Monday 15th of June

Welcome to this week's blog spot. There is a very busy week ahead with Holy Communion this weekend. The Year Three children have been practising a lot.

The children are really excited about their day on the 20th of June. Please remember we need some Year 4 parents to set up the hall in preparation for the Saturday Holy Communion. This will be on the Friday afternoon 19th June.


ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DAY

9.00 Arrive at Canon Malane centre for medals etc. You do not need to stay with your child.

9.30 Children process into church and take seats. There will be five seats with you child's name on.

After Mass the children need to be taken back to St Vincent's.

There will be individual and a group photograph taken as soon as the children arrive. Please send them straight into the Infant area. Thank you.

The children will then enjoy sharing their Communion Breakfast with each other. After this the certificates are handed out.

Can the boys please leave their sashes in school at the end?

That just leaves us to offer up all our prayers for the Year Three children at this very special event in their lives.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE CHILDREN CAN GO TO 10.30am MASS ON THE SUNDAY DRESSED IN THEIR COMMUNION CLOTHES. THERE ARE REFRESHMENTS AFTER TOO.
On the 16th of June we will have our Away day for the Year 3 children who are making their Holy Communion. You should have received a letter about this. Please return the slips as soon as possible.The children should already know what food they need to bring with them. We will be staying up at church/centre all day. There will be a short service for families to attend at 2.30pm. You will be able to take your child with you at the end of the service. We will need people to walk up with us and also on Friday morning too when we are having a practice in church. We usually start to walk back from church this day at 10.30am.


CHANGES TO DINNER MONEY
From Monday 15 June 2009 the responsibility of the cash collection will transfer to the catering service. This means that the collection of dinner money will transfer from the school office to the Catering Supervisor. This system currently operates successfully in a number of primary schools. We are introducing a ‘cash on the day’ system whereby school meals £1.95 are paid to the Catering Supervisor at lunchtime on a daily basis. Your child will need a purse/ wallet clearly marked with your Child’s name. The ‘cash on the day’ system will not affect pupils in receipt of Free School Meals or parents / guardians who pay for their children’s meals by the Direct Debit system. Both systems will continue to operate alongside the ‘cash on the day’ system. You will no longer pay for the week on a Monday and can opt in and out on a daily basis. If you presently pay for meals termly we would recommend you join the direct debit scheme. If you wish to pay for your meals by direct debit please contact Vicky Parr on 01925 442227.

WALKING BUS

Mrs Horne is beginning to prepare for September with regards to numbers for the scheme. If anyone is interested in using the scheme from September 2009 please complete an application form and consent form which can be found in the leaflet dispensers. Please hand it back to the office by Friday 3 July. Mrs Horne would also be grateful to those already using the scheme, if they could inform here of their intentions from September. Thank you.
FOSV – CAKE SALE

Cake Sale takes place on Friday 26th June at 3.00 pm in school. All welcome. On Saturday 27 June the Friends of St Vincent’s have organised a supermarket bagging at Morrisons in Widnes.

HOMEWORK

We will be sending out homework this week.

Spellings

Numeracy task

Time machine homework


WEEK FIVE
You find an object in the time that you are visiting. Make sure that it is realistic to the time that you are visiting. For example you would not find a jet ski in the time of the dinosaurs. Where did you find it?
Will you take it with you?
Write and draw about it.
LITERACY

This week we will be focusing on stories with a dilemma. Initially children will need to know what a dilemma is and we will relate this to their own experiences. By Friday the Yr 4 children will write their own story with a dilemma in the Big Write. We will also be finding out about when to use the two punctuation marks - the colon and the semi-colon.
http://dimdima.com/khazana/complete_story/completed_stories.asp?q_sid=70&q_title=Tina

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilemma_story

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/year4/fixer.htm

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/storymaker/storymaker.htm

NUMERACY

Mrs Harding's group will be having homework this week and it will be getting marked on Thursday because I am out with the Year three on Friday morning.

We will be carrying on with percentages and sharpening our skills on finding different percentages such as 10%, 20%, 50%, 25% etc. We will also be calculating lots of shops prices with reductions in their prices. The children will be working out word problems too linked to percentages. Too learn more please click on:

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/percentages/index.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/

http://www.mathsisfun.com/percentage.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/mathsI/number_gen/percentages_rev1.shtml

Miss Robinson's Group will be exploring FRACTIONS this week, as well as continuing to develop our MENTAL MATHS skills. Use the links below:

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/ - look at the COUNT AND UNDERSTAND section for lots of FRACTION games

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/index.htm

Mrs Bethell's Numeracy
This week we will be focusing on addition and subtraction and will be linking this with money and coins. We will review the number of each type of coins in £1

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=Money_Box20Pound

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

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

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

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

BOXED ENVIRONMENTS - DESIGN TECHNOLOGY

In the coming weeks we are planning and designing an environment to make. The children will be choosing a habitat and designing, making and evaluating their work. The children will need a box/shoe box for this activity.

Have a good week everyone.

The 3 and 4 team.