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Newsletter 22

St Marks CE

Junior School

Dates for your diary:

*Wednesday 10th

March—Open Door

Yr3 and 4

*Monday 15th-Friday

19th March—Science

Week

*Wednesday 24th

March—Year 3 Egyp-

tian Day*Friday 26th March—

Reports out

*Monday 29th and

Tuesday 30th

March—Parent Consul-

tation Evening

*Wednesday 31st

March 3pm –End of

term (INSET 1st

April)

Wow, what a busy half term it has been already! We have just finished Leap

In Faith week, have been working really hard on our topics, and have Science

Week to look forward to!

Role Play Shop

As part of the Science Week, we are hoping to start a Lower School Role

Play shop in the Open Area. If you have any tins/packets of food we could

use for the week, please bring them in! We will also include

the fruit and vegetables from the science too. The aim is

for the children to sell items using real money and changeto help them consolidate their Maths skills. Please hand any

items to your child’s class teacher. Thank you! 

Maths Challenge

Brain need some exercise? Fancy a challenge? Unfortunately,

no one has the correct answer this week- keep trying! It willbe up for another week! Jot them down, take them away and

figure them out– can you solve them?

Science Week—15th-19th March

You will have read the letters and seen the posters around

school—Science week is fast approaching! We will be fo-

cussing on the ‘Growing Sound’ project. This is a cross-

curricular workshop and collection of teaching resources,

for primary and secondary schools. It explores music, the

physics of sound and plant biology and involves children

making musical instruments from fruit and vegetables. We

will be linking the science to Maths objectives wherever we

can.

The children will be split into mixed year group classes

on the Monday, working through a series of science ac-tivities. The afternoon will be given over to making the

instruments, such as the ‘carrot kazoo’ and a ‘pepper

shaker’. If possible, we are asking children to bring in a

fruit or vegetable in order to make these instruments,

and as many parents as possible to come along and experience the fun!

Please see your child’s class teacher or Mr Hawkes for more information! 

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Have a great couple of

weeks!

Miss Blightman 

and the Year 3/4 team

Amazing Egyptian Projects The Year 3 team would like to say a HUGE well done to all the children who have

worked so hard on their homework projects. The quality of work produced has been exceptional, so much hard

work and effort has gone in to all of them.

We are proud of you all! You will be able to take your projects home after Egyptian Day (24th March) as we

are hoping to create a museum for you all to showcase your work to the other year groups and parents.

PE and Games Reminders:

Year 3 Games: Tuesday afternoon, Year 3 PE: Wednesday mornings

Year 4 Games: Thursday afternoon, Year 4 PE: Tuesday mornings

Fabulous find of the fortnightThis week, a book by one of Mrs Steele Arnett’s favourite authors has been recommended as a

wicked read- The Kites are Flying by Michael Morpurgo. Travelling to the

West Bank to witness how life is for Palestinians and Jews living in the

shadow of a dividing wall, journalist Max strikes up a friendship with an enig-

matic Palestinian boy, Said. Together the two sit under an ancient olive tree

while Said makes another of his kites. As Max is welcomed as a guest, he

learns of the terrible events in the family’s past and begins to understand

why Said no longer speaks. The story is told from both Max’s and Said’s

points of view. If you have a great book, please tell us about it! Let your classteacher or Miss Blightman know, and you can write something for the news-

letter!

Targets: Children have been assessed in Writing and Maths

this term, and new targets will be set. These will be re-

ported to parents/carers at the end of term. Please discuss

 your child’s end of term report with them (out on 26th March), and

help them to know and understand what they need to do to be suc-

cessful. Thank you

 Year 3 Egyptian Day/Parent WorkshopYear 3 will be having an Egyptian Day on Wednes-

day 24th March. This will also be our parent ac-

tivity workshop from 1.30pm. Further informa-

tion to follow!

*Please note the change of date due to end of

term achievement assemblies, we apologise for any incon-

venience caused* 

Lily Lavin—

Egyptian Clothing

Phoebe Hatton— 

Egyptian Clothing Pyramid

Ben Davies— 

‘Tutankhamun-doo’! 

Kaetlyn Morley-

Egyptian Writing

Hope Hamilton –

Mummification

Sammy Lacey-

Mummification/Death