaining how to divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number.
Badger Class – Arthur for trying his best at his story writing in English lessons
Fox Class – Cameron for completing your Maths test with a positive attitude.
Launchpad – Oliver S taking more care with his work ensuring that his work is well presented.
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Star Pupil Awards
Rabbit Class - Lewie, for working so hard with our core text, The Three Little Pigs and for using all your phonics knowledge to write a fantastic speech bubble! Well done, Lewie!
Squirrel Class – Jenson for being focused and trying his best. Keep it up!
Hares Class – Emma for being such a helpful and considerate member of our class. She helps others with their work and if she sees a job that needs doing, she just gets on with it without needing to be asked.
Fawns Class - .for making a HUGE amount of progress with your spelling and presentation skills.
Otter Class – Alfie for always showing role model behaviour and kindness towards others in and out of the classroom
Badger Class – Noah for being a valuable member of his group during our Science experiment.
Fox Class – Layla for being a kind and helpful member of the class. You are always on task and following instructions sensibly.
Launchpad – Jordan for always being polite and showing kindness to everyone in Launchpad.
Congratulations to you all - we are very proud of you!
Attendance Update
This week's whole school attendance 94.4%
Our whole school attendance this week was 94.6%. In first place is Year 3 with 95.8%,
then in joint second
place are Years 5 and 1. Well done to all the children arriving at school on time, ready to learn!
Remember that every day counts!
Ordering School Lunches
Thank you to those of you who continue to order their child/children's school lunches via the Aspens/Select App.
Please can we remind you that if your child is eligible for a universal free school meal ensure that you book this via the app.
If your child is eligible for a free school meal but decide to bring a packed lunch on a particular school day, please ensure the booked meal is cancelled via the app.
We are trying to minimise food waste within school.
Anyone that feels they may be entitled to a free school meal - please access the following site to assess your eligibility:
https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals
Thank you for your continuing support.
FOLPA Valentines Disco
We are excited to announce that FOLPA (Friends Of Lingwood Primary Academy) will be holding a Valentines Day disco on Monday 12th February after-school. Further details will follow regarding times for different year groups. Payment of £3.50p will be able to be made at the school office from February 1st (cash only please).
