Ideas for free things to do around Manchester over the winter holiday…

Good Morning Everyone!

Parents' Evening is next week. Please make sure you have booked a slot for your meeting. There is always high demand so please do book a slot. All the teachers will be very busy on the day so will not be able to meet you if you show up hoping to meet them when you are there.

Welcome Ms Muse!

 Ms Muse is now a fully fledged member of 4ZN - welcome! Please feel free to introduce yourselves and of course all families with children in 4ZN will get a chance to meet her in person at parents' evening.

Medical Appointments - Picking up children during the day. 

When you need to collect your child during the day for medical appointments, please make sure you show the appointment card, letter or email at the main office. We need to see this information so we can authorise your child leaving during the day on the registers.

Homework

Sorry we have had some issues with the AR tests being accessed from home, but we seem to have ironed out all the problems now. If you do have any issues, please let your children’s teacher know and they can look into it for you. 

The LBQ homework platform is now fully rolled out - thank you to those families who have let us know how things are going, and I am really glad you are finding it helpful. We will be holding a consultation later in the term to ask how we can tailor the system to better suit how you would like to use it at home. 

Please remember to ensure your children are reading every day at home and don’t forget those TTRS practice sessions, especially in years 3 and 4. The National Times table check testing will happen in the summer term for all year 4 children. Success in these tests are usually a really clear indication of how well they will do in maths moving forward. 

Daily Reading Time

Year 1 - 10 minutes

Year 2 - 20 minutes

Year 3 - 30 minutes

Year 4 - 40 minutes

Year 5 - 50 minutes

Year 6 - 60 minutes

The greatest indicator of success in reading is reading stamina and just like running, the only way to build your stamina is to practise!

The 6 SATs paper takes the best part of an hour to complete - stamina is the only way children will perform at their best. 

Class Dojo and Speaking to Teachers.

Please make sure you have the dojo app and are connected to your child’s class. This is the best way to hear about what's going on, see how many dojos they have been awarded and how best to message your child’s teacher. All teachers are working with children from the start of the day so are not able to speak then. If you need to speak to them, send them a message on dojo!

Please be mindful that they can not respond during the school day as they are teaching and will not monitor messages in the evening when they are at home. 

All messages about absences should go through the school office. 

Thank you for reading,

Mr Brown