Week 1 Term 4

Hoping that everyone had an enjoyable holiday - I had the most amazing one - very lucky to see so many different things, along with attending my nephew's wedding in a small town in Germany -Freudenstadt, at the edge of the Black Forest.

Super to see everyone in summer uniform - check out what are uniform shoes please, as there are some 'runners' which are not part of our summer uniform.

A few people have homework, poetry books and home diaries somewhere at home. Please have a look around. Our goal of self management becomes so much more difficult if things are going home oin scraps of paper. Would love to have 27 homework books in the tray on Friday.

For the next 2 weeks our focus is on our production Aladdin Trouble. Tickets for this are now on sale at the school office - 6pm Thursday 25th and Friday 26th. Our first theatre practice will be this Friday 19th and we ask that students are picked up from the Alexandra Memorial Theatre in Skird St. Bus students will be brought back to school in time for their bus. Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th we will also be at the theatre until 2:55. Thank you to those people who have costumes sorted for this. Please contact Mrs Roberts if you have any problems - what each group needs has been published on the blog.

Children have brought home an information sheet about "Shake out", with home activities to talk about as a family. Please check the reading folders for this.

School Athletics will be held on Thursday 8th November. We will start practising for these in week 3. Sports uniforms can be worn this week.

T-ball starts next Tuesday straight after Labour Day holiday. Those who put their names forward to join teams have information in their bags about this.

Eisteddfods will be heard on Monday 26th November - week 7. This term, students will be delivering a speech. In preparation for this our writing programme will cover how to write a speech, and we are doing a mini inquiry about insects/minibeasts and along with reading and research will write a short speech about our chosen minibeast. This can be the speech for the eisteddfod, but if your child has a different passion that they want to base their speech on, they are welcome to prepare this at home with you, or add to the speech written at school. If you have any 'insect' books at home we would love to share them.

Spelling:
This week we continue to focus on the 'er' spelling patterns. There will be a spelling test on Friday morning before we head to the theatre.

Fridge Words: thorax, abdomen, antennae. Let's get some descriptive sentences using these on Friday.

Reading:
Remember to read every night. Research shows that being 'read to' is so important for the development of reading skills. Share a book of interest.

Religious Education:
This week we have been looking at Traditional Prayers and there is a family discussion sheet in the homework books.

Looking forward to a busy, eventful term.