Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 24th March 2025

Headteacher's Update

Dear parents and carers, 

It has been quite a week at Lingwood. We celebrated and raised money for Comic Relief on Friday including lots of exercises in assembly. The year sixes have been on their residential trip for three days. I am writing this having just experienced kayaking in March. Thank goodness for the sunshine. On Wednesday, we filmed our promotional video of the school. Once we have checked it through we will put this on our website.

Many of you have been asking how Mrs Laycock is. It was lovely to see her visit the school on Wednesday. Please see an update from Dr Tim Coulson (CEO Unity SP). 

Mrs Laycock has successfully had surgery and has recovered well. She is now moving onto the next phase of her treatment plan.  Once she has fully recovered from this, she is looking forward to returning. It has been agreed that Mr Jeffery will continue as interim Headteacher until her return. 

Please see this week’s attendance below. Well done to year 3 again for getting 100%!

Have a lovely week.

Mr Jeffery

Interim Headteacher 

Lingwood Primary Academy

Year Group News

Nursery

This week in Bishy’s we have continued to enjoy our focus book ‘The Dot’. Children have been exploring more tools and effects to create their own lovely works of art, and we are working on building vocabulary around what we enjoy about each other’s paintings and drawings. Our maths focus has moved on to collections of large and small objects, recognising when two collections are the same or different. And in phonics we have continued to play games which help us hear the initial sounds of words.

Reception 

This week, Reception have been reading ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. They have been learning about the lifecycle of a butterfly and using new words like cocoon and antennae. They have also been looking at colour mixing and painting some beautiful butterflies. In maths they have been think about odd and even numbers and counting in quiet and loud vices to spot the difference between the two.   

Year 1

This week Year 1 have been writing a recount about a trip to a place they have visited.  They have really impressed us with their ideas and detail in their writing!  In RE we have been continuing to look at the importance of Easter and the cross in the Christian faith.  In Art we have enjoyed chalk painting and using this technique to create a self-portrait on fabric.

Year 2 
This week Year 2 have continued to learn about rainforests. We learned about the indigenous people called Yanomami who live in the Amazon Rainforest. We learned about their way of life and the threats they have in the Amazon.  

We also finished writing our recount from personal experience and it was amazing to see how well we used time words and phrases, the past tense and personal pronouns.  

Year 3

In Writing this week, Year 3 have started a new unit on First Person Narratives. They have also been working hard to measure and compare capacity in l and ml. In swimming they all worked hard in their assessment lesson and have enjoyed celebrating Red Nose Day. We have all been very excited this week to see the arrival of our new IPADs and have been learning about how we can use them to support us in class.

Year 4

Year 4 started the week being introduced to their Ipads, they really enjoyed experimenting with the new apps and using Showbie their interactive classroom. In geography, with Miss Gillard the children further explored how to locate countries on their digimaps. The children are continuously working hard to beat their MTC scores!

Year 5

This week, year 5 had a whole day of DT, where the children designed and created a durable and hard wearing lunch bag. The children amazed me with their teamwork skills and their resilience. During maths, the class have been working hard thinking about area and perimeter.  

Year 6

Year 6 had an amazing time on their residential this week – they really challenged themselves and worked as a team. They took part in a campfire, abseiling, zip-line, rock climbing and kayaking. Time for a well-earned rest this weekend!

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class  -  Spencer, for working so hard on his handwriting this week.

Squirrel Class – Esmae – for her fantastic recount about her trip to Great Yarmouth

Hares Class  – Charlie- writing a well written recount of a day at school. Well done Charlie your writing is really coming along!  

Fawns Class  –  Theo – Great focus during our IPAD lesson 

Otter Class - Jessica S for writing a clear plan for her story and using adventurous vocabulary.  

Badger Class –  George S – for taking your time to read reasoning and problem-solving questions and for applying your understanding. Well done! 

Fox Class -

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class -  Hattie, for always being kind and a good friend to her classmates. 

Squirrel Class – Elsie – for fantastic effort and progress with her learning, particularly her writing. 

Hares Class  – Jenson- being a role model of the Lingwood Way this week! Well done Jenson!  

Fawns Class - Florence – for perseverance and improvement in swimming 

Otter Class –  Benjamin – for fantastic effort and respect all of the time.  

Badger Class – Alfie – for being ready and respectful with your iPad! You have been a kind and supportive learning partner. Well done! 

Fox Class –

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