Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 31st March 2025

Headteacher's Update

Dear parents and carers, 

I hope you had a lovely week. We are nearly at the end of the Spring Term but still have a busy few days to go. 

On Friday we are heading to St Peter’s Church in the morning for our celebration service. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help. Your child’s class teacher will let you know if we need you to help walk down. As much as we would like to have everyone there, please don’t turn up at the church as there is not room.

We are keen to have share what happened at Lingwood on social media and have brought the Lingwood Primary Academy Facebook page back to life. Please click on this ling to follow us. (1) ‪#‎lingwoodprimary‬ – Explore | Facebook 

FOLPA met last Tuesday. I am pleased to let you know about some important dates: 

We have two non-uniform days in the summer term. Children can bring in £1 or tombola donations. Dates will be 16th May and 26th June. This is to raise money for our summer fete which be held on 11th July at 3.30pm. 

There is a quiz on 16th May at the Village Hall. 

Once again, our attendance is above the national average for Primary schools. A big well done to year 5 and Nursey for 100%. 

Have a great week.

Year Group News

Nursery

This week in Bishy’s class our Foundational Knowledge focus has been to continue developing positive attitudes about the differences between people. We have learnt more about what a disability is, and have looked at some clips of the Paralympics. Our focus book is ‘SPLASH!’, a true story about a girl who conquered her fear of water to eventually win a swimming gold medal at the Paralympics.

Reception 

This week, Reception have been reading ‘Tad’ all about a tadpole who doesn’t want to get eaten. We have looked at lots of different life cycles and tried to put the different stages in the right order. We have also been learning about 3D shapes, naming them and thinking about their properties. We built towers to find out which shapes can be stacked and which ones roll.

Year 1

This week we have been finishing our work on Michael Rosen’s ‘Chocolate Cake’ in Reading and talking about temptation and how it might make us feel. In Maths we have been busy recapping our learning from this term and applying it to problem solving. In History, we having been concluding our work on Mary Anning and David Attenborough by comparing them and their achievements that make them significant to us today. We have also continued our work on finding out the importance of the cross to Christians. It will be lovely to be able to look for crosses during our visit to the church on the last day of term!

Year 2 
This week has been a busy week in Year 2! We had our end of unit assessment for mass, capacity and temperature. Everyone showed great understanding of the unit. We are so proud of you! On Wednesday, we had our trip to the Amazona Zoo. We loved every second of it! The weather was amazing, and we got to see all the animas in Henry- for great knowledge of all of the animals we got see in the Amazona Zoo. Thank you for sharing all those interesting facts! Oliver- showing great understanding of mass, capacity and temperature. Well done!

the zoo and learn very interesting facts about them. Our favourites were the spider monkey and the jaguar!

Year 3

Year 3 have worked hard this week; we have begun to plan and write our own First-person narratives in Writing and have been making links between different text types in reading. Year 3 had their final swimming lesson this week and it has been incredible to watch them all grow in confidence over the past term.

Year 4

This week, Year 4 have worked incredibly hard across the curriculum and have shown excellent engagement on their Showbie accounts during lesson times. In P.E the children enjoyed climbing on the P.E apparatus and landing their jumps with concentration and poise. In DT, the children displayed good teamwork skills whilst using their knowledge of hinges to create hinged treasure chests.

Year 5

Year 5 have been working hard this week, thinking about their form and posture in PE. In writing, the children have started writing a biography about Mae Jemison, thinking concisely about their vocabulary, use of pronouns, conjunctions and fronted adverbials.

Year 6

Year 6 have been working hard this week writing their autobiography in English based on a person travelling on the Empire Windrush coming to Britain. In maths, they have been learning how to answer word problems and in science they have continued their work on light and how light travels.

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class – Betsy, for showing great leadership skills at Forest School

Squirrel Class - Charlie for always persevering with challenges

Hares Class  – Henry- for great knowledge of all of the animals we got see in the Amazona Zoo. Thank you for sharing all those interesting facts!

Fawns Class  –  Sienna – Being an excellent role model and friend.

Otter Class - Ramona – for being a well-respected and mannered member of Otters Class.

Badger Class –  George S – for working hard and for being respectful to adults. Well done!

Fox Class - Alesha for working maturely and striving to do her best in class

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class -  Nelly, for putting in an extra effort with all the tasks she has been given this week.

Squirrel Class – Harry for fantastic expression when reading.

Hares Class  – Oliver- showing great understanding of mass, capacity and temperature. Well done!

Fawns Class - Charlie Brooke – for hard work and perseverance in all lessons this week.

Otter Class –  Mason – for challenging himself with his timetables and persevering through division questions this week.

Badger Class – Freya for working hard in maths by underlining key vocabulary to help you answer reasoning and problem-solving questions.

Fox Class – Bea for very good progress over the last few weeks in arithmetic.

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