Year 2 National Curriculum tests
In May 2016, children in Year 2 will be taking the first set of a new style of National Curriculum test to record their attainment at the end of primary school in maths and spelling, punctuation and grammar. Normally a reading test would also be administered in May alongside with the other tests. However the school will be carrying out the reading test early at the request of the government so that our scores, along with other selected schools' scores, can be used to produce the score boundaries. These will be used to decide whether children are working at the expected standard.
Phonics articulation - How to pronounce the phonemes
With the Year 1 Phonics Screening test fast approaching in June, this video may help with consolidating what they have learnt at school at home. This video shows how to pronounce each phoneme correctly up to Phase 3. Children will be taught blends and alternate graphemes in Phase 4 and 5.
Book Week 2016
Week beginning 29th February – 4th March 2016
Dear Parent/Carers
To tie in with World book day, our school will be holding a Book Week to celebrate reading for pleasure and we hope everyone will join in the fun! Year 3/4 classes and Rainbow class are going to be working with local author Gareth Baker on the Wednesday and all classes will be involved in storytelling sessions on the Friday. There will be lots of other activities, competitions etc. for all pupils and we wanted to give you advanced notice of three of them.
Y5/6 Futsal - District Champions!
Last night, the Yr 5/6 boys pulled off an amazing peformance at the Boy's Futsal District Final. It was a great experience from the whole team. They won the tournament, unbeaten for all the games, winning 4 and drawing 1. The final game was quite intense, as they were playing for the gold medal. They won 4-0 courtesy of Charlie Stenson's hattrick and Archie Shooter's last minute goal. The team left smiling, with gold medals hanging around their necks.
By Evie Allsop, Young Sport Ambassador
HMI Monitoring Visit 15th January 2016
On the 15th January we had a follow up monitoring visit from Jan Connor HMI. Schools in the ‘Requires Improvement’ category are assigned an HMI who stays with the school until their next inspection and our inspector paid us a visit to see what progress we are making towards being rated as ‘Good’ at our next inspection.
Y5/6 through to the Futsal District Finals
The children played fantastically well as a squad tonight as they qualified for the District Finals in Futsal. Well done!
'A massive congratulations to the Boy's Futsal Team. They have been training really hard for the past amount of weeks, which obviously paid of as they came 1st, which sends them into the District Final! Well done, boys! Keep it up!' - Young Sport Ambassador
The District Final will be played on 1st February at Sutton Community Academy...
Year 3/4 Invite into class
All Year 3/4 classes welcome parents and carers in to hear their children read on Friday15th January 2016 at 3.00. Children will be reading their own work with you and discussing where they have included their English targets.
Please come in through the main entrance.