Dear Parents,
It was lovely to welcome back our Forms 5 and 6 children after their amazing time at Thorness Bay. A great time was had by all despite the wet weather on their return. A huge thank you to Mr Milton, Mr Pascoe and Mrs Carrett for accompanying the trip and looking after our children so well.
Don't forget the Tudor House Red Cross charity day on Friday. Please wear sport clothes and bring £1 and any spare loose change for making a coin cross on the playground.
The Grounds Day was amazing - a huge thank you from us - please read Mrs Nimmons' note below.
Have a good weekend
Jan Caddy
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On behalf of the PTA I would like to say a massive thanks to all those who gave up some or all of their Saturday and came along to the ground works day to support phase 1 of "ground clearance" in the development of the PTA funded nature trail. We had a fun day, everyone worked really hard and the progress made was outstanding! So much so we had a huge mountain of green waste to clear. A huge thanks to Mr Hopgood for arranging clearance by KO Plant at no cost to the school.
For all those who became intrigued by how many balls we found on the day it was a grand total of 119!
For those who would like to take part in phase 2 please keep your eyes open for the information which should be out soon.
Thank you once again to everyone involved you've been amazing.
Mrs Tammy Nimmons
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Form 6 this week
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Year 5 and 6 had a BRILLIANT time at Thorness Bay! From slipping and sliding in the water roller, to building and racing buggies and 'Drip, drip, drench!', we had a full and exciting three days in spite of rain on the last day. Our instructors made our stay exciting and memorable and even got us chanting songs on our way around the site between activities! We will be sharing with the rest of the School in an assembly and writing a report of our experiences for parents to read next week.
Next week, Year 6 and the School council will be running the popular Fair Trade tuck shop again on Tuesday and Thursday. This time we will be selling a wider range of fair trade products including cookies and flap jack - and we will be aiming to raise money for the Fair Trade foundation and profit for future tuck shop stock! Also look out for the Tudor fund raising day on Friday 26th May!
In English, we are looking at persuasive writing this week starting with the features of different styles from adverts to more formal persuasive letters. We will also be looking at the role of modal verbs to change the impact of advertisements and analysing persuasive techniques used by speakers.
In Maths, we will be using data to create pie charts and conducting our own surveys too. We will also be constructing and interpreting line graphs and using them to solve problems.
In Science, we are studying the features of micro-organisms and will be investigating helpful and harmful ones. In geography, our visit to the Isle of Wight should give us real insights as we compare it's coastline with Southampton's and write a comparative report. And in R.S., we will be considering our personal response to how religions have expressed themselves through art and what the children personally value in what we have discovered so far.
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Form 5 this week
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In English we will be studying narrative technique to help us improve as writers. We will also be reminding ourselves how fronted adverbials work.
In Maths we will be revising converting between different units of measure and solving problems around measure.
In Science we will be investigating all things to do with friction. We will be checking our understanding of the concept before embarking on some friction experiments to embed our knowledge.
In humanities we are starting our new topic - Leisure & Entertainment by looking at the rise of motion pictures in the 1910s & 1920s.
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Coming up in Form 1
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Maths: This week the children will be looking at estimation. The children will be having a go at understanding what estimating means and at how we use this to help us to work out how many objects there are when counting larger groups of different objects or amounts.
English: We will be spending this week focusing on our history topic of 'The Titanic'. The children will be putting themselves in the shoes of the passengers on 'The Titanic' and sending out a 'message in a bottle. They will need to think about who the message is for and also at what a passenger would want to write their message about.
Science: Following on from last week we will be continuing to look at the human life cycle and then comparing it to other life cycles, including the life cycle of a butterfly and the life cycle of a frog.
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Coming up for Form 3
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In Maths this week, Form 3 will be revisiting topics areas on money, fractions, measuring, adding and subtracting. These are the areas we have worked through in more detail during this past half term. They will then end the week looking at worded problems and practice mental strategies for adding and subtracting.
In English this week, the class will continue with their persuasive writing. They will work in small groups and create a role play trying to persuade each other to buy a toy. The children will then create an advert trying to persuade others not to buy the toys. This task will enable the children to learn how advertising works and understand what makes us buy and how we can be persuaded easily when we hear simple persuasive words on TV.
Form 3 will start a new topic on Forces and Magnets. We will discuss what we mean by forces, pushes & pulls requiring direct contact. Learning how to use arrows to show the direction of forces; we will choose a setting to illustrate forces and their directions.
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This Week:
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Monday 22nd May
Parents' Workshop
Singapore Maths 6.30pm
Thursday 25th May
Form 2 trip to
Manor Farm
Form 4 & 5 trip to
Roche Court, Salisbury
Friday 26th May
Tudor Fundraising Day
Southampton Music Service
Music Concert
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Advance Dates:
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Summer Fete
Wednesday 21st June
Sports Day
1.30pm at The Gregg School
Friday 7th July
Speech Day
Saturday 8th July
The Gregg School
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In Form 2 this week
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In English - We will revisit information texts. During guided reading sessions we will explore the features of a non-fiction text and use the index and contents page to look up information. We will write our own questions and use the texts to find the answers. We will create our own information booklet about Victorian schools, using the appropriate non-fiction features. Our SPAG focus will be present and past tenses.
Our Maths topic this week will be multiplication. We will practise the mental recall of the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times table and use these number facts to solve word problems in a real life context, including money. We will revisit using multiplication arrays to work out multiplication calculations that we need to work out. We will practise the quick recall of doubles of numbers to 30 and the multiples of 10. We will learn how to work out doubles of even 2 digit numbers up to 100 by partitioning.
In Science we will begin to look at different habitats and learn about how animals are suited to the habitat that they live in. In groups we will make a 'minibeast hotel' that we hope will become a good habitat for the minibeasts that we would like to study in a few weeks time!
Topic - This week we will learn about how Lord Shaftsbury and Dr Barnado changed the lives of poor Victorian children. The children will create their own non-fiction factsheet about them.
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Reception and Preschool in the coming week
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This week Early Years will be listening to and discussing the story 'Jaspers Beanstalk' by Nick Butterworth.
In Reception the children will acting out and retelling Jasper's Beanstalk. We will be looking at
how much their beans have grown since we started this theme and problem solving ways to measure their height from a selection of non-standard measurement equipment.
In Maths we will be focusing on problem solving involving numbers and measurements. We will be reading
'Tell me what it's like to be big' by Joyce Dunbar and developing the children's understanding to expect others to treat their needs, views, cultures and beliefs with respect.
In Preschool we will be comparing the story to 'Jack and the Beanstalk', talking about the differences and similarities between them. In Maths we will be experimenting with shape and space.
Letter and Sound focus: Rhythm and Rhyme
Phonic of the Week: 'e', 'sh'
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Form 4 this week
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On Thursday Form 4 will travel with Form 5 to Roche Court to view the fantastic selection of outdoor sculptures on the grounds of the large estate. The pupils will look at the relationship of art and natural elements such as weather and nature.
English: We aim to finish our interactive information texts on musical instruments this week using a range of complex sentences, correct use of apostrophes, paragraphs and lots of images and illustrations.
Maths: Fractions and decimals. Pupils will look at placing on a number line decimals 0.1 and 0.01 and their corresponding fraction 1/10 and 1/100. We will also be adding up simple fractions with the same denominator.
Science: We finish our topic on Electricity by wiring up our information texts and creating circuits for more interactive quizzes with flashing bulbs and buzzers.
Topic: We conclude our topic on weather by researching biomes, Pupils will create an information fact sheet to classify different climates around the world by their annual weather conditions and the natural habitat that lives there.
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After School Clubs week beginning 22nd May
Dance Club with Miss Cutler
Preschool and Reception 3.30-to 4pm
Form 1 and Form 2 from 4 to 4.30pm
Homework Club for Forms 3 to 6 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Spanish Class with Ruth Kibble for Forms 1,2 and 3 from 8.15-8.45am
Board Games Club for Form 1 and Form 2 with Miss Tunmore 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Outdoor Book Club for Form 1 and Form 2 with Mrs Carrett 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Drama Club for Forms 3 to 6 with Mrs Caddy and Miss Cutler 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Jewellery Club for Forms 3 to 6 with Mrs Jolley 3.30pm to 4.30pm
WEDNESDAY
Spanish Class with Ruth Kibble for Forms 4,5 and 6 from 8.15-8.45am
JUDO with Judo Jill.
Form 1 and Form 2 from 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Forms 3 to 6 from 4.20pm to 5.10pm
Outdoor Art Club for Reception, Form 1 and 2 with Mrs Presland 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Recorder Club for Form 2 and Form 3 with Mrs Baldwin 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Set Design and Prop Club for Forms 3 to 6 with Mr Papps 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Homework/Music Practice Club for Forms 2 to 6 with Mrs Caddy 3.30pm to 4.15pm
NO Booster Clubs for Form 5 and 6 this week
THURSDAY
CHOIR for Reception to Form 6 with Mrs Caddy from 3.30pm to 4.15pm.
Multi Sports Club for Reception, Form 1 and 2 from 3.30pm to 4.15pm
FRIDAY
Homework Club for Forms 2 to 6 3.30pm to 4.15pm
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