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Cedar Week 2 Summer 1 w.e 26.04.24
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
Hello
Another fantastic week of learning in Cedar class this week. It started with all of the Year 4 pupils developing their Road Safety skills with the support of LCC Road Safety Team and all children were excellent representatives of Rufford Park - well done children.
In Writing, the children published their mini recounts of their Easter holidays whilst in Maths Year 3 have been finding fractions of amounts and Year ordering decimals. In Computing, we have been honing our skills using 'Scratch' to create infinite loops during our repetition in our games animation unit.
Your child may also have gone home this week saying they have been 'hot seating' as a pharoah - this is a drama technique used to support their written English by taking on the role (temporarily) of a book character so they can write from that character's point of view. Much hilarity ensued as the children grappled with 'mummy bandages' to get into character and politely suggested that I might be "a bit old" to wear a baseball cap when I took on the role of the character Mr Lightspeed!
Have a great weekend.
Mr Dring
Cedar Week 1 Summer 1 w.e 19.04.24
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
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Welcome back and to the start of Summer 1. We have started our week exploring the school grounds for 'evidence' of Ancient Egypt and learnt a lot about modern and ancient Egypt already. We started investigating parts of plants in Science, finished decimals in Year 4 and volume/capacity in Year 3 Maths, honed our writing skills drafting a recount of our holiday activities and learnt in PSHE Mindmate lessons about co-operating and listening to different points of view in a positive way.
This week, the Year 4 children took part in the Skipping School Skipping Festival. This involved competing against five other schools, in a variety of different skipping skills. The children have been practising really hard for this and did extremely well in the individual and team skipping events. The children also performed their skip dance, which was lovely to watch. The children were also extremely well behaved and represented the school really well. Rufford Park were the overall winners of the competition, which means that we have qualified for the Leeds City Final. Well done to them.
I wish you a very happy, safe and fun weekend.
Mr Dring
Cedar Week 6 w.e 28.03.24 Spring 2
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
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What a busy end of term. Yesterday's KS2 visit to church was enjoyed by all despite the rain - thank you to all parent helpers that ensured all children in KS2 could attend.
We have finished our India and Fairtrade unit in Geography - see how much information your child can recall. In PSHE, we have been discussing our rights and how people have to make choices e.g. whether to fund hospitals/schools/roads/libraries etc.
In Maths, we have continued to explore volume and capacity in Year 3 and decimals/hundredths in Year 4. In Science, we have investigated opaque, translucent and transparent as part of our Light unit.
Have a wonderful Easter break.
Mr Dring
Cedar Week 5 Spring 2 w.e 22.03.24
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
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What an amazing week with the culmination of all our Oliver musical rehearsals - the children did so well without word prompts and looked great as Victorian children in their costumes. Thank you for your support with this.
In Science we have loved learning about how we see light and in Computing we have loved exploring photo editing techniques. In Maths, Year 3 have been exploring capacity and volume whilst Year 4 and been investigating decimals buy dividing 1 and 2 digit numbers by 10.
Next week, the children have the exciting opportunities to attend the FORP Easter Egg scramble, Year 3 have a Road Safety course and a whole KS2 visit to church.
Have a wonderful weekend
Mr Dring
Cedar Week 4 - w.e 15.03.24 Spring 2
Mr Dring (p.dring) on: Cedar Tree Class
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Thank you to everyone who was able to meet with me for the Parents' Evenings this week it has been a great opportunity to share the great progress your children are making.
In Science, we learnt about the Sun and how to protect ourselves from it's harmful rays as part of our Light unit. We have finished drafting our formal letters in Writing and have moved on to Mass (g, kg) in Year 3 and tenths as decimals in Year 4.
At the start of the week we undertook our Maths and Reading assessments and I look forward to celebrating with the children the progress they have made since September. Whilst at the end of the week, we have been focussed on supporting Year 5 as part of their Oliver production.
Have a wonderful weekend
Mr Dring