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Design a King's Crown House Competition

If you could design a new crown for the King, what would it look like?​​

This competition is to design a crown which incorporates one of our school values or attributes.  Your design must be on an A4 piece of paper and decorated using pens, paint or colouring pencils.  If you want to decorate parts using tissue paper or collage this would also be acceptable. The design must be able to fit through the school laminator. Please avoid sticking on gems, sequins etc. as these cannot go through the laminator. ​

The designs will be displayed outside in the school grounds for the duration of the Coronation weekend and will form part of the Abberley Village Crown Trail. ​

The closing date is Wednesday 3rd May.​

Please remember to write your name and the value your crown represents on the back of your design.

RGS Worcester Open Week 15th to 26th May

For parents in Year 4 and 5 

RGS would like to invite Parents and Children to join us at our RGS Worcester Open Weeks from Monday 15^th May – Friday 26^th May.  To book your place please visit: Open Weeks Information.

RGS Worcester Open Weeks are a lovely way to get to know the school in a relaxed and informal environment and you will be made to feel very welcome.

It has been lovely to see the children back in school after the Easter holiday refreshed and ready to learn.  The summer term always shows Abberley at its best, and we are hoping for lots of good weather so we can take our learning outdoors with our new topic "Let it Grow".  In this topic we will learning all about plants and what they need to grow as well as studying a very well known traditional tale - can you guess which one?

In DT on Monday, Reception made some wonderful baskets with Mrs Postlethwaite. We talked about what a basket needs to be able to do and the children thought carefully about the materials they could use and how to attach the handles so their baskets were strong enough to carry something. Some of us even tried weaving! We will be trying out our brilliant baskets on a specially designed obstacle course next week.

In PE, we are practising our ball skills and have enjoyed being able to get out onto the playground. This week we learned how important it is to watch the ball at all times and used this knowledge to accurately roll a ball to hit a target.

In maths, Reception have met numberlines 9 and 10.  Next week we will be exploring the composition of these numbers in more depth as well as practising our careful counting skills.  Meanwhile, Year 1 have been learning to count in 2s and 10s.  Next week we will be learning to count in 5s before moving on to using this knowledge in our next topic on multiplication and division.   Please use the link below to play the game Nutty Numbers to practise counting in multiples of 2, 5 and 10 https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/nuttyNumbers/index.html

Welcome back for the Summer Term. This week in the newsletter we thought we would outline the learning for this ½ term.

English: As you know, the Year 2 children will be completing their SATs assessments in May. We will be spending lots of time going over key skills that the children have already learnt so that they are fresh in their brains. Our new book, (which we will be practising lots of these skills whilst reading) is 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth'. The children will be writing sets of instructions and using imperative (bossy) verbs to explain how to wash a pet that might be a little more difficult. During the second part of the term, our focus will be on a different book (we always like to keep them a secret!) and the writing will be based on recounts and being descriptive. 

Maths: With Miss Hughes on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday our focus is mass, capacity and temperature. We will be moving through each of these areas learning about units of measurement, reading scales and lots of practical activities. On a Thursday and Friday, the focus will be on fractions and telling the time. We will be learning how to find fractions of a given quantity and shapes. Hopefully, we will all be able to read a clock using o'clock, ½ past, ¼ past and ¼ to language. Some children will be able to read the clock using 5-minute intervals. Start looking at a clock face at home and looking at the position of the hands. 

RE: The focus for year 1 & 2 is 'What does it mean to belong to a faith community?'. This question comes from the Worcestershire Agreed Syllabus for RE and we will be learning all about what is means to be part of a community. 

DT: The children will be aiming towards building freestanding structures. These will be made from different types of material you find around the school such as cardboard, pipe cleaners, plasticine and straws to name a few.

PSHE: The puzzle this term is relationships. We will be exploring how all family units are different and how we can have successful relationships with friends, family, school and community. 

Science: Our theme is plant life. We are going to be learning the different parts of a plant. We will be growing different plants from seeds, bulbs and investigating what they need to grow healthy, how seeds germinate and what part of plants are edible.

Geography: Passport to the World: We will be looking at more distant places and examining hot and cold places on Earth. We will be learning about China as an example of a distant locality and looking at the impact of its huge population and vast landmass.

This half term in English, we are reading Street Child written by Bernie Doherty. It is about a young boy called Jim in the Victorian era who ends up having to live in the workhouse. The children have been planning ready to produce a non-chronological report about life for children during this time. They have been working in pairs to find relevant information on the internet ready for this. 

In maths, Year 3s have been ordering and comparing fractions and finding a fraction of a group of objects. They have also been focusing on identifying a fraction of a quantity including when this is a non-unit fraction. They have taken this knowledge and applied it to solve problems. Year 4s have been solving calculations where fractions are greater than 1, finding a fraction of a group of objects and a quantity. They have learnt about identifying tenths and hundredths. 

In science, the children finished off their learning on the topic of light. We looked at the difference between transparent, translucent and opaque. After, the children began to experiment with shadows including how to make them and also change them. 

In PE this half term, we are focusing on athletics on a Monday and a mix between dodgeball and yoga on a Thursday. This week in athletics our focus was sprinting, and on Thursday the children had a dodgeball tournament. 

PE kits need to be in school on a Monday and Thursday please.

It has been lovely to welcome the children back, refreshed and ready to learn. Summer term is always busy so they will need their energy! 

In English this week, we have continued reading Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. The children took inspiration from Percy’s special pen and created their own magical objects. They used these to write an explanation of how their object worked and the powers it provided. 

In maths, our focus has been on angles. The children have revisited their knowledge of acute and obtuse angles and also learned about reflex angles. We have learned how to use a protractor and the children quickly realised that accuracy is key. They then used their protractors to read and draw different types of angles. 

In science, Y5&6 have been learning about combustion. It was lovely to be able to take them into the forest school area where Miss Larner showed them the process of combustion in action. We discussed what elements make up the fire triangle and then the children tried lighting their own mini fires. Much fun was had by all! 

In cricket, the children were practising their throwing skills, focussing on accuracy both when aiming and catching the ball. In athletics, the children learned all about the importance of pace when running. They worked with a partner to see if they could match each other’s pace when running longer distances. 

In PSHE, our topic is Relationships and this week’s lesson was all about personality and self-esteem. We discussed how sometimes we don’t realise our own worth and the reasons behind that. That led us on to talking about how being more positive can help them feel better about themselves. As always, the children are open and honest which leads to conversations that can really help them. 

It has been a joy to welcome the children back after a restful Easter. They have come back to school enthused and ready to work hard. This half term is an important one for our Y6s as we approach their KS2 SATs. Many of our English and maths sessions will involve consolidating our knowledge and practising test technique in order to fully prepare ourselves for these assessments.

This week in English, we have been revising many grammar topics, including subject and object; passive and active voice; the subjunctive; sentence types and synonyms and antonyms to name a few. In maths, we have been practising our arithmetic skills as well as reading and interpreting data from pie charts.

In geography, we have been learning about what makes a city and the reasons why people travel to and settle there. We have analysed the changes that have impacted cities over time. Our focus this week was on population growth. We looked at the numerical data which showed us the population growth rate between 1980-2023 in the world's biggest cities, and we used our mathematical skills to plot a dual bar chart to present this information.