Attendance   Overall school attendance - 96%

Merlins -  98%
Kestrels - 96%
Kingfishers - 95%
Skylarks - 97%
Wrens - 91%

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KS2 Production - Pirates of the CurryBean

Anchors away and set sail for swashbuckling pirate adventure on the high seas in this piratical musical that's sure to shake your booty!

Tickets for this year's production will go on sale on Monday 24^th June. There are performances on Tuesday 16^th and Wednesday 17^th July at 6pm in the village hall. Tickets will be available from the school office from 8:40am.

Buy soon to avoid disappointment!

Hot chocolate and toast

Next week we will be serving hot chocolate and toast at morning break (or alternatively ice lollies if summer finally makes an appearance)! As previously, the cost of taking part in this activity is £1.00 and all the funds will be donated to the Salvation Army to support their work with the homeless and vulnerable families in Worcester. We are delighted that Lieutenant Hannah Turnbull from Worcester Salvation Army will be joining us for Collective Worship on Tuesday.  Please see below for the allocated day for each class:

Monday - Wrens
Tuesday - Skylarks
Wednesday - Kingfishers
Thursday - Kestrels
Friday - Merlins

It has been another busy week in Wrens and we have been making the most of the sunshine and taking our learning outside.  We have been completing lots of building challenges this week using our large-scale construction to build obstacle courses  and creating dinosaurs out of junk modelling. The junk modelling has particularly required lots of resilience and problem-solving skills to work out how to join the boxes and tubes to create our dinosaurs. The children are thoroughly enjoying our "Roarsome Dinosaurs" topic. This week we have been reading the book "Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs" in Drawing Club. We have used this story to support our writing and described some amazing adventures for Harry and the dinosaurs.

In maths, we have started a new topic based on shape and how these can be composed and decomposed to make new shapes. We practised using our mathematical vocabulary to describe which shape didn't belong in a group. We also used the pattern blocks to create some imaginative shape pictures.  

We have also started to learn the songs for the Early Years Music Festival which will take place in a couple of weeks. This year the theme is "The Animal Train". Please can you ensure you have returned the permission slip for this trip if you have not already done so.

On Wednesday we were delighted to welcome next year's reception children for their first stay and play transition session. The children were excellent hosts and I was very proud of how they helped our new starters feel at home.  Well done, Wrens!

This week in English, the children have been using the five senses to describe settings using powerful adjectives before their nouns. They have also been comparing the characters in the book and finding similarities and differences between them. The children have been writing the thoughts and feelings of the characters at different points in the book.

In maths, Year 1 have explored unitising before moving on to our topic on money. This week they have been learning to recognise all of the different notes and coins we have. It would be great if they can begin to experience using cash in shops and looking at the real coins and notes. Year 2 finished their unit on time by thinking about hours in a day and solving problems related to this. They then moved onto our unit on statistics. They started by creating tally charts as a method to record information. They have also been learning about tables, including how to draw and use them.

In history this week, the children learnt all about Florence Nightingale and why she is a significant person in history. The children really enjoyed learning about her and were able to independently recall lots that they had learnt in a piece of writing.

In computing, Year 1 were learning how to click and drag using the touch pad as well as the skills of logging. Year 2 learnt how to take a high quality picture and used them to make a stop motion animation.

In music this week, we have been looking at reading and performing rhythm. We have used crotchets and quavers to clap different rhythms, moving on to creating our own rhythms that we then performed using the claves.

In English, the children are continuing to write their character description this week and are nearly finished. They have produced some fantastic work and we will be moving forward with writing a biography.

In maths, we have continued to look in more detail at angles and turns. We have re-looked at 2D shapes and will be moving though the complexities of geometry by looking at 3D shapes next week before moving on to statistics.

In science, the children have studied transpiration in flowering plants by conducting an experiment using cut flowers in water mixed with food colouring to see how long it would take to change the colour of the petals.

In computing, the children worked collaboratively on book reports.

Previously in French, we have learned the numbers up to 31 and this week we built on this knowledge by learning the months of the year.

In DT, the children are in the process of designing and building the chassis for a car using a variety of different materials to test their durability and functionality.

The KS2 performance is coming on amazingly and the children are really getting into their parts. We had our first performance using the brilliant props, also made by the children, and it will definitely be a show to remember!

In English, the children have been learning how to write a precis of Romeo and Juliet. They highlighted the parts of the story that they felt were the most important and we discussed their choices. In order to check they had chosen the necessary parts, the children worked in groups to produce a puppet show of their version of the story. They then wrote their precis, with a word limit of 250-300 words, using Word so that they could keep a check on their word count.

In maths, Y4 have been revisiting their work on time, focussing on seconds, hours, minutes, days, weeks, months and years. There was a little confusion about how many days were in each month, so hopefully this has now been rectified! Y5 have been working on timetables. Following a discussion, we found out that most of the children had not seen or had to read a bus timetable which made me feel extremely old! Timetables are an excellent way of the children being able to practise their reasoning skills with time.

This week, the children in Y6 have thoroughly enjoyed a week of bikeability. This has involved three days learning to grow in confidence with each turn of the pedal. Instructors have spent time with them on the playground learning to start and stop with confidence, how to pass stationary vehicles, how to navigate the road and share it with others. Later in the week, the children were taken on quiet roads to apply these skills. We have received brilliant feedback from the instructors who reported that the children behaved maturely and responsibly and have all learnt a great deal.

In RE, the children learnt about the key features of a Jewish synagogue. The children then went on to consider all the important reasons certain features such as the ark and the Torah scrolls are kept where they are and had to carefully consider the placement of these features when redesigning their own synagogue.

In geography this week, we learnt about the importance of crude oil in Midland, Texas. We explored historical maps and used Google earth to explore the transport links and settlements in this part of the state. We were able to see how both had developed over the last 100 years and why these changes have occurred.

In science, the children were revisiting their learning on animals. We focussed on invertebrates and we discussed the different invertebrate groups. The children were then set the task of researching those groups and producing a powerpoint to share the information they had found.

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