newsletter 8th october 2021

NEWSLETTER 8TH OCTOBER 2021

RALEIGH INFANT & ADMIRALS ACADEMY

MESSAGE FROM MRS KOUNI

ASPIRATION ·TRUST · KINDNESS · FORGIVENESS · RESPECT · RESILIENCE · SAFETY

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you to all of the year 6

parents who attended the

meeting about behaviour

expectations and end of year

expectations in maths,

reading and writing. It was

lovely to meet everyone, and I hope to meet more

parents now the COVID restrictions have

relaxed. Your positive feedback and engaging

questions were really appreciated by all of the staff

who attended. Thank you!

This week one of our school values discussed has

been safety and leaders have been speaking to the

children about how they can stay safe in school and

how adults keep children safe in school. Alongside

our school values we expect children to

demonstrate certain behaviours to show the

teachers, pupils and our community they are

keeping the values. Everyone has the right to feel

happy and safe in school and the children

explained very well how they are kept safe in

school.

Please take the opportunity to discuss with your

child how they can stay safe at home and in the

community. Some key topics to discuss with your

child are road safety, safe behaviour near rivers

and railway stations as well as staying safe online

whilst using phones and computers.

Next week everyone in school will be celebrating

Black History month and will be engaging in some

interesting and exciting activities!

To celebrate National Poetry Day, I look forward to

receiving your poems about 'Our World! There is a

£10 book token for each winning entry! Get writing!

Have a lovey weekend!

Class Attendance

this week

Attend-

ance YTD

Nursery 84.34% 85.27%

Miss Peck 90.97% 94.42%

Miss Cousins 96.07% 95.44%

Mrs Hall 89.29% 92.96%

Miss Marsh 85.56% 94.29%

Mrs Ewens 87.27% 90.23%

Mrs Purvis & Mrs

Ellis 88.16% 95.42%

Raleigh Overall 89.45% 93.42%

Miss McIlroy 96.77% 96.66%

Miss McLeod 92.50% 93.77%

Miss Mota 95.56% 92.64%

Mr Titheridge 98.62% 97.15%

Mrs Howard 100.00% 99.90%

Miss Jenkinson 92.22% 90.21%

Mrs Render 97.60% 95.59%

Mrs Bishop & Mrs

McArdle 90.00% 92.98%

Mr Harris & Miss

Gabriel 94.94% 95.53%

Admirals Overall 95.20% 94.90%

Attendance


In nursery we are introducing the scheme ‘Talk for

Writing.’ Our story focus is ‘Goldilocks and the

Three Bears.’ We have started building up

knowledge of bears and their habitat. We have

been looking at bear videos, photographs of different places and meeting

a small teddy bear called Bobby Bear. The children enjoyed asking him

questions. We are focusing on the vocabulary, forest, cave and habitat

this week. The children have enjoyed art work and class discussions to

support their understanding of the new words. The children are enjoying

acting out the role of the three bears in the Goldilocks story through,

songs, dance and roleplay.

NURSERY

Reception

In Reception, we have just begun our Talk for Writing journey, and we are so

engaged in discussing stories and making our own stories. The children

especially enjoy inventing stories using our 5 part story structure; once upon

a time, who, unfortunately, fortunately and finally. We have begun to look at

our Talk for Writing story for this half term 'Shhh!' by Sally Grindley and

Peter Utton. The children have loved learning this story, especially when the

giant wakes up and chases us through the book! We are now in the process

of imitating the story through the use of a story map and actions. The

children have made their own story maps of the story that we have learnt,

and have even tried to label the different parts of the story through

segmenting and blending the sounds that they know.

Year 1

In Year 1 we have been focusing on the book the ‘Snail and the Whale’

by Julia Donaldson. We have been learning about adjectives and how

they give the reader more information. We have used our knowledge of

adjectives to help us create our own story characters and within our

writing. We are working really hard to make sure our letters are

written on the lines, that we use finger spaces and full stops. We

have written a short narrative using the characters we created and

used lots of new vocabulary in our writing such as tiny, soft,

enormous and smooth.

Year 3

In year 3, we have completed our fiction unit on the "Magic Paintbrush". Students have gained

many skills throughout this unit. Specifically we focused on learning about the different parts of a

story, paragraphs, punctuations, vocabulary and grammar. Some key vocabulary learned are;

battered, mysterious, emperor, hastily, and villagers. The students demonstrated their

understanding of story writing by creating their own fiction stories. The year 3's are now diving into

the next unit of our Talk for Writing program which includes our non-fiction text. Our focus is on

procedural writing, and the ability to properly and effectively write a clear and informative set of

instructions.


In Talk4Writing we have learnt a story

based on the Egyptian Cinderella by

Shirley Climo.

We started the unit by looking at

images from the story, discussing

what we could see, what we thought

and any questions we had. We then used the story map to make

up actions to help us learn the story. In this unit we have learnt

how to use expanded noun phrases to add more detail, use

different sentence types and how start our stories by writing an

opening that includes characters and setting. The children all

worked extremely

hard and produced

some fantastic stories.

YEAR 2

Year 4

In year 4, we are following the whole school approach for Talk4Writing. We are looking at different

ways to write a newspaper article. We are at the start of our learning journey, and the students are

imitating and understanding how our model piece of writing was constructed. We will be using the

texts: Macbeth and Hamlet to innovate and enhance our oral communication and vocabulary. The

children will be working independently to create their newspaper articles. We will link this work to our

topic of the power of Monarchy in the House of Stuarts and the Civil War.


Year 6

In writing, we follow a whole school approach of

Talk4Writing. This consists of 3 key stages: (i)

Imitate, where we look closely at how a model piece

of text has been put together. We explore key

vocabulary and identify the features that should be

included. (ii) Innovate, where we use the learnt

features and vocabulary to create a new version of

the original model text. (iii) Independent application,

where we apply all of our learning to produce the best piece of

writing based on the text type being studied. In year 6, we are

currently at the independent application stage for a Narrative – Journey Story. Our model

text was taken from our class text Cogheart by Peter Bunzl.

CEOP

Child Exploitation and Online Protection

Below is a link to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection site.

This website has excellent advice for parents, carers and children about

internet safety and reporting concerns.

Internet Safety – CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection)

You can also find links to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection site on our

websites:

https://www.raleighinfant.co.uk/page/?title=CEOP&pid=31

https://www.admiralsacademy.co.uk/page/?title=CEOP&pid=31

Year 5

In year 5, we have been using our core text of Macbeth, to explore narrative writing. We have just

finished writing our own stories independently, using the Macbeth story structure as a stimulus. Our

main focus was to include empty words in our build up to create suspense, and to use expanded 'ed'

clauses in our writing. This week, we are still using Macbeth as our core text to explore newspaper

reports. We investigated the murder of King Duncan on Tuesday, when a crime scene was set up in

class.

We are now moving towards writing our own newspaper reports to publish next week.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @Admirals_EMAT and @AcademyRaleigh


Jewellery

For your child’s safety we only allow small stud earrings to be worn by children.

These will need to be removed or covered with tape during any PE lessons and long hair tied back.

Please ensure children do not wear any other jewellery.


Term dates

• 20th October 2021…..Flu vaccine for Raleigh children

• 22nd October 2021…..The last day of the half-term.

• 23rd October 2021 to 31st October 2021…..Half term holidays

• 1st November 2021…..First day of the half term

• 22nd November 2021…..National child measurement programme for

Reception children

• 17th December 2021…..Last day of the term

• 18th December 2021 to 4th January 2022…..Christmas Holidays

• 5th January 2022…..First day of the term

• 11th February 2022…..Last day of the half term

• 12th February 22 to 20th February 2022…..Half term holidays

• 21st February 2022…..First day of the half term

• 1st April 2022…..Last day of the term

• 2nd April 2022 to 20th April 2022…..Easter holidays

• 21st April 2022…..First day of the term

• 2nd May 2022…..Bank Holiday

• 27th May 2022…..Last day of the half term

• 28th May 2022 to 5th June 2022…..Half term holidays

• 6th June 2022…..First day of the half term

To contact us: Raleigh Infant Academy

01842 762810

[email protected]

Admirals Academy 01842 753993

[email protected]

CONTACT DETAILS

For information on our curriculum please look at

our websites.

www.raleighinfant.co.uk

and

www.admiralsacademy.co.uk

CURRICULUM INFORMATION


Reception - Miss Cousins - Emily for showing resilience within her phonics

learning.

Reception - Miss Peck - Seth for showing perseverance when listening on the

carpet and following instructions.

Year 1 - Mrs Hall - Ethan for being a resilient child who no matter what happens

pushes through it.

Year 1 - Miss Marsh - Oscar - for being resilient and brave. He now comes into

class ready to learn and with a smile on his face.

Year 2 - Mrs Purvis and Mrs Ellis - Miguel for always putting up his hand in

lesson and trying his hardest in every lesson.

Year 2 - Mrs Ewens - Aleks for showing kindness and respects to his friends

Year 3 - Miss McIlroy - Ruby-Mae for aspiring to do better in her school work.

Year 3 - Miss McLeod - Adomas as he has shown the ability to recover and

power through though times when he doesn't understand a concept learned in

class.

Year 4 - Miss Mota - Jaden for always starting and attempting his work before

asking for adult support.

Year 4 - Mr Titheridge - Jacob as he has shown great resilience this week by

keeping focused and pushing through each challenge that I give him.

Year 4/5 - Mrs Howard - Rafael for showing resilience with his productivity

especially in Maths

Year 5 - Mrs Render - Jasmine for showing super resilience when facing

challenging work in any lesson.

Year 5 - Miss Jenkinson – Riley - for displaying resilient behaviour in class,

concentrating and avoiding distractions on a consistent basis. His productivity

because of this, has been excellent.

Year 6 - Mrs McArdle and Mrs Bishop - Layla for superb resilience in

mathematics.

Year 6 - Miss Gabriel and Mr Harris – Katie for showing resilience and never

giving up, even when things get tricky.

CELEBRATIONS

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