Thank you to everyone that came along to our phonics workshop for parents this evening. For anyone who was unable to make it, I will be sending some information home with the children tomorrow for you. In school, we use Rising Stars Rocket Phonics. They have a fantastic YouTube channel which has lots of helpful videos to support you with helping your child learn to read at home. You can find all of these videos by clicking the link below…
School News
Would you want the Cross to be moved? Owl Class investigates!
This is question has come up recently in local news groups and Parish Council meetings. As part of our Local History Study, Owl Class visited the site on Friday afternoon and also studied the Parish Council Meeting notes in Guided Reading. We then looked into the history of the Cross before coming to our own conclusions about the key question.
Enjoy a sample of our letters below from our team of Year 5 and 6 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
World Smile Day 2022
In Rabbits class we have been celebrating World Smile Day today! We’ve been thinking about what makes us smile and how we can make other people smile 😀😁☺️
Have a look at our beautiful smiling faces and what makes us happy:
Forest School
This week, we linked our topic work on “Harvest and Autumn” with our visit to Forest School. We all picked some blackberries in a previous session. Yesterday, we harvested some apples from a couple of apple trees. When we got to Forest School, we very carefully used a knife to cut up the apples. Some of us helped Kris build a camp fire and then he cooked the blackberries and apples in a pan on the fire. We all got to try some with some custard… It was delicious!
Hi-5 Netball Tournament – 3rd place!
Our sporting calendar kicked off to a great start this week at the Hi-5 Netball tournament at the Corbet School. We are super-proud of our team who were undefeated and came 3rd overall, only just missing out on the final! This was a fantastic achievement, particularly as our team consisted of players from Year 4 (Charley) facing squads of Year 6 children from other schools. We have been busy training and learning the rules (of which there are many!) during break times and lunch times where the children have been a pleasure to coach.
Well done to Ella, Mia, Charley, Alice, Arthur, Jamie and Andreas – you have done us proud as always.
Harvest
We love Wednesday afternoons because our little Bumblebees (Nursery) come through to Hedgehog Class for child initiated time. Yesterday, we were learning all about harvest. The children had a fantastic time singing and dancing to “Dingle Dangle Scarecrow”, playing with the small world farm, exploring paint with tyre mark rollers and making their own class scarecrow!
Year 6 Maths Challenge at Wrekin College – Top 10 finish!
On Friday 23rd September, a team of four Year 6 mathematicians attended Wrekin College for a Maths Challenge where they competed against other schools from across the county.
They had three challenges to conquer in pairs, then scores were counted up to reveal the top teams. George and Evan reported:
“I was surprised by how much sport was involved-we had to run around our column each time we checked our answer! We were flabbergasted when we found out our team came tenth out of 60 other pairs!”
Well done to Evan, George, Ella and Arthur: you did Ruyton proud! A special thank you to Mrs Collins for supporting the event as a parent helper. too.
Harvest Art
Today in Rabbits class we have been doing some artwork based on the story ‘Hello, Harvest Moon’. You will be able to see the artwork during our class contribution at the Harvest Festival on 6th October 2022.
Hedgehog Class spellings 22.9.22
Children in Hedgehog Class will be bringing home their spelling books this afternoon. Inside you will find a guide on how to use the books and how spellings and spelling tests are organised each week.
This week your child has single sounds to learn and to recognise the letter for each sound. These are the sounds we have been learning in class for the last two weeks.
The sounds are s, a, t, i.
Please let me know if you aren’t sure about anything!
Thank you, Mrs Johnson
Forest School
We explored even more of the Drumbles forest school site today with Kris. We were all really interested in the badger sets and learnt how to treat them with respect. We also picked some blackberries that we are going to use in a cookery activity next week. Then we got to have some free play! The children enjoyed making witches potions, playing on the rope swing and climbing trees.
