Rawdon Littlemoor Primary School

We thoroughly enjoyed the inter-house football competition today and Robin children all did their best and displayed excellent resilience and sportsmanship.

We have started to learn about what dinosaurs ate and how their bodies were adapted to help them hunt or protect themselves.

Just a reminder to look out for the email from the school office about signing up for parents' evening. It will be lovely to see you and talk about how your child has settled in their new class.

Tomorrow (Friday 29th September) is our school Interhouse Football Event.

All children need to come to school in PE Kit and trainers. Please do not send in any studded boots.

As the field might be muddy could you also send in a spare pair of shoes, in a separate bag, to change into afterwards. 

The KS1 Team

Thank you to those of you who were able to attend the meeting for KS1 parents on Thursday. 

For those who were unable to attend we have put the presentation slides on your child's class page on the school website. 

Robin class have enjoyed being historians this week.  Children worked in teams to sort pictures of objects into either the past or the present. We had lots of interesting discussions and are looking forward to learning all about Mary Anning next week.

Thank you to all the parents who came to our phonics and reading workshop this week. If you couldn't make it, don't worry, the presentation with key information will be added to our class page on the school website.

Our inter house football competition will be on Friday next week (29th Sept), so children will need to wear PE kit on Mon, Tues and Fri next week.

Thank you

The new Robins have settled in brilliantly over the last couple of weeks and have been enjoying learning all about our new 'Dinosaurs' topic. You will find a home school letter in your child's book bag which will tell you all about our topic and what the children will be learning this term.

Robin class also visited our school library this week. Each child chose a book to take home and share with their families. Depending on the child and the book, some children may be able to read their own library book, but most will need the book to be read to them e.g. a bedtime story purely for pleasure. Please can children bring their library books back to school in their book bags on Thursdays so they can be returned and another one chosen.

Also, just a reminder about our KS1 parents' meeting on Thursday 21st September at 2.15pm. Please come along to the school hall to find out how you can support your child with phonics, reading and spelling. We will also be doing a little Times Tables Rockstars and Numbots tutorial as well. 

Have a great weekend!

We have spent the last week finishing our Oceans and Seas topic by learning all about the seaside past and present. Three of our Robins even made their own fab seaside resort in the construction area.

The end of the year has come so quickly. Miss Jackson and I have loved teaching your little ones and we will miss them all.  Thank you so much for your lovely cards and kind gifts.  We feel very lucky and appreciated.  

Have a wonderful summer break and we will look forward to seeing you all again soon.

Miss Stevens

Some parents had requested the information about the Talent Show that is happening next Tuesday 25th July.

The cost to enter is £1 per child.

Please note that being chosen as a judge is for Year 2 upwards. 

We look forward to seeing the children's talents.

KS1

Robin class have loved writing their own ocean animal fact books this week. They can't wait for you to see all their hard work when they bring their work home!

Thank you for all your support with home reading this year. We will be collecting in all the reading books next week, so please can you have a look for any that might be hanging around so we can get them all organised for September.

If your child would like to enter the school talent contest on Tues 25th July, please can your child let me know what they are planning to do and bring their £1 entrance fee so I can add them to the list.

Also, please can you send your child to school with a strong carrier bag on Friday next week as we will be starting to get their work organised to bring home. 

Thank you

Miss Stevens

This week we have been learning all about ocean animals and the children made some fantastic collage ocean habitats.

We thoroughly enjoyed our virtual aquarium tour this morning and we learnt lots more interesting facts about sea creatures.

This week, Robins have been reading the story of 'Duffy's Lucky Escape' and finding out all about the problem of plastics in our oceans.  They all made some fantastic posters to share facts about ocean pollution and to give ideas about what we can all do to help. Well done Robins! 

The children are all looking forward to our interactive virtual aquarium session next week.  Please have a look for the information letter in your child's book bag to find out all about it. 

Thank you

We all had a brilliant day of craft, baking, roleplay and adventure in the meadow for our pirate day on Monday. The children all looked fantastic and really got into the spirit of the day. 

It is sports day on Thursday next week, so Robin children will need to wear PE kit on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.  Please ensure that your child is wearing suncream, has a hat and brings their water bottle on Thursday as they will be outside for most of the day.

Robins have been thinking about ideas for exciting pirate stories this week, including lots of descriptive adjectives and some similes! They all concentrated really well and produced fabulous stories.

The children will be bringing home a letter in their book bags today about the content of the relationships and sex education that we will be learning about this half term. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Also, just a reminder that it is our pirate dress up day on Monday next week. We look forward to seeing a class full of pirates on Monday morning!

As part of our 'Oceans and Seas' topic, we have been investigating floating and sinking. The children were set a task to work with a partner and see if they could make a ball of plasticine float. They all had a whale of a time and managed to make their plasticine float by making them into little boat shapes.  Zachary and William even managed to keep 11 little dinosaurs afloat in their boat! Well done Robins!

We have come to the end of another busy week in Robin class.  The Year 2 children have done a brilliant job of completing their SATs assessments and all the children have enjoyed two inter house competitions. 

Next half term, Robin PE days will be Mondays and Tuesdays and we will continue with Mondays for spellings. 

On Monday 19th June KS1 are having a fun-filled pirate day, so please send your child to school dressed as a pirate on that day!

Have a fantastic half term.

This week, we have started to look at pirate stories and have made our own little pirate story books. Children worked hard write and illustrate each page. Well done Robins!

Next week is a busy week with interhouse cycling on Wednesday and interhouse cross country on Friday. So Robin children will need to wear PE kit on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week. Please can children bring a bike or scooter on Wednesday and park them outside the classroom. All children will need to bring a helmet to take part safely.

Thank you

Robin class have been investigating moving picture books this week and have designed and made their own under the sea moving pictures.  The finished products look fantastic and the children were very proud of themselves. Well done Robins!

Thankfully, the weather cleared and we could have our special coronation picnic lunch outside. We have saved our cardboard lunchboxes for box craft next week, so you may be seeing them again soon!

Have a fantastic bank holiday weekend.

This week, we have been creating some ocean artwork and continuing to enjoy our seaside cafe roleplay area.  We have written some brilliant stories about 'The Snail and The Whale' and we have been telling the time.  

Have a fantastic bank holiday weekend and we will see you on Tuesday.

Welcome back Robins!

We have started our new 'Oceans and Seas' topic and the children have loved investigating our seaside cafe roleplay area and pirate ship small world area. We have also been working very hard in our maths lessons this week, learning how to solve missing number problems using inverse calculations. What brilliant mathematicians!

Just a reminder that Robin PE days are Monday and Thursday this half term, and Year 2 homework books will be marked by the children on Tuesdays.  Spellings will continue to be Mondays.

Thank you

Please find the KS1 Home school link attached.  Find out what your child is learning this term.

We have come to the end of our 'Spring and Growth' topic and hopefully all the children's broad bean plant made it home safely yesterday. The children are excited to plant their beans in the garden or pots at home and see how big they get!

Year 2 children have also brought home some practice arithmetic questions to complete if you have time over the Easter holidays.

Next term, Robin PE days will be Mondays and Thursdays.  We will also have to change the day we go through the year 2 homework books questions from Thursdays to Tuesdays.

Have a fantastic Easter!

We have had another busy week in Robin class learning all about directions such as forwards, backwards, left, right, half turns, quarter turns, clockwise and anti-clockwise. Maybe you can have fun at the weekend directing each other to places and objects around the house or garden?

We have been reading 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in our English lessons and all the children have done a fantastic job of re-telling the story in their neatest handwriting, using lots of adjectives.

I hope you all enjoyed the snow on Friday and built some great snowmen! We had a busy week in Robin class, planting our own bean seeds and learning about fractions by making toast and cutting it into halves and quarters. 

Robin class have been learning about instruction writing this week. We started by making some delicious jam tarts and then wrote a set of instuctions explaining how to make them.

Also, just a reminder to book your parents' evening appointment online. You should have recieved an email with a link to follow. If you have any problems, please ring the school office.

Have a great weekend.

Thank you to the parents that have volunteered to accompany us on our trip to Skipton Castle. I am still looking for one more person to come with Robin class if you can possibly spare the time.

Also, please can children bring in any spare shoe boxes and cardboard tubes (e.g. kitchen roll / wrapping paper tubes - not loo rolls) to help us with our castle making in a couple of weeks.

Thank you

Miss Stevens

Just a couple of reminders:

• We sent home letters about our trip to Skipton Castle this week. Please can you check your child’s book bag and sign the consent form if you haven’t already done so.
• In order for the trip to go ahead safely, we are still looking for 3 more parent volunteers. Please come and see me if you can spare the time.
• Year 2 children have brought home their new revision guides. Please look at the schedule of activities at the front of the books and support your child to complete the activities each week.
• Robin class PE days will continue to be Mondays and Thursdays this half term.
• Our home school link letter is on the Robin page of the school website, so please have a look to find out what we are learning about this term and how you can support your child.

Thank you

Miss Stevens

We have been learning to tell the time to the hour and half hour this week. Hopefully your children will be able to keep you updated with the time over the Christmas holidays. Year 2 children will be learning quarter past, quarter to and 5 minute intervals later in the year, so do feel free to practice at home especially if Santa brings watches or bedroom clocks. 

Our topic next term is ‘Castles’. All the children will be making their own shoe box castle with a winding drawbridge. Please can you keep any shoeboxes and cardboard tubes from wrapping paper or kitchen rolls (no toilet roll tubes please for hygiene reasons), and bring them into school in January.

And finally, thank you for all your lovely Christmas cards and gifts. Miss Jackson and I would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas. 

Thank you

Miss Stevens

We found out that astronauts sometimes eat tortilla wraps in space as they don’t make crumbs and they need to include a sticky filling so the other ingredients don’t go floating around the space station. Children designed their own healthy ‘Space’ wraps and carefully chopped and grated different vegetables for their fillings. They chose hummus or cream cheese as the ‘sticky’ part. Well done Robins!

Also, just a reminder that it is our class Christmas party on Tuesday 13th December. Children can come to school dressed in their party clothes and please check your child’s book bag for their party invitation which says the food contribution that we would like them to bring. 

Thank you

Miss Stevens

I apologise for the typing error on the front of the programme. I have corrected it and have printed new programmes for tomorrow’s show. For those that bought a programme today, I have left a set of corrected programmes at the school office. If you would like a replacement, please pop to the office and pick one up.

Thank you

Miss Stevens