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November 23, 2007

Mathematics Evening Success

A big thank you to all the parents that attended the Mathematics Curriculum Evening. I hope you found it useful and informative. If you wish to download the booklet that was given out at the evening, click on the link below.
Download file:- Year 3 and 4 Written Calculations for Mathematics (Word 77KB)

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November 19, 2007

Well Done Children!!

The charity Samaritan's Purse were extremely pleased with the response by the children of St. Joseph's to their appeal.

The children managed to make 107 shoe boxes for children less fortunate than ourselves. These boxes will be sent to children in different countries making the joy of Christmas spread around the world.

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Jolly Phonics Evening a Success

Thanks to all the parents that attended the Jolly Phonics evening. You seemed to enjoy it. For those of you who wish to have a copy of the actions, you can download them from this link.
Jolly Phonics Actions:- Download file (Word 28KB)
If you want to find further information about Jolly Phonics go to the website:-
http://www.jollylearning.co.uk

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November 6, 2007

Barnaby Goes to Florida

Hi

As you all know my name is Barnaby and for the last three weeks I have been a member of the Gray family joining them for their holiday to Florida in the United States of America.

I had quite an adventure:

I visited an American Indian Reservation in Florida the home of the
Seminole Indians. When you buy things here you don’t pay tax to the USA because they are an independent state. That makes things a little bit better value.

We went on a boat ride through the Everglades and saw American alligators; they swam really close to the boat.

We also went on a swamp buggy a ride through the swamps and this eco tour showed us how the everglades are suffering from global warming because they are experiencing a drought and how other states are taking their water leaving them with none.

We went across to the Gulf of Mexico and we saw the sun setting on a beach in Naples with wild dolphins swimming not far from the shore.

We went down to the furthest southern point in the USA called Key West, its only 90 miles to Cuba and we visited Ernest Hemmingway’s house. He had cats with five and more extra toes they looked really weird. Ernest Hemmingway was a famous writer who died many years ago and his house remains the same today. Although he was a famous author, I’ve never read any of his books as they are a little difficult for me. (Maybe I will when I’ve grown up a bit more.)

I chilled out in Naples enjoying the beach and the pool area at the hotel we stayed at.

The sea when we went to the beach was really warm but when we went to Melbourne (not Australia) visiting Coca and satellite beaches on the Atlantic side of Florida the waves were really big and strong. People were surfing and the sea was really cold.

I also saw a delta 2 rocket launch a milstar satellite for the military at Cape Canaveral it went up like a firework. We also on the 23rd of October at 11.38 saw the launch of Discovery, the space shuttle carrying the harmony unit for the international space station. It was touch and go on the day because of the weather and the cloud cover but we went down all the same. We had to wait 3 hours in the sun eating ice creams and drinking coke to keep us cool. We listened to the live broadcasts from Kennedy and Huston. I met Bob Giffen who managed all the Apollo and shuttle launches at Huston before he retired. I also joined in the countdown to the
Discovery launch it was really exciting we didn’t hear the engines for quite a few minutes after the launch because we were so far away but when we did you could feel them as well as hear them.

While we were in Florida we visited the various theme parks and we did trick or treat in Disney. Tigger dressed up as a pirate and Stitch went as Elvis. I bet I sing better than him!

Many thanks to the Gray family who looked after me. It was a shame we had to come back to school but that means I might have another adventure.

See you all.

Lots of love

Barnaby

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November 2, 2007

Jolly Phonics Evening for Parents

Dear Parent / Guardian

As you may know, we have recently started a new scheme for teaching phonics in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1. The scheme is called Jolly Phonics and has proved very successful in teaching children the key letter sounds and how they are used to spell and read words. The scheme works by linking the sounds to movements which help children to segment and blend new words.

We would like to invite you to come along and learn the sounds and actions so that they can be implemented at home. They are a lot of fun and make reading and writing more enjoyable for your child. The evening will take place on Tuesday 13th November at 3.30p.m. – 4.15p.m. There will be a teacher to supervise children in another room whilst the meeting takes place.

I appreciate that some may not be able to attend, but what you learn will be extremely valuable in aiding your child’s progression.

We look forward to seeing you.

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Year 4 Writes Poetry

Year 4 have been writing poems about the wind. If you want to read a selection of them click on the links below.

Chelsea's Poem:-Download file
Alex R's Poem:- Download file
Holly's Poem:- Download file
Jessica's Poem:- Download file
Chloe's Poem:- Download file
Claire's Poem:- Download file
Rebecca's Poem:- Download file
Jack G's Poem:- Download file
Please feel free to leave a comment about our poetry by clicking on the comment link.

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