Ryhall CE Primary School Every Other Weekly Spring Term 2014 Friday 31st January CARNIVAL COMES TO RYHALL SCHOOL Hello again! I hope that the wet weather over the last couple of weeks hasn’t affected you all too much. My Journey along the A1 has hit lots of traffic in the last week, but thankfully we haven’t yet had any snow.....watch out this weekend though! So the heat of Brazil arrived at Ryhall School last week as our children took part in a samba drumming session. Everyone was involved and the drums and shakers and whistling would certainly fit with the stadiums of Rio for this year’s Football World Cup. It was a wonderful day and you can see Burghley Class enjoying themselves in a video on our website. Music has featured highly in our school just lately as on Thursday afternoon last week we had the pleasure of Tony Parkinson in School. He led the school through a superb music workshop which has left us with some music to turn into our own School song. This is being followed up in Literacy lessons as we become lyric writers fitting our own words to the rhythm of the music. We are also proud to announce that Mrs McLearnon has been appointed as our new teacher in Burghley Class. She is currently teaching in Cambridgeshire and will be visiting us over the next few weeks to get to know us all. I know you will make her feel very welcome when she does eventually join us in the Ryhall team. Our staff team have been exploring new technologies and have each built their own class blogs. Over the next couple of weeks you will see each one advertised. Do please log in and view some of our class work, and encourage others to view it too! The idea is the children are writing for a much wider audience and it has been proven to raise standards in writing. As blogging is also part of the new curriculum due to be rolled out in September we are looking forward to seeing how far away our viewers come from. Have a good weekend and enjoy our latest news! Ian Toon Ryhall CE Primary School Church Street, Ryhall, Lincs. PE9 4HR Tel: 01780 762447 Email: [email protected] In This Issue: Pages 2&3 Class News Page 4: Sports Report Page 5: What’s Happening? HAMBLETON CLASS Over the last couple of weeks Hambleton Class have continued their Roman theme with a look at Queen Boudicca and her dramatic defeat by the Roman Army. We were roving reporters at the scene and have written news articles to describe the events. We have also been investigating the different types of Gladiator there were and writing commentaries on a Gladiator fight that you will hopefully be able to soon read on our new Blog, which you can find at http://hambletonclass.edublogs.org We also joined with the whole school in learning how to play Samba Drums, which we thoroughly enjoyed as well as our HUGE treat this week involving a Photography Workshop! We learnt how to use a camera to take the perfect picture, using light and reflection, and were given the opportunity to take portraits, action shots, close ups and group photographs throughout the day. All had a brilliant time and we learnt loads. There may even be the potential David Bailey in Hambleton Class. Mrs Hicks BURGHLEY CLASS This week Burghley Class have had a very important job to do. We were sent a letter from the Wonka Chocolate Factory asking to help with their 50th Anniversary celebrations of the famous Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book! They asked us to write a new chapter for the book inventing a new room and a new character. We have had great fun thinking up new characters and then deciding what might happen to them in their adventure in our new room called the ‘Lollipop Lounge’. We used speech in our writing this week and also added short sentences to add more suspense to the adventures too. In maths we have been using chocolate to help us to understand fractions and we are all even beginning to use the proper mathematical language to describe the numbers in a fraction too. In Science we have set up and interesting investigation looking at how different drinks affect our teeth. We couldn’t find anyone willing to have a tooth pulled out to donate to our experiment so we have used egg shells instead!! We will let you know what we find out about the drinks. Burghley Class are also trying to go global and share our fantastic work with the world! We have set up a Burghley Blog which we will begin to use to share our work and our brilliant learning. So please feel free to log on and leave us some comments and spread the Burghley Blog address so we can see who we can get to read and comment on our work. The blog address is http:// djesson.edublogs.org/ Mrs Jesson ROCKINGHAM CLASS This week our ‘India’ theme has focussed on the Hindu festival of Diwali. We have read and ordered the story of Rama and Sita ready for writing our own version of the story. In maths we have been learning about shape and used our knowledge of symmetry to make Rangoli patterns. We have also designed and made clay diva pots. We developed our clay skills by carving and attaching little shapes to decorate our divas. Once they are dry we will be painting them. We are getting really excited about next week as we are off to the Bombay Cottage to taste Indian food on Monday. It is also our class assembly on Thursday 6th February @ 11.25 (apologies that the date was misprinted in a letter). Mrs Johnson TOLETHORPE CLASS The children in Tolethorpe Class have been researching how the ancient Romans bathed, the foods they ate, the clothes they wore and how children were taught. It turns out that Roman children used tablets too! In Maths they’ve been learning how to count the Roman way using Roman numerals, and also continuing to develop their knowledge and skills working with decimal numbers. In Science the children have thinking about forces around them, like gravity and friction. All things we showed off in our Class Assembly on Thursday. Mr Doran FORPS News Forthcoming events: Saturday 1st February 2014 Family Bingo 4.00pm – 7.00pm Entry: Adults £1 Children 50p. This looks to be another successful evening, we still a few tickets left so if you feel like playing bingo come along and join in the fun. Cakes at Break – Friday 14th February, Donations of small cakes appreciated. Next FORPS Meeting Wednesday 12th February 7.30pm at the Green Dragon, Ryhall. Everyone welcome. Our Cross Country Team will run at Rutland Water on Saturday 8th February starting at 9am. Do come along and cheer us on! BELVOIR CLASS Belvoir class have had another busy week on their travels with the author John Burningham and Mr Gumpy We can use story maps to tell a whole story and we have written our own version called "Mr Toon's train ride !" We have designed and made 'boats to float goats' Don't worry if you see us doing something funny with numbers or counting as we have been having "one less days" We too have started a blog, the website address of which is below: http://mskingman.edublogs.org Ms. Kingman SAINSBURYS ACTIVE KIDS SPORTS UPDATE We are currently collecting the Active Kids vouchers from Sainsburys. These will help us to buy PE Equipment and the added bonus of cooking equipment and cooking ingredients to aid our technology lessons. The new curriculum teaches about healthy lifestyles and will include savoury cooking. Do please collect these vouchers and send them in to the School Office Many Thanks! Burghley Class are currently enjoying their tennis sessions on a Wednesday afternoon with Dan the coach. Perhaps we have the next British Wimbledon Champion amongst them?! A Reminder........... Please can you make sure that the children have appropriate kit for Outdoor PE. Jogging bottoms, Tracksuit, a different sweatshirt top to School jumpers. Children in Tolethorpe and Hambleton classes who have PPA sport on Tuesdays will especially need warm clothing as our Sports trainers continue to teach outside in all weathers! Our Football Team have played really well over the last two weeks and in some wet and chilly weather! They unfortunately lost 6-0 to Uffington and 5-1 to The Bythams but we are very proud of them and they continue to show a fighting spirit! Thanks to all Parents, Grandparents and Friends who have turned out to support us and shout from the touchline! And thanks to Ms Kingman our manager Our Year 5’s went off to Uppingham last Friday to take part in the Quicksticks Hockey Tournament. They played really well and represented out School brilliantly! WELL DONE Thanks go to our Parents who drove and supported us. Parents Meetings. Our next Parent/ Teacher Meetings take place after the half term holiday on Weds 26th and Thurs 27th Feb. Mrs Jibb will have the Class sheets available in the Entrance Hall from next week, for you to sign up for a slot Follow us on Twitter @Ryhallschool What’s Happening When? Week beginning Monday 3rd February Day During School After School Monday 3rd February Rockingham Class visit to Bombay Cottage Staff Meeting Tuesday 4th February Reception and Year 6 Height Craft Club and Weight Checks Cross Country Club @ Lunchtime Football Training@ Lunchtime Wednesday 5th February Years 5&6 visit CBEC to see Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Recorder Club @ Lunchtime Lego Club@ Lunchtime Thursday 6th February Rockingham Class Assembly After School Football Club 11.25am Cross Country Club @ Lunchtime Friday 7th February SATURDAY 8th FEBRUARY~ KS2 Swimming CROSS COUNTRY RUTLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS SYKES LANE RUTLAND WATER 9am ~ 10.45am Week beginning Monday 10th February Day During School Monday 10th February After School Staff Meeting Tuesday 11th February Cross Country Club @ Lunch- Craft Club time Football Training@ Lunchtime Wednesday 12th February Recorder club and Lego Club @ Lunchtime Thursday 13th February Rev Andy Fyall Assembly @ 11.25am Singing with Ms Wolfe 2.30pm Friday 14th February After School Football Club IEB Meeting 6pm Cakes at Break 10.10am END OF TERMLET 3 Headteacher’s Award Assembly 11.25am Last KS2 Swimming Session (pm)
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