Rufford Park Primary School and Nursery

24/25 Blog 2 Cedar w.e 20.09.24

Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class

Hello

A week filled with both written and verbal description. We all thoroughly enjoyed 'hot seating' where we took it in turns to describe the tale of the Three Little Pigs from the perspective of one of the characters! This is part of our 4 week unit linked to our Roman Day at Murton Park and the children will use these ideas to publish a 'Day in the Life' of an ancient Roman soldier. In Maths we have continued to explore place value. In Computing, we have been learning how and why people can change their personal descriptions online.

Reminder - if you haven't contacted school to give permission for your child to attend our Murton Park trip next week, then please do so otherwise they will have to remain in school on that day with the opposite Year group in Cedar class (i,e Year 3s with Year 4s or Year 4s with Year 3s). 

Year 4 - a few parents have queried why all of the children were in the same 'group' in their first two sessions at the pool. This is to allow the swim coaches to assess accurately the appropriate grouping for your child. After this, children will move across groups as and when they are assessed as ready by those coaches and also on how well they apply the skills being taught to them at the pool.

Have a lovely weekend

Mr Dring

24/25 Blog 2 Cedar w.e 13.09.24

Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class

Hello

This week we have been very busy exploring how to describe our character creations (aliens). It's been lovely to see the children's imaginations at work and we have some very unique characters. I will use this first piece of published work to assess the children's first writing targets, for example: remember commas in a list etc.

In Maths, we have continued to explore place value of numbers (yr 3 up to 1,000, yr 4 up to 10,000) and have started using the class counting stick to help us increase our speed and accuracy recall of the times table facts - starting with 2x. At the end of Year 4, all children will sit the government's Multiplication Times table check and their results will be published in their end of year report.

In P.E, we have started our hockey unit and in Music have been exploring 'the Nutcracker' composition. I'm looking forward to hear how the Year 4s found their first school swimming lesson later on Friday too.

I wish you a happy weekend.

Mr Dring

2024-25 Blog 1 Week 1 Autumn 1 w/e 06.09.24

Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class

Welcome to Cedar class

In our blog here you will find lot's of information about your child's learning during this academic year and also useful documents or updates throughout the year.

Firstly, some administrative notices. Please remember that our P.E days are Tuesdays and Fridays (Year 3) and Tuesdays (P.E) and Fridays (Swimming) Year 4s. Swimming will start from Friday 13th September - Mr Kyriacou will send you further information soon about swimming. It is school policy that no earrings are worn for any P.E or swimming activities so we recommend children don't come to school wearing them on PE day. Alternatively, your child must be able to either remove them themselves quickly prior to a P.E lessons or bring their own plasters/tape that they can apply themselves over their earrings. Thank you for your cooperation with this safety matter.

To ensure we all have a successful year please make sure you communicate with school (and myself) as soon as possible with anything that we can do to further support your child. You can do this via the school office in person or email (office@ruffordparkprimary.org.uk), with myself in person at drop off or pick up or via class email (cedar@ruffordparkprimary.org.uk). If you email class, once I have read your email you will always get a reply but please be aware these emails are not monitored outside of school hours nor during school teaching time (i.e lesson time) so there may be a slight delay. Anything urgent I would recommend contacting the school office in the first instance.

If your child has joined an afterschool club then these will start (usually) next week (Week 2) but you will get further information via the school office for these and the office is the best place to seek information about clubs rather than myself as class teacher because they will have the most up to date information.

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible after school next Wednesday (11.09.24) for a 'Meet the Teacher' opportunity in our Cedar classroom - more details will be sent soon.

Secondly, our learning this week. I am so proud of every child this week who has shown me how proud they can be of their work, how hard they can work and how enthusiastic they can be about their learning. We have started our character descriptions in English, our place value in Maths, our grouping and classifying in Science and a lot of other fantastic learning opportunities.

Have a wonderful, safe and happy weekend.

Mr Dring

Cedar Week 7 Summer 2 w/e 19.07.24

Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class

Hello

What a fantastic year with far too many highlights to list here! I am so proud of every child's progress both in their learning and self-development - particularly how their confidence has grown. In September, most would not volunteer answers or speak in front of the whole class however now we have everyone wanting to perform the class poem. In addition, we have even had to set a time limit on their Ancient Egyptian home projects to make sure we can hear them all this week because they all have so much they want to share with us all! We look forward to sharing these with you if you are able to join us on Friday afternoon.

Our learning has continued this week, from putting the final touches to our papermache' art sculptures, using our reading skills to investigate a variety of positive mental health poetry, explored more magnet and friction related Science, consolidated our Maths skills and applied them to create our own bar charts and line graphs and we have celebrated our music skills in Singing Assembly too.

We were joined by the Rotary Club who very kindly donated more dictionaries to school and presented them to our Year 3 children - the Year 4 children will be bringing their dictionaries (donated last year) home this week.

Other highlights of our week are shown in the photos below.

I have had the great pleasure to teach your child this year and make memories with them for all of us to cherish - I wish them all well over Summer and into the new term in September. It is sad to 'let them go' (a song springs to mind here!) however I know they are well set to progress with their new teachers.

Thank you also for your kind words (and presents) this week - we have been overwhelmed.

We are of course here next week too (Monday and Tuesday) however there won't be the opportunity for a Friday blog.

Please have a fun, safe and restful break over Summer.

Mr Dring and the rest of our Cedar class team (Mrs Wakefield, Mr Fones, Miss Sanderson).

Cedar Week 6 Summer 2 w.e 12.07.24

Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class

Hello,

• In Maths the children have been completing lots of consolidation work.
• In English the children have been reciting a new poem "Mister Moore".
• In Art the children have been completing paper mache death masks and painting their clay Egyptian God models.
• In Science the children have been completing experiments using magnets.
• In P.E we continued our athletics topic by learning how to throw javelins. 

Have a great weekend!