2016—17 | Issue 3
Honest
Compassionate
Self-Controlled
Principal’s Message
Dear Parents and Carers,
We’ve had such a busy few weeks at the
academy… February half term seems like
a distant memory and we’ll soon be
preparing for the Easter Break!
Thank you to everyone who contributed
to our fundraising for the British Heart
Foundation on Health and Fitness Day–
the children raised over £1000 for this
amazing charity – we were so
overwhelmed by your support!
World Book Day was a massive success
too – the children had an incredibly
exciting day and took part in lots of
great activities – these are the kinds of
days that children remember forever.
Thank you to the staff for organising
and thank you to our Parents/Carers for
supporting these days so enthusiastically.
Next week will be assessment week for
Year 1 children. Please don’t worry – all
of the assessments are undertaken in
small groups or on a one to one basis
– and this just provides the teachers
with an opportunity to find out where
the children are and how best to
support them with future learning.
A final polite reminder – please could
you all make sure that uniform is clearly
labelled- we have had an increasing
number of items disappearing and it’s
very difficult for class teachers to keep
track of uniform which isn’t labelled. We
will soon be placing a large lost property
bin in the entrance hall so that any items
which have been found without their
owner can be stored safely until they are
collected.
Thank you for your continued
support of the academy,
Friday 10th March
Scooter / Bike Day
Thursday 23rd March
EYFS Mothers Day Lunch
Friday 24th March
Red Nose Day
Weds 29th March
Ballet Club Performance
4 - 4.30pm
29th & 30th March
Yr 1 Parents Evening
Clare Robinson,
Thurs 30th March
EYFS Book Look - 3pm
Deputy Principal
Mon 10th April
Spring Break
Term 4: Tues, 21st February - Fri, 7th April
Spring Break: Mon, 10th April - Fri, 21st April
Term 5: Mon, 24th April - Friday 26th May
Half Term: Mon, 29th May - Fri, 2nd June
Contact us anytime...
0117 312 6500
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Adults Netball Club
We have been approached by a Netball Coach who
would like to hold a Netball Club at the academy on
Wednesday evenings at 8.45 - 9.45pm.
World Book Day
We had a great day celebrating World Book Day and
really enjoyed seeing everyone’s costumes and doing
lots of reading.
Parents, Carers and members of the local community
will be welcome to join. Further details to follow…
The winners of our ‘Caught Reading’ competition
were Isla Brooks, Safia Marshall and Dexter Ovens.
Keep up the great reading!
Health & Fitness Day
Our
Health
and
Fitness
Day,
Parking
arranged by Mr P, was a lot of fun.
A racing car driver came into the
We are still having some issues with parking
around the school at drop off and collection
times.
school to talk to the children and
we learnt about cleaning our teeth
in The Big Tooth Brush.
Thank you to everyone who
sponsored the children for the
British
Heart
Foundation’s
Jump Rope for Heart. We
raised a huge £1,027.90 which
is going to a great cause!”
As there are a lot of children around at these
times please switch your engine off when parking
and do not park on the side access road to the car
park. Cars must not be parked on double yellow
lines, the paved area outside the front of the
library/main reception, or over any local
residents’ driveways.
There are a number of roads around the school
which you can park on and we now have 7 spaces
available at the front left of the building.
This term our key text is
'Bedtime for Monsters'.
The children
will be
designing and creating 3D
monsters,
exploring
materials and textures.
They will be using story
language in their writing
and
using
exciting
adjectives in their writing.
The children
will be
learning
about
the
features of writing
Class visits to Marksbury
Road library start next
week. Your child's class
will visit the library every
3 weeks. If you can help
out with the library visit,
please sign up at the
school office.
Mother's day lunch is on
Thursday
if
attending.
In maths, out focus is
numbers 11-20. We will be
forming numbers, sequencing, adding, subtracting,
doubling and halving.
April
at
12pm. Please let the office
know
instructions
and
using
their imagination to create
an adventure story for
monster.
23rd
you
will
be
The curious caterpillars are very excited to
learn about what lives in our oceans and
seas this term.
After some delay our fish are now safely
enjoying our book corner. We love reading
to them, sketching them, making
backgrounds/settings for their tank and
feeding them (if we are the star of the
day).
In maths we will be focusing on adding,
subtraction, partitioning and writing
numbers to 20; finding lengths in cm and m
and number bonds. In topic we will be
looking at new sketching skills (art), making
sea music (music), learning about the five
oceans on earth and what lives in them
(geography/science) and storing and
retrieving digital images (ICT).
We are also enjoying testing Miss
McCulloch’s Sea Life knowledge with
incredible questions such as ‘Why does a
squid have eight legs?’ and ‘Why is a sea
horse called a sea horse?’ written in our
question area.
There has been a change in homework style
for year one this term. Children will have
had letters and new homework menus. This
change is to ensure children have more time
to read at home and practise their spellings,
vital for their progress. There are a lot of
spellings, please aim to practise 5 or so a
week that your child finds hard, don’t do
them all at once! Reading every night will
also improve your child’s spelling and help
them put words into context. If you would
like any hints and tips on reading/spelling
strategies or help navigating this homework
please pop in at any time after school or
make an appointment to see Miss McCulloch.
This term our focus book is Snail and the
Whale, a firm Mr P favourite. Through our
work on –ed,-ing,-er and –est suffixes and
–un prefixes we will be learning how to spell
new words and applying these to stories,
speech bubbles, diaries and post cards.
Well done curious caterpillars on your
fantastic hard work and progress so far in
year one – you are all super stars!
Mural for the Academy
Dates for your Diary
Gage Graphics are doing a mural for us on
Spring Term
the wall in the multi use games area. If you
would like to see the design, have a look on
the PTFA noticeboard in reception.
OAMR Spring Clean
Thank you to everyone who helped with our
Friday 10th Mar - Scooter / Bike Day
Friday 7th Apr - Easter Egg Basket Raffle
(tickets on sale from Monday 27th March)
Thurs 30th Apr - Litter Pick
Summer Term
(More details to follow nearer the time)
‘Spring Clean’, the outside area of the
Movie Night
Academy looked fantastic!
We will be having another litter pick on the
Our Movie Night on Friday 24th Feb was a
30th April, so mark it in your calendars!
real success and we raised a fantastic
£289.80 for the school!
Thank you as always for
Suggestion Box
your support.
The PTFA would love to hear from you if you
have any ideas for fundraising or how you
would like money raised by the PTFA to be
spent. There is a gold suggestion box in the academy office
which you. can put all your suggestions in.
Uniform Shop
Easter Egg Basket Raffle
We will be holding an Easter Egg
Our second hand uniform shop will be running
basket Raffle on Friday 7th April.
as usual, every other Friday, from 8.15am -
Tickets go on sale from the
8.45am, in the Academy reception area.
academy office on Monday 27th
March.