Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 28th June 2024

Headteachers Update

Another week has flown by, with Reception class visiting Thrigby Hall and Year 6 class have been out since Wednesday having tremendous amounts of fun at X Adventure. A big thank you to all staff who have attended to support this residential being a successful trip.

A big thank you to every parent who has attended a reading session this year/term. Next academic year, we are already looking forward to evolving our parent sessions.

Next week, we will be supporting the Year 6 pupils who will be attending their transition day, Year 2 and 5 are off on their class trips and we have another parent drop-in session on Tuesday 2nd July at 8.30 am.

Another thank you to Miss Long and the FOLPA team, for meeting this week to discuss the final plans for our school fete on Friday 12th July - we hope to see you all there.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Laycock

Year Group News

Nursery

This week our Transport topic moved on to discovering more about trains - a particular favourite mode of transport among children in the class! We have had lots of fun with the small world train sets, and have been using language around length to make longer and shorter trains to transport the class 'mini mes'. We have had lots of fun using sponges shaped like vehicles and trays of paint to make our own transport pictures. And the class have been building their finger strength with lots of fine motor activities, including threading cotton reels through string.

Reception

Reception has had the best week, in particular our trip to Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens was a huge success. The children saw crocodiles, alligators, gibbons, meerkats, snakes, birds, tiger, leopards, turtles and leopards. The children were polite and behaved impeccably well, all the adults were so proud of them, what a credit to the school they were. The children then wrote a recount of their trip to the zoo, highlighting their favourite animals. We have also shared the story of Zog, reenacting it in drama. In Maths we have been talking about time and sequencing our day using the words first, next, then, after that and finally.

Year 1

This week we have been working on subtraction in Maths, making maps in Geography and continuing to recap our learning about different types of animals in our Science. In English we have been working on improving our sentences, writing about the stories we have read this term. In PSHE we thought about who can help us in different situations. 

Year 2   

This week, year 2 have been reading Fantastic Mr Fox and have been writing character descriptions using lots of descriptive language. We have also been drawing and interpreting pictograms in maths.

Year 3

This week in Maths Year 3 have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes. In English we have started our unit on poetry and have enjoyed exploring rhyme and alliteration. We have been learning about ordnance survey maps and have been practicing using and creating keys. 

Year 4

This week year 4 have started writing their news reports all about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. They have written the beginning parts of the report by including a recount of the events that took place. The children are coming towards the end of their core text, Wind in the Willows and we will be starting our new text soon, Raven. In computing, they made their own projects by generating and coding shapes to spell out their names. In history, they continued to learn all about the Shang Dynasty looking at when they took place within history. Finally, in D.T. they have been learning the back stitch as well as a running stitch in order to sew two pieces of fabric together.

Year 5

In Year 5 this week, the children have worked insanely hard on their balanced arguments, where they are trying to convince Miss Laycock to ban school uniform! They have been extremely passionate about this and look forward to hearing her response. In Maths, we have moved onto converting measurement, where we have understood the conversion of M, MM, L, ML, G and KG. In Art, we have finished our block printing and finalised our prints with embellishments, which the children evaluated. Well done for your hard work

Year 6

Well done Year 6 you have all tried lots of new things including crate stacking, rafting and canoeing as well as showing off their skills in archery and bushcraft. Everybody who attended the residential has shown great attitudes to giving everything an attempt and being supportive classmates. Their teamwork and communication skills have been amazing and were demonstrated highly in the raft-building session. We even have some secret dancers out there - shapes were thrown in the residential disco.

Launchpad

This week Launchpad has been creating their own mandalas in Art. We have started looking at instruction writing. We will be making our own pizzas next week and writing our own instructions. In Maths we have been continuing our work around measurements including weights. In PSHE we have been learning all about beach safety.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class - Freya for an excellent recount of our zoo trip. 

Squirrel Class – Violet - for her fantastic sentence writing in English.

Hares Class –   Sienna for working hard in all subjects this week. 

Fawns Class –  Evie for writing an excellent rhyming stanza for her emotion poem. 

Otter Class – George K - for your fantastic show and tell of your puppy Bella. You presented clearly and confidently to your peers whilst appropriately answering questions at the end. 

Badger Class –  Star - Whole class - for being resilient and mature. I am very proud of you all! 

Fox Class – Taylor - for being extremely helpful in Karate this week supporting Year 1.

Launchpad - Seth-for persevering with his multiplication grids. Scoring 144 out of 144.

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class - Syed, for a fantastic first week as a member of our class. 

Squirrel Class – Freddie - for being patient, kind and caring to others and always working hard.

Hares Class – Isaac for actively participating in all our lessons this week and working especially hard in English. 

Fawns Class - Stan for his excellent sportsmanship and teamwork during a football match at lunchtime. 

Otter Class –  Tamzin - even though Miss Walker was absent, she had positive feedback about your behaviour as well as how organised you were throughout the week. You even helped us find the missing key!

Badger Class –  Zenouschka - for producing some incredible embellishment on your artwork - well done! 

Fox Class – X Adventure - for great communication and team-building skills.

Launchpad - Jordan for being kind and polite inside and outside the classroom. Well done Jordan

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