We are still on track for a 5pm arrival.
Year 3 and 4 have had an incredible few days with the number of minutes they’ve racked up for our million minutes competition. We’re currently in second place in MK and Northampton with Mr Morrison’s class hot on our heels!
This weeks homework is going to be reading for at least 20 minutes per day.
As a parent, it’s also important to read with and read to your child so they have the example set for them.
Thanks and have a lovely week.
Mr Gray
We are expecting the coach from the New Barn residential to return about 5pm today.
Please check back for any updates…
This week Countess Way has joined a national challenge which is challenging school regions across the country to take up a ‘One Million Minutes’ challenge. This challenge is trying to encourage a collective of one million minutes of reading from all children taking part. After day 1 Mr Gray’s Year 3/4 are on top but Year 2D are on the hunt in 5th place!
The challenge is very simple. We have one week for our class to read as many minutes as possible!
All reading counts – whether at home, on their own, with an adult or in school.
All you need to do is:
- Encourage your children to read every day for the one week challenge
- Ask them to collate their totals at the end of each day (they can use their special bookmarks)
- We’ll then add them up and record the class total every day on the central website
Bring on the challenge Mr Gray and year 3/4! 2D are reading hard!
We’ve started the Million Minutes reading challenge with a BANG! For the next 7 days, the children need to be racking up as many minutes reading as they can. This will be totalled up each day and added to the leader board. We’re competing against schools in MK and Northampton and at one point today, we were top of the leader board! Let’s keep it up!
Today we have begun to create and communicate our learning about dinosaurs, famous fossil hunters such as Mary Anning and we have used our text of Katie and the Dinosaurs. We are looking forward to showcasing this knowledge to others in a Museum we have created!
Nursery at Countess Way had a Pirate Dress up Day as part of our project Let’s Imagine.
Children enjoyed hiding and finding treasure, making treasure maps and building a pirate ship out of the giant wooden blocks. They also practiced talking like pirates and listened to our core book Port Side Pirates as a song to begin learning it.
We we will be continuing our learning and role play about pirates for the rest of this week. Hopefully we won’t be asked to walk the plank too often!
