Lingwood Primary Academy Newsletter 9th February 2024

Headteachers Update

It has been a busy week at Lingwood Primary Academy.

FOLPA (Friends of Lingwood Primary Academy) held another very successful meeting on Wednesday evening and have further exciting plans to support the school and our children throughout the school year.  I would like to thank them for their continuing support and if you are interested in joining this wonderful group of volunteers please contact Mrs Tubby in the school office for further information.

We are looking forward to our first FOLPA school disco the school year on Monday.  We know how excited the children are!



Thank you for your continuing support and have a restful weekend.

Miss Laycock

Year Group News

 Nursery

Our nursery rhyme topic has moved on to the song 'Five Currant Buns'. Children have been using this to build their understanding of money, and what happens to the total amount when you take one away. We have also been having some great fun linked to baking, with all kinds of ingredients in the sensory tray and a bakery shop in our role play corner

Reception

This week in Reception we have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We shared the story of The Great Race and wrote a list of the animals from the story. We found out which animal year we were born and looked at where China is compared to England. In maths we practised using the language of 'heavy' and 'light' to describe items and investigated the weight of items using balance scales. We also shared the story of Shu Lin's Grandpa and then painted our own beautiful watercolour pictures. Finally we had lots of fun learning The Dragon Dance song, a song in celebration of the Chinese New Year.

Year 1

It's been a busy and exciting week in year one! We enjoyed an archery session in PE, made vegetable wraps and crudités with dip in DT and built dens in Bush Craft.  In Science we explored transparent and opaque materials. We have also been thinking about how to stay safe online as part of Safer Internet Day. Stop, close, tell

Year 2   

This week we have been enjoying reading The Street Beneath My Feet and learning how to summarise and retrieve information from a non-fiction text. In DT, we used wheels, axles and cardboard boxes to make a simple vehicle and then we evaluated our vehicles and decided what we did well and what we could improve.

Year 3

 Year 3 have had a brilliant week learning how to write non-chronological reports and starting to write reports about Norfolk towns. In maths, year 3 have started learning how to measure things in m, cm and mm and can also convert lengths. In DT year 3 had a go at making their toys and learned lots about resilience and teamwork whilst doing it. Well done!

Year 4

Year 4 has been working extremely hard during our new unit on poetry in Writing. They have started to write their own haikus and are beginning to write cinquains. In Reading, we have started our new text, The Boy at the Back of the Class and we are loving it! In Art, we started our new unit of painting - we have been looking at how to create an ombre effect using oil, pastels and water! In Science the children were excited to start the first of our 2 lessons on food chains - they are already extremely knowledgeable on this topic!

Year 5

Year 5 have continued to impress me. They have proven themselves to be helpful, resilient, kind and hardworking. We had a fabulous design and technology lesson where we coated cotton fabric with beeswax to enable it to be used as a sandwich wrap. We have also completed our Science Unit all about Forces and it was such a fun unit where we learned all about water and air resistance. Badgers Class, keep it up!

Year 6

It has been a busy week in Year 6. We have now completed all our Maths mock SATS papers. All the teachers were impressed by the 'can do' approach that the children had, everyone put in their best effort and knew that we can learn from any mistakes made. We all enjoyed our archery session on Tuesday. A special well done to Lillie, who earned herself a certificate for being the first person to hit a bulls eye. On Thursday, we read our adventure stories to the children in Year 3. We were pleased with how well they were received and we were also given some valuable feedback!  In English, we are revisiting explanatory texts, recapping the different features found in this sort of text in order to write our own explanatory text next week

Launchpad

This week we have been using our baking skills and made our very own tiger bread. We have also been learning about the Chinese New Year. In Art, we continued to use our weaving skills and created our very own Chinese lanterns. In Topic, we have been comparing cities and villages. We had a great time with the Archery session, and some top points were scored.

Achievement Awards

Rabbit Class - Daisy for super writing this week. Daisy was able to hear every initial sound in the words she was writing.

Squirrel Class –  Jenson for his fantastic ribboning skills in DT

Hares Class – Autumn has been showing great mathematical skills by identifying odd and even numbers and doubling and halving.

Fawns Class – Jessica B for being incredibly supportive towards her friends and work partners. 

Otter Class – Billy for his resilience in the afternoons - especially in Computing. You created a Scratch project which told a short story! Keep up the great work Billy!

Badger Class – Sienna for working hard in all lessons and for always wearing a smile!

Fox Class – Alex for your incredible determination in our fitness lesson this week.

Launchpad – Seth for amazing knowledge and understanding during our E Safety lesson. Lots of great advice given.

 
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Star Pupil Awards

Rabbit Class - Iris for always being an enthusiastic and involved member of our class. You always bring so much joy to the class Iris.

Squirrel Class –  Freya for showing good leadership skills in archery.

Hares Class – Mason for trying really hard to follow our class rules, do his best and be a good friend.

Fawns Class - Alfie for challenging himself more with his writing.

Otter Class –.Freddie for his calm manner in all situations. He is always seeking a solution to ensure everyone is being kind

Badger Class – Jack for pushing himself to achieve the challenge work set in Maths. Well done!

Fox Class –Taylor for greater focus in lessons with increased contributions to class discussions.

Launchpad – Zoey for being really helpful in the classroom. Showing lots of enthusiasm and determination within her lessons.

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

Archery Enrichment sessions

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week we were very lucky to welcome Premier Sport into school for a archery taster session.

The children loved their sessions with Oscar the sports coach and he was very impressed with their focus and enthusiasm.

Freya - Year 1 said 'I loved it - I liked using the bow and arrow it was fun'

There are still a few places for the after-school Tennis club on a Wednesday.  Please contact the school office if you were interested.

Travelling Scholastic Book Fair

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the Scholastic Book Fair that has been held in the school library last week.  It was fantastic to see so many children and their family's being excited by the wonderful selection of books available.

Due to the success of this event we were able to purchase a wonderful selection of free books for the school. from picture to chapter books.

Again, a huge thank you to Mrs Tubby for organising this successful event for our school.

Healthy Break Time Snacks

A polite reminder to parents and carers that any break time snacks eaten by the children at school need to be healthy.  Crisps, chocolate bars and sweet are not allowed.  If a child is seen to be eating these they will be asked to put them away in their lunchbox or school bag.

Thank you for your continuing support.