Ash Class
Summer Term Letter 2024
Well the term has gone off to a thundering start with Stone Age Day already completed! I do hope your child enjoyed the experience of trying to survive the day foraging, hunting, making fires, cutting up fish and looking after an egg all day!!
It is great taking the classroom outside and you’ll be thrilled to hear Ash class are doing more of it. Please note the following outdoor days, with a brief list of clothing and requirements:
Wednesday 24th April 2024
Yorkshire Dales National Park afternoon river workshop: waterproof clothing, sun cream, wellington boots, change of clothes, towel.
Dent to tent Thursday clubs – see letter distributed at the end of last term
Thursday 25th April – Putting up tents
Thursday 2nd May – Walking session (parents/carers welcome!)
Thursday 9th May – Putting up tents
Thursday 16th May – Walking session (parents/carers welcome!)
Thursday 23rd May – Outdoor cooking.
Thursday 13th June – Team building activities. We will be joined by the Dent Primary School pupils to do a joint session, so that pupils get to know one another before the actual walk. 2.30pm – 4.30pm.
Thursday 4th July – Walk to Dent from Sedbergh, camp in field behind Dent Primary School, lessons at Dent Primary School on the Friday, 5th July, parents pick up at end of school day on Friday from Dent.
Thursday 6th June 2024
Fell Foot Park outdoor pursuit day – more details will be issued nearer the time.
Tuesday 25th June 2024
Westmorland County Agriculture – Farm visit
Friday 12th July 2024
Sponsored walk – parents/carers warmly welcome
As you can see, quite a busy term! We will obviously continue to cover the curriculum and the same format will be followed with English and Maths being taught in the morning. This term for English we will be studying two brilliant books, “The Iron Man” and “Who Let the Gods Out”.
For the whole of the Summer Term we will be studying the Ancient Greek civilisation. Week commencing 10th June (day to be confirmed), we will be having a Greek Day. Please could your child come in to school dressed up as an Ancient Greek. We will change our classroom into an Athenian classroom and try and replicate life in Ancient Greek times.
To conclude our learning about the Ancient Greeks, Ash class will perform their assembly on Thursday 11th July at 10.10 a.m. – please could you keep the costumes for this performance! Thank you!
Your child will bring home his/her reading book each night, which they need to return to school each day. It would be greatly appreciated if they could read out loud to an adult on a regular basis, with you asking questions about what they have read to check comprehension. In Ash, we continue to write comments in the reading diary when we listen to children read banded reading books, as we find it is a useful link between home and school. However, between Mrs Phipps and myself, we hear your child read at least once a week during our weekly shared reading sessions. We truly believe that reading is the most important skill in life and once it is mastered the world opens up, so it is our aim, with your support, to encourage the love of getting totally immersed in a book!
In addition to your child’s Home-learning list, (which your child was given first week back), there will be weekly Spelling and Maths assignments set on EdShed. Also, TTRS tournaments will be set periodically. The Year 4s really need to work on all their times tables up to 12×12, as in June they will be required to complete an online Multiplication Times Check (MTC).
P.E is on Monday with Calvin Moorhead and on Thursday with Mrs Davies or Miss Simpson (student-teacher). Please could you ensure your child has their fully-named P.E. kit in school on these days. The P.E. kit is white T-shirt and blue/black shorts/skort.
Finally, the Y3/Y4 class teacher from St.Pauls Primary School, Enfield, London and I have set up a pen pal project, where the pupils have an opportunity to write letters to designated individuals and compare life in an urban area to life in a rural area. It was very exciting, as last week we received our first letter from our pen pals. Their individual letters were accompanied by photographs of the child enjoying activities out of school. If you are willing to supply photos of your child partaking in activities out of school that could also be included in their reply letter, please could you email to ash@sedbergh-pri.cumbria.sch.uk by Friday 3rd May 2024.
As always, we are always happy to answer any queries or problems. We need to work together to help the children in Ash class to become responsible, resilient, polite and determined young citizens that fulfil their full potential.
Kind regards,
Mrs Davies and Mrs Phipps
Spring Term Letter 2024
As mentioned in my previous letter at the end of the Christmas term, we will initially be studying “Countries and Capitals” and our lessons will be based on the trilogy of books, “The Boy who Biked the World” by Alastair Humphreys. We will concentrate on both human and physical geographical features of some of the countries Tom, the character from the book, cycles through. The second part of the term will be studying “Rivers” and to complete the topic, we will be attending a river workshop at the beginning of the Summer term, when the weather is hopefully kinder!
Also, it’s that time of year again! Following tradition, Year 3 and Year 4 perform at the Brewery Dance Platform and the date of our performance is Thursday 21st March 2024. Please read separate letter with more details and a consent form that needs to be returned. Thank you. With this in mind, our extra P.E. session will be on Friday morning, so please could you ensure your child has their P.E. kit in school for both Monday and Friday, plus swimming kit for Thursday afternoon (starting on 11th January 2024). Please could you name every clothing item to avoid filling our lost property bin!
Your child will bring home his/her reading book each night, which they need to return to school each day. It would be greatly appreciated if they could read out loud to an adult on a regular basis, with you asking questions about what they have read to check comprehension. In Ash, we continue to write comments in the reading diary when we listen to children read banded reading books, as we find it is a useful link between home and school. However, between Mrs Phipps and myself, we hear your child read at least once a week during our weekly shared reading sessions. We truly believe that reading is the most important skill in life and once it is mastered the world opens up, so it is our aim, with your support, to encourage the love of getting totally immersed in a book!
Shortly, your child will be bringing home a new list of Home-Learning tasks for them to complete over the first half of term. The aim of these tasks is for parents/carers to work together with their child and talk about the learning linked to our topics. You can complete all tasks if you so wish, but we would like you to do at least 4 during the half term.
In addition to your child’s Home-learning list, there will be weekly Spelling and Maths assignments set on EdShed. Also, TTRS tournaments will be set periodically. The Year 4s really need to work on all their times tables up to 12×12, as in June they will be required to complete an online Multiplication Times Check (MTC).
Later on in the term there will be an evening for you to discuss how your child is progressing in Ash class, but if you do have any queries or problems regarding your child, you can either message me via Dojo, email on the class email address, ash@sedbergh-pri.cumbria.sch.uk or phone the office. Additional events during the term will be put on the school website or communicated to you via the School App or letter.
Kind regards,
Mrs Davies and Mrs Phipps.
Ash team
