Arkholme Primary School News
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The quickest and easiest way to contact your child's teacher is to email the school office and mark it for the attention of your child's teacher.
Please contact the school office via email or phone 015242 21418.
Please do not message via Remind as these messages often get missed.
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SPECIAL DATE FOR YOUR DIARY:
On Saturday 29th April Mrs Ingram and Mrs Waddington are going to be taking on a challenge. They are hoping to raise funds for the repairs to our flat roof whilst being suspended 1,000 feet above sea level in the breathtaking surrounding landscape! They will be tackling the longest highwire bridge in Europe. It is sure to provide them with plenty of action, laughter and a true sense of accomplishment.
If you would like to support them in their challenge, below is the link to our Just Giving page.......
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/katy-waddington?utm_term=bNzD8RqD9
Any donation, however large or small, will be greatly appreciated as always.
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Week commencing 6 March 2023 at a glance:
Monday 6 March 2023 -
Kingfishers - Please wear PE kit
Owls - Please wear PE kit
KS2 School Choir - after school until 4pm
Tuesday 7 March 2023 -
Owls - Safenet Session
Wednesday 9 March 2023 -
Kingfishers - Please wear PE kit and bring swimming kit
Owls - Please wear PE kit
Thursday 10 March 2023 -
Kingfishers - Family Worship at 9:10 am
Friday 11 March 2023 -
Robins - PE with MFC, please come in games kit
Puffin class will be going to Forest School, so please wear old warm layers of clothes and bring your wellies and waterproofs!
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If you have any outstanding payments, please can you bring your payments up to date, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Well done to all of you for remembering your instruments and making good progress. Mr Warriner has vacancies, so if your child is in Year 2 or above and would like to play an instrument, please email him directly.
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In the classroom this week!
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This week the Puffins have been to see Peter Rabbit and his friends, and have been making chocolate at the chocolate factory. We then wrote about what we enjoyed about our trip. In phonics we have been learning the oo phoneme and our new tricky word said. In maths we have been measuring long, short and tall objects, we even measured our feet with pasta pieces! We also made a collage of Peter Rabbit using lots of different materials.
Team Puffin
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Another busy week has whizzed by! We continued to read lovely poems and this week we explored The Sound Collector by Roger McGough. The children enjoyed reading the poem and spotting the rhyming words. Then we had a go at writing our own verses. The children did a super job!
Year 1 children have been learning how to Double numbers in Maths this week. See if you can work out how to double numbers around the house. (Mrs James thinks Malteasers are perfect for this!) In Year 2, the children have been learning about division by sharing and grouping. We have learnt how to write division calculations and how to find the answer. Next week we will begin to learn times tables. This is something that is very important, particularly as the children move into year 2 so we will have awards for children who have learnt them at each stage. Please help your child to learn them at home.
In history we learnt about the events of the great fire of London. We learnt where and how it started, and why it spread so quickly. We put the events in order and talked about what happened on each day.
In RE, we are learning about symbols of Easter. On Wednesday, we listened to the story of Easter and why Easter is an important celebration in the Christian calendar.
On Thursday we have a visit from Mrs Pilkington to help us prepare for the music festival which takes place on Thursday 23rd March. She was very impressed with our singing! We can't wait to share it with you on the day!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs James and Mrs Whitaker
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We have had a great week in Kingfisher Class.
We all thoroughly enjoyed the World Book Day celebrations, the children looked wonderful in their outfits and we had fun guessing each others words! The children spent a fantastic morning with Mrs Ingram in which they took part in the World Book Day draw along with Swapna Haddow and Sheena Dempsey. They drew the character Dave the Pigeon and wrote some imaginative accounts of what he'd been up to.
During the rest of the week, our maths and English learning continued as normal with the children working on fractions, multiplication, grammar and poetry. KS2 enjoyed Games altogether on Monday afternoon and Kingfishers taught the Owls how to play the brilliant Chain Gang!
Yesterday afternoon we set up our rain gauges in the school garden ready to collect some of the data we need to enable us to compare the weather in the Amazon rainforest with the weather here. We're looking forward to gettting started on this next week.
Thanks for a great week Kingfishers, have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Burgess
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Another great week in Owls Class this week.
In English, we have continued with our reading skills in our topic of song lyrics by studying Flowers by Miley Cyrus and I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. We have learnt how to answer inference and summarising questions focusing on these texts.
In Maths, we have learnt to convert fractions, decimals and percentages. We also completed a past arithmetic paper and went over areas people found difficult.
In History, we looked at the reasons the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain and sorted them into push and pull factors.
It was great to see the girls enjoying themselves at the football match on Monday night. The support was fantastic too, so thank you to everyone who came to cheer them on.
It was also brilliant to see some brave Owls play their instrument in worship. They did a brilliant job!
Have a great weekend.
Mr Pedder
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World Book Day 2023
What a wonderful day we had!
The children looked fabulous in their creative and imaginative outfits and we had great fun trying to guess the words that they represented. We enjoyed sharing stories, celebrating authors, illustrating stories, designing book covers, writing adventures, eating cookies(!) and singing along to the World Book Day song!
Thank-you for your support.
We hope that the children enjoy spending their World Book Day voucher on a lovely new book to read.
https://youtu.be/_JzkkviCkks
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Newsflash.... TARGET SMASHED!
Yesterday, we smashed our Kenya charity fundraising target - for the year!
Here is a picture of Ruth (Year 4), colouring in the final section of our Totaliser.
Thank-you to everyone who has bought one of Owls fabulous CD's, a slice of Mr Hanmer and Daniel's delicious pizza, or a cookie on World Book Day.
Well done everyone, we look forward to hearing how our money is used to bless the children of the World Prayer Centre Academy School in Kisumu, Kenya.
Mrs Burgess
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The Kingfisher class are taking part in this event. It would be wonderful if you could please sponsor them. Your support is always greatly appreciated!
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School Choir
We are pleased to share that KS2 choir has recommenced and takes place after school from 3:30 - 4 pm on Mondays.
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Gardening Club
If anyone would like to help run gardening club sessions please let Fay know on 07850114283. We’ve got big plans for Gardening Club this year so please get involved if you’d like!
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Arkholme C of E Primary School - Second hand uniform
Purple jumpers 22, 24, 26, 32
PE Hoodie 26, 30
School Polos 4-5, 9-10
PE Tshirt 32
Cardigans 22, 24, 26, 28
Checked pinafore 5-6, 9-10
Skirt 5-6, 7-8, 9-10
Summer dresses 5, 6, 9, 11
Grey trousers 4-5, 8-9, 11-12
Girl plain polo shirts 5-6, 6-7, 10-11
Plain polo shirts 5
QES black trousers + belt 28R
Contact Rosie 07598950515 if you'd like any of the above.
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The regular Arkholme Book Swap
is at Arkholme Methodist Church
this Saturday, 4th March,
10.00am to 12.00am
This month's book swap is to support for one of Arkholme's favourite charities
North West Air Ambulance
Bring some books you’ve read (or abandoned) and
swap them for some you haven’t & make a donation.
As well as lots of books for adults
we have a loads of books for children
Tea, coffee and biscuits available too.
if you have a charity you would like AMC to support through the book swap,
please let us know when you drop in and we can add it to the list
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The next Arkholme Coffee Morning
will be on Monday - 6th March
at 10.30am in the Village Hall
all welcome!
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