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SATs Week Timetable

This is the timetable for SATs week, which starts on Monday 14 May.

Tests will take place in the morning. Please make sure children are on time as test will start promptly.

• Monday 14 May: English reading test.
• Tuesday 15 May: English writing test (shorter task) and spelling test.
• Wednesday 16: May Mental Mathematics test Mathematics Test A.
• Thursday 17: May Mathematics Test B.
• Friday 18: May English writing test – longer task.

Tuesday 22 May: Level 6 tests in Mathematics – for those children who have done Tough Stuff Maths.

Training days

The training days for next year have been provisionally set for the following dates:

• Monday 03 September (this is the first day after the summer holiday; school would be open to children in Y1 – Y6 from Tuesday)
• Thursday 15 November (this date is fixed; it is to elect police commissioners)
• Monday 25 February (the first day after February half-term holiday)
• Thursday 02 May (polling day is usually the first Thursday in May, so it is likely we will have to close on this day)
• Monday 22 July (this is the last day of the school year – families tell us they would prefer not to attend for just one day in a week; instead of a training day on this date, teachers will stay for three after-school ‘twilights’ during the year, which is as well as the regular weekly professional development meetings held on Mondays)

Last week, teachers spent the training day in school working on our School Development Plan and action plans for 2012-13. Nearly all schools in England should have a School Development (or Improvement) Plan and accompanying action plans. They outline across a period of time how a school can make changes and keep up to date on educational trends.

This year, our teachers have begun to plan using Google Docs rather than Word. This is a step towards greater use of ‘the cloud’ to prepare, save and share / collaborate. Google Docs (and Google Drive) is a move away from saving things on a PC towards sharing things in a more ‘virtual’ way, which allows greater collaboration. The next steps will be for teachers to work in this way for more and more projects, and to get our governors using and sharing as well.

Strictly Year 4 Dancing

Year 4 have choreographed some of their own dance routines in PE.

httpv://youtu.be/QmVe-xeFb4U

04 May 2012

This week’s spellings are all words which have double consonants after a short vowel sound – this is an important, and common, spelling rule (think of the difference between hoping and hopping, for example).

The spellings will be tested on Friday 11 May.

04 May 2012

The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 09 May.

I can find five interesting facts about pirates.

This is a good opportunity to do some research on the internet and/or take a trip to the local library and hunt down some books on pirates!

Moortown’s Got Talent Winner

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I4ub1Ij4qw

04 May 2012

This week our spellings are all adverbs that follow the familiar spelling rule: double up for short vowel sounds.

04 May 2012

This week, we’re learning words with the ir sound. These can be written with the ir or ur grapheme.

These words will be tested on Friday 11 May.

04 May 2012

This week’s spellings are from the ‘tricky words’ section for Year 2. Your child will be tested on Friday 11 May 2012.

• people
• their
• asked
• could
• called
• saw
• thought
• friend
• once
• were

04 May 2012

The homework this week is talk time and is due on Wednesday 09 May.

I can talk about what I know about the seaside.