Bridgewater Spring 2 Newsletter

Important

Dates next half

term:

Tuesday 18th April 2017 :

School Re-opens

Wednesday 19th April 2017:

Year 2 SATs Meeting

24th-26th April 2017:

Life Caravan in school

1st May 2017:

Bank Holiday

3rd May2017:

Y4 Class Assembly

5th May 2017:

Non-Uniform day for MacMillan

8th-12th May 2017:

Year 6 SATs Week

15th May 2017:

Governors Committee Meetings

23rd May 2017:

Nursery Open Morning

26th May 2017:

School closes for half-term

Our fish tank

31st March 2017

A note from Mrs Henderson Dear Parents,

Thank you for your continued support this term. It

was lovely to see you all at parents’ evening and at the parent

workshops for Reading, Maths and IT this half term – we hope to

offer more in Summer. I wish you all a relaxed and peaceful

Easter break and look forward to working with you again next

term.

Mrs Henderson

Staff Update

Mrs Lovell will be leaving us

on Friday 21st April to begin

her maternity leave. We

would like to wish her the best of luck

and we look forward to hearing about her

new arrival. Mrs Fogg will be teaching

class 3EL, whilst Mrs Lovell is on her

maternity leave. We would also like to say

a big welcome to two new teaching assis-

tants– Miss Lapka in Year 1 and Miss

Bentley Dawson in Reception.

School Council Update

The School Council continue to

work tirelessly to help with fund-

raising and to create and organise

school events.

We have recently had a fantastic

Easter Bingo and wish to thank all

the parents and children for their

kind donations and continued sup-

port. It was a great success, en-

joyed by all and a huge congratula-

tions to all our winners! We will

contact you soon with further news

on upcoming events.

Very Exciting

Wedding News Miss Pickford will be getting married over the

Easter Holidays and will be known as Mrs

Byard when we return. On behalf of all the

staff at Bridgewater Primary School, we

would like to send our congratulations and

best wishes to Miss Pickford and her future

husband on their special day!

Eco-Action Update

On Friday 3rd March , the ECO-ACTION TEAM

took part in The Great British Spring Clean.

They spent the morning litter picking around

the outside of school, especially St Edmund’s

Walk and Ellesmere Street. Photographs of the

team, taken by Salford Council, appeared on the

Salford Council Facebook page and their Twitter

feed.

The bulbs and plants that the team planted

around school earlier in the year have now

started to flower, making the school grounds

very colourful.

The team also completed the What’s Under Your Feet? Survey – digging up parts of the school field to look for worms! We have just welcomed some new members from Year 2 onto the team.

Nursery have enjoyed a fun packed topic on Traditional Tales this half term. We have retold some of the classic tales such as The Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks and The Three Little Pigs We enjoyed exploring the world of books through act-ing out the stories we read, book sharing with Year 5, painting and creating some of the characters, trying some gin-gerbread and porridge as sug-gested by Mummy Bear and building a variety of homes for the Three Pigs!

This half term Reception 1 and 2 have been very busy

learning all about Traditional Tales. Reception 2 had their first solo assembly and told the story of the Three Little Pigs. They made puppets, pig houses and wrote their own versions of the story. The children had the opportunity to explore the new outdoor area and the fun learning opportunities in the different areas. Last week some special visi-tors arrived. The children have been learning all about chicks. For the last week they have helped to clean and feed the chicks. We will be sad to see them leave.

Year One’s English work has been focussed on the story of Mr

Gumpy’s Outing and Dogger. We have been learning what

verbs, nouns and adverbs are and using them in our independent

writing. We have been writing instructions on how to make a

fruit salad for Mr Gumpy’s tea party. We had lots of fun making

our own fruit salad too!

We have been securing our understanding of number through

lots of learning on place value, counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. We

have also worked practically to develop our understanding of

length, fractions and time. We can now ALL tell the time to the

hour and half past the hour! Keep practising at home.

Year One have been continuing to learn all about Toys from the

Past. We thoroughly enjoyed going to Quarry Bank Mill where

we explored jobs children did and the toys they would play with.

Back at school, we designed and made our own puppets for a

puppet show. We experimented with different materials compar-

ing the qualities which we needed for our puppets.

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Y1 Creating their puppets Making scrumptious fruit salads

Year 1 visiting Quarry Bank Mill

Year 3 have had a wonderful Spring term. In Eng-

lish we have been learning poetry and had the op-

portunity to recite a rap in a whole school poetry

assembly. We have also been learning about play

scripts, writing our own and

acting out existing and inno-

vated play scripts.

We have been practicing

lots of skills in Maths,

learning more about frac-

tions and place value; we

are all working really hard to know our 4 and 8

times tables.

We have enjoyed learning all about plants in Sci-

ence and particularly enjoyed creating a life cycle

spin wheel ad completing observational drawings

and paintings of different flowers.

Our Topic work has been based on Ancient

Greece, we have learned all about the Olympic

Games, the Battle of Marathon and why the Athe-

nians and Spartans were such enemies. We have

thoroughly enjoyed learning different Greek

Myths, creating our own and creating art work

based on them. We all loved our Greek experience

day at the beginning of our Topic!

Year 3 have also enjoyed cele-

brating World Book Day this

half term, including having a

specialised book artist to come

in and work with us to create

sculptures from recycled books!

This half term Year 2 have enjoyed learning about Kenya. We have located Kenya on a world map, learned about the weather and the animals that live

there. We enjoyed meeting some of these animals for real at Knowsley Safari Park! We met Rigsby the Giraffe who enjoyed eating his carrots for breakfast and found out some inter-esting facts about meerkats. Do you know that a meerkat's favourite food is a scorpion? We look forward to learning about the seaside during the summer term.

This term has been a fun and fulfilling one. We have

taken part in: rugby with Salford Reds; some dis-

gusting Science experiments relating to our diges-

tive system, painting and sketching aspects of the

Vikings linked to our topic work and learning a rap

and performing this in front of the whole school.

In Science, we have been learning about the diges-

tive system and how it helps us digest our food. We

were amazed that so many body parts are needed to

digest our food and help us stay or keep strong and

healthy.

In History, we have continued to learn about the

Vikings, where we have discovered famous Vikings

and gods such as Beowolf.

As part of our P.E curriculum, we have had the

pleasure of Salford Reds teaching us rugby. We took

part in various rugby and ball activities which then

helped us to play a full game of tag rugby in our last

lesson.

In our English lessons, we have used to emotional

text ‘Friend or Foe’ to write narrative, persuasive,

discursive argument and poetry writing. All the chil-

dren have completed their assessments and Mr

Hargreaves would just like to say a huge thank you

for the support this term.

Y4 working very hard

Year 5 have had a fun-filled half term learn-ing lots more about the Egyptians. We have created our own Egyptian collars and even invited our par-ents in to teach them how to do it. Within our D.T. curriculum we learnt how to stay safe and hygienic when making bread for St. Patrick's Day-it was delicious to eat during story time at the end of the

day! In Science we have learnt about how mixing different materials create new ma-terials and what happens when we mix bi-carbonate of soda with vinegar, Diet Coke and when it is added to a pancake mix-ture.

This term in Science, we have been enjoying learning about the human body

and what happens to food once we’ve eaten it. We have also been studying The Vikings ,

learning about their lives and we even created sour own fantastic Long Ships with recyclable

materials. We were very lucky to have a visitor came in to show us some relaxing Yoga moves

which really got us feeling reflective. To celebrate World Book Day, all we

visited our local library and explored the wonderful books. We have cre-

ated some wonderful pieces of writing based on Friend or Foe by Michael

Morpurgo and enjoyed debating some of the issues the story raised. It has

been a very busy, yet exciting term!

Year 6 have been working extremely hard this half term, our SATs are fast approaching and we have been practising and revising. We have how-ever made time to have fun as well, we really en-joyed dressing up as our favourite characters for World Book Day, we visited our local library and loved reading stories in our school library to Year 2KP. We are loving our English book The Arrival, it has encouraged us to engage in fabulous descrip-tive writing. Also we've been really enthusiastic about our Science topic, we've even made our own fossils. We have been finding out about evolution and Charles Darwin.

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