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Olympic Fortnight.

 This week is the start of the first of our Olympic Fortnights. This is two weeks of work where all our learning has an Olympic theme.

We are taking this unique opportunity to enhance the children’s learning by giving them experiences related to the Olympics.

We begin on Monday with our very own Liss Junior School opening ceremony.

Our fortnight of work focuses on the Olympic value of respect. We will explore what this word means and how we show respect in our everyday lives. We will come up with our own definition of respect in the classroom.

We will be looking at our Olympic heroes, who they are, what they do and why we admire them. We will look at Eric Liddell and discuss what he had to give up to achieve what he did.

We will look at the countries that have hosted the Olympic Games in the past and produce fact files on them.

Homework

Monday -          Design a poster advertising the London Olympics.

 Tuesday -         Education City activities.

Friday -            Topic based activities.

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The whole school took part in the Big Dance, take a look at the video to see two classes performing in the hall.

http://lissjunior.primaryblogger.co.uk/files/2012/05/Big-Dance-2012-AS-CH-2.mp4

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Special events

 Please remember that this week is the week of the Year 3 and 4 QCA challenges. The children will need plenty of early nights over the next few days. They will need a water bottle in school with them over the week.

Literacy

We will be writing a range of texts this week to show our progression in writing skills over the year. We will use a wide range of punctuation. We will use adventurous vocabulary to interest the reader and use connectives to add extra information to our sentences. We will use paragraphs to organise our work.

Numeracy

We will continue our revision of topics this week. We will review and expand on the skills learnt over the past terms. We will solve problems in a variety of ways, using all four methods of calculation and our knowledge of place value to aid us. We will explain our working out and reasoning to others.

Homework

Monday -          Education City Numeracy activities.

 Tuesday -         Writing homework.

Friday -            Topic based activities.

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Leila Greening has made Liss history by becoming the first ever pupil from our school to have a review selected in FilmClub’s star reviews of the week. Her review of Passport to Pimlico impressed the judges and a well earned prize is in the post.

Leila’s review can be seen on the FilmClub website at

http://www.filmclub.org/films/star-reviews

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Special reminder

 For Golden Time on a Friday, please could you remind the children that the toy they bring should fit in the palm of their hand. This is due to problems we have storing them.

Literacy

We will continue our work on sentence writing this week, saying, writing, reading and editing a sentence to improve it. We will be using commas to mark clauses in sentences to give more information. We will compose sentences using adjectives, verbs and nouns for precision, clarity and impact. We will look at writing explanations, using language effectively to explain how something works or why something happens.

Our comprehension in class this week will focus on fiction texts, extracting information quickly and effectively from a fiction text.

We will be developing our handwriting style, keeping writing consistently sized and using the correct formation of handwriting joins.

Numeracy

We will continue our revision of topics this week. We will review and expand on the skills learnt over the past terms. We will solve problems in a variety of ways, using all four methods of calculation and our knowledge of place value to aid us. We will explain our working out and reasoning to others.

Homework

Monday -          Education City Numeracy activities.

Tuesday -         Writing homework.

Friday -            The children have QCA challenges next week, so they need plenty of early nights over the next few days. They will need a water bottle in school with them over the week.

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Special Events

 Well done to all the children for completing the mini marathon we held in school on Friday. The rain held off for us until right at the end, although the course was a little muddy by the end!

Literacy

We will continue our work on sentence writing this week, using WOW words and connectives to make our sentences more interesting. We will be using commas to mark clauses in sentences to give more information. We will compose sentences using adjectives, verbs and nouns for precision, clarity and impact. We will also look at persuasive writing, using language effectively to persuade someone to agree with us in a letter.

Our comprehension in class this week will focus on non-fiction texts, extracting information quickly and effectively from a non-fiction text.

Numeracy

We will continue our revision of topics this week. Using the methods we have learnt to solve problems in a range of contexts, such as money and measures. We will be developing our mental calculation strategies, using facts we know to work out other related facts.

Homework

Monday -          Education City Numeracy activities.

Tuesday -         Writing homework.

Friday -            My2012 topic book front cover.

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On Monday 16^th April Leila, Phoebe, Oliver and Sam received a letter and a parcel from Mrs Olivia Harrison, the widow of former Beatle George Harrison. Olivia was extremely pleased to hear about the fantastic popcorn sales we had made over the course of a week during January.  All the money that we raised went to UNICEF, which is a charity the Harrisons favoured and rose millions of pound for.

Inside the parcel the children found, to their exceptional delight, four Beatles hoodies, four notebooks of the same design and a pen, which would have been Mr Stanley’s if he hadn’t kindly forfeited it to a draw which Leila won.

We hope to hear from Mrs Harrison again, and once again we thank the parents and pupils of Liss Junior School for buying our popcorn.

Phoebe, Leila, Oliver and Sam

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Welcome back!!

Welcome back to the Summer Term from everyone in the Lower School team. This promises to be a busy, fun packed term. We have lots of Olympic related events happening which will be reinforcing the Olympic values as well as being lots of fun! We also have tests during the term to help us assess the progress the children have made over the year.

Literacy

We will be concentrating on sentence writing this week, using WOW words and connectives to make our sentences more interesting. We will be using commas to mark clauses in sentences to give more information. We will compose sentences using adjectives, verbs and nouns for precision, clarity and impact.

We will make sure we are using a range of punctuation in all our writing.

Numeracy

We will be revising our methods of calculation this week, making sure we know which operation to use when and which method we are confident with. We will be looking at when we can use mental methods and when we need to write calculations down which we cannot do in our heads. We will be developing our mental methods, counting forwards and back in steps of various sizes to increase our calculation speeds.

Homework

Monday -          Education City Numeracy activities.

Tuesday -         Writing homework.

Friday -            My2012 topic book front cover.

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Each spring term the Chess Club holds a school chess tournament over. The tournament is open to Chess Club members and runs over seven weeks.

Competitors were awarded 3 points for a win 2 points for a draw and 1 point if they lost. Each week  the winners of the previous round were paired against each other and the losers were also paired against each other. The seven week competition was closely contested up to the final week when Sam Waine won his final match and became this year’s School Chess Champion.

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Earlier this term pupils were invited to design an Olympic scarecrow to be used to advertise the Liss Olympic Scarecrow Festival.

Lots of entries were received and the festival committee had great fun time picking the  overall winner. However they all agreed that Kate’s design captured the essence of an Olympic scarecrow whilst at the same time presenting a strong clear image.  Kate’s scarecrow design was then sent off to be printed as a poster.

Every child at both Liss Infant and Junior school will take home a copy of the poster advertising the festival and we look forward to seeing the posters displayed all around the village.

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