Monday 18th February

Welcome to this week's blog spot. We hope that you have had a good rest and are all raring to go. Miss Robinson is a lot better and out of hospital. Obviously, it may well be some time before she is well enough to join us again. We hope that she makes a speedy recovery.

The Book fayre was well attended and the fayre raised £1,068.00. We will receive 60% of this for resources for school. Thank you to everyone who supported this event.

READING RESULTS
In the final week before half term -

There were 76% of children were heard read in Mrs Harding's class.
There were 86% of children heard read in Mrs Bethell's class.
There were 82% of children heard read in Miss Robinson's class.

Obviously, there are lots of children who are heard read every day and thank you to every one who writes a comment in their diary.

We are really trying to encourage children to read and enjoy books. It would be great if we had every child in the school being read to and reading with an adult at home. Spread the word and let's see if we can really improve the reading!

On Monday morning Cafod will have someone in the whole school assembly to talk to the children about all the work that they do.

On Friday the 22nd we will be having a non uniform day for the FOSV. They would like the children to bring in Tombola prizes for presents which would be suitable for mums for Mother's day on the 2nd of March!! Things like wine, chocolates, smellies etc.

KINGSWOOD RESIDENTIAL

Please remember there is a meeting on Wednesday 27th of February at 3.30pm. Please return the medical forms as soon as possible. Thank you.

LENT AND FUNDRAISING
Please remember that during Lent we do three things-

Give up something......Do something extra......Pray more.

RE

We will be carrying on with the topic of Thanksgiving. This week the children will be thinking of all the different ways that we can thank someone. We will also be thinking about all the wonderful things in our world that we can be thankful for.


Also during Lent the children fund raise for the Nugent Care. In a few weeks we will have a 3 / 4 fundraising afternoon but in the meantime some children bring in cakes/small toys/biscuits to sell and put money into the class collection box. This really helps our children become more independent and practise money skills as well as thinking of people who are less fortunate than ourselves.

Please remember that if you have problems with primary resources copy the site into your task bar and it will go straight to the right page.

NUMERACY
In Mrs Harding's class this week we will be reviewing and learning about
Data handling. We will be looking at all sorts of graphs and ways of presenting data. The children will have to construct their own graphs as well as answering questions about the different graphs.

By the end of the week the children

COULD be able to construct different diagrams and charts and make up questions about them.
SHOULD be able to read and construct different charts and diagrams.
MUST be able to read different charts and graphs and present different information.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/activities/interpretingdata.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/handlingdata/graphs_and_charts/

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/mathsF1b.htm#carroll

In Mrs Bethell's and Mr Slavin's Math's groups the children will be working on addition and subtraction.


By the end of the week the children

COULD be able to solve money problems related to addition and subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers.

SHOULD be able to add and subtract a 2-digit number to and from an 3-digit number

MUST be able to add and subtract two 2-digit numbers beginning to cross a multiple of 10.



Pyramid Addition game - adding two 2-digit numbers together.

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/pyramid.html

Practise adding 1, 2 or 3 digit numbers

http://www.prongo.com/math/addition.html

Practise mental subtraction - 2 levels of difficulty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/addsubtract/mental/flash11.shtml Practise subtracting single and 2-digit numbers

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/subtractiontest.html


LITERACY

We will be learning about formal letters and diaries. The children will also be learning about compound words. This means that when words are made up of separate words. To find out more please see -
By the end of the week the children
MUST be able to form compound words.
SHOULD be able to use first person in diary writing.
COULD write a formal letter using ambitious vocabulary.

http://www.quia.com/jfc/87086.html

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/crazy_comp_words/eng/Introduction/default.htm

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=compound words

http://www.schooltrain.info/english/letters/letters_features.htm

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/powerpoints/how_to_write_a_letter.ppt

TOPIC
We will be carrying on with our theme on Canals and Warrington in the past. The children have really enjoyed learning about Warrington in the past. We will be concentrating on life in and around the canals. We will be looking at jobs and transporting goods as well as the actual routes of the canals.

http://www.canalarchive.org.uk/map/linearIndex.php



http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/transmanship.htm


http://www.canal-photos.co.uk/


http://www.mywarrington.me.uk/



http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/newsletter/ewm338.html


http://www.penketh.com/


That's all about now from the Year 3 and 4 team.