Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 27th January 2025

Headteacher's Update

Dear parents and carers, 

Another week flies by. The children have behaved brilliantly at break and lunch. We have given the children more equipment to use at break and lunchtimes and they have loved it. I have been particularly impressed with how they have put it way and taken responsibility for this. 



We have an attendance review in a couple of weeks and have been speaking to the children about the importance of being in school. For the second week running Rabbit Class have won the attendance cup with a superb 99% - well done Rabbits.

Have a nice week. 

Have a good week.

Regards,

Ben Jeffery

Interim Headteacher

Year Group News

Nursery

In Bishy’s class we have been learning about space this week. We have been acting out space missions in the small world tray, building rockets in the construction area, and using black, glittery playdough to make objects linked to space. Our dark tent has allowed children to experiment with light sources and create shadows. The focus book in class is ‘Astro Girl’ which has helped us learn words like ‘zero-gravity’ and ‘asteroids’, and also taught us about how space food is stored!

Reception

This week we have been reading a book about explorers and finding out about the different places around the world that they travelled to. We have thought about where we might like to explore and what we might need to take with us. In maths we have looking at weight and capacity and the children have enjoyed using scales to weigh objects around the classroom.

Year 1

This week year 1 have continued reading Peter Rabbit in our reading lessons and learning how to retrieve information from the text.  In maths we have been working on addition by counting on and using our number bond knowledge to learn related addition facts.

In Geography we have been learning the names of the Capital Cities of the UK and in Science we have continued our work on materials by exploring and describing their properties.  We are becoming experts at naming an object, the material it is made from, the properties of that material and the reasons it has been chosen for the job.

Year 2 

This week we have been working very hard on understanding how to find change in Maths. We have been working out lots of problems about gong to the shop and buying things and getting the right amount of change in pounds and pence. 

In Science, we learned the word versatile when we were learning about different materials. We enjoyed learning how versatile different materials like paper, rock and fabric can be.

Year 3

This week, we have been exploring watercolours in art and have worked as a class to retell a story in illustrations. In English we have begun writing our third person animal stories and have been working hard to use expanded noun phrases. In reading we have enjoyed designing our own novelty tents, including games rooms and secret compartments.

Year 4

Year 4 has had a fantastic start with Miss Coley and Mrs Mann. All of the children have been extremely welcoming and have worked hard. In English, we have been developing our stories from another culture - some fantastic descriptive devices have been used. In maths, they have challenged themselves with tricky fraction work. In history, we continued to explore Ancient Egypt - the children had to decide where on the hierarchy they wanted to be. Unsurprisingly none of them wanted to be at the bottom.

Year 5

This week, we have been working hard in spelling noticing words which have the ‘g’ sound spelt -gue and the ‘q’ sound spelt -que. In maths, the children are confident in using short division with remainders - well done! During our Geography session, we have started looking at four-grid and six-grid references.

Year 6

This week, the class have written their narrative based on a natural disaster. In computing, they began to create their own website on Google sites based on an interest of their own. In maths, they have started to convert metric measures.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class  -  Jayda for writing a brilliant sentence about the arctic.

Squirrel Class – Charlie – for fantastic reasoning work in Maths.

Hares Class  – Freya- trying really hard to complete her reading assessment without giving up.

Fawns Class  –  Malachi for using his retrieval skills in reading to create a detailed floor plan.

Otter Class - Evie - for working extremely hard and thinking carefully about her  sentences in her story from another culture.

Badger Class – Louis for producing outstanding description in your cultural narrative - well done!

Fox Class - Jack for finally being able to crack getting 38 in his arithmetic paper.

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class -  Louis for brilliant listening communicating with others.

Squirrel Class – Isabelle - for working well as a team in PE.

Hares Class  – Jenson- showing resilience with his learning. Harriet - afterschool club award.

Fawns Class - Billy for excellent focus in all lessons this week.

Otter Class – Max - fantastic turn around in his behaviours to learning and attitude. Keep it up. 

Badger Class – Erin - for showing great perseverance in maths - well done!

Fox Class – Bea for upholding the school values and always being respectful and polite.

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