Week Beginning 8th December 2008

Hi everyone and welcome to this week's blogspot.

We have a busy week ahead this week so let start with a few dates for your diaries.

On Monday the children will have their Christmas Lunch. They should have pre-ordered their lunch through the letter that went out a few weeks ago. If they did not do this then they can order a lunch on Monday. Please remember that their will be no toast on sale at break time and therefore they will need to bring one with them.

On Tuesday afternoon our Year 6 and our Foundation Stage children will be attending the annual Carol Service at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. The children will leave school after lunch and will return at approximately 4pm. Please ensure that all outstanding permission slips are sent into school by Monday. Thank you.

The Year 5's will remain in school on Tuesday afternoon and will continue with their playground leader games taught by Mr Wilby from St. Gregory's.

The after-school football club will also start this Tuesday, the Year 6's will miss the first week as they will not return from the Cathedral in time.

Our assessment week last week went well and we only have a few assessments to finish off this week.

Literacy

The children completed an assessed piece of writing last week, this week we will be looking at the writing they did and giving them targets to improve their writing. They will also be able to look through their assessed writing with the marking criteria and see where they could have picked up more marks and the things they could have improved on.

They will then re-draft their writing and re-assess it to see of they can improve on their level.

Numeracy

The Year 5's still have one of their tests to complete, which they will do on Monday.
Our Year 6 groups will be going through the tests that they completed last week and addressing any subjects that they found difficult.

ICT

You may remember a few weeks ago we informed the Year 6 children that they would have their own mini laptop to use in school and they would be able to take them home as well. We have now bought the laptops into school for all the Year 5 and 6 children.
We are hoping that the laptops will be set up and ready for the children to take home before Christmas but please bear in mind that it will take a long time to set up 90 of them and it will depend on how quick we can get this done.


Here I Am

This week in Here I Am we will be focusing on the Christmas Story. We will have had lots of input on this from watching the Key Stage 1 and Year 3/4 production and also attending the carol service at the Cathedral and of course preparing for our own carol service.

The children will be using the information they found out about improving their writing to write their own Christmas Story.

When we do have time this week we will be practising the readings and songs for our carol service. The service will take place at St. Joseph's Church on Friday 19th December at 10am.
Please feel free to join us in this celebration but be aware space will be limited as the whole school will be attending.
Year 5 and 6 will also be walking to Church on Wednesday of next week to practice for the service, please ensure your child has a permission slip so we can walk up to Church.

That's all for this week.

See you next week.

Year 5/6 Team.