Term 3 Week 1

Monday 16^th July 2012  

 

Dear Parents / Caregivers,

Term 3 Newsletter

Welcome back to the start of a new and exciting term. We hope you have all had a relaxing holiday break with your children.

Inquiry

This term we will be focussing on 2 topics. The first part of the term will be looking at the Olympics. In the second half of the term we will be looking at East Africa and in particular a school in North Tanzania, where a previous teacher from St Albans is currently working.  If any families have anything to contribute to these topics we welcome additional resources.

Spelling for Term 3

For the first 2 weeks of term we will continue to focus on long and short vowel sounds and the spelling patterns associated with these. We will then move on to look at suffixes (ed, ing), plurals and contractions. Please continue to support your child’s homework and weekly spelling test on Friday.

Reading

Children will continue to work in groups at their reading level. We appreciate you hearing your child read each day and filling in the log book. Poetry books will continue to come home on Fridays.

Maths

The core classroom programme will cover time and numeracy. It is great to see that some children have used the studyladder website over the school holidays. We will continue with this in class time and the children will certainly benefit from using it.

School Photos – Wednesday 25^th July

This has now been rescheduled to take place a week Wednesday. Could you please ensure that your child comes to school in the correct winter uniform including a St Albans School sweatshirt or cardigan. 

Parent / Teacher Interviews

Thank you to all the families who attended the interviews held in the last week of term.

Poetry Competition

This term the middle syndicate will be holding its annual poetry contest. Each child will be asked to select a poem to learn from memory. The class competition will be held at the end of week 3 with the finalists going through to the year 3/4  finals competition on Thursday 9^th August.

News for Term 3

Mondays – personal/weekend news

The children may bring one non-precious item to share.

Wednesdays – Buzz Groups

It was great to see the effort the children made with their ‘Buzz Group’ news last term.  This will be                 continuing again this term with the current week’s focus, along with the following week’s focus being included on the Home/Learning sheet. This should give the children plenty of time to prepare. The children should be able to share, in their own words, at least 3 facts about the chosen topic and can also bring along pictures or a book relating to their information.

Thank You

We appreciate all the support parents have given throughout the term and look forward to a productive and adventurous term together.

Kind regards,

Judy Calder and Julie Worthington