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The Diggle Star Diggle Stars YR: Elizabeth Bardsley for your fantastic imagination and creativity. Y1: James Troisi for showing resilience this week especially on transition day. Y2: James Heptonstall for making more of an effort to think about his behaviour and trying to be reflective. Y3: Layla Limer for using her resilience skills when completing so many assessments. Y4: Maisie Hobson- for fantastic effort in her English work and getting along better with children in the class. Y5: Jessica Topham for impressing Miss Alker with her enthusiasm for transition day. Y6: Luca Sivori for his enthusiasm and responsibility in pigeon club and gardening club. Well done to you all for all your hard work. We are very proud of you! Dates for your diary 11 th July Class R Trip to Touchstones Museum 12 th July - Class 1 and 2 Assembly 9am 17th July - Year 5/6 performances 2pm and 6pm 19 th July Year 6 Leavers Assembly 9am 19 th July – end of term 3.15. ------- Summer Holidays ------ Tues 4 th September – children back in school for new school year. PLEASE REMEMBER TO ONLY LOOK AT THE TERM DATES ON THE SCHOOL WEBSITE - DIGGLEPRIMARY.CO.UK What have we learnt? Class R. This week in English we have been completing our floorbooks, thinking about the different sporting events that have been taking place recently. In maths we have been working on problem solving, having to share objects between groups of people. In Theme we have been creating our own maps for little red riding hood. We have also been mixing colours together to make different shades of brown for the forest scene. Class 1 In Maths we have been practising our number bonds to 20. In English we have been learning the actions to our dreamtime story and practising our lines for the class assembly. In theme we have learnt about the physical features of Australia such as the Great Barrier Reef and Ninety Mile beach. We had a great time on transition day in Class 2. Class 2 In English we have been writing and learning our lines for our Class assembly with Year 1. We have also been writing our section of our school report. In Maths we have been adding and subtracting and practising multiplications ready for Times tables rock stars! We enjoyed two transition mornings this week when we worked with Mrs Spencer in Year 3. Class 3 In writing we have been thinking about reasons for our answers and how we can put these into words.We have been working with place value in maths and and solving more word problems. In Science we have been using our learning about plants and combining it with our writing skills to produce a leaflet “All about Plants.” Class 4 This week we have continued reading Wind in the Willows and have used our inference skills to answer questions about the text and wrote our own conversations between two characters. In Maths we have started to look the differences between acute and obtuse angles. In theme, we have continued to look at Standedge Tunnel; finding more information from a factual booklet and writing the findings in our own words. Class 5 This week Class 5 have been continuing to work on find equivalent fractions and using it the solve worded problems. We have practiced our reading comprehension skills and continued to plan a descriptive piece of writing about the World Cup. We also learned more about the everyday life of the Mayans. We have also been trying to compose a piece of music based on the ride of the Valkyries as well as enjoying our transition day with Miss Alker and trying to learn some songs for the show. Class 6 We have had a very busy week in Class 6 this week. We have continued with the rehearsals for our production including acting and singing. We have also had two days at Saddleworth School ready for moving up in September. We have also started making preparations for our Leavers’ assembly. Head teacher’s Comment First of all, I would like to offer a great big thank you to our fantastic FODS team who organised an amazing community fete last Saturday. It was great to be able to welcome the whole community into school and share such a lovely summer afternoon. As this hot weather continues I have now relaxed the school the uniform policy and children no longer need to wear a tie up to the end of term. Ties will be reintroduced in September. Friday 6 th July 2018 House Points - The Scores on the Doors Overall totals so far this half term … Dovestone 234 Swellands 250 Black Moss 245 Redbrook 251 The winners this week are Redbrook- Well done!
