School will be closed to pupils on 25th October 2019 for a Federation Professional Development Day.
Author: Stuart Field
Spellings w/c 14 October 2019
Year 5
Homophones & near homophones
farther father guessed guest heard herd led lead mourning morning
Year 6
Hyphens: To join compound adjectives to avoid ambiguity
man-eating little-used rock-bottom wide-eyed pig-headed tight-fisted cold-hearted stone-faced
Bikeability Success
This week, all pupils from Year 4 have completed their Bikeability Level One! In addition, all pupils in Year 6 have completed Bikeability Level Three! They have all been presented with badges and certificates in Worship.
Pupils have learned how to ride safely on the playground and on the road, with the assessors looking for pupils to show control and awareness of hazards.
The feedback from the assessors was very positive – with one saying, “The pupils have been excellent; a credit to the school.”
Next half term, Year 5 will have the chance to complete their Level Two certificate.
If you would like to know more about Bikeability and the criteria for each level, please see the link below:
Homework 11/10/2019
Maths: Missing angles sheet, crossword AND TT Rockstars
Reading: AT LEAST 15 minutes per day AND Reading Eggspress Activity
Spelling: Practice your spellings from Mrs Norris
World Mental Health Day – Hello Yellow!
Today we have joined in with many schools across the country to think about how to help ourselves and others with improving our mental health. All pupils have discussed strategies to practice to enhance their mood or feelings.
In Wrekin class, pupils watched the BBC’s online Live Mental Health Awareness at 2pm, joining in with activities and discussions around developing a growth mindset and self-care.
Thank you for your donations, which will be sent onto Young Minds to fund their work with children needing support.
If you would like to find out more about what we have discussed today, or about how to help your child and their mental health, follow the links:
Aldi Stickers Update
Thank you! We have completed our first poster and are about a quarter of the way through completing our second! Please continue to send in the stickers in order that we can send in two entries!
Times Tables Rockstars
We have again subscribed to Times Tables Rockstars to help the pupils’ quick recall of their times tables. At the moment, we are using it with the older pupils (Key Stage 2) but will roll it into Key Stage 1 in the coming months.
Your KS2 child has a login and can access the online resource to play games and test themselves against the clock for all times tables from x1 up to x12.
They receive rewards in the game, which they can then redeem to ‘buy’ new features for their ‘avatar’.As they continue to improve their speed and accuracy, they move from being a ‘Rookie’ band member to an ‘International Rock Star’ – it is very engaging and the feedback has been excellent from the pupils!
Login here:
If you have nay questions, please contact the school office.
School Values: Trust Homework Activity
We would like to say thank you to all pupils, parents and carers for the amazing homework we have received this week about Trust and what it means to your families.
It is clear from their work that our stories, prayers and hymns in Worship in September have had a great impact on our pupils.
We will share the homework in school and some will be displayed in the hall.
Here is a very thoughtful example by Lauren (Y6), and her family.
Homework 4th October 2019
Wrekin Homework – 4th October 2019 – Hand in BY Thursday 10th October 2019
Maths: Short division word problems sheet AND TT Rockstars
English: Relative Clauses identification sheet
Reading: AT LEAST 15 minutes per day AND Reading Eggspress Activity – Renewable Resources
Spelling: Practice your spellings
Good News – Green Tree Award
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the Woodland Trust Green Tree Award for our commitment to planting trees on the school grounds and sharing ideas about trees in Worship.
Mr Field’s Eco Club and Eco Council are now working towards achieving Silver Award.
