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Friday 6h March 2015 Attendance Winners

Congratulations to Leopard class who are the this weeks winners of the

attendance trophy. Remember, the 30 children with the best attendance at the

end of the year will get a very special prize!

World Book Day Special! Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day and what an effort all the children and staff

made in dressing as their favourite book character!

We’re not sure if the staff enjoyed it more than the children!

Forthcoming Events

Parent Gym—10/3/15

ICT Family Learning

Event— 16/3/15

Lunchtime Awards!

Well done to these children who

are our lunch time stars of the

week. They will proudly be wearing

their medals around school next

week!

Abigail— Firefly

Winston – Chipmunk

Rhishit—Lemur

Damanpreet—Chameleon

Waarith—Tiger

Parent’s favourite book

The children really enjoyed listening

to some of the parents reading their

favourite children’s book!

Thank you to everyone who took

time out of their busy day to join us.

What we have been up to...

Children produced some amazing work in class based on a book they had read

throughout the day. Here is a small idea of what they have been getting up to!

FS2 have loved the Rainbow Fish. The children produced some fabulous fish with

colourful and shiny scales!

Year 1 read The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson. They created a giant

collage as well as designing persuasive posters for a new clothes shop for giants!

Tuesday by David Weisner had Year 2 going crazy about frogs. From making zig zag

books about the lifecycle of frogs to learning how to draw their own. I’m sure they had

lots to tell you when they flew home on their lily pads!

Year 3 were caught up in a terrifying hurricane from the book Hurricane by David

Weisner. The children became music stars and created their own hurricane raps as

well as creating scenes for their very own puppet shows.

Year 4 wrote monologues based on the main character in a book called Way Home by

Libby Hathorn. They took part in some art where they used chalk to predict and draw

scenes from the book. The day ended with the children participating in Philosophy for

Children and discussing what ‘home’ meant to them.

I’m sure you will agree, it was a fantastic day celebrating authors and texts and

looking at how much we can learn just from one amazing book!

Here are some of our winners WOW! Look at the staff

Look out for some of the amazing work the children have been doing on our

World Book Day display on the lower corridor outside of the hall.

The Importance of Reading

Creating a love of books does not only help your child to read but also develops their imaginations and

helps them with their writing.

Reading a variety of books from a range of authors helps develop the children’s vocabulary, use of

punctuation to create effect and writing styles.

Reading at Aldborough

In FS2, Year 1 and Year 2, children have daily phonic sessions.

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read quickly and skilfully. They are taught how to:

recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes;

identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make - such as ‘sh’ or ‘oo’; and

blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word.

Children can then use this knowledge to ‘de-code’ new words that they hear or see. This is the first

important step in learning to read.

In Years 1 to 4 the children are also taught through Guided Reading sessions. Guided reading allows

teachers to work with a small group of children to improve their reading and comprehension skills such

as inference or reading with expression.

What you can do to help your child’s reading

Read with them regularly (daily if possible). Remember it doesn’t always have to be a parent, it

could be a grandparent, older brother or sister or even reading a bed time story to a younger

brother or sister.

Please write in their reading diary to let the class teacher know how they are getting on!

Encourage them to read a variety of texts. When you are out and about encourage your child to

read signs, newspapers, comics or anything else with writing on!

Ask your children to explain what they have read. There is no point reading unless you understand

what you have read. You can ask questions like:

How do you think the character is feeling?

How do you know the character is feeling this way?

Why did the author use this word?

What do you think is going to happen next and why?

Help them with their phonics. Encourage them to sound out unfamiliar words. Introduce alien

words—these are made up words where the children have to use their sounds.

Help your child learn words that can’t be sounded out phonetically., for example, ‘wash’, ’does’ or

’caught’.

Learn the spelling list appropriate to your child’s year group.