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Auckland College Newsletter April 2018

I have taken time throughout the Easter Holidays to reflect on all the wonderful activities I have seen throughout every aspect of the school during the Spring Term.

We began with our parent assemblies. It was so great to see all pupils demonstrate their learning to so many parents and family members. The growth in confidence of our Pre-Prep pupils was fantastic to witness. I am so pleased so many of you were able to join us.

We celebrated World Book Day on 1st March and the effort put in to costumes for pupils and staff was again amazing to see. The Prep classes participated in various workshops for reading, writing and drama throughout the day.

We had a great level of attendance at all our parents’ evenings and it was great to chat to parents I don’t normally see on a day-to-day basis.

We supported the charity Sport Relief this term

through various activities such as: a dance-a-thon, a skip-a-thon, a non-uniform day and badminton tournament. Although I haven’t yet received the grand total we raised, Mr Wellington was delighted to tell me we had raised over £1000 before the holidays! A few more sponsor forms have come in during holiday club and if anyone else has any more sponsorship to return, then please do so on Tuesday 10th April when we return.

I must give a very special mention to the pupils in Miss Croft’s Year 5 class, as they alone raised over £500! Well done!

Our PTA offered prizes for our Easter Bonnet Parade. The creations were fantastic and a few are featured in our pictures section overleaf. The PTA also organised for a very special guest to visit our Pre-Prep and Reception classes. We all agree that the Easter Bunny can come again, as each child received a special chocolate treat and it was wonderful to see the excitement in their faces!

Look out for more activities this term from our PTA.

As we move into the Summer term, hopefully we will enjoy some better weather and see our pupils take advantage of Sefton Park on our doorstep for some of their lessons.

Exam season will be upon us in just 5 weeks and our pupils have been working hard over the holidays, attending booster sessions with staff. We would like to wish them all the best of luck and hope they continue to work hard until all are completed on 12th June.

I must congratulate my Deputy Head, Mr Ramsden and his wife, on the birth of their second child. William Mark was born on Wednesday 14th March weighing a very healthy 10lbs 11oz. Mum and baby are doing very well and big sister Penelope is very proud.

I look forward to another successful term.

Miss Boyd

A Message from Miss Boyd, Head Teacher

Contents:

☺ Welcome

☺ Important information

☺ Achievements

☺ School performances

☺ Pre-Prep and Prep Class information

☺ Secondary News

☺ Photographs this term

Every Pupil Matters, Every Moment Counts

All pupils from Reception to Year 11 should be in class by 8.30am for Registration each day.

Summer uniforms can now be worn from Tuesday 10th April.

1st May will be ‘Class Photo’ day. Pupils should

attend in full school uniform and bring PE kits with them if they have PE on a Tuesday.

We kindly ask all families to refrain from bringing nuts and nut products into school for snack. We have now moved to be a ‘Nut Free’ school.

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Achievements

What has Pre-Prep 2 been up to? - Miss Smith

Pre-Prep 2 has really enjoyed the Topic of “Superheroes” this term; they have put their writing skills to good use labelling their superhero pictures and thinking of words to write that a superhero might use. We also had lots of fun making our own ‘Supertatos’ after reading the story book.

We had lots of little superheroes in class too for World Book Day and children had a wonderful time dressing up. It was wonderful to see the effort that everybody put in to the costumes. The children also enjoyed the

book swap and talking about their favourite characters and books.

In Phonics we have continued to learn tricky words by sight and the children have worked very hard practising recognition and letter formation.

In numeracy we have looked at ‘one more’ and ‘one less’ and have begun to learn how to use a number line to help with this.

In PE we have been using our feet

to push footballs in and out of

designated areas without using

our hands and working in teams

to compete and try to score the

most goals.

What has Pre-Prep 1 been up to? - Mrs Collins

The children have been working very hard this half term, in Pre Prep 1.

In Literacy the children have been learning how to retell stories in their own words, as well as create their own stories in small groups. They have been looking at different types of characters, and how certain characters help others, in the stories.

They have met and learnt new characters and their sounds in Letterland, as well as identifying objects that begin with them sounds.

During PSED, the children have been looking at helping others, as well as

talking positively about themselves. They have talked about their talents and shared their talents with their peers.

During Numeracy, we have been focussing on how to measure objects in the classroom, using cubes. The children have been counting how many cubes tall an object is, and describing if it is taller or shorter than another object. The children have been continuing to practice counting objects and recognising numerals to match. They are currently working very hard, doing

this.

Pre Prep 1 has had an excellent half

term, well done!

Secondary Merits Secondary Attendance Prep Merits Prep Attendance

Gold

Hariksan Pusbagar

Gold

Lana Alwehaibi

Gold

Cara Higgins

Gold

Joshua Atkinson

Silver

Lana Alwehaibi

Silver

Fuad Nassir

Silver

Amelia Appleton

Silver

Amy Berry

Bronze

Jacob Chan Hassall

Bronze

Jaden Cole

Bronze

Jori Soliman

Bronze

Daisy Dodgson

This term we have enjoyed our topic about dinosaurs, we talked about when dinosaurs existed and talked about differ-ent species of dinosaurs too. We have even welcomed our own dinosaur egg which hatched into a triceratops! The children have enjoyed learning about fairy tales in literacy, they have acted out the stories as role play and developed their own ideas of ‘what happens next’. The children have also enjoyed looking into the characters and created character profiles and speech for what they could say. The children have also begun to demonstrate their wonderful writing skills and have been writing their news for us to read out each Monday.

For numeracy the children have been enjoying counting as far as they can to 100; they have been enjoying counting in 10s too. The children have been practising using several methods of addition and subtraction; we have looked at using our fingers, number lines, 100 squares and practical methods of cubes and counting bears etc. Through these methods the children have really begun to understand making a number more or less. They can all understand and write number sentences to reflect practical work.

Towards the end of term all of our

Reception Class have caught ‘The Kindness

Bug’. We have captured special kindness

bugs and spread them all around the

room. They have been advising us how to

be kind and whispering kindness to each

other all day. The children enjoyed

capturing the kindness bugs inside of a jar

and writing down what they said. They

have been spreading the kindness bug ever

since!

What has Reception been up to? - Miss Schofield

Easter Activities

What has year 2 been up to? Miss Bainbridge + Miss Quinn

What has year 1 been up to?- Miss Kelly and Miss Crowley

What has Year 3 been up to? - Miss Lyons

Year 1 has been working hard this term and continue to produce wonderful work in all subjects.

In Literacy this term, pupils have completed the unit ‘Playing with Language within Poetry’. Pupils have read several ‘Tongue Twister’ poems and studied ‘Nonsense Poems’. They have thoroughly enjoyed creating their own poems, like the ones read in class.

In Numeracy, Year 1 has been focussing on numbers in relation to other numbers and where they belong on a 100 square. Pupils have worked on rounding numbers to the nearest tens number. As

well as, using the ‘more than’ and ‘less than’ symbols (> <).

This term, pupils have thoroughly enjoyed learning about ‘The Great Fire of London’ in their history lessons. Pupils have retained lots of facts and information about the events of the fire and I am very pleased with the diaries the children wrote in the style of Samuel Pepys’ diary.

This term, Year 1 pupils spent an afternoon with the author, Jude Lennon. The children took part in a question and answer session after listening to her read the book ‘Super Bob’. Jude talked about

her reasons for writing this book and her role in the ‘Slow down for Bobby’ campaign. This was a wonderful oppor-tunity for Year 1 to understand the importance of road safety and revisit rules for helping us keep safe on the roads.

Year 1 look forward to the challenges of

next term and I am sure all pupils will

continue to make excellent progress

across the Year 1 curriculum.

This term in Literacy, year 3 has been

studying Greek mythology and

developing their own Greek myths. They

have successfully applied their

understanding of descriptive language to

create a clear image in the reader's

mind. All of the children have thoroughly

enjoyed learning about Greek mythology

and particularly loved participating in a

'Conscience Alley' activity on World Book

day, allowing them to empathise with

the well-known character, Perseus. It

was wonderful to see that each child

could justify their decisions with

their excellent reasoning skills.

In Numeracy, year 3 have been working

extremely hard to tell and compare

intervals of time. They have also used

their understanding of addition and

subtraction to convert 12-hour analogue

time to 24-hour digital time. Recently,

year 3 have been focusing on the range

of methods used to multiply and divide

using the inverse operation to check

their working. The class love to apply

their understanding in their Friday

challenge sessions too, applying their

understanding gained from that week to

solve problems.

In the foundation subjects such

as Geography, year 3 has been

investigating the extreme events that

occur around the world. The whole class

can confidently describe and understand

key aspects of physical geography in the

context of volcanoes, earthquakes and

tsunamis. Furthermore, year 3 has

created some fantastic posters, providing

guidance on the safety procedures that

must be followed during such

extreme events.

Year 2 have thoroughly enjoyed this half- term and have produced some wonderful work across the curriculum.

In Numeracy, this term the children have covered many topics. They have explored solving word problems using multiplica-tion and division and started to look at dividing with a remainder. They also have been adding and subtracting using the column method and using carrying.

This term in Literacy, Year 2 pupils have been planning and writing their own poems. The children read poems featuring different examples of rhyming couplets. The children then went on to invent their own poems including rhyming couplets.

In Geography we have been looking at life in a city. We have discussed capital cities and compared the human and physical features of two cities

before discussing our local area.

We look forward to the challenges

of next term and are sure all

pupils will continue to make

excellent progress across the Year

2 curriculum.


This half term in year 4 has flown by in the blink of an eye!

It has been a fun filled half term where we have been learning lots of new and exciting things!

In topic this half term we have been looking at the Tudors and Henry VIII. This is something we have particularly enjoyed and have found very interesting.

A particular highlight this half term was world book day. It was great to see all of the amazing costumes in our class, with all of our favourite characters on

show.

Within our Literacy we have focused upon poetry and play scripts, with many children showcasing their creativity throughout.

Our Numeracy lessons have helped us to improve our multiplication and division with many of us now able to recite most of our times tables.

I have been very proud to award another pen licence this half term and hope to see the rest of the class work towards this goal

during the next half term. It has been great to see so many children improve their handwriting so much over the past few months.

account of events.

In Mathematics, Year 6 children

have worked on understanding and

using simple formulae. They have

learned how to express missing

number problems algebraically, to

find pairs of numbers that satisfy an

equation with two unknowns and

generate and describe linear num-

ber sequences. Year 6 used long

multiplication to multiply 3-digit

In Literacy Year 6 children explored newspaper writing, roleplay interviews with their peers, and considered accuracy in news reporting. They revised: dialogue and reported speech; colons, semi colons and commas; and punctuating lists with bullet points. The children then wrote a report of a car crash where they were a wit-ness and police officer and dis-cussed about a balanced or biased

numbers, then 4-digit numbers by

2-digit numbers. They used

rounding to approximate and also

used long division to divide 3-digit

numbers, then 4-digit numbers by

2-digit numbers.

What has Year 6 - Mrs Mukankusi


What has Year 4 been up to? - Mr Hare

such as Ali Baba and Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp, and have been looking in more detail at the culture behind them and characters. For play scripts, the children got really involved with the performing and thinking carefully about stage directions - I loved watching the different performances and their confidence grow! This half term, we have been looking at music evolution throughout the 20th century and the children have enjoyed listening (and dancing) to

different genres that they have never heard of before. We thoroughly enjoyed World Book Day and seeing everybody’s different outfits and all of the effort and thought put into it! Year 5 took part in a few workshops during the day with various teachers, and discussed what they dressed up as and what book it was from.

This half term, Year 5 has been working hard. In Numeracy, we have been recapping and developing our knowledge in measurement, area and perimeter. The children have tried to challenge themselves and have worked extremely hard on mastery questions to deepen their learning. In Literacy, we have been focusing on play scripts and stories from other cultures; the story that we have been looking at has been Arabian Nights (a frame story). The children have delved into the stories

What has Year 5 been up to? - Miss Croft

Year 7/8

This term Y7/8 has been studying the different types of reactions including: acid/base; combustion; reduction. Year 7/8 also researched the process of metal extraction, including iron and aluminium, as well as phytomining and bioleaching.

Year 9/10

Year 9/10 has been learning about

the wonders and mysteries of

magnetism and electricity. They

have: investigated the magnetic

fields of bar magnets; drawn circuit

diagrams; calculated resistance;

discussed evidence for the Earth’s

magnetic core. Year 9/10 have

certainly seen the attraction of the

topic!

Year 11

Year 11 has been working hard this term to learn about Fleming’s left hand rule and the application of it

by: describing how motors work; explaining the ‘jumping wire’ experiment; applying the right-hand grip rule; drawing magnetic fields. I think Year 11 would agree that this topic has gotten a bit out of hand! Well done for your hard work Y11.

History

Secondary pupils have explored a

variety of topics: Year 7/8 pupils have

been studying aspects of the Industrial

Revolution, while Years 9/10/11 have

recently visited St George’s Hall as part

of their study of a local historical site.

Our Year 11 pupils are currently

working towards the completion of

their syllabus in each subject prior to

their summer examinations. All of our

teachers continue to offer pupils their

full support and provide extra booster

sessions as they revise for their

forthcoming examinations.

English

During the term pupils have enjoyed a

range of topics: Year 7/8 have been

studying the main features of drama

texts and have participated in a range of

drama activities, Year 9/10 have been

exploring different ways writers present

extreme topics such as sport and

weather conditions, while Year 11 have

been exploring different forms of

narrative.

Enhanced Curriculum - Mrs Savage

Science - Mr Kelly

English - Mr Davies History

Firstly, we need to know which topics

pupils have enjoyed the most over the

last couple of years, so that we can

include the best of those again.

Then we’d like ideas for new topics.

These must be topics that can be

taught to a group of at least 15

children; they need to be age

appropriate and they need to be

something that we can achieve a

result in within a 5-7 week timeframe.

This is your chance to get involved

Our 2017 – 2018 Enhanced

Curriculum has been filled with a

wonderful range of interesting topics

to suit all tastes.

Now we have come to the time of

year when we need to start

considering what our pupils will study

in Enhanced Curriculum in the next

academic year and we would like

parents, teachers and pupils to be

involved!

and have your say, so please e-mail your ideas to me, Mrs Savage, at [email protected] I shall gather all ideas together and present them to the Senior Management Team. Then, when the decisions have been made, I will create options leaflets so that everyone can choose what they most want to study in the Enhanced Curriculum next year. I look forward to hearing from you.

Auckland College Newsletter

April 2018

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