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newsletter 8

Next week is National Book Week Scotland and we will be discussing our favourite books. Please could the children bring in their favourite book for a show and tell opportunity on Tuesday 16th November.

Many thanks,

Mrs Lynch

Hi all,

 PE  – Monday and Wednesday – please come to school dressed for PE outdoors. Remember to bring a water bottle for hydration. 

 Bikeability – Group 2 have their second session on Monday 15th November.

🥪Lunches / Parent Pay –  P7 can now select a pre-paid lunch from the school lunch hall. The menu should be posted on the school website very soon. Children are still welcome to bring in a packed lunch from home to be eaten in the classroom. 

💓Remembrance Assembly – Last Thursday, P7 led the Remembrance proceedings via Zoom. Every single pupil played an important part in this assembly and I have to say, it was very moving and  poignant. I am very proud of them all.  Thank you P7 and thanks to the parents who allowed their family member’s stories to be told.

Reading – We will be starting to read a class novel called ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ this week.  WW2  is our new topic. Can every child still have a personal reading text in school for such times when children may read quietly.

Homework :

Spelling –  Please hand in completed work on Friday. Please ensure all writing is neat.

🧮 Maths/Numeracy – In maths this week, we are still  revising time⏰ – telling the time, using 24 hr clock and working out time durations. In Numeracy, we are revising decimals – place value, rounding, ordering,  + – X ÷ and worded problems.

A homework sheet about decimals will be sent home on Monday (due the following Monday). This is the sheet that was meant to go home last week but unfortunately I had printer problems! I will also post a new  Sumdog challenge starting 15.11.21 for one week.

💬 Modern Languages – There will be no Mandarin with Miss Sun  this week but children will start French lessons with Mrs Lynch on Tuesday afternoon.

My new email address :

s.brunt@midlothian.education

That’s all for now,

Thank you,

Miss Brunt

Hi all,

I just wanted to write a quick message to keep you up to date and apologise that the learning trio conversations haven’t made it out this week. Unfortunately, I have been dealing with some health issues this week therefore have not been able to update our targets post learning trio. They will all go home next week. For this same reason homework did not make it on the website this week. Thank you to all parents who have kept to our routine anyways, it has really helped with our learning in class.

I am sorry for any inconvenience or confusion this has caused.

Miss Ramsay

Hello,

The spelling words for this week are:

red     win     drum     off     cliff

stiff     cuff     said     here     chaffinch

The sound we are focusing on is ‘ff’.

I have set up a sumdog challenge which the children have until the 15th November to complete.

Many thanks,

Mrs Lynch

😃Home Learning

📗Some parents requested homework over the weekend so I am trialling TUES-MON homework.  Pupils should bring their yellow diary, book and book bag every day, especially Mondays.  Children should do 10-15 minutes each night to help consolidate learning in class and to enable them to progress.

Sample of activities:  But work this around your lifestyle.

Day 1 – Look at the pictures and discuss what is happening, help them to read the words for first half.  Play a 2 dice board game.

Day 2 – Reading whole book plus key words (It is important this is done as much as possible throughout the week)

Day 3 – Read book with pictures covered plus trying to make sentences with key words. Play dominoes.

Other: Read every night to your child, identify key words they spot in the story. Number bonds orally or apps like Teach your monster to read, phonics match or similar.”

IF YOUR CHILD HAS THE SAME BOOK, THIS IS JUST TO ENSURE CONFIDENCE AND DEPTH OF LEARNING BEFORE MOVING FORWARD.

SEESAW – I realise the letters home about the Seesaw class app never went home while I was off so I will send these out this week so children can complete tasks at home.

🌹Notes: Can bring £1 donation for a poppy to class.  In school we are designing atrium Tea towels, these are not Christmas themed but we hope for them to be ordered in time for Christmas.  Payment for these needs to be in by the £17th.

Maths: In class we have been learning to read numbers, count and add to 13.  E.g. in the sum 2+7 we are encouraging children to start at the bigger number and “jump up 2”

👮🏾‍♀️-We are beginning our topic “people who help us”  If you are available to visit us and talk about your job then please get in touch.

🍱-Next week we will begin eating in the dinner hall. Same menu as before, if you wish to make changes to the menu choice please let us know.

Dear Parents and Carers,

This week:

Poppies will be on sale this week, the suggested donation is £1 but please donate what you are comfortable with.  Poppies will be limited to one per person initially in order for everyone to be able to purchase one if they want to.

Reading – please see reading book for homework.

Spelling – please see spelling jotter for the pattern or sound they are learning.

P.E. is as usual on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.

On Wednesday we may not have mandarin.

We have really enjoyed the two workshops we did this week related to COP26 and climate change, especially the art one on Friday using the tetrapaks.

This week we have a couple more workshops:

Monday: Exploring the Importance of Biodiversity.

Tuesday: How Can We Stop Climate Change?

It has been lovely to meet with parents in person for our Trio Meetings and I look forward to speaking with anyone who has a telephone consultation booked in.

Many thanks,

Lisa Cumming

l.cumming@midlothian.education

Hi all,

 PE  – Monday and Wednesday – please come to school dressed for PE outdoors. Remember to bring a water bottle for hydration. 

 Bikeability – Group 2 have their first session on Monday 8th November.

Parents Eve/Afternoon: It was lovely to see parents face to face again last week. This week, there are still phone calls to be made. Appointment slips were handed out last week. Please contact me if you haven’t received one.

Homework :

Spelling –  Please hand in completed work on Friday. Please ensure all writing is neat.

Research task – A task about purple poppies was issued last week on Google Classroom but children were telling me they had trouble getting onto this at home.

Remember – To access GC from home:

• Do not go through GLOW anymore.
• Search up GOOGLE CLASSROOM instead.
• Type in your whole username eg. smithp37@midlothian.education
• Put in your new password.

This should take you to our class page. Please let me know if there are any problems.

P7 will lead an assembly of Remembrance via Zoom on Thursday ( in school only).

Reading – We will be starting to read novels about WW2 very soon as this is our new topic. Can every child still have a personal reading text in school for such times when children may read quietly.

🧮 Maths/Numeracy – In maths this week, we are revising time⏰ – telling the time, using 24 hr clock and working out time durations. In Numeracy, we are revising decimals – place value, rounding, ordering,  + – X ÷ and worded problems.

A homework sheet about decimals will be sent home on Wednesday ( due the following Wed). I will also post a Sumdog challenge starting 8.11.21 for one week.

💬 Modern Languages – There will be no Mandarin with Miss Sun  this week but children will start French lessons with Mrs Lynch on Tuesday afternoon.

My new email address :

s.brunt@midlothian.education

That’s all for now,

Thank you,

Miss Brunt