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Cedar wk 7 Aut 2 w.e 22.12.23
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Good afternoon
What another fabulous week with the children. I am so proud how resilient they have been with the 15 week Autumn term this year and how they have adapted to changes to routines for example our Christmas assembly practice. Right until the end the children, as part of their British Value - the Democratic right to vote, the children have chosen to practise their times tables. Well done everyone.
Thank you for your generous comments, cards and/or gifts - I and the LKS2 team are very humbled and would like to say a huge thank you.
Below you should see the results of our kite skills. Most children focused initially on criticising their chosen colours/design on the sail but when we all refocused on the technology part, they soon realised how successful they had been in developing /applying their sawing skills etc. As we still don't have confirmed permissions from every child in class we have decided to cover everyone's faces to allow us to make sure we could share every child's success with you. Unfortunately, the storm meant we were not able to practise flying them.
Swimming - will recommence the second Friday back in 2024 so the Year 4 children will need to bring ordinary P.E. kit the first week back on Friday.
P.E. - all children our usual P.E. days will be Wednesday and Friday in 2024.
Have a great, fun and restful Christmas and I look forward to welcoming you back in 2024!
Mr Dring
Cedar Wk 6 Autumn 2 w.e 15.12.23
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
Wow - we were so impressed with every child in our LKS2 Christmas assembly and we hope those adults who were able to attend enjoyed it. I'm sure you'll be singing Feliz Navidad for weeks to come!
This week we gave your child a slip with a suggested list of materials that they may choose to bring in to construct their DT Kite next Wednesday. Don't worry if they can't - we will have some materials in school.
Thank you for your generous donations to the children's class Christmas parties which will be on Thursday afternoon next week - this will all be spent on these parties. If your child would like to wear suitable party clothes they can come into school for the day in them (i.e. no need to wear uniform) on Thursday.
Thank you Year 4s for bringing in all the extra paperwork for our Nell Bank trip - it means we can get the final risk assessments completed. We can't wait to take the children on this mini-adventure trip. Any questions do please ask, although our residential parent meeting in school next half term (date to be confirmed) should answer any questions from you or your child.
Swimming - the leisure centre are not running our swimming lessons next week so it will be a P.E lesson with me next Friday for both Year 3 and 4 children.
In English the children have thoroughly enjoyed adapting parts of the 'Please Mrs Butler' poem and we have had a lot of fun learning about hyperbole features. In Maths we have been learning about multiplying using column method and division.
Have a great weekend
Mr Dring
Cedar Wk 6 Autumn 2 w.e 15.12.23
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
Wow - we were so impressed with every child in our LKS2 Christmas assembly and we hope those adults who were able to attend enjoyed it. I'm sure you'll be singing Feliz Navidad for weeks to come!
This week we gave your child a slip with a suggested list of materials that they may choose to bring in to construct their DT Kite next Wednesday. Don't worry if they can't we will have some materials in school.
Thank you for your generous donations to the children's class Christmas parties which will be on Thursday afternoon next week - this will all be spent on these parties. If your child would like to wear suitable party clothes they can come into school for the day in them (i.e. no need to wear uniform) on Thursday.
Thank you Year 4s for bringing in all the extra paperwork for our Nell Bank trip - it means we can get the final risk assessments completed. We can't wait to take the children on this mini-adventure trip. Any questions do please ask, although our residential parent meeting in school next half term (date to be confirmed) should answer any questions from you or your child.
Swimming - the leisure centre are not running our swimming lessons next week so it will be a P.E lesson with me next Friday for both Year 3 and 4 children.
In English the children have thoroughly enjoyed adapting parts of the 'Please Mrs Butler' poem and we have had a lot of fun learning about hyperbole features. In Maths we have been learning about multiplying using column method and division.
Have a great weekend
Mr Dring
Cedar Week 5 Autumn 2 w.e 08.12.23
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
A wonderful week this week with Year 3 participating in their last cooking lesson (next half term, another 12 Year 3s from Willow class will take their turn), a final rehearsal of our LKS2 Christmas celebration assembly and the children have published their 'Viking' newspapers about the Lindisfarne raid.
In Computing we have continued to program a sprite to write our initials on screen, in Science we continue to learn about different healthy diets, in History we have participated in an inter-class competition of the Viking strategy board games we have made and in Design Technology we have continued to explore how to build kites.
Thank you to all Year 4 parents who have returned their E1 residential medical forms that we are required to collect on behalf of Leeds Council in order to be able to take your children to Nell Bank. If you still haven't returned your child's form yet, please do so as soon as possible so that we can make sure your child is able to participate in this great team event.
Have an amazing weekend
Mr Dring
Cedar Week 4 Autumn 2 w.e 01.12.23
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
Thank you to everybody who was able to support the Christmas Fair - we do really appreciate it and all funds raised are used to enhance the children's experience at Rufford Park!
We have been busy planning, drafting, editing and publishing our newspaper reports about the 793 A.D (C.E) Lindisfarne raid as part of our writing unit linked to our Viking and Anglo-Saxons topic.
We have also practised our singing skills ready for our Christmas assembly in week 6 (see Mr Cooke's newsletter for further details) and/or contact the school office.
The children have worked extremely hard to complete their Autumn term assessments this week and I'm very proud of them. When we started to discuss questions they found trickiest they said the ones linked to 'time.' We do cover this explicitly later in the year but in case your child wants to practise this essential life skill prior to that please see the links below which might help them further.
Have an enjoyable weekend
Mr Dring