Monday 14th of April

Welcome to our blog this week. The week was really busy and the Year Four children had an excellent time. Thank you all for allowing your child to participate in such a great activity. There will be a Kingswood performance from the children in a few weeks and we will let you know when. We thank all the staff who accompanied the children. Without their commitment and support the trips could not go ahead.The Year Three were a pleasure to teach and were well behaved while the other half of their class were away.


On Sunday the 20th of April there is a Mass at 10.30am at St Joseph's
for the children who are making their first Communion in June. The children should have brought home an invitation for you that they made in school.This is a traditional initiation into the spiritual process and where the children and family remember their Baptismal promises. There are a few children who will read a bidding prayer and two who will do the offertory. We always ask the children to come and sit together by the choir and Mr Barker. We hope that all of Year Three will be there on Sunday and we will see you there.


On Tuesday the Mrs Harding's class will finally manage to get up to to Penketh High School for our visit about the local area. We will be leaving school at about 10.30am and the children will need to bring a snack with them to eat on the way.

We have two parent's evenings this week and you should have received a time for an appointment. Please remember that the appointments are only for five minutes and the teachers try not to keep people waiting too long. If there is something important to discuss please remember that the Wednesday drop in time provides a longer period of time with teachers. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Parent's evenings are:

Tuesday between 3.30 - 6.00 pm.

Wednesday between 6.00 - 7.30pm.


The letters and sounds group made an excellent start this week with Mrs Narraway. The children have been enthusiastic and switched on to their own reading and writing. Unfortunately the student that was taking Mrs Narraway's class has had to go off sick. Mrs Narraway has had to return to teaching her class but is busy trying to work out a solution to being able to teach the group again. We thank Mrs Narraway for trying to help the Year Three even though she has a full commitment to her own class still. In the mean time please work on the letter sounds/names that have been stuck into your child's diary this week if they have been in this group. Thank you.


On Thursday six children will be going to the cathedral to meet the Arch bishop and present the money raised to the Nugent Care. This is the charity we all raise money for during Lent. We feel really privileged to be asked to go and are very proud of the children who have raised all the money.


NATIONAL YEAR OF READING
Mrs Narraway has asked me to inform you of a book exchange which she has organised. There is basket outside Foundation Stage classroom, which has an array of books for parents. If you would like to borrow one, then please feel free to take one and return it when you have finished. All that we ask is, that you follow a ‘one in – one out’ rule. Why not have a look through the books that you have at home this weekend and place them in the basket on Monday? We could eventually have our very own St.Vincent’s Library!

LITERACY

We will be carrying on with the second week on our traditional tales. So far we have looked at different tales, how they start, the characters and the settings. The Year Three children really enjoyed doing their fairy tale homework last week.This week the children will be writing a fairytale using what they already have been taught and using their ideas for settings and characters.

By the end of the week the children:

COULD be able to write a traditional tale including the different elements that they have been taught.

SHOULD be able to talk about the characteristics of a traditional tale.

MUST be able to talk about a good and bad character and settings.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/english/story_telling/index.htm

http://www.genrerange.co.uk/cws/tales.html

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/stories/gingerbread.htm

NUMERACY

Mrs Harding's group will be doing about capacity this week. We will be learning about converting measurements and also be considering appropriate units of measure for liquids.At home get the children to read how many litres/millilitres the containers are in the fridge etc. It can be quite amazing how far out they might be!!!


By the end of the week:


Children could be able to convert litres and millilitres.
Children could be able to convert ml as part of a litre using a decimal.
Children should be able to solve capacity word problems.
Children must be to decide what unit of measure to use.

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game15.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/revision_bites/measures2.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/revision_bites/measures4.shtml

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/Capacity.ppt

Please remember to copy this site into the task bar or it won't take you to the right place!!

Mrs Bethell and Mr Slavin's groups will be learning about angles in 2D shapes and co ordinates.

By the end of the week the children:

Must: Be able to identify right angles in 2d shape and their environment.
Should: Recognise that a straight line is equivalent to two right angles.
Could: Compare angles with a right angle.

Introduction to identifying Right Angles
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/powerpoint/rightangles.ppt

Kung Fu Angle Game
http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/flash/kfa/kfa.shtml

Interactive Football/Snooker Game to help identify angles

http://www.mystery-productions.info/hyper/Hypermedia_2003/Jobling/htt.swf

Co-ordinates

Must: Understand vocabulary related to position and movement (x and y axes).
Should: Describe and find the position of a co-ordinate.
Could: Recognise and use the four compass points N, S, E, W

Find the dinosaurs
http://www.counton.org/games/virtualmathfest/dinosaur.html

What is a co-ordinate
http://www.lgfl.net/dbmaterial/web/learning%20objects/ls/Year%205%20Numeracy%20Co-ordinates%20QCA%201957/menu/?backto&verb

SCIENCE/TOPIC


We will be looking at different groups of animals and the different places that animals can live. We will also be remembering what different habitats are and the animals that live in them. We will also be finding out out some animals are suited to the environment in which they live.


Children could know animals that are suited to their habitats.
Children should be able to classify groups of animals.
Children must know what habitat means.
Children must the names of different groups for animals.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/wildbritain/habitats/

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sirrobhitch.suffolk/habitats/

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/habitats.html

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/

http://library.thinkquest.org/11234/

That is about all for this week. Have a good week.

The 3 / 4 team.