Swinefleet Primary School

Email: swinefleet.primary@eastriding.gov.uk
Website: www.swinefleetprimaryschool.co.uk
Location: Swinefleet Primary School, Low Street, Swinefleet, Goole, UK
Phone: 01405704386
Facebook: facebook.com/groups/SwinefleetPrimary
Twitter: @Swinefleet_Pr

Firstly, please accept my apologies over the delay in newsletters recently. With having bubbles in and out and lots of meetings regarding these Friday's kept seeming to come and go.

It may at times have been a challenging first half-term but we have still had lots of fun with much more still to come.

We have had a great first week back and are looking forward to the rest of this term especially on the build up to Christmas.

I hope you enjoy having a look at what we have been up to and please take a look at our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Bonfire Night

All of the children have looked at safety on Bonfire Night.

We hope you all have a lovely time if you are going to attend an event or celebrating at home. Please keep safe and for tips on how to keep your pets safe and calm visit the RSPCA website How to Keep Your Pets Safe During Fireworks | RSPCA

This half term has started with an exciting and very spooky Halloween party! Pearl’s class had a lovely time with Rubies class on Monday afternoon. This week we have been focusing on Diwali, which is celebrated on 4th November, we have made our own diya lamps, rangoli patterns with pasta and Diwali cards. We have also been focusing on Bonfire night and firework safety. We have been making our own junk modelling fireworks and we have been playing counting and phonics games related to both Diwali and Bonfire night.

Next week we are looking forward to Science week and starting our new theme for this half term – Polar Regions!

In Rubies, we have been really busy getting familiar with the structure of poems and identifying rhyming couplets. We are so brilliant now at performing poems that we had a go at writing our own with an emphasis on rhyme. We were inspired by Julia Donaldson's The Snail and the Whale to write our own sea-based poems. In Maths, we have been working really hard in Year 1 and Year 2 thinking about place value, comparing numbers and identifying tens and ones. In PE we have been thinking about the seasons and have been developing dances linked to the seasons- a particular highlight was when we danced to 'Singing in the Rain' and were inspired by Gene Kelly. In our Theme lessons, we have been thinking about map skills and drawing our own aerial maps.

Diamonds had a busy last half-term which unfortuantely also meant some remote learning too but hopefully this is now fully behind them and the great start to this half-term continues.

Diamonds have been busy taking inspiration from the northern lights and creating their own oil pastel paintings. They then spent a long 10 days in isolation and learnt virtually by creating posters explaining what is happening to the Arctic and what we can do to help. We took our creativity home and built models out of anything we could find! Some of us also rehearsed our numbers in French.

This half-term we have begun looking at the Ice Age and enjoyed our Halloween Disco. For further information on what we will be covering please take a look at our class page Swinefleet Primary School - Diamonds (Y3 & Y4) and Seesaw.

Last half-term, we worked on newspapers with a focus on eye catching headlines by using literary devices such as alliteration and puns. In Maths, we have looked at multiplication and getting to grips with mastering the skill with larger numbers. In Science, we continued to check up on our plants which had been swamped by the rains but some survived and thrived with the children observing new leaves and buds! We were also busy practicing for Harvest Festival and this is available on the class website.

This week we have started our new topic of the Ice Age and have begun to create a fact file. We have moved on to division and enjoying the challenge set by TT rock stars which is helping our speed and fluency. It was a great start back with the Halloween party with super costumes and has ended with staying safe during bonfire night. Have a good and safe weekend.

To encourage reading we are continuing our reading reward scheme as this has made a huge difference to the number of children reading at home.

We are aware that some of you feel it is a struggle to fit this in at home so children can now sign up to reading club at school which runs on a Mon lunch and Thurs evening. Either of these clubs will count as 3 reads so why not sign up to both.

This will start from Monday 8th November and cover 5 weeks so that the treat can be organised for the final week before Christmas.

15 reads (equivalent to 3 reads a week) = Christmas movie session

20 reads (equivalent to 4 reads a week) = Christmas movie session with access to our movie VIP service which includes visiting the hot chocolate station and Christmas treats area.

30 reads (equivalent to 6 reads a week) = All of the above and Christmas themed prizes e.g. Christmas stationary, Christmas goodies.

For younger children sharing a story together counts as reads too.

We would prefer reading is logged on Seesaw or Tapestry as this helps provide evidence of children's reading skills and supports our in school assessments. It also allows staff to have a dialogue with the children about the book they are reading. We will also accept written records of reading so please just let us know if you require a log to record this on.

Well done to those children who have been chosen to attend the Arete sessions at Delta Goole Academy. We heard that those who went to the event night had a great time and we will be keeping an eye out for photos in the Goole Times.

For your child's knowledge organiser and the medium term plan showing what they will be learning please keep an eye on Seesaw/Tapestry or visit the class pages on our school website.

If you ever miss an email please check out our school recent letters page Swinefleet Primary School - Recent Letters