Welcome back!
By now your child should have settled back into the swing of school life and I hope they are prepared for an action packed end to the school year!
You should have received a curriculum newsletter and a pick a mix homework sheet. Please help your child to complete their tasks over the coming weeks. We do like to see their marvellous creations!
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Curriculum development
All the teachers and I took part in an interesting inset day about curriculum design and development.
Our aim is to ensure that our curriculum is knowledge rich and provides pupils with all the stepping stones that they need to prepare them for their next stage, whatever that may be.
Alongside our curriculum we want to offer lots of enrichment activities, mental health and wellbeing education as well as therapeutic outdoor learning in Forest school and competitive sporting opportunities.
We also shared lots of thinking around retrieval and giving our pupils opportunities to recall prior learning. Being able to recall learning from last week, last month and last year, means that the learning has stuck and the knowledge is there in their long term memories.
So when you ask your child what they have done at school and they can't remember..... ask again!
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Mrs Good always said she would retire if a pupil ever made it to level 100 on Mental Mathletes! Well it has happened!
CONGRATULATIONS to Freya Bishop in year 6! What an achievement. You have persevered and displayed resilience, when it hasn't been easy.
Sadly, Mr Fellowes will not allow me to retire. He thinks I am too young! So we had a celebration assembly instead. Freya received an Amazon voucher for her achievements and we had a video message from a special guest!
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In EYFS and KS1 last term the children learnt all about castles. They learnt about the coronation, castles in the UK and the features of castles, like turrets and moats. In DT the children made a model of a castle. They secured different materials to make their castles strong and some of them even had a draw-bridge!
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We have invested a huge amount of money into new Book Bag Books to supplement our RWI phonics scheme. Please look after them! To find out more visit our website-where there are parent videos and top phonics tips.
https://www.abbeysprimary.milton-keynes.sch.uk/page/?title=Read+Write+Inc&pid=194
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In Year 3/4, the children have enjoyed a fantastic culmination of all their learning in the Stars and Stripes topic.
In Design Technology, the children evaluated the quality of different sauces for a traditional American Pot Pie and created their own design criteria brief. They learnt how to make pastry and safely prepare vegetables using various kitchen tools before creating their own mini pot pies. Children also incorporated this knowledge into their writing, by writing detailed specific instructions about the process they had carried out. Finally getting to taste and evaluate their product against the design criteria. Yum!
After researching traditional American foods, games and music, the children helped to plan a ‘USA day’ event. They explored how to used mixed media to replicate the USA flag, before experiencing a ‘pot luck’ style buffet to sample and discuss their opinions of American foods. Then they collaborated in various American games including Four Square, Basketball, American Football and Red, White and Blue tag. We ended the day with a quiz to recall the knowledge developed over the unit of learning. How many of these questions can you answer about America?
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Before half-term we were lucky enough to have a visit from Author Daniel Henshaw. He shared his stories in assembly and carried out workshops with years 3,4,5 and 6. The children were really excited by the mystery of the stolen wedding dress. Poor Miss Tierney had her wedding dress stolen and the children reenacted the story!
I think everyone agreed that Daniel was really inspiring and he even signed books in the library after-school.
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Thanks to our learning mentors Mrs Jamieson and Mrs Bromfield we have a fabulous new display in the corridor. Every child in the school contributed their handprint. Be the 'I' in Kind represents our Abbeys value of Kindness! We choose to be kind and considerate at all times. It is an important part of the ethos at Abbeys. Over time we will be placing photos of our pupils being kind and those displaying random acts of kindness around the edges of the display.
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We love to celebrate our pupils achievements both in school and out of school. If you have any Shout-outs you'd like me to include in the newsletter please email me.
Jfellowes@abbeysprimary.org
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Shout out for Kaisan in year 1!
He has succeeded in graduating to Black Belt in junior class at Taekwondo.
That's 2 years of dedication!
16 drills - 24 Routines - 8 life skills learnt which include first aid, fire safety and stranger awareness. He will now move up to senior group and continue his journey.
Kaisan has also passed stage 1 in swimming and now moved to stage 2. He has also gone up a stage in his drama classes.
Kaisan- I am tired just thinking about all of these activities!
Well done and congratulations.
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Lacey in Year 1, has achieved her first ever ballet certificate.
What an amazing start Lacey. I am sure this is the first of many. And you have put it up on the fridge! I love it!
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Ioshua has been displaying his Abbeys Values by creating a 300 cup fortress!
He displayed his resilience and his patience completing this challenge.
I am curious to know, how many times did this fall down?
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Congratulations to both Mrs Bromfield and Mrs Shore! You've both been mugged!
Mrs Bromfield you were mugged by Mrs Jamieson. She's noticed the positive impact you are having on the children you are working with. We are all so happy that you have joined the Abbeys Team.
Mrs Bromfield- didn't hang about! She mugged Mrs Shore for always being positive and supportive. I couldn't agree more! We are lucky to have such a dedicated team at Abbeys. I wonder who will be next?
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A special shout out this week has to go to Mr Elliott. We knew all those pallets would get put to good use! Mr Elliott has been making wonderful things for Early years and for forest school. Who knew he was so creative? Thank you, Mr Elliot, It hasn't gone unnoticed!
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Key information
At this time of year everyone starts to get a little twitchy about the next academic year! Please don't worry! Preparations are underway! Some key dates for you are as follows...
Friday 30th June- Your child will find out who their next teacher is and what class they will be going in to.
Monday 3rd July- Move up day! Your child will spend the day with their new class and after school, parents are able to meet their child's new teacher too.
Thursday 13th July- End of year reports to parents.
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On Friday 16th June we will be hosting our first Father's day event. All pupils are encouraged to invite a father figure along for a hot-dog and some football/ cricket. This could be a Dad, Uncle, Grandad or even Mum who is playing Dad. The more the merrier! If you haven't booked please do, as we need to know how many hot dog buns to buy!
NB- If you are in Bradwell class you will have to miss swimming this day to attend the Father's day event. Please let us know what you'd like to do.
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We had a lot of events coming up. This is likely to be the busiest half-term of the year! Please check out our website calendar for more information.
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Uniform Exchange
If you have uniform that you are able to donate to our uniform exchange please hand it in to the main office. We often get a lot of donations at this time of the year, so if you are planning ahead for September, please come and take a look!
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Have a lovely weekend everyone!
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