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Weekly Newsletter 04.04.2025
One Trust Culture Day
This week we decided to extend our ‘One Trust Culture Day’ to a week, celebrating our cultures and what makes us who we are. Every afternoon this week, children have looked at our Individual Cultures, or Cultural Heritage and our National Cultures.
Our afternoons were rooted around 3 main questions;
- Who am I? – Understanding our own identity and belonging to ourselves
- Who are we? – Understanding the identity of others and belonging to our school community
- How do we live together? – Understanding the identity of those outside of our school community and belonging to the wider world.
Who am I?
In English this week, the children have been focusing on the book ‘The Same Inside’ a sweet and thoughtful collection of poems that deal sensitively with feelings, empathy, respect, courtesy, bullying, disability and responsibility. Some classes learnt their poem to perform in a assembly, others drew pictures to represent the poem. Some classes looked at the vocabulary choices and discussed the meaning of each section.
Who are we?
After children explored their individual culture, they recorded what makes them who they are on a Identity Circle. They included their values and beliefs, their likes and dislikes, things others see about them and what’s important to them as individuals.
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Expanding on ‘who are we’, everyone in school did a self portrait, bringing together that sense of belonging and school community. The pictures were wonderful and we are planning to have them displayed in school
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How do we live together?
Children then began to think about it means to be part of our school and the wider community. They explored Bradford as a district, looking at what makes Bradford special, then they moved on to research other countries in the world.
Diary Dates
April
Friday 4th April – SCHOOL CLOSES FOR EASTER
Tuesday 22nd April – SCHOOL RE-OPENS FOR THE SUMMER TERM
Wednesday 23rd April – St George’s Day lunch (see email for details)
Friday 25th April – Sammy Clothing Collection, please bring your bags to the school office when they are full
May
Monday 12th May – Thursday 15th May – Year 6 SATS week
*NEW* Tuesday 20th May – Under 11’s Football Festival
Thursday 22nd May – Early Years school trip to The Lancashire Village
Thursday 22nd May – Year 5 Class Assembly, 9:00am, parents, carers, families are welcome to join
Attendance
Our whole school attendance last week was 95.2%
Reception – 95.7%
Year 1 – 99.3%
Year 2 – 92.9%
Year 3 – 98.3%
Year 4 – 100%
Year 5 – 94.8%
Year 6 – 96.5%
Well done to Year 4 who achieved 100% attendance, and Year 1 and Year 3 who hit our target of 97%
Pride of Priestthorpe Awards
Reception – Isabel and Tommy
Year 1 – Lavanya and Brooke
Year 2 – Theo and Elladie
Year 3 – Aminah and Ayden
Year 4 – Oscar B and Ralph
Year 5 – Max and Elshady
Year 6 – Reyansh and Ralph
Important learning information
We use a range of Learning Apps in school, which can also be accessed at home. Please use the links below to practice key skills.
Times Table Rockstars is an award-winning maths learning platform where children can practice their times tables like a rock star! Certificates can be achieved every Thursday for the children who have made the most progress in terms of the biggest increase in accuracy that week. We also run in school competitions.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars
Accelerated Reader will allow children to read a book and then take an online quiz to test their knowledge and understanding of the text, and receive immediate feedback. Students respond to regular feedback and are motivated to improve their reading skills.
Spelling Shed uses the science of spelling to teach it to pupils. Using phonics as a base and drawing upon proven approaches such as teaching morphology, etymology, and orthographic mapping, as well as teaching spelling patterns. Children are set new activities on here each week.
