Sports Day

Tomorrow is Sports Day and we all have our fingers crossed for a rain free day.

The action will start at 9.30am.

The format is the same as in previous years but for those new to our Sports Day here is a brief  run down of events;

All of the children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are put into mixed age teams. Siblings will be in the same team. Two grids of activities are set up on the field and each team competes against one other team in each of 10 activities (5 on one grid and 5 on the other). Scores are recorded and totals added.

There will then be some running races. The heats have already taken place and the fastest 8 Reception boys and 8 Reception girls have been chosen for the final.

Here are the finalists

Reception girls                                                               Reception boys

Sophie Shepherd                                                                Isaac Hewer

Alice Stevens                                                                       Archie Hyatt

Ilyana Potten                                                                       Riley Spill

Isla Catt                                                                                  Fergus Crowe

Cerys Kirby                                                                           Ethan Cairns

Erin Brown                                                                            George Thompson

Amy Thompson                                                                  Sam Brown

Amira Kirat                                                                           Ryan Adams

 

A picnic lunch with friends, family or teachers will follow on the field and then KS2 activities will begin after lunch. Parents are free to stay for the KS2 Sports afternoon or to return at normal pick up time. Depending on the weather, we (Reception) may come out to watch KS2 in the afternoon or we may remain in the classroom.

Good luck everyone and we hope you all have a lovely day.

 

Commenting

Since we have started blogging, it has been fantastic to see just how many people have been commenting on our posts.  We feel that the blogs give people outside of school a view in to the classrooms.  It also means that the children can share their class’ work with anyone and everyone.

We are now starting to invite the children to comment on our blogs and have begun to take them through the guidelines that are displayed , sharing with them what makes a useful and valued comment.  We are aware that not many children from the lower part of the school will have email addresses and so the children are being taught to use the following method.

In the email section put yourname@minchacademy.net…so mine would be MRO@minchacademy.net

In the Name section put who you are and your class…Adam Teal

Then write a comment as normal.

This method will work for anybody and the class teacher will still need to moderate each comment before it is shown on the blog.

We encourage children to use the best punctuation and spelling that they are capable of and remind them constantly that what they write can be seen by anyone in the world!!!

We hope this will take the level of engagement with our blogs to a whole new level.

Here are some children giving recommendations about how to write a good comment…

 

And a poster we have displayed in school.

Great comment

Most of all, have fun – it will soon be your turn to blog!

Mr. O.

Maths Guidance

Do your children start talking a strange language whilst doing their maths homework? Do words such as chunking, grid method, or partitioning baffle you?

Attached below is a PDF file to help you to understand more about the methods used in our school and to enable you to further support your child/children with maths.

Click the link below to view the interactive PDF file.

Maths Methods

The videos below have been created by pupils in Years 5 and 6.

Addition Video Guidance

Subtraction Video Guidance

Dutch Day

Today was our  Dutch Day and we had a super fun time.

 

We even had our own Netherlands team

 

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and our red, white and blue team

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We tasted a number of traditional Dutch dishes. Here was our menu for the day;

Hotchpotch (or in Dutch Hutspot) is a dish of boiled and mashed potatoes, carrots and onions with a long history in traditional Dutch cuisine

Nasi met Kroepoek – Indonesian rice and prawn crackers

Frikandel Speciaal – Dutch sausage

Gouda cheese

Pepernoten- a Dutch cookie.

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A huge thank you to Mr Jansen for preparing all of the food and explaining what each of the foods were and why they are important to the Dutch.
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The children also found out many interesting facts about the Netherlands and I  hope they can remember some of the information and share them with you at home.

 

 

 

 

Forest Green Rovers

This week, the whole school visited our local football stadium, Forest Green Rovers.
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Ian showed us around and we saw lots of new things and learnt lots of new words, particularly the word SUSTAINABILITY. Try to remember that one children!

Mrs Saeed was amazed at how much information that we all remembered when we got back to school.
We learnt that Forest Green Rovers make their own electricity from wind turbines and solar panels.
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We remembered that they collect rain water from the roof of the stand and store it in a big tank. Then they use the water to water the grass on the pitch.
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We also saw some electric cars and their chargers.
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Can anyone remember some of the differences between the electric car and our petrol or diesel cars at home? Answers in the comments box please. 3 raffle tickets for each spot the difference!

We also learnt that all of the food served at the stadium is organic and vegetarian and that they cut the grass on the pitch using a mowbot controlled by a computer.