Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 4th April 2025

Headteacher's Update

Dear parents and carers, 

What a lovely way to end the term with. The children had a great service at the church. They sang beautifully, walked sensibly to and from the church, and the readers did a great job. We were also fortunate to hear the bands from Rock Steady in the afternoon. It is important to be able to offer opportunities like this to our children and we will be sending some information out after Easter about the chance to learn an instrument.  

Next term, we are having a big push on school uniform. School uniform helps us have a sense of identity and belonging and I am a firm believer in taking pride in your appearance in school (even when I am dressed as a penguin). Once standards start to slip with uniform, it is a battle to get them back up. Also, by allowing one child to wear a hoodie, for example, opens this up for every other child to ask why they can’t do the same. 

Our big push for the first few weeks of term will be shoes, the correct PE kits (not hoodies) and proper school shorts and trousers. On our website it says children must have proper school shoes, but after speaking to children, parents and staff, I have decided to allow plain black trainers. For more information, please see the link below and if you are unsure or if you have any questions please contact your class teacher of Mrs Tubby. 

Uniform at Lingwood Primary 

I hope you and your families have a brilliant Easter break. A reminder the first day of term is Tuesday 22nd April. 

Regards,

Mr Jeffery

Interim Headteacher 

Lingwood Primary Academy

Year Group News

Nursery

In Bishy’s class this week our Foundational Knowledge focus has been on people and communities, understanding more about why we celebrate Easter. We have been learning the Easter story, while also enjoying Easter activities such as egg hunts and exploring items linked to the festivities in our sensory tray.

Reception 

In Reception this week, we have been learning and retelling the Easter story. We made a story map to show what happened and enjoyed making Easter gardens. In maths, we have been looking at repeating patterns and have learnt to spot whether a pattern is ABB, ABA or ABC. The children have had fun spotting and making their own patterns too.    

Year 1

Year 1 have been busy as always this week! We have been recapping on our learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnnivores in Science and practicing our subtraction and related facts in Maths.  We have written some fantastic Spring and Easter themed sentences in English. We have also had a sneak peek of our new book for next half term ‘There’s a Rang Tan in my Bedroom’.

Year 2 
In Year 2 this week, we have enjoyed reading about David Attenborough. We practised how to retrieve and summarise information from the text. We also enjoyed writing our own questions about the text and challenging our peers to answer them. 

We also enjoyed our computing lesson this week. We have continued to learn about photography and used our iPads to take pictures in landscape and portrait format. We had to choose which format was better for the picture and shared the best picture with the class.   

Year 3

Year 3 have worked hard this week to finish writing their first-person narratives. I have really enjoyed reading their comparisons between different locations and have been blown away by some of their choices of vocabulary. Year 3 also enjoyed a football skills lesson on Monday where they were learning how to improve their agility and their accuracy when chipping a ball. On Thursday we had a DT afternoon where Year 3 worked hard to make their own Easter themed moving puppets. 

Year 4

In Year 4 this week, we have finished our core text 'Boy at the back of the classroom.' the children really enjoyed learning about the themes, characters and concepts throughout this story. They have had some extremely mature conversations and have reflected upon the characters thoughts and feelings. In art, the children enjoyed creating sculptures out of wire and in history, the have enjoyed learning more about the ancient Egypt civilisation. In P.E they have also amazed me with their gymnastic skills, jumps and landings. A fab spring term year 4!

Year 5

Year 5 have finalised writing their biographies on Mae Jemison, where they have carefully considered using pronouns, conjunctions and relative clauses. In maths, we have spent time answering reasoning and problem-solving questions to improve our confidence.

Year 6

Year 6 have had a strong end of term and are really making progress in their arithmetic and problem solving in mathematics. In English, they have just finished their autobiography as a person who travelled on the Empire Windrush. After half-term, the class will continue to learn about light in science and the Windrush generation in history.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class  -  Luca, for doing some really great blending in his reading this week.

Squirrel Class – Adona for fantastic addition in Maths. 

Hares Class  – Hunter- great understanding of what exchanging means when adding and subtracting 2 two-digit numbers 

Fawns Class  –  Esme - for an excellent opening paragraph to your first-person narrative.

Otter Class - Olivia for a fantastic art sculpture and using teamwork skills.

Badger Class –  Esme for working hard with your arithmetic – well done! 

Fox Class - Kayden for big improvements in his arithmetic and writing this week. 

Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class -  Mayson, for having a really active and resilient approach to his learning this week.  

Squirrel Class – Jakob for working hard to follow the Lingwood Way. 

Hares Class  – Jasmine- working hard to always show the Lingwood Way 

Fawns Class - Emma – for working hard to consistently follow the Lingwood Way 

Otter Class – Freddie - for improved behaviour and attitude towards learning.

Badger Class – George K for working hard in all lessons and for listening well. Well done! 

Fox Class – Alicia for much better focus and attention this week in class. 

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