We offer a FREE Breakfast Club for all children at Beckfoot Priestthorpe from 8:00am every morning. Children are able to access a healthy, nutritious breakfast before they start school.
Weekly Newsletter 02.05.2025
If you missed our news this week on Class Dojo, we would like to send a couple of “thank you” message to our families.
United Reformed Church Easter Gardens With 18 entries to the URC Easter Garden Competition, we were pleased to have won the “Honourable Mention” and a £50 cheque. Thank you to all those children that took part and submitted a garden, there were some wonderful designs.
The Sammy Project Clothing Collection Thank you to everyone that donated to our clothing collection. Your clothes and accessory donations to the Sammy Project support the work of Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK. The team confirmed they collected 290KG which resulted in £159.50 donated to our school.
These funds will go towards more playground equipment for our children at break times and lunchtimes. We have already purchased ribbons, extra balls, skipping ropes and ankle skip balls, all chosen by our children.
Diary Dates
MAY
Monday 12th May – Thursday 15th May – Year 6 SATS week
*NEW* Tuesday 20th May – Year 6 Brownlee Mini Triathlon (more details to follow)
*NEW* Tuesday 20th May – Under 11’s Football Festival 4:00pm at Marley Stadium (more details to follow)
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
JUNE
Tuesday 3rd June – Class Photographs
Thursday 5th June – Fluoride Varnish Team visiting Early Years
Tuesday 10th June – Year 1 and 2 school trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Wednesday 11th June – Year 5 and 6 Tag Rugby Tournament (more details to follow)
Wednesday 18th June – Year 6 Fire Safety Talk
Thursday 19th June – Year 4 Class Assembly, all parents and families of children in Year 4 are welcome to attend
Friday 20th June – Seaside Lunch Menu (menu to follow shortly)
Friday 20th June – Year 6 Junior Warrior (more details to follow)
*NEW* Friday 27th June – FOPPS non uniform – Bring a bottle of chocolate for the tombola at the Summer Fair Festival
JULY
Tuesday 1st July – Year 6 school trip to the University of Bradford introducing Shakespeare Event (more details to follow)
Thursday 3rd July – Year 5 school trip to the University of Bradford poetry performance (more details to follow)
Friday 4th July – FOPPS SUMMER FAIR FESTIVAL – all families welcome
Attendance
Our whole school attendance last week was 94.6%.
Reception – 96.1%
Year 1 – 81.9%
Year 2 – 98.2%
Year 3 – 95.7%
Year 4 – 99%
Year 5 – 98%
Year 6 – 98%
Congratulations to Year 4 for winning the attendance trophy this week. Also well done to Years 2, 5 and 6 who achieved our target of 97%.
Pride of Priestthorpe Awards
Reception – Finley and Wandy
Year 1 – Darcy and Elijah
Year 2 – Eve and Charlotte
Year 3 – Lydia and Noor
Year 4 – Harrison and Rose
Year 5 – Summer and Sophia. E
Year 6 – Eliza, Skylar and Rayaan
Early Years
Early Years have been sorting 2d and 3d shapes and creating and continuing patterns in Maths.
Year 1
Year 1 have started a new art topic looking at creating structures and 3D pictures with paper. We rolled the paper into cylinders, experimented with colours, patterns, size and length of the tubes and used different joining methods to our base.
Year 2
Year 2 have been looking at creating textures in art. We used different materials to recreate texture from pictures.
Year 3
In DT, Year 3 have been designing their castles that they will build as a structure out of cardboard next week.
Year 4
In Year 4 we have been learning about an important part of British History when King Charles was arrested and beheaded for Treason.
Year 5
Year 5 have started their new science topic which looks at living things and their habitats. The children recalled their prior knowledge around the life cycles of a butterfly and a frog and we looked at the scientific vocabulary associated with this topic. We then looked at the life cycles of an oak tree and a squirrel; learning more about how the life cycles of many plants and animals on earth are interconnected.
Year 6
Year 6 have begun their next science topic on the human body. We firstly needed to understand a bit about the respiratory system and why/how we breath before tackling our main goal of the lesson of understanding how the circulatory system works. We sketched, coloured then annotated the human heart before writing how the circulatory system works.
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.
