Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 27th September 2024

Headteachers Update

Another successful week at Lingwood. Thank you to the parents and carers who attended our anxiety workshop yesterday led by the mental health team, we hope it was informative and useful. Year 6 had their first transition to Acle Academy - it was a successful day for all. Year 2 went on a local walk, to explore their learning of human and physical features in geography. The FOLPA team also met to discuss future plans for the year ahead. We are excited to get these started. A reminder that your child needs to bring a coat to school everyday.

Staff have also been extra busy this week, with a twilight CPD session and staff meeting focusing on the CUSP curriculum. Next week, we have parents evening, please ensure you make your appointment. We look forward to welcoming you.

Thank you for your continuing support.

Miss Laycock and the Lingwood Team

Year Group News

Nursery

In Bishy Barney Bees class this week we have continued to enjoy our focus book 'The Same But Different Too'. We have been recognising similarities and differences between us as we talk more about our interests and explore the classroom together. We used a range of techniques to make pictures and models of our faces, from drawing on the whiteboard to playdough. For maths the class have been exploring 'collections', comparing large and small groups of objects to help build comparison language. And in phonics we have been playing a range of listening games to tune into musical sounds; we enjoyed identifying instruments just by sound when played behind a screen, and moving to the rhythm of an instrument as it is played.

Reception

This week in Reception we have shared the story 'The Squirrels Who Squabbled'. We talked about friendships and sharing and why this is important. We have also looked at the seasons, giving particular focus to Autumn. In maths we have sorted items into groups according to their size, shape or name etc. We have also continued our self portraits we started last week and look forward to seeing these on display in the classroom soon.

Year 1

This week year 1 have been reading Where the Wild Things Are and have enjoyed retrieving information from the text and the illustrations. In Science we talked about how day becomes night and in PE we started our unit on teamwork where the children showed impressive communication skills when playing partner games. In Geography we learnt the names of the 5 oceans and added another song to our repertoire to help us learn their size order. 

Year 2   

This week with Mrs Mera we started our local area study unit in Geography. We went for a local walk around Lingwood to find the most prevalent human features in our area. We concluded that we have lots of houses and farms and that the most important is shops because people need food to survive. With Miss Coley, we have been busy using our mark making skills learnt in art to create a mixed media setting backgrounds for our corridor display. In English, we have been writing character descriptions about Sid (from Grandad's Island), we hope you enjoy looking in our books next week.

Year 3

In Fawns class we have been working learning a range of different painting techniques in art. This week we had the opportunity to use our new skills to create artwork based on the poem: The Jabberwocky. We are really proud of our final pieces. In English we have started learning about first person narrative descriptions and have been practicing how to write in first person. In maths we have started our addition and subtraction unit.

Year 4

We have been working really hard in Year 4 this week. The children have been amazing at rounding in Maths lessons linking and building on their learning from Year 3. They have improved their skills and have shown resilience when making any mistakes - they have learned from them. In Writing lessons the children have had the opportunity to perform their Haiku and Cinquain poems. They have also reflected on their learning and shown how proud they are as well as identifying anything they think they could improve. Our painting skills have developed in Art where we have been exploring different painting techniques. In Geography we have started a new unit on RIvers and the children enjoyed labelling the river and looking at detailed photographs showing the course of a river. Please remember your homework is due back Tuesday.

Year 5

In Year 5 this week, we have finished publishing our formal letters to apply to be on Shackleton's expedition. The children have done amazingly well with these and are proud of their final products! In Maths, we have finished place value and the children are confident in identifying the values of digits, as well as rounding numbers up to 1,000,000. In spelling, the children have been focusing on contractions and making sure they use the apostrophe in the correct place!

Year 6

Year 6 had their first transition day at Acle this week; I'm sure that they feel much more settled and confident about high school already. Also, we had a fantastic lesson on tectonic plates and finished our writing unit on autobiographies.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class - Hattie, for amazing independent sorting. Hattie sorted the plastic bugs out into two groups; ones with wings and ones without.

Squirrel Class – Malakai for great partner work in PE.

Hares Class – Alfie for showing great understanding of comparing objects and numbers. 

Fawns Class – Isaac for an incredible piece of artwork based on the poem The Jabberwocky 

Otter Class – Benjamin - Brilliant work on rounding to 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000! Amazing!

Badger Class –  Tamzin for producing excellent art in the style of Hundertwasser - well done!

Fox Class – Arthur for making positive strides in his reading comprehension this week

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class - Lexie- for always being so kind and generous to her friends.

Squirrel Class – Matthew for showing perseverance in PE.

Hares Class – Amelia for being very resilient by working hard to understand the learning even when it got tricky. Amelia is now able to complete all of her learning in Maths and even the challenge! 

Fawns Class -  Florence for always showing kindness to others. 

Otter Class – Alfie for working hard in every lesson. You have really impressed me.

Badger Class – Jacob for always trying your best, being ready to learn and for being truthful. 

Fox Class – Jack for always showing the school values of being ready

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