Weekly Blog 6th October

Wilton Expects Focus

The children are starting to feel autumn creep in here at Wilton, but that isn’t stopping Year 5 & 6 who went to Redcar Rugby club this week and showed real Determination.

The assembly theme next week is about World Mental Health Day and the importance of how our mental health can affect our lives. The children will also be showing courage and focusing on Independence while they work.

Year 3/4 Miss Norton Class Round up

Year 3 / 4 have had a fabulous start to the year and came back to school in September with a great attitude and as a result have worked hard in all curriculum areas.

In reading, we have been looking at alternate versions of fairy tales and we have read ‘Cinderella and the Comfy Trainer’. The children were able to recognise similarities and differences between the original fairy-tale and some children even used these ideas within their own piece of writing, where they had to write their own version of Cinderella. The children were able to use and apply known writing strategies to make their writing cohesive and engage the reader.

In maths, we started the year looking at place value, the value of digits, comparing numbers and adding ones, tens, hundreds and even thousands in year 4. The children have practised recording numbers, saying numbers and recognising numbers in different pictorial representations. We then moved onto addition and subtraction, children began by adding using apparatus to support their thinking, working with partners to explain the process and finally into formal calculations.

As part of our geography topic, we have been learning about Europe, the children have been learning about capital cities, languages spoken in different European countries and the currency (mostly euros) that is used. The children expanded their knowledge by creating a travel brochure and found out further interesting facts about the different countries, such as those closer to the equator are warmer and those further away, are cooler. They then presented their information using Keynote to the rest of the class, to develop their skills in computing also.

In PSHE, the children have been discussing friendship and respect, they have talked about what a good friend is, what a good friend looks like and how in turn friends show respect.

The children have also thoroughly enjoyed working with a partner in gymnastics to create symmetrical and asymmetrical balances when creating timed and sequenced routines.

Furthermore, they loved getting hot and sweaty on National Fitness Day, which in turn made their hearts beat faster!

Breakfast Club

Did you know we do a breakfast club every morning? You can bring your child in, knowing they’ll get a good breakfast before they start school.

This is open to everyone and can be booked in the clubs section on the school gateway app.

It costs £1.20 for each morning your child attends.

Diary Dates and Reminders

Halloween Disco

Attendance

Attendance every day is vital for your child’s progress unless they are too unwell to learn. It is your responsibility to inform the academy if your child is going to be absent by 8.45am each day of their absence. You can contact the office on 01642 453374.

The class with the best attendance this week are………

100% Attendance

This week 64 children achieved 100% attendance, a huge well done to everyone!!

Can you get 100% next week?

Lunch Menu

Our lunches are provided on a 3 week rota. Next weeks options will be Week 1.

Nut Free Academy

A reminder to all parents we are a Nut Free Academy, please read below.

Teesside Lions

Teesside Lions basketball team are offering free tickets to pupils and families for the next 2 Sundays, see below for details.

Hurry free tickets are limited!

Cost of Living

Online Courses for Parents

Access to Research

School Uniform and PE days

Please make sure that all items of clothing, including coats and packed lunch bags are clearly labelled with children’s names, so it is easy to find their owners.

All children have been provided with a t-shirt and shorts in a bag for PE lessons but they need to have their own trainers/plimsols in school please. Plimsols will be provided if needed. As the weather is changing, you may want to send in a tracksuit for children to wear outside during PE lessons.

Mrs Wardle – Tuesday

Mrs Barron – Thursday

Miss Norton – Friday

Mrs Harding – Wednesday

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