Many thanks to all of the parent helpers who supported our children making their volcanoes today. The results were amazing and we are all excited about the forthcoming eruptions.
Month: March 2017
New tech
We have had a delivery today of brand new tablets for the children to use. These will be registered and ready for deployment next term. Many thanks to the PTA for supporting the school through their hard work and dedication to enable resources such as these.
Determiners
The word ‘determiner’ was introduced to the primary curriculum last year. This class of words relate directly to nouns but are not adjectives – they ‘determine’ the noun.
There are four main types of determiner:
- Quantifiers – any number or amount before a noun, e.g. three chairs, many books, few people
- Articles – the articles are a, an and the
- Demonstratives – this, that, those, which…
- Possessives – ours, my, your, their…
We teach the pupils to identify determiners by finding the noun, investigating which words relate to the noun and then disregarding any adjectives.
Thought of the week
This week’s thought is about mindfulness, from the pen of J.K. Rowing. We shall be following on from this thought in next week’s assembly when we will learn more about this author, as well as resilience and grit.
Character badges
All the badges are in! We’re sure that it won’t be long before we see these on jumper sleeves around the school, but who will receive the first one?
Gardening club
Mrs Hayward and her many helpers have now finished planting the onions into their beds. We hope to have enough onions for Mrs Powell’s cookery lessons next term.
Red Nose Day
This Friday we will be supporting Red Nose Day by allowing pupils to wear their own clothes for a £1 donation. There will also be a biscuit sale, with biscuits costing 20p each.
Embedded clauses
Embedded clauses are clauses that are added into the middle of a sentence. They are different to parenthesis (see previous post) as they require a subject and a verb.
No embedded clause
Fran went to Paris on her holidays.
Embedded clause
Fran went to Paris, where she had never been before, on her holidays.
10 goal thriller!
The football match this afternoon ended in a 5-5 draw between QPA and Jewell Academy. The players supported each other incredibly well and a high level of sportsmanship was shown throughout. Well done to Max – man of the match.
