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A huge thank you to everyone who helped us raise a whopping £788 for our Fun Run which was held earlier this term. We can’t believe how much we raised!
Thank you to the Friends for their support in creating this event – we had a blast doing it whilst it was all for a great cause. Well done Team Ruyton!
Following the fantastic video that Miss Whit put together for us, we’ve also got some great photos of Sports Day 2021 to share with you 😊 We’re so proud of all of the children and it was so lovely to see so many happy faces!
Nursery Races!
Obstacle Races
Flat Races
Sack Races
Monkey, Hopping and Backward Running Races
Egg and Spoon Races
Relay Races
And of course the Year 6 Slowest Bike Race!
We were delighted to be able to hold our annual Sports Day today at Ruyton, even though it wasn’t our ‘usual’ occasion we still made the best of the current restrictions and held this annual favourite in our class bubbles. Tedsmore Green were the overall House winners on the day! Well done to you all.
We are thrilled to be able to share some of the races and our day via the video link below – please enjoy.
A huge well done and thank you to our fantastic children for such brilliant displays of sport – there was lots of laughter, some big smiles and plenty of determined faces! A fantastic morning all round. Thank you to the families of our school for your continued support.
Dragonfly Class had a creative, fun and productive Arts Week around the theme of ‘Planet Earth 2021’. We explored the book “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth” by Oliver Jeffers and then went on to learn about the ocean animals that are currently on the World Wildlife Fund’s Endangered Species List 2021. This developed skills across the curriculum including measurement in mass (tuna fish are huge!), habitats in science (including food chains, habitats, survival and evolution) plus reading, communication skills, geographical knowledge, climates, physical co-ordination … the list goes on!
The children were fantastic all week: teamwork, perserverance and focus in abundance! A big thank you to them all for making my week such a pleasure whilst producing some brilliant results 🌟 🌟 🌎 🌊 🌟 🌟
The finished pieces (so far – the clay project is still to come!)
‘Ocean Deep’ whole class collage:
Sharks in the Abyss:
Arts Week in action!
‘Wet-on-wet’ watercolour dolphins & porpoises
Aboriginal dot-painted turtles & tortoises
Clay turtles
Chalk pastel ‘Sharks in the Abyss’
Textile Collage – Ocean Deep
Foil Tuna fish 🐟 … yes, they’re endangered!
And not forgetting India’s new jumper 🌟😄
We laughed, ran, sang, walked and some even cartwheeled! Thank you to everyone who sponsored our children for their annual Fun Run; we had such a brilliant time and it was so lovely to see all the school participating in an event together in the warmer weather!
A huge thank you to our Friends Of Ruyton group who set the wheels in motion and got this event going; our children and staff are so lucky to have your support and encouragement whilst working to make our school an even better place for learning. We are very grateful to each and every one of you!
Thank you also to everyone who sponsored the children – we can’t wait to see how much we raised!
Finally, a massive ‘well done’ to the children (and staff!) who kept moving the whole 30 minutes – many at a speedy run (with Nick setting the pace!) and some clocking up a whopping 3 miles!
Happy half term everyone ☀️
We are really proud to share our support for Charley, Year 2, who has taken it upon herself to complete a triathlon to raise funds for a charity of her choice. It’s inspiring to see one of our pupils choose to take on such tough challenges.
She has around 6 weeks to finish her training for this brilliant event.I’ve no doubt Dragonfly Class (and the grown-ups!) will be eager to help Charley train for her run during our fitness PE sessions too.
Good luck Charley – we look forward to hearing more about your training updates.
For this week’s home learning, please access your Teams accounts. Any problems, email me on: whittingham.j@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.
See you there!
Please see Teams for lessons, chats and updates.
9:20 Morning Meeting for all
9.40am Year 3 & 4 English
10.20am Year 2 English
1pm Afternoon Meeting for all
2.45pm Close of day meeting for all
Finally, spend time today finishing any incomplete tasks from the week (for example the internet rules poster from yesterday).
Task One: Reading
Access the Assignment on Team and send me an update of your reading this week. What have you been reading? What have you enjoyed? What would you like to read next?
Task Two: Maths
Today we are having a TT Rockstars session! Log-in and commence battle… you can challenge each other or work through the levels and lessons.
Task Three: English
Join your live lessons and complete the Assignment task set on Teams.
Task Four: PE
Catch up with the Activity Challenge I’ve posted on behalf of the School Games and do your own activity. Joe Wicks is also online at 9am if you fancy his workout!
Well done and thank you for such a brilliant week! We’ll be moving over to Teams next week as I think you are all accessing the activities on there (even if you’re recording work on paper).
Dragonflies – you are BRILLIANT! Happy weekend,
Miss Whit xx
Please see Teams for our full chats, lessons and live tasks – we’re all getting better at this!
Today’s top tip: Keep your School Games Activity log updated to send to the School Games organisers 🙂
9:20 Morning Meeting for all
9.40 Year 3 Maths lesson
10.05 Year 4 Maths lesson
10.30 Year 2 Maths lesson
11.00 Year 3 Recorders
11.30 Year 4 Recorders
1pm Afternoon Meeting for all
2pm Music lesson for everyone!
2.45pm Close of day meeting for all
Task One: Maths – look out for your live Teams lessons
Task Two : English. L/O: To describe a setting.
Today I would like you to use your own word bank (from yesterday) or use some of the language shared on the Teams Assignment for this task to write a story opening where the setting has been described effectively.
Here is an example by ‘Boring Miss Whit’!
A boy walked in the woods. There were tall trees. It was peaceful. The woodland felt calm but he felt a little lonely. Birds tweeted in the trees.
Can you do better? Of course. Go Dragonflies!
If you can, write this on the Assignment document as I can mark it with more detail 🙂
Task Three: Music 2pm – Mr Butler will be delivering LIVE Recorders and Music today!
Task Four: PSHE & Computing L/O; To think about how we use the internet everyday.
L/O: To consider how we use the internet.
As discussed in our meeting earlier, we are all using the internet and computers as a huge part of our daily lives at the moment. This technology can be brilliant! But is also needs to be used mindfully.
Your task is to create a poster which shows the rules which you think Dragonfly Class need to remember whilst we are learning at home using Microsoft Teams, live video calls and the internet including sending messages through chat, using The Playground and choosing emojis. There are lots of rules we should be following but pick a few that you think are most important to you at the moment.
Have a look at the links below for some ideas (you don’t have to do them all!)
How can you use the internet safely?
The Smart Crew – lots of activities, perhaps choose one or two to look at
Send your poster as a photo attachment to the Assignment if you can. Good luck!
See you on Teams
Miss Whit xx
Good morning all,
Here are Wednesday’s lessons which will hopefully work! Every year group can attend a Maths lesson today now we are all beginning to get more familiar with what we are doing. For parents – I am going to stick to these times for the rest of this week and hope that it works everyday!
Before the day starts you could be participating in Joe Wicks’ 9am workout!
9.20am – all (introduction)
9.40am Year 3 Maths lesson
10.05am Year 4 Maths lesson
10.30am Year 2 Maths Lesson
1pm – all (afternoon introduction – optional but I will introduce task)
2.45pm – all (close of day / sharing – optional)
Organise the rest of your day yourselves with regular breaks.
Reverend Burns’ has sent a worship under ‘Assignments’ that you can watch today; choose a time that suits you.
Task One: Handwriting & Spellings – do on Teams Assignment if you can!
Using this week’s spelling list (sent out yesterday) can you write one sentence for each word. Remember:
Task Two: Maths – also available on Teams
Task 3: English
Complete the task attached (I’d prefer you to use Teams and add comments onto the ‘live’ Notebooks if possible):
Task Four: RE
This term we are learning about Hinduism. Firstly, I would like you to watch and listen to this Hindu story about ‘Svetaketu’:
What is the lesson of this story? Write down your own ideas about what can be learned from this story and Hindu beliefs (there is an Assignment on Teams that you can write this on).
Other tasks:
See you on Teams!
Miss Whit x
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