Homework Club has ended this term, we will be back in Spring Term for further support after school. Thank you for your encouragement with attendance, it has been great seeing our numbers increase each week 🙂
Each week your child will have 6 assignments on Reading Plus to complete. These may be a mixture of visual skills, vocabulary or reading comprehension. Your child needs to be aiming for a reading speed of 185 words per minute and 80-100% accuracy rate on their reading comprehensions, the more your child uses the programme the more confident they become as a fluent reader.
This week’s spellings are alphabet, elephant, dolphin, graph, pamphlet, pheasant, phone, photo, physical, sphere. They have been placed on EdShed and are available to access. We recommend 5 minutes each day to support them with learning their unique spelling patterns. These are words the children need to be using regularly in their writing as they will be assessed against them each time they complete a piece of written work.
Your child will have access to TTRS, this week, they have free choice. If they access 5 times for 15 minutes each day, Miss Horvath has a treat for them on Friday – Good luck! 🙂
Click on this image to watch the introductory video.
Spark your pupils’ imaginations with The Adventures Of…
The Adventures Of… a fun and flexible writing competition where they’ll create a mini saga, a story told in up to 100 words.
All they need to do is decide who or what their story is about. You can easily link it to your current topic or adapt it to suit your pupils’ interests and abilities – it’s creative writing made simple, creative and cross-curricular!
They could write a story, a recount, a diary entry, a letter, or a day in the life. It could be about a fictional character, a historical figure, or even themselves!
Why take part?
Your pupils will:
- Write for a real purpose and audience
- Showcase their vocabulary and creativity
- Grow in confidence as young authors
- Feel proud to see their work celebrated in print
Our 5 favourite published writers will each win a fantastic creative writing goody bag worth over £100, including a fitness watch.
5 runners-up will each win a £20 Smyths voucher.
PLUS
Every entrant receives a bookmark and sticker, and we award a certificate of merit for all young writers chosen for publication.
9 Poems have been entered into the competition! A huge well done to Aston, Dayton, Elizabeth, Hazel, Jemima, Musa, Ruben, Rumaysaa and Shanaya.G 🙂
Prizes
Winners will be announced on Thursday 8th January 2026.
The winners will receive:
- 1st Place: £200 voucher and a certificate.
- 2nd Place: £150 voucher and a certificate.
- 3rd Place: £100 voucher and a certificate.
