1. Thornhill School News Issue 28 News from Miss Clark News from Mrs Colley SCHOOLSCHOOL www.thornhill.cumbria.sch.uk/ This Week - 7 th May Next week – 13thMay News from Mrs Figes Attendance- week beginning 29 th April Class 1- 96.6% ( no lates) Class 2- 97.1% ( 4 lates) Friday 10th May Let’s talk…. I am proud of …… All school clubs are running as normal Swimming Thursday afternoon 10 th May – Years 3 and 4 Tag rugby festival – St Bees KS2 SATs start Mon- Governing Body Meeting @ 6pm All school clubs are running as normal: Talent Show rehearsals on Friday at Youth Club Please be aware that the month of May is the time for the annual Assessment tests. KS1 Sats – 6 th May onwards KS2 Sats – 13 th May onwards This week we have begun our topic – ‘Our world’. We will be exploring extreme weather; including tornadoes, tsunami and hurricanes. We will be looking at other natural phenomenon including volcanic eruptions too. Alongside this we will be learning about the geography of the world: the continents and oceans, climate and population density. We have also been story writing this week- years 3-5 spent Friday writing about a day when their life completely changed. After the bank holiday the children got straight back to work practising their times tables and mental maths skills. We all revised the names and features of 3-D shapes and continued our study of the life cycle of plants. Year six have been revising hard for their National Curriculum Tests next week and have revisited co-ordinates and fractions. This week we have started looking at recounts. We found out that they are sequenced using time connectives. In RE we have designed prayer mats using symmetrical patterns. The Year 2s have completed some of their SATs tests. They all tried really hard – well done.

2. Key Stage Two Sats- how can you help your Year 6 child? SAts Week begins on May 13 th. You can help your child by: listening to their worries and keeping them calm Ensuring they get enough sleep and are in school on time Feeding them a balanced diet to ensure that they have enough energy Practicing spellings, mental maths and reading at home in a non-threatening way Timetable for Year sixes- all tests are in the morning Please note: Writing Levels are Teacher Assessed using a portfolio of work completed this school year, these will be moderated by County in June. Science Assessments will be completed in the week before SATs. If you have any questions please speak to the class teacher. Monday Level 3-5 Reading test Level 6 Reading test ( 2 pupils) Tuesday Level 3-5 Grammar, punctuation and spelling test Level 6 Grammar, punctuation and spelling test ( 2 pupils) Wednesday Mental Maths Levels 3-5 Mathematics paper A Thursday Mathematics Paper B Class Photographs On Thursday 23 rd May a photographer is coming into school to take class photographs of the children. As usual there will be no obligation to buy them. Please ensure your child comes to school in the correct uniform for the photograph. Parent View http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/ In order to help OFSTED measure how successful schools are, they are looking for more parents to contribute to parent view. This anonymous survey is completed online and allows Ofsted to have an indication of parental feeling. Mrs Figes and the staff would be grateful if you could spare the time to complete this survey so that we can serve you better. If you would like more information, it is available in the office.