Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 13th September 2024

ashley.coley • September 13, 2024

Headteachers Update

A great first full week at Lingwood. The children are fully embracing our CUSP curriculum with great enthusiasm and focus. After establishing it last year, we are thrilled with the outcomes it has already produced. It has been wonderful dropping into the engaging lessons being taught and being shown the high-quality work being produced.

Thank you to all the Reception, Year 1 and 2 parents and carers that attended the first reading sessions this week - this was a great success and we look forward to introducing reading cafes into KS2 later this term.


It was also lovely to have the FOLPA team in to join me today with the children for hot chocolate Friday. We are always grateful for your support, time, and dedication.


Thank you for your continuing support.

Miss Laycock and the Lingwood Team

Dates for the diary 

  • Wednesday 18th September - EYFS RWI Phonics Parent Session
  • Thursday 26th September - Acle Transition Day
  • Monday 28th to Friday 8th November- Half-term holiday
  • Monday 11th November- Autumn Term 2 begins
  • Monday 30th November - Parents Evening Week (dates and times to follow)
               

Year Group News

Nursery

This week in Bishy Barney Bees nursery the new children have started their chosen hours, and everyone is settling really well. We are learning the routines and rhythms of the nursery day, while continuing to get more comfortable with the outdoor and indoor environments as they explore all the different opportunities on offer. Linked to our story 'Nursery? Not Today!', children have been sharing thoughts on the things they love most about nursery; making things at the creative table has been a particular highlight so far!

Reception

Reception Rabbits have continued to settle in well to their new class and routines. This week they have been learning numbers to 10, practising writing them and showing different ways to make each number. We have also been reading a book about being kind and talking about how it feels when we pass kindness around our class. Everyone enjoyed their first session of Forest School!


Year 1

This week year 1 have started reading Beegu. We made predictions about different parts of the story and retold the events we had read so far. It was lovely to see so many of you for our first reading morning of the year! In Science we have been talking about the seasons and which months of the year these fall into and in Geography we begun learning about the seven continents of the world.


Year 2   

The children started the week extremely excited that their eggs had hatched! We have worked hard across the week to earn dojo points with our recognition board focus in the classroom being 'one voice.'  In history, we started learning about the Great Fire of London of 1666. We learnt where London is and when the fire happened. We compared London now and London in the 1660's. In reading, we started our first Core Text 'Grandad's Island'. We made predictions using the illustration and words in the text of what might happen next and learned how to retrieve information and mime the character's actions.


Year 3

This week, Year 3 have enjoyed learning about comparative tests. We investigated how fast different leaves fell in the playground and learnt about different variables. In writing we have been learning about main and subordinate clauses and practice writing our sentences.


Year 4

This week year 4 had their first P.E. lesson where we started our unit on football. The children have started with the basics of dribbling a ball through large and small areas to build the skill of controlling the ball. In Maths, we continue to look at place value up to a 4-digit number. In Writing, we continue to build those skills on sentence structuring, this week we looked more at grammatical errors and main clauses. In Art, we created a 3-piece composition of still life drawing using objects in front of us.


Year 5

Badger class have been learning focusing on place value in maths this week and have been reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000. They have been able to successfully identify what the value of each digit is in various numbers. In science, we started our new unit of materials. We looked at the properties of various materials and discussed their suitability. In art, the children created a landscape using subtractive drawing. They loved using charcoal and an eraser to create their masterpieces!


Year 6

Year 6 have begun our unit on writing an autobiography in English and are continuing our Dare To Be You book. The class did a great job in art this week drawing and scaling up fruit and vegetables. Homework will begin next week as well.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class - Benny for amazing letter writing during phonics. 


Squirrel Class – Evie L. - for settling so well into Lingwood and always adding interesting points to our class discussions.


Hares Class – Sami- Showing a really good understanding of recognising tens and ones and explaining her thinking. 


Fawns Class – Dylan for identifying a variable which we could not control during our Science investigation this week.

               

Otter Class – Willow - for her wonderful handwriting and presentation in her books through all subjects. Even when she makes mistakes she makes them look neat!


Badger Class –  Freddie - For always carefully listening to instructions and for being on task - well done!


Fox Class – Bailey for making really good progress with his place value in maths.


Star Pupil Awards


Rabbit Class - Nelly for super listening and joining in during our learning this week. 


Squirrel Class – Evie N. - for always being ready to learn.


Hares Class – Jenson - for a fantastic attitude to learning, being ready and on task.


Fawns Class -  Harley, for always benign polite and respectful.


Otter Class – Travis - for always being ready for the next task whether this is putting his materials away or simply putting his equipment down. 


Badger Class – Kayden - For being resilient and for not giving up on work!


Fox Class – Kody for always trying his best, following the school rules and being respectful.



Congratulations to you all - we are very proud of you!

Attendance Update
This week's whole school attendance

97.1%


Our whole school attendance this week was 97.1%. In first place is Year 1 with 98.9%, in joint second place is Year 5 and 6  with 97.6%  and in third place is Year 3 with 97.2%. Well done to all the children arriving at school on time, ready to learn!


A reminder that the school gates will continue to be open from 8.30 am. Registration is at 8.40 am and school finishes at 3.25 pm.


Please note that the DFE are making changes from August 2024 with regards to term-time holidays and fixed penalty notices. See link below for further information. 


Fines for parents for taking children out of school: What you need to know 

Remember that every day counts!

School Library

Your child may have informed you that currently our school library is closed. This is because over the last few months, we have been working hard on quality-assuring our texts to ensure our children have updated, enriched, high-quality texts to choose from.


We have spent thousands of pounds updating our books so that everyone can enjoy and either begin or reestablish their love for reading.


A massive thank you to our staff and parent volunteers, Mrs Hadley, Mrs Kelvin and Miss Parkin who have given their time to help organise the library. Once this mammoth task is complete, we will re-open the library and Miss Long and the reading ambassadors will ensure our library is well-looked after.


We are hoping by the end of next week, the library will almost be ready to be relaunched. We will keep you posted.

School Lunches


A polite reminder Lingwood Primary Academy promotes healthy eating and we are a NUT-FREE school so we do ask that children’s home-packed lunches do not contain the following:


  • Nuts
  • Fizzy Drinks
  • Chocolate
  • Sweets


Children in Reception, Year 1, and Year 2 automatically get free school meals. Children are also welcome to bring in their own packed lunch from home.

If your child is in KS2 and is entitled to free school meals please speak to our office, Mrs Tubby will be more than happy to support you or please see the government link https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals

By ashley.coley June 26, 2025
Dear parents and carers, It has been quite a week. It was such a lovely day on Tuesday watching the children work together in their houses during a wonderful sportsday. I was blown away by how the children behaved and competed against each other showing our school values of kindness, ambition and determination. The parents were equally impressive with their fantastic support and the parent races were certainly a highlight! It was positive to see a good turnout on Monday evening for our meeting about mixed aged teaching. For those that did not attend I will send my PowerPoint upon request. We are looking forward to our two transition days on Monday and Tuesday. Please see more information below. I am delighted to tell you that when Miss Coley is away on maternity leave in October Mr Dibden will become the interim deputy head. He will continue to be the class teacher for Foxes. I hope to announce who our new SENCO is next week. Have a lovely weekend. Mr Jeffery
By ashley.coley June 20, 2025
Dear parents and carers, I wanted to say a massive thank you to the parents who have come and spoken to me face to face about the changes we are having to make in September. In some schools the easy thing to do is to take to social media and wind each other up. I will try and make myself available in the playground as much as possible for the rest of the term, so please do come and speak to me. I have had several emails asking, ‘Which class is my child is in?’ I understand you want to know, but we will be sending this information out to every parent at the same time next Wednesday. I want the meeting on Monday to be about how all children will have a successful year in mixed classes, rather than focusing on individuals. We have sorted out the classes but want to triple check them on Monday morning. Thank you for your understanding over this. I know some parents have had a few worries over the senco situation. I wrote to you a couple of weeks ago to explain that Ms Clack was now working primarily at Heartsease. We now have an internal advert out for our new senco and hope to be announce who this is in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, if you have any SEND related questions, please speak to the class teacher or contact me through Mrs Tubby at the front office ( office@lingwoodprimaryacademy.org.uk ). A reminder that Sports Day starts at 9.30am for Key Stage 2, but parent are welcome to come from 9am. Key Stage 1 will start at 1:15pm. Please bring a chair with you. I thought I would share this email I received on Wednesday: Good evening, I just wanted to send a quick email praising the pupils who I saw in the village this morning completing their cycling safety sessions. They were really respectful and polite moving to make sure I could get along the path with my pushchair. I am looking forward to seeing you on Monday evening and for what looks like a very warm Sports Day on Tuesday. Have a nice weekend in the sun. Mr Jeffery
June 20, 2025
Unity Schools Partnership is delighted to announce that we have received some grant funding from the Anguish’s Educational Foundation to support our school. The Trust, of which we are a member school, applied for funding under its charitable foundation to start a Happy Top Up Shed for our families. The project will provide food, warm clothing and bedding, relief from period poverty and energy support. Our knowledge of our families, and the trust between our pupils and families and the school, allows us to provide effective immediate support to help against the ongoing cost of living crisis. Children who have their most immediate needs met will attend school more frequently, engage more and achieve better outcomes. Children who feel the school cares will experiment, commit and be more resilient. Unity Schools Partnership and our wider school community would like to thank Anguish’s Educational Foundation for their support.
By ashley.coley June 13, 2025
Dear parents and carers, It was lovely to see so many parents coming along to our FOLPA picnic today in th every warm sunshine. Our next big event is Sports day on Tuesday 24th June. I will send more information next week, but we hope you can come along and support. Years 3 – 6 will be in the morning and Nursery – year 2 will be in the afternoon. Please make sure you have seen the letter sent out on BromCom about some important changes for September. Have a lovely weekend. Mr Jeffery 
By ashley.coley June 6, 2025
Dear parents and carers, It was great to see Lingwood in the newspaper over half-term. Please see the link below. Lingwood Primary Academy win Acle Cluster Competition | Norwich Evening News Yesterday I received a certificate celebrating the fact that Lingwood was in the top 25% of primary schools in the country for our attendance last term. This is recognition for everyone at the school. Well done and thank you. Please see the letter I have sent out today about the actions we are taking having read all of the responses from the surveys that were sent out last month. Next week I will update you about staffing for September. Mrs Clack is now only working at Heartsease because of a leadership change there. Fortunately, we have got the expertise of Sarah Porter supporting all this SEND for the remainder of the summer term. Have a lovely weekend. Mr Jeffery
By ashley.coley May 23, 2025
Dear parents and carers, This term seems to have gone by in a flash. There have been many highlights but what stands out most for me is how children talk about being part of Team Lingwood and wanting to the very best version of themselves. The year ones had a lovely trip to the SeaLife Centre on Thursday and were absolutely buzzing when they returned. It was great to hear how well they represented the school. This week our attendance is a disappointing 90.6% but our attendance for the whole year still remains above the national average but we are never looking for average at Lingwood! I can report back that the staff quiz team more than held their own but were unlucky not to win! Thanks to FOLPA for organising this and for all their hard work and support. After the half-term break, we will be able to share information about transition days and who your child's teacher is. Have a great half-term and see you all on Monday 2nd June. Mr Jeffery
By lorraine.long May 16, 2025
Dear parents and carers, What a lovely week of weather! I have been really impressed how children have stayed smart with shirts tucked in despite the heat. Well done to year 6 - they coped superbly with their SATs and had a well-deserved reward yesterday. One of the many highlights of my week was hearing from a parent who told me that her children go home and tell them that Mr Jeffery says in assembly that we want to be the best school in the world. Firstly, I am glad children listen to my assemblies, and more importantly, it is great to see and hear children with such great ambition. Mrs Clack is having to spend her Tuesdays at Heartsease for the upcoming weeks. Fortunately, we have the very experienced Mrs Porter supporting the school and carrying out the SENCO role. Her email is sporter@unitysp.co.uk. This week our attendance is once again impressive and stands at 97.4%. Well done to Year 6 for a stomping 100%. Good luck to the staff team (and parent teams!) at the quiz tonight and have a lovely weekend. A reminder that half-term is the week after next (w/c 26th May) with children returning on Monday 2nd June. Mr Jeffery 
By ashley.coley May 9, 2025
Headteacher's Update Dear parents and carers, First of all, reminder about the parent survey. Thank you to those that have taken time to do this. Please click on this QR code below if you have not yet filled it in. This week our attendance is whopping 98%. This is brilliant. Thank you for your support in making sure attendance is a priority at Lingwood. Year 4 won the attendance cup and Eric the Penguin this week with 99%. Next week is SATS week. We wish year six the very best of the luck. This is an important week for the school, and we know the children will do their best. Whatever happens SATS do not define you as a person and we are very proud of everyone in the class for how hard they have worked this year. You will no doubt be aware that Ms Mera is well and truly pregnant. She will be going on maternity leave on 6th June. We wish her all the very best. I am pleased to let you know that Mrs Luck will be teaching the class on Mondays and Tuesdays and Miss Black will lead the class for the remainder of the week. A reminder that we have a non-uniform day on Friday 16th May. Children should bring £1 for the Fete or a prize for the tombola. The Sumer Fete is on Friday 11th July and don’t forget the FOLPA quiz night on Friday 16th May. Rumour has it the staff team think they can win. Have a lovely weekend Mr Jeffery Interim Headteacher Lingwood Primary Academy
By ashley.coley May 2, 2025
Headteacher's Update Dear parents and carers, As mentioned in my last newsletter, we would like you fill out a survey to hear your views about our school. The more people that fill in the survey the better the understanding we have of what is going well, and more importantly, what we can do better. The survey is anonymous. Children and staff will also be completing similar surveys this week. Please click on this QR code lower down. A huge thank you to Sarah Seyrus for making our School promotional video. Please have a look and share. https://1drv.ms/v/c/9f0dbb8d453b4c30/Ee2IQglg739LhBQGhy51XIIBDdjvcVyZDkIj0pC2aYHUSw With weather getting hotter, please ensure that your child is wearing suncreen to school, brings a hat and water bottle. If your child needs to reapply sunscreen they will need to have a nut-free labelled bottle which needs to be given to the class teacher.  After a little blip last week our attendance is once again good at nearly 97%. Well done to year 3 who won the attendance cup and Eric the Penguin with 99.6%. Have a lovely Bank Holiday Weekend and see you on Tuesday morning. Regards, Mr Jeffery Interim Headteacher Lingwood Primary Academy
By ashley.coley April 25, 2025
Headteacher's Update Dear parents and carers, I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break. The children have come back to school in good spirits and have settled back into the ‘Lingwood Way’.  Last term I wrote to you about uniform expectations at Lingwood and it has been useful to hear some feedback from parents. Further to what I wrote in my last newsletter, please note that black or dark grey pinafore dresses can be worn and that plain hoodies are ok for outdoor PE. I hope that clears a few things up. All Unity Schools are sending surveys to parents, staff and pupils this week. This type of feedback is really useful, and I would be grateful if you could spend a few minutes filling this survey in. As always, if there are any big issues please do not hesitate to contact the school so we can work things through. Our weekly attendance has dropped a bit to 94.4%. The simple fact is that the higher the attendance for your child the more learning they can do. Often our absences are because of unauthorised holidays. I understand the frustrations around expensive holidays, but your child is missing crucial learning if they are going away in term and it is highly unlikely I will authorise the absence. Well done to year 6 who managed 100%attendance for the week. Year 6 have SATS on the w/c 12th May and it is crucial they are in every day. Have a good weekend and enjoy the mini heatwave which is set to come. Regards, Mr Jeffery Interim Headteacher Lingwood Primary Academy
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