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Dear Parents,
As a farmer's wife I love Harvest Festival so a huge thank you for all the kind donations you gave for our celebrations this morning. The items will be going to Southampton City Mission Basics Bank.
The Forms 5 and 6 enjoyed the talk at The Gregg School with the author Ali Sparkes and have spent time trying to tell me about Shape Shifting! The Form 5's have had an exciting week with their visit to enhance their History lessons. The EYFS children enjoyed their Autumn Walk in The Gregg School grounds and to their delight saw the deer and ate cake!
We are very excited about Health and Safety week where we have lots of activities and visitors organised alongside our usual studies. We don't want to give too much away but will report back fully at the end of the week! All the children will need to wear their games kit on Tuesday and EYFS will need theirs on Thursday too. PE and swimming lessons will take place as usual.
Next Thursday, we have our very first 'Open Class' event where you may come into your child's class and they can share their books and displayed work with you. Choir will still go ahead but you may take your child at any point!
Reminder please to return your filled shoe boxes for the Rotary scheme by the end of next week.
Enjoy the autumnal weekend!
Jan Caddy
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Form 6 this week
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As part of our health and safety awareness week Form 5 and 6 will start the week
doing survival skills at The Gregg School! Unfortunately, Bear Grylls is unable to attend this time but the brilliant Mr Bowls will be leading our activities instead. Please remember to wear rough and tumble clothes on Monday ready for the challenge!
We look forward to welcoming guest speakers throughout the week and some of our follow up activities will include writing risk assessments for our School playground and writing recounts of some of our favourite activities.
In English, we will be starting a new unit based around the theme of a 'Poetry slam', all about performance poetry. Our key text for the week will be 'What do you wanna be?' by a poet called Wilf. For our grammar focus, we will be looking at how apostrophes create contractions and the effect this has in making language more informal or formal.
In Maths, we will be looking at comparing and ordering fractions. This will include converting improper fractions to mixed number and vice versa, converting fractions into decimals as well as beginning to add and subtract fractions.
And in Science, we will be revising all we have learnt in evolution and inheritance and completing an assessment of the topic.
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Form 5 this week
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In English we're diving into poetry and in particular performance poetry with a view to performing some before trying to write our own.
In Maths we are looking at mental multiplication and division. We'll be looking at different strategies, thinking about rules of divisibility and then using our knowledge to problem solve.
In Science this week we are brushing up on our experimentation skills. Could I ask that every child in Form 5 brings an old shirt and a pair of rubber gloves to wear whilst handling the various chemicals we will be testing?
In History we will be finding out about the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign; why it ultimately failed and the catalogue of mistakes that surrounded it.
On Monday morning we will be joining Form 6 for a survival skills course at The Gregg School. Please remember to wear rough and tumble clothes to school on Monday!
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Coming up in Form 1
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This week the children will be concluding their topic of life in the jungle, where they have become mini experts in knowing about the lives of the different creatures who live there.
Maths: This week the children will be learning about direction. In relation to our health and safety week they will be thinking about how they would use these skills to help them to escape from the jungle! They will be looking at following instructions using a range of directional vocabulary including forwards, backwards, left and right.
English: The children will be writing recounts linking to our maths topic of getting lost in the jungle. They will need to imagine that they are lost in the jungle and will be writing a recount to recall how they managed to get out of the jungle.
Science: This week the children will be learning about how different creatures stay safe in the jungle, including how they rely on their different senses and abilities to do so. They will also be comparing how different creatures use these skills to both attack and defend themselves from any danger!
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Coming up for Form 3
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This week is our 'Health and Safety' week. Form 3 will demonstrate the importance of wearing crash helmets through an experiment using eggs. The week will involve various arranged activities, which will include creating a class PowerPoint presentation in ICT on the importance of wearing crash helmets
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In English the class will continue creating poetry basing their ideas on animals. They will analyse a poem, write a detailed and descriptive character profile and conclude by writing their own wind poem.
This week in science, it will be our last week looking at 'Animals including Humans' topic. The children will be learning about the effects of exercise. It will be red faces and huffing and puffing all around as the children feel the effects of exercise on their own bodies. During the exercises they will record how they are feeling and measure changes.
In Maths this week the children will re-visit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The children will learn in more depth about using column addition and column subtraction methods. The extra activities will also help the children understand each method a little better including becoming familiar with their times tables.
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School Choir:
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Please click on the song title for a copy of the lyrics to the songs we are currently learning
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This Week:
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Awareness Week
Monday 17th October
Form 5 and 6 wear old clothes for Survival Skills activity
Tuesday 18th October
Whole school please wear tracksuits to school
Wednesday 19th October
No JUDO this week
Open Class 3.30-4.30pm
Half Term holiday
24th October to 4th November
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Advance Dates:
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Friday 25th November
Flu Immunisation
Forms 1 to 3
Friday 9th December
School Theatre trip Cinderella,
Winchester
Wednesday 14th December
Carol Service & Nativity 2pm
Highfield Church
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In Form 2 this week
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English - The c
hildren will learn how to write a recount by hearing the story of Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell. It describes the day of the duck, who has to do all the work on the farm while the farmer stays in bed. We will focus on starting sentences with time connectives to sequence our writing in time order. We will discover useful words to help with writing longer sentences. Children will then use these skills to write a recount about one of our activities during health and safety week.
Maths -
We will recognise common 2D shapes, which we will learn to identify from pictures in different positions and orientations. We will sort and describe 2D shapes, referring to their properties including symmetry and right angles. We will investigate which shapes tessellate and find out why they do.
Science-
As part of health and safety week we will be carrying out an experiment to see which colours and materials show up best in the dark .We will think about how our results could be useful to keep us safe at night.
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Reception and Preschool in the coming week
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T
his week the children will be focusing on Health and Safety. We will be having an amazing week with lots of visitors telling us about their jobs in this field. This will mean we will be having to do lots of thank you letters and cards.
The children will be learning about 999 calls and the different services. They will be focusing on road safety and the green cross code. The children will be decorating their own Hi Visibility jacket which we will proudly be showing off in a Fashion show in Friday's assembly.
On Thursday the children will be learning how to plaster cast! For this please can your child bring in a plastic doll to do their plaster cast on and also ensure they are wearing their gym kits as it is likely to get messy in this session!
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Form 4 this week
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English.
Syllabic poems
Haikus we shall be making
Nature is our theme
Maths: Using our developing knowledge of place value pupils will be using mental skills to solve addition and subtraction problems with three or possibly four digits.
Science: To conclude our recent topic on the 'Animals including Humans' pupils will finish off (and play) their computer game quizzes on the digestion system which they have been designing on Scratch.
Topic: To finish our topic on Ancient Greece we will look at the impact it has on today's society finding where we still see the direct influence of Ancient Greek culture.
We look forward to finding out what Form 4's health and safety class challenge will be!
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Clubs for the coming week are
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MONDAY
Dance Club
with Miss Cutler. No formal dance wear required, children are expected to wear sports kit and appropriate footwear.
Miss Hamilton will be assisting the children before and after each group.
Group 1 Preschool + Reception 3.30pm to 4pm
Group 2 Form 1 and Form 2 4pm to 4.30pm
Homework Club for Forms 3 to 6 3.30pm to 4.10pm - please note later finish time
TUESDAY
Spanish Class for Forms 1, 2 and 3 from 8.15-8.45
Board Games
for Form 1 and Form 2 with Miss Tunmore 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Art & Photography Club for Forms 3 to 6 with Mr Papps 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Textiles Club for Forms 3 to 6 with Mrs Jolley 3.30pm to
4.45pm - please note later finish time
WEDNESDAY
Spanish Class for Forms 1, 2 and 3 from 8.15-8.45
Please note NO JUDO this week
Build it Club for Reception and Form 1 with Mrs Presland 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Recorder Club for Forms 2 and 3 with Mrs Baldwin 3.30pm to 4.15pm*
*Please note details will be sent regarding purchase of a recorder and book.
Running Club for Forms 4 to 6 with Mr Pascoe and Mr Milton 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Homework Club for Forms 3 to 6 3.30pm to 4.10pm please note later finish time
THURSDAY
CHOIR
with Mrs Caddy from 3.30pm to 4.15pm.
FRIDAY
Homework Club for Forms 3 to 6 3.30pm to 4.10pm please note later finish time
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Have a great weekend.