Arkholme Primary School News
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Next week in school - for children attending
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We will be having a Burns celebration in school with a special school meal and Mr Donald will be bringing his bagpipes to play in the school carpark!
The PTFA have packaged 50p bags of sweets if any children attending would like one, please send the money into school on Friday.
Mrs Ingram will be on Zoom at 1:30pm on Tuesday to answer questions and for anyone who would like a chat. Link below and on Google Classroom under Zoom.
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Mr B has entered school into the Lancashire Inter Schools Sumdog Competition!
The competition starts today, Friday 22nd and runs until next Friday 29th.
Every question answered will get points for our school.
Make sure you log in and work together to get those points!
Check Google Classroom for more details.
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When entering a Zoom meeting, please make sure your child's name is displayed and the camera is switched on.
All the Zoom meeting details are now listed on Google Classroom, please see the short video below to see where to find them.
Please don't worry about printing out lots and lots of worksheets, there are a few options.
1. children can jot down the answers into an exercise book using the worksheet open on their screen then submit a photograph of the work.
2. Follow the step by step video tutorial below on YouTube, this show you how to easily edit PDF files and submit them back via Google Classroom.
3. Print them using the draft setting on your printer so you are using the least amount of ink possible.
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Watch this video to help you find all the Zoom meeting links on Google Classroom
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Mrs Whitaker's Reading Newsletter has been adapted slightly to suit the current situation, she has given details of loads of websites to access free reading books, magazines and all sorts of goodies! Take a look.
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Individual class teacher emails are below. Please do not use these for day to day messages as they are not monitored regularly throughout the day. Please contact the school office via email or phone 015242 21418
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What has been happening in the classroom?
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This week in Puffins we have been reading the book 'a piece of cake' by Jill Murphy. We have all enjoyed decorating/baking our own cakes and eating them of course! We have made a healthy fruit salad and used these experiences to write some lists and sentences. In Maths we have been thinking about the composition of number 4 and 5, there has been some super learning in school and at home with this. We have been working hard on our phonics and handwriting too.
Well done to all Puffins at home and school for always being enthusiastic about your learning, it is great to see either in person or via video link. Have a super weekend Puffins and Puffin parents you all deserve it!
Team Puffin
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This week I have been impressed (but not surprised because they are amazing!) at the learning that has happened in Year 2. On Monday the children planned a story that they were going to write, and each day have written part of that story in our daily live lessons. The perseverance and creativity they have shown has been fantastic. Some children have even managed to write a story while spending some days at school and some days at home - the writing is seamless! Well done children (and parents!) and I very proud of you all. It is lovely to see so many of you each afternoon in our daily zoom lessons. Keep sharing your art, geography, science and PSHE tasks on google classroom so we can see what you have been up to.
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Hello Kingfisher Class!
Thank-you for all your hard work this week! We have grappled with some technical challenges in our live lessons, but you have been patient and positive throughout, and Mrs Cunliffe and I have loved seeing you every day.
We have now finished our English unit on the poem Winter by Abbie Baker, and you have written some AMAZING winter poems of your own. You have worked hard to write poems with a structure; making careful, descriptive word choices that create wonderful wintry images in our minds.
In maths, we have tried something different this week. Taking a break from White Rose Maths, you have worked through a range of different maths activities designed to deepen your addition and subtraction skills.
In the afternoons, we have enjoyed seeing many of you in our live lessons and sharing our learning together.
Well done Kingfishers, I hope you can enjoy a well-deserved weekend off!
Mrs Burgess.
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This has been a fantastic week in Owl's Class, it is lovely to see you all ready to start work each morning. Sorry you sometimes have to wait for me to sort out the lunches.
I have seen some wonderful work this week, I have enjoyed reading your diary entries and looking at your landscape collages, which have been fantastic - I was able to recognise the local landmarks and features. Thank you to all the children and Mrs Waddington who helped with my mapping lesson on Tuesday lesson. I am having a week off next week, as we have a presenter who knows a lot more about birds than I do.
He will be starting off Bird watch week on Monday at 2pm. I have provided some resources for your Google classroom which I hope you will enjoy working on during the week.
Don't forget to complete all you Sumdog questions before next Thursday, when the competition ends.
Have a good weekend
See you all on Monday.
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Here is a video of some of the work done in Mrs Whitaker's PSHE lesson this week. Well done everyone!
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This week, we enjoyed a fun arty workshop on zoom! We learnt how to make a collage that represents where we live. Lots of you have shared your wonderful collages in your Google Classrooms and we have loved looking at them all. Thank-you for your creativity and hard work.
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Each week we will celebrate children both in school and at home, who have worked hard or impressed the teachers in some way.
Please let us know if you would like your child to have a shout out!
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Puffins -
George - for some super writing, always being a smiley face on google classroom and the comments from mum and dad never fail to make us smile !
Toby - for always being ready to learn at school, some super phonics and maths this week. - well done
Robins -
Year 1 -
Bethany - for great english work.
Fionn - for great understanding in maths
Year 2 -
Ruth - for so much effort in writing at home.
Remy - for managing to write a great story between home and school and making it flow.
Kingfishers -
Oliver W - for his enthusiastic participation in Mr B's live Geography lesson this week.
Anna - for demonstrating maturity and wisdom during a class discussion this week.
Owls -
Zara - for her written work this week and all the craft and maths activities she has completed and posted on to Google Classroom.
Leo - who has worked really hard in mathematics this week and is delighted he has found a quicker method for multiplying numbers.
Last week Year 1 were missed from the newsletter so here they are this week!
Christopher - for having a smile on his face every morning and enjoying his learning.
Ben - for his fantastic effort and always being ready to learn.
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