Year 5 Residential Trip

Dear Year 5 parents and carers,

Please be aware that you can follow your child's / children's adventure on the Dümmer See field trip via Twitter @BielefeldSchool.

If you do not use Twitter, simply visit this web page to see the Twitter 'feed' on the right hand side.

Please tell other parents and carers who may not have seen this post.

Year 5 Week 21 2013

Dümmer See 2012

Our 'residential trip' has finally arrived and all of the children cannot wait to go!

You can read Year 5's Dümmer See 'Blog daily from tomorrow, to keep up with all of the news. The 'blog will be on the right hand side of this page.

The weather has been a bit brighter today so, hopefully, it will hold out for us this week (fingers crossed).

The bus will depart from school at 10.30am tomorrow morning. The children are asked to come to school dressed in their own clothes.

The essential items that the children need to bring with them on the trip can be found on the school website. Please ensure that children bring a packed lunch with them for Wednesday, which includes a drink. We will be stopping on the way to the Dümmer See, for the children and staff to eat their lunch.

The children may bring some spending money, if they wish. They do not need to bring any more than €10. Please send the money to school in a labelled envelope or sandwich bag.

If your child wishes to take electronic equipment on the trip, I remind you that they alone will be responsible for that equipment. Any medication that your child requires must be in a clearly labelled bag, e.g. travel sickness tablets.

The adults that will be accompanying Year 5 on the trip will be a female Year 6 teacher and a male Year 3 teaching assistant. Two of us are First Aid trained and Life Saver trained, in case of any emergencies.

The whole class are really looking forward to the trip and it is safe to say that the adults going are equally excited. The week ahead looks like it will be lots of fun!

Have a lovely week.

Leaving / Posting Dates

Dear parents and carers,

If the Army has informed you (or your spouse) of your family's leaving / posting date, please let the School's Office Manager know immediately.

Informing the Office Manager will help us to make sure that all of the necessary paperwork is completed in time for you to take to your child’s new school.

Please pass this important message to any parents and carers who may not have seen it.

Thank you.

Year FS1 Week 20 2013

In Full Bloom, Thank You

What an amazing amount of plants for our garden, thank you. The children have really enjoyed planting them and making our garden a more colourful place to be.

This week, we have been learning about mini-beasts. We have been watching our tadpoles swimming around in our new “indoor pond” and looking closely at some crickets. The children were impressed with just how different they looked!

Snack next week will be: barbecue beans, sausages and potatoes, french pastries, pasta in tomato sauce, Ugly Bug Ball Party and mini pizzas. Please return your snack donations as soon as possible. Thank you.

Our lost property box, on the window sill at the end of the corridor, is beginning to overflow. If your child has lost anything over the past couple of weeks, please have a look through the box, as we would really like to return things to their rightful owners. We will be emptying the box at half term, so please make sure that you have had a look through before then!

You can find the upcoming school events listed on the School Calendar, at the foot of this web page.

Year FS2 Week 20 2013

Painting Symmetrical Butterflies

The children have been learning about the lifecycle of butterflies this week. They have listened to the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, by Eric Cane, and found out how caterpillars turns into a butterflies.

In the various FS2 rooms, the children have been making symmetrical butterflies by folding a painted butterfly in half, so that both wings are the same.

The children have also been sequencing the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'.

The children have been sewing fabric butterflies using binca and embroidery threads too.

Next week, we are planning to visit the pond again. We would like to see if there are any tadpoles left and whether the tadpoles are starting to turn into frogs. Weather pending, we will be taking a snack to the pond, to have a picnic.

If you have any old newspapers, please send them into school for us to use when painting and undertaking other messy activities. Thank you.

Year 1 Week 20 2013

Look! Tadpoles!

The children are enjoying our topic about plants and they are watching eagerly the bean plants as they grow.

The visit to the pond was a big success and the children had great fun investigating all of the different plants and insects that they found in, or near, the pond.

This week, for homework, we are asking the children to practise the phonic sounds that were sent home at Parent’s Evening and to spend some time reading a favourite story with an adult.


Designer Plants

 Last week's homework was great fun! The children designed their own plants and suggested species that grew money or sweets. When is the Chelsea Flower Show? Is there still time to enter?

Please remember to send your child with a named water bottle for them to use during the day. This is especially important as the weather gets warmer.

Thank you.

Year 2 Week 20 2013

Activity Time

Continuing our block of creative writing, using Anthony Browne (The Children’s Laureate), Miss Cunningham’s class has been working on similes to describe the characters in the book. Mr.Kerray’s class has been studying the author’s use of specific vocabulary for effect. We have also retold the story for our Big Write.

Running alongside this, we continue to teach our phonic/spelling units.

For homework, please remember to continue reading daily with your child, 10 minutes’ daily practise will really help them to improve. Remember to discuss together the book you have read. Again this is an important reading skill that the children need to develop.
In Mathematics, Mr.Kerray has been working on addition and subtraction statements for a certain number. The children have also embarked on subtraction, identifying vocabulary and strategies. Miss Cunningham’s set has been working on units of measurement; mass, capacity and length.

Papier-mâché Dino  

Mr.Kerray’s class continued to add depth to the creation story through visual representation and drama. Mr.Fidler has made clay ants and 'skeletons' for the children’s own dinosaurs. The next step is to make papier-mâché bodies.

Please return your children’s homework folders to school every Wednesday, so that new homework con be added.

Some children are forgetting to bring in any PE kit. Please bring PE kits into school on Mondays. We will send the kits home on Fridays. We will be taking some PE lessons outside this term, so please make sure that your child has suitable footwear. Thank you.

Year 3 Week 20 2013



Today's 'Big Write'

This has been another busy and fun week!
The children have been creating mythical pictures of Medusa in Art and retelling the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops in preparation for their “Big Write” on Friday.

In Mathematics, Mr. Askew’s group had been learning about fractions and Mrs. Banks’ group has been finding out about how to measure capacity.

The Medusa

We hope that your creative homework project is beginning to take shape. Please arrange to hand this into school after half term, in the week beginning 10 June.

Enjoy your weekend!

Year 4 Week 20 2013

Year 4 Using Dictionaries This Morning

This week, in Literacy, we have started a new unit based on the book ‘There’s A Viking In My Bed!’

We have read the first couple of chapters and the children are becoming very good at retelling the story using our class story map.

In Numeracy, we have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes.

Vikings, Ahoy! 

We have been sorting shapes into Carroll Diagrams and have been investigating the nets of 3D shapes.

In our topic sessions, we have been looking at Viking names and have all created our own.

In Art, we have completed our Viking long ships. At the moment it looks like we are being invaded by a fleet of Viking ships as they sail across the back of the classroom!