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France: Health/Medical information and Kayak consent

Thank you to all parents who have responded to the email sent out on Friday 25th April regarding health/medical information of pupils and kayak consent forms. A gentle reminder that the deadline to respond is Monday 12th May. Thank you for your support in helping us plan our trip effectively.

New Whole Class Reading Text

From next term, pupils will be working on The Big Amazing Poetry Book: 52 Weeks of Poetry. A link to the text is below in the whole class reading section if you wish to purchase the book.

End of KS2 SATS Examinations

The end of key stage SATS examinations will take place on the week beginning Monday 6th May. The timetable can be found on the following link - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/primary-assessments-future-dates.

During this week, we will open the doors to begin soft start at 8.30am to allow pupils a chance to arrive earlier and settle in before exams. Please can we ask that pupils arrive promptly to allow time before exams which will start just after 9am.

Relationship lessons in Summer Term

During the summer term, our RSHE lessons will focus on relationships across the school. As part of this, RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) lessons will be included in the summer term curriculum. 

Relationships lessons are a statutory part of the curriculum and are taught in an age-appropriate and respectful way. Pupils in Years 4–6 will be split by gender for some topics, such as puberty and menstruation. The content for each year group will be shared on year group noticeboards.

There are two non-statutory elements within our RSE curriculum: 

• Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – Covered in Year 4 and Year 6 in an age-appropriate single lesson.  

• Human Reproduction and Conception – Taught in Year 6 during the final RSE lesson. 

Parents are welcome to view the lesson resources beforehand and discuss any concerns with their child’s class teacher. 

• Year 6: FGM will be taught during the week beginning 2nd June.  

• Year 6: RSE lessons will begin from the week beginning 19th May. The first few lessons will cover puberty and menstruation, followed by the non-statutory lesson on reproduction and conception. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please speak to your child’s class teacher, who will be happy to share the lesson materials with you. 

 
Find out more about our RSHE lessons here. 

Read our updated Relationships and Sex Education Policy here.  

New Writing Scheme of Learning

As we transition to a new approach to teaching writing, called I am a Clever Writer (IAACW), you may notice that your child's writing outcomes appear lower than expected when they are published. This is due to the adjustments we are making to align with this new method. You can find out more in our news article here. These are the key indicators for children to be working at age-related expectations at this point in the school year. We have redesigned our curriculum to fit with the new approach. This also includes Y1-4 writing skills.

Key indicators include:

• Insert whole sentences to describe setting and characters. 

• Understand the importance of cohesion in my writing in fiction writing.
• Use place, time or manner adverbials to ensure cohesion in and across paragraphs.
• Include direct speech in my stories but changing where the reporting clause is in the sentence (beginning, middle, end). 
• Use speech within a piece of writing to move the story on. 
• Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun. 
• Include complex sentences, which start with a subordinating conjunction followed by a comma.
• Link sentences and paragraphs using coordinating and subordinating conjunction. 
• In narratives describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to advance the action. 
• Confidently use the correct tense throughout a piece of writing (even if it means a change of tense). 
• Use modal verbs and adverbs to show the possibility of something happening. 
• Use an embedded relative clause, marked with commas for parenthesis. 
• Use brackets to add parenthesis. 
• Use dashes to add parenthesis.

Thank you for your understanding and support as we implement this new approach to enhance your child's writing skills.

Times Table Rock Stars

Our expectation is that pupils are logging onto Times Table Rock Stars at least four times a week for a minimum of ten minutes. This helps to support their knowledge of times tables, which underpins much of the work during the Year 6 maths curriculum. We will be running weekly competitions and prizes to encourage the children and appreciate your support in making sure the children are taking part in this homework activity. Those who do not manage to complete this can attend TTRS sessions at lunch in the week.

Walking Home

It is for individual families to decide if and when they like their child to walk to/from school alone. If you would like your child to walk home alone after school, please let the office or their class teacher know so this can be added to BROMCOM. We will be unable to allow this until this permission is received. Please find a link to NSPCC guidance on children walking home alone from school below.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/away-from-home/at-school/

Gardening and Cooking

We are very proud to continue to provide a fantastic opportunity for our pupils to attend cooking sessions. These sessions take place with their class teacher, within the School House kitchen, during the school day.

An annual voluntary contribution of £13.00 has been added to MCAS to cover the cost of ingredients, required to supplement the fresh ingredients provided from the school garden. This fee covers sessions for the whole school year, from September 2024 until July 2025.

This fee is voluntary, however, without the support of our parents, we will be unable to provide an opportunity such as this for our pupils.

To make payment, please log into your MCAS account. The fee, located within the Clubs section, is now available to be added to your basket.

Year 6 Residential trip to France. 

Please check your inbox for an email from Mrs Haines regarding the Year 6 residential trip which will take place from the 7th - 12th July 2025.

Click here to  find out more about the trip and how it works. The information on our website is based on this year’s trip – it will look very similar for your child when they attend. 

Trip Details: 

• Destination: Burgundy, France, Maison Claire Fontaine 

• Dates: 7th-12th July 2025 

• Cost: £550 per pupil 

Payment Schedule: To secure your child’s spot on this incredible journey, we kindly request that you follow the payment schedule outlined below: 

• Deposit: £100.00 (due by 27th September 2024) 

• Second Payment: £110.00 (due by 25th October 2024) 

• Third Payment: £110.00 (due by 29th November 2024) 

• Fourth Payment: £110.00 (due by 31st January 2025) 

• Final Payment: £120.00 (due by 28th February 2025) 

How to Sign Up: Please sign-up on MCAS from the 10th September to secure a  place with a deposit by the due date above.

Full details are the email sent on 5th September. 

School Uniform

All children are expected to wear the correct uniform to school and change into their uniform if they have a sports club in the mornings. Please can you ensure that have the appropriate wear for school.

All children are expected to wear uniform:

• the Fielding blue sweatshirt or cardigan;
• a Fielding blue or white Polo shirt; or plain white Polo shirt;
• plain grey or black school style trousers, skirt or pinafore;
• black or white socks / tights;
• plain black shoes. For safety, no boots, open-toe, platforms or roller shoes.

The Hobbit - J. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit (Harper Collins) Amazon.co.uk: Books

Eyewitness Victorians - DK 

Victorians (DK Eyewitness) : DK: Amazon.co.uk: Books 

Eyewitness Victorians - DK 

Victorians (DK Eyewitness) : DK: Amazon.co.uk: Books 

Can You See Me? - Libby Scott

Can You See Me?: A powerful story of autism, empathy and kindness: Amazon.co.uk: Scott, Libby, Westcott, Rebecca: 9781407195674: Books

Can You See Me? - Libby Scott

Can You See Me?: A powerful story of autism, empathy and kindness: Amazon.co.uk: Scott, Libby, Westcott, Rebecca: 9781407195674: Books

The Big Amazing Poetry Book: 52 Weeks of Poetry

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-big-amazing-poetry-book/gaby-morgan/chris-riddell/9781035003846

Reading and/or talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. Complete your child’s reading record each time they read. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be sent into school daily.

TT Rock Stars 4 times per week

CGP Maths H/W: 58, 59 (Shape properties)

Next topic: Geometry (Summer 1)

• Area and Perimeter
• Volume
• Scale factors
• Cubes and cuboids
• 2D and 3D shapes
• Angles

CGP English H/W: p52, 53 (Apostrophes)

Current topic:

Week 11 - Report

Extra home writing tasks:

If you would like to complete some extra writing tasks from home to consolidate previously taught writing tasks from home:

• Write a narrative where you give an alternate ending to the book you most recently read.
• Write a formal letter to school proposing any changes you feel would improve things.
• Write a setting description based on the setting of one of your favourite books that you have read this year.
• Write a newspaper report on something that you have recently found out about happening in the UK.

Spelling

Unit 3: Revision of silent letters.

Spelling words made of spelling rule applicable vocabulary:

Spelling list made of red words and FLCC vocabulary: