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Year 6 Christmas Carol Service 16.12.24

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are so looking forward to celebrating Christmas with you this year. Our first service will be in the main hall at 6:30pm on Monday evening. Children need to arrive and make their way to class at 6:10pm to register and assemble. Choir members will assemble in class 3P. If you are not attending the carol service, please collect children at 7:30pm.

Carol services will also take place for Year 6 on the afternoons of Tuesday and Wednesday at 2:00pm during the school day. Please make sure that children are in full school uniform as no PE will take place on these days.

Thank you so very much for joining us and arranging to get your children to school in the evening – we really do appreciate it. The children of Year 6 have been incredible this year and we are so looking forward to them perform at our carol services. It is such a special way for them to end the calendar year.

With best wishes,

The Year 6 Team

Keep Calm and Carry On

Dear Parents and Carers,

After a superb week at Osmington Bay where the children were just fantastic in all respects, we have come back to the classroom with great curiosity to learn more about our topic of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On.’

We had a lovely visit from Mr Stiles this morning where the children listened intently to his talks about living through the Second World War as a young boy. They were shown so many artefacts from the war as well as rationed food items for the children to discover just how little adults and children got to eat for a week in the wartime. They were also allowed to pick up and ask questions about about gas masks, including special ones for babies, and shrapnel and German bullets collected by Mr Stiles.

Our learning about WW2 will be deepened with two further events for your children to experience: the baking of a Woolton pie and Evacuation Day. Children will bake a Woolton pie in groups from November 25th to December 2nd. They will bring a letter home this week which will let you know what day they are cooking and the ingredients they need to bring in for their group. Evacuation Day will be held on Friday 6th December and a letter to explain this day is attached. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

Our PE days for this half term are Mondays and Wednesdays.

We are looking forward to a great half term of learning and the excitement that Christmas brings. Thank you for having such wonderful children who were such lovely company on our residential trip.

Best wishes,

The Year 6 Term

Evacuation Day email 2024

Year 3 – The Awe of Stonehenge!

Welcome Back to Autumn 2! The children are still talking with such enthusiasm about our trip to Stonehenge. It was truly amazing to see the stones up close, trying to imagine the strength and effort required to build such a special monument. We were able to go inside the Neolithic houses and discover how the Stone Age people might have lived with such simple tools and resources. One of our favourite parts was the museum, where the building of Stonehenge was brought to life through projections on the walls. It was here that we were able to put ourselves in the shoes of the Stone Age people, imagining us stood in the middle of the stones during the summer or winter solstice. We are so proud of how well the children represented our school. A number of the Stonehenge staff and members of the public commented on what a delight they were. Well done, Year 3! Enjoy some of the photos of our wonderful day…
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Put On Your Gumboots!

In our music lessons last half term, we learned about music from South Africa, in particular using body percussion for a gumboot dance. In South Africa, gumboots are what we know as wellie boots. We learned how to play glockenspiels correctly, holding the beaters loosely so they bounce off each note. We also learned about Harmonic Ostinato. This is where two notes are played at the same time whilst a repeated pattern is played. We tied all of these skills together to create our very own Gunboots performance. We were very lucky to perform this in a mini-concert to Year 4 and we filmed it for you to watch at home. During our performance you will see us doing body percussion. We hope you enjoy it!

The Mystery of Metal

The children have been excited to discover what our new topic for this half term is – The Mystery of Metal, a science based unit. We look forward to investigating metals and magnets in our science lessons this half term. The children were also excited and a little suprised to discover the Iron Man had paid a visit to St Mark’s over the half term! He clearly enjoyed finding any metal in our grounds that he could, leaving bits scattered around. Our writing so far has been focused on The Iron Man novel. Once the children have written their indepenent pieces, we look forward to sharing these with you.

Some dates for your diary:

‘The Christmas Journey’ Workshop at St Mark’s Church
On Monday 9th December, Year 3 will be walking to St Mark’s Church on Homesteads Road for a lovely workshop about the Christmas journey. An email will be sent shortly to inform you about this.

Christmas Carol Concerts
Monday 16th December at 2pm
Tuesday 17th December at 6:30pm
Wednesday 18th December at 10am

A final plea from the Year 3 team please. As part of our DT this term, we are making pneumatic design systems and require cardboard boxes which have a lid attached. Teabag boxes are perfect for this. If you are able to send any empty teabag boxes in, we would appreciate it very much!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do send us an email on year3@stmarksce.org.uk
Year 3 Team

Year R learning – Terrific Tales!

We hope that you have all enjoyed a fun, yet restful Half Term. We are looking forward to a fun week when we return, learning about Bonfire Night and meeting with our Year 6 buddies again for some firework craft!

We enjoyed the opportunity to meet with you before Half Term to share and celebrate your child’s successes since starting school. Please can we remind you to add a comment to the Tapestry post we sent out before your parents evening meeting, titled ‘My first half term at school’. It’s lovely to hear your views on your child’s achievements so far.

The children have all done amazingly well and we hope they are recharged after the holiday ready to begin our next topic ‘Terrific Tales.’ Here is the Newsletter for this Half Term Year R newsletter Autumn 2 2024. As always, please do speak to us if you have a question.

Please can we remind you that the school’s weekly newsletter published every Friday contains information relevant to the whole school, including Year R. For some school-wide events, the information is emailed out directly to you.  Although we do communicate directly with you via Tapestry for Year R specific events (e.g. Autumn Walk), we do not duplicate information published on the school newsletter or emailed out directly to you. Please do ensure you are reading the school’s newsletter thoroughly each week to ensure you don’t miss out on an event, and making a note of events sent out via email from the school office. The next school-wide events coming up are the Scholastic book fair, and ‘Odd Socks Day’ during Anti-Bullying week. Check your emails from the school office, and take a look at the newsletter to find out more.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year R Team.

Puppet fun in Year 2!

The children had a great end to their first term in Year 2. They have been working really hard designing and creating their own puppets based on familiar characters from traditional tales. Can you recognise any characters?

Year 2 also enjoyed a local walk around the woods, looking for human and physical features in our surroundings. The children loved exploring and then used their experience to write their own recounts of the walk. It’s been a busy and fun half-term and we look forward to our next project with the children after the half-term break.

Year 2 Team

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