Hi everyone,

I hope you've had a great week.

Bits and pieces from the week:

WRITING:
Room 8 have been working hard on producing a piece of published writing about the holidays.  Soon all the published copies will be put into a book format in a clearfile, to become part of our Class Library!!

MATHS:
We have been learning how to collate, display and analyse data during our statistics work, and have been carrying out some interesting surveys to gather the data. Come in and see our favourite balloon and birthday dates pictographs!

Congratulations to Harry Burnard, who has moved up from Stage 3 to Stage 4 in his basic facts test today - nice one, Harry!  Riya Patel is only a few marks away from being on Stage 8 - WOW!!!

READING:
Well done to the people who have been consistently taking home readers and getting their notebooks signed by their parents. This sort of habit will make a big difference to helping the children make progress towards meeting National Standards.  Thanks so much for your support with this, parents!

CLASSROOM HELP:
There will be a big swag of reader books to put away next Monday. If there is anyone able to donate some time towards this job, I would be SO grateful...

SWIMMING SPORTS AND SUMDOG:
Many thanks to the those of you who have organised payment for these already. The swimming is part of the PE Curriculum and a nice way to cap off our swimming module for this term - plus the children LOVE the day!

Sumdog is a wonderful tool that the children use to consolidate basic facts learning, and can be used in the class as well as for practise at home. (again, LOVED by the children!)

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Congratulations to Maerin Farrington on winning this for showing consistent kindness to others and huge respect for other people's property. Well done Maerin.

VALUES CARD WINNER: Congratulations to Dylin Hickey for demonstrating the value of Community Participation several times while helping a student stay on task with their work.

Have a lovely weekend...