P.O.W.S.A Blog

P.O.W.S.A (The Prince of Wales School Association), now has it’s own section of the school website which includes a blog detailing all their latest news and events. To access the P.O.W.S.A page simply click the link labelled ‘POWSA’, at the top of any page within  the school website.

Harvest Festival reminder...

Just to remind all of our community that Harvest Festival is taking place this Friday (30^th Sept) in the school hall. KS 1 begins at 9.15am with produce sold afterwards. Then KS2 begins at 9.50am again with produce being sold afterwards. All produce for Harvest please take to the Servery in the morning; we will be awaiting you to begin placing onto our display areas.

If you are bringing in cakes, etc for the Harvest Café please take this to the classrooms; we will then collect this later on in the day when the hall is prepared for the afternoon. Harvest Café is open to parents, friends from 2.30pm and will close at 4pm, this is so hopefully pre-school children and parents can come over and join us. Children will be able to buy two cakes and a drink for 20p.

We very much look forward to seeing you, thank you for your help and support.

Science/DT

Just to let you know that another learning website has been added onto Merlin, Yr 3 photo gallery page under the 'pink flowers'. This website is an interesting read and play, teaching children about circuits, and components in a fun way. Enjoy!
Mrs Mewett

Great swimming

The children are really enjoying their swimming lessons!
They are working really hard.
Excellent!
DM

Year 3 I.C.T (Week Two)

Today in Year 3 I.C.T we began work on our e-portfolios with SWGfL Merlin which over time will allow us to compile and share a portfolio of work with each other, our teachers and most importantly with you as parents. To access your child's e-portfolio with them, click the My Space tab on any SWGfL Merlin page. By default, an e-portfolio contains a page called Noticeboard containing Web Links and Picture web parts, a page called Shared Files containing a document library, and a blog.  However, the pupils will all have complete control over their e-portfolio and can add and remove pages and web parts as they wish. Pupils can also create other webpages within your e-portfolio, and share them with selected other users. I am sure this is something that the pupils will want to carry on at home and I encourage them to do so. Mr. Spracklen

Stories with a Familiar Setting

In the first term of Year 3 the children are required to study the Literacy Unit -"Stories with a Familiar Setting".
For your interest here is a brief description of the planning provided by the National Literacy Framework:

Stories with a Familiar Setting.
Overview -Read short stories and serialised longer stories and review the main features of the characters, plot and setting. Discuss views, response and preferences as a class. Compare settings and analyse words and phrases used for description. Teacher demonstrates and then children plan and write a story with description of setting, beginning, middle and end. Open with description of setting to set scene. Clear beginning, middle and end.

Phase 1   Read and compare stories with familiar settings. Engage in investigations and analysis of various settings. Discuss atmosphere and common features and themes.
Phase 2    Reread and analyse, investigate and write sentences through modelled and shared composition.
Phase 3   Investigate and write sentences to describe a setting.  Writing of stories.

DM

Year 3 SWGfL Merlin (Problem Resolved)

Thank-you to those pupils and parents who spoke to me about an error which meant that Year 3 pupils were unable to access the Year 3 pages within SWGfL Merlin. This issue is now resolved (I hope?) and you should not be able to access all the required content. Mr. Spracklen