Thank you to all the parents, staff and children who supported us for Ukraine Day!
Everyone looked amazing wearing yellow and blue.
We were visited by Marianna and her friend Oksana. We learnt about their charity work and how they are supporting those from Ukraine.
We also learnt a few words in Ukrainian.
Thank you for your donation, we had a great day.
As part of our learning about seasonal changes in Key Stage One, we have been learning about the different animals that are born in Spring. Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from Katie and the lambs from Chloe’s farm.
Today Haughmond and Pimhill were very excited to welcome two new members of our school community. Sheldon and Michelle are our new Giant African Land Snails and they will be living with us in our classes, where we will learn lots about them, including how to look after them and take responsibility for living creatures.
1-minute Maths is a super new free app for children in Key Stage One from White Rose Maths.
Children can choose any topic they want to try. They then answer a unique series of questions (so it’s a different set of questions every time). If they’re struggling with a question, a ‘Hint’ button will give a helpful clue by showing the question in a different but familiar way.
When the one minute’s up, they’ll see a feedback screen telling them how they’ve done.
Today Pimhill and Haughmond were visited by Imam Sohayb from Craven Arms Mosque to help us with our learning in our R.E. topic where our key question is Who is Muslim and How do They Live? He told us lots of information and we asked some excellent questions to help our understanding and compared Islam and Christianity.
As part of our learning about seasonal changes and our environment, we have been finding out how it is harder for animals to find food when the weather is cold and frosty. We made bird feeders using pine cones, lard and bird seed. Then we hung them outside in our garden.
Today we are launching our ‘Reading Challenge’ and this time we have linked your child’s reading to several journeys around the world.
It’s not that easy to travel at the moment but we are thinking about people all over the world. Why not read your way around the world with the Reading Miles Global Challenge.
Collect 500 reading miles for every 30 minutes you spend reading, with a parent, carer, or your brother or sister. You could even video call your relatives and read aloud to them. You just need a signature, amount of time read and time you read at. Collect reading miles in a special reading passport on your very own reading world tour – a whopping 33,000 miles in total! Reading counts between 8am and 7pm.
The challenge is split into seven journeys, each of which finishes in a ‘checkpoint city’.
The following resources are available to download and print off to enable you to take part in the challenge.
• A wall map of the world charting the Reading Miles Global Challenge route
• A passport to record the reading
• A certificate for when you complete the challenge
• Postcards which you can complete when you reach checkpoint cities.
• All children that complete the each journey challenge will have their names entered into the draw to win the reading challenge box of goodies. Complete all 7 journeys and you will have 7 entries, so a much better chance of winning.
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The passport will be kept in school and updated by the class teacher.
We hope you will enjoy and support us with this reading challenge.
Kind regards,
Mrs Sallie Roberts – Deputy Headteacher
We would like you to practise forming numbers correctly at home. This means you need to think about making sure they are facing the right way and are formed carefully so that they can’t be mistaken for a different number. If you are writing 2 digit numbers you need to check that you have got the digits in the right order so that numbers like 12 don’t look like 21!
Here are some activities that you can download and do at home to help you practise.
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In the next couple of weeks, we are going to be electing our new School Council members. For your homework we would like you to write a speech, with your grown ups, to present to the class about which school council you would like to be part of and why you should be elected.
The school councils we have are:
We are moving away from formal spelling tests in Pimhill and Haughmond, and will instead be working on the application of correct spellings in written work. However, if you would like to continue to work on spellings with your child at home, the below attachments are the common exception words for Year One and Year Two. These are sometimes referred to as ‘tricky words’ as they do not follow the spelling patterns that children learn in Key Stage One.
Bomere Heath CE Primary School
The Crescent,
Bomere Heath,
Shrewsbury,
SY4 3PQ
Tel: 01939 290359
Executive Headteacher: Mrs Julie Ball
Office Manager: Maria Whittaker
