Class News

In Year 3 this term, the learning has been focussed around the topic of Search and

Rescue and also electricity during our Science Lesson. It sure has been an exciting

topic for the children and has led to them designing and making their own fantastic,

working lighthouses. In English, we have been learning about playscripts and to finish

off this topic with a bang, we ended with our excellent Christmas performance, A

Magical Christmas Journey, which we hope you all enjoyed as much as we did. Every

child in Year 3 has worked extremely hard in their first term at Junior School and there

was no better way to end it other than all of the children playing a very special part in

our beautiful, touching Christingle service. I am extremely proud of all of the children

for such an amazing effort in this service and their first term in Year 3. Have an amazing

Christmas and we look forward to welcoming you all back in the New Year for more

exciting learning adventures.

Miss CaponMiss CaponMiss CaponMiss Capon

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Year 2 - Class 9

Miss CollinsMiss CollinsMiss CollinsMiss Collins

Class 9 have had a fantastic term

earning about Fire. We have learnt lots

about the Great Fire of London and we

have produced these amazing posters!

We are really proud of what we have

achieved and our writing has really

improved. If you want to know anything

about the Great Fire of London, come

and see our posters!

We now have our own Twitter account which we are

looking forward to using to share examples of the

fantastic learning that happens every day across the

federation. Please follow us @WykeRegisFed

WYKE REGIS PRIMARY FEDERATION

Newsletter 4 December 2015015

Year 2 Great Fire of

London event - day TBC

Year 1 Library Visit

Reception Library Visits

- dates TBC

School Nurse Drop In -

Infant Site

Storyteller visit to

Reception and Nursery

Reception Book

Character Day - details

to follow

Disco - Infant Site

3:15 - 4:15 - Reception

5:00 - 6:30 Year 1 and 2

Chesil Inset Day - School

closed to pupils

Half term holidays

We have worked really hard this term to encourage and reward good attendance across the Federation and would like to thank you for your support in this matter. Our attendance figures for this term are :

96.2% Infant Site

96% Junior Site

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WELL DONE EVERYONE!WELL DONE EVERYONE!WELL DONE EVERYONE!WELL DONE EVERYONE!

All children with attendance of 98% and above received a certificate and a pencil in the special attendance assemblies this week. Special congratulations to Russel Samuel (Class 9) and Grace Rodd (Class 1) at the Infants Site and Pia Robinson (3S) and Charlie Bailey (5L) at the Junior Site whose names were pulled out of the hat to win a brand new scooter each!

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Dear Parents/Carers,

Thank you for all your support this term

with your children’s learning. They have

worked very hard and we are really pleased

with them. Look out for our new website in

January which we hope will improve

communication with parents, but also

inform you more of what’s going on in every

year group across the Federation.

Due to security reasons, the Junior School

Victoria Road gate will be locked at 3:30pm

every day from January 5th. Children in

clubs will need to exit or be collected from

the High Street (car park side) entrance.

Finally, a very Merry Christmas from all

staff at Wyke Regis Primary Federation. We

look forward to seeing you in the New year.

Dates for your diary

Mrs Bolton

Reception Reception Reception Reception ---- Class 6Class 6Class 6Class 6

In Year One we have been using our

amazing Maths skills to solve a range of

different problems. The school dinner

company wrote to us asking us to help

them work out how many of each food

item they needed to order to make us a

special Christmas dinner. We each drew

a dinner and then used our counting skills

to count to 100 accurately. We recorded

this information in a table to send to them

to make sure they made exactly the right

amount.

The Year One Christmas carol concerts were

a fantastic success. We all looked amazing in

our Christmas jumpers and sang like angels,

even our grownups joined in with Rudolph the

Red Nosed Reindeer.

Year 1 - Class 3

CLASS NEWS

Mrs BristowMrs BristowMrs BristowMrs Bristow

Mrs MarchMrs MarchMrs MarchMrs March

The Reception children have been lucky enough to have a basketball coach in this half

term. They have been learning to bounce, catch and move with the ball. Molly was

particularly good at this! The Early Years Curriculum encourages children's own interests

and a few weeks ago the boys were particularly interested in building bridges. Mrs March

found a picture of a viaduct and challenged them to recreate it. They worked well as a team

discussing and revising their plans and showing characteristics of effective learning. They

did a fantastic job!

CLASS NEWS

We have had a great term looking in Science at

adaptation and variation. We studied how different

species vary - including humans, woodlice, and

strawberries and have attempted to camouflage our

own moths after finding out about peppered moths.

(Can you spot them?) We have also adapted an alien

to a planet in our report writing for Literacy and are

currently writing fabulous stories set in imaginary

worlds. Have a look at our drama pictures.

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5JB5JB5JB5JB In Year 5, we are not only facing the final countdown to

Christmas but also to the end of our topic about space -

‘Out of this World’. During this half term we have found

out about the Sun and Moon, Earth and its neighbours

and also life as an astronaut. We thoroughly enjoyed our

own ‘space walk’ when a classroom was converted into

the solar system for a day. After researching planets

for homework, we worked in teams to produce presen-

tations for Year 2. We had a great afternoon, sharing our

work with Classes 7,8 and 9. Not only did they listen

well, they also came up with some excellent questions of

their own.

Mrs JefferyMrs JefferyMrs JefferyMrs Jeffery

With Christmas around the corner, December is always a busy month. Before the festivities

could begin, Year 6 had to continue to work hard and complete practise SATs papers,

getting ready for the BIG SATs next year. Excellent progress has been made and we would

like to take this opportunity to thank all the children for working so hard ☺. We have also

had our Christingle service and the pupils performed brilliantly. We are ending the term with

our annual Christmas Carol Service which is always a success and we will have our

Christmas party with a special guest ‘Mr. Muddle’ – singing, dancing, playing party games

and eating party food. Such a great way to end a brilliant term! All of the staff in Year 6

would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

Miss ChappellMiss ChappellMiss ChappellMiss Chappell