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Attendance

Congratulations to Year 4 for aiming high with their attendance this week.  The class will receive bonus Class Dojo points for Aiming High!

Learning of the Week

Every week, we celebrate extraordinary learning that has taken place in classes.  It may be that they have pushed passed an obstacle in their learning; worked on their presentation; thought about how to help others amongst other things.

Our Learning of the Week for the last fortnight goes to:

Nursery

Rayn has been practicing her letter formation and writing her name.

Ida Ray has been writing Chinese numbers for Lunar New Year.

Willow has been learning how to do her zip.

Lucas has shown good concentration and engagement with an adult.

Reception  

Johnny Po has shown some amazing phonics work this week.

Logan has been trying hard to improve his handwriting this week.

Luca has been working really hard to improve his handwriting.

Leia has shown brilliant phonics work this week.  She is so helpful in the classroom and never moans about tidying up!

Julia who was amazing at climbing the ropes in PE.  She was fearless and a great example to us all to just go for it!

Year 1  

Vinnie has been trying hard with his writing.  He is extending and challenging himself with his writing by using adjectives and the words 'and' and 'because'.

Charlie has worked really hard to work independently in English.  He even wrote a sentence with the word 'because' to give a reason to what he thought the character was feeling like.

Zuzanna has tried her best in English this week.  She has written a brilliant diary entry in the role of Spontaneous Cyril.

Malachi has worked so hard in his maths this week when looking at adding ones to number bonds and the number bonds to 20.

Year 2  

Lily has worked so hard in handwriting and is listening to feedback to write descenders under the line.

George has worked so carefully in our handwriting work and has practised the skills that Mr Cuthbert shows.  He is forming his letters accurately, writing on the line and using ascenders and descenders.

Savannah has worked so hard when recording her ideas in her book.  She has been talking to adults about her ideas, sounding them out and writing them down.

Scarlett is showing great confidence and independence in her writing.  This week she wrote lots of ideas for dialogue between Kevin the Koala and Woodpecker.  She used visual models to start completing the challenge questions in maths.

Year 3  

Woody was able to partition numbers flexibly while using dienes to prove his answer.

Lacey has made a great start to her learning about newspaper reports.  She has identified different sections that make up a report and will be writing her own next week.  

Imani persevered during science yesterday, looking at the different types of rocks that make up the earth and drawing a fantastic diagram.

Emberly comes into the Year 3 classroom with a positive attitude and completes her spellings and reading with Miss B straight away.

Year 4   

Tamsyn has made a great start to her description of the Fire-Fiend's Grotto.  You can see her description further up.

Ellis has been getting straight into his learning tasks and creating some fantastic work.

Year 5  

Eden contributed throughout while working with a group and tried really hard with her handwriting.

Iris demonstrated how dynamics change a movement in our dance PE group.  She contributed thoroughly in putting together the choreography.

Codey wrote a fantastic speech in the role of Beowulf.  He used ALL of the different persuasive techniques and created an inspirational, emotive speech.

Oliver wrote a fantastic persuasive speech.  He used powerful vocabulary and varied his sentence starters.

Year 6  

Liara has worked hard to create a descriptive piece of writing.  She used powerful vocabulary and facts about the yellow spotted lizard to describe her first encounter with it!  You can see her description further up.

Katty has been showing great effort in maths and is able to multiply and divide fractions with ease.  She often gets onto the challenge and is keen to share answers during fluency.

Amalia has shown a great improvement in her writing recently.  She is really thinking about her ideas and writing them more fluently.  She recently wrote a great description of her first encounter with the yellow spotted lizard.

Finley has been Aiming High recently.  He is always trying to get his work completed on time and has tried so hard to improve the presentation of his work. 

Sunshine Group- KS1

Coby has settled into the Sunshine Room fantastically.  He has followed all instructions and has been a kind friend.  We are very excited to have you in our class.

Sunshine Group-KS2

James has had a fantastic week of learning.  He has worked hard to complete his work independently.

Well done to everyone who worked so hard this week, it is fantastic to see so many positive learning experiences!

Pupil Leadership

Letters

Please find all of our latest letters here: https://www.micklem.herts.sch.uk/letters/  .  If you have any questions regarding anything coming up, do not hesitate to ask.

SEND and Family Support

The latest DSPL8 parents/ carers newsletter, with details of FREE upcoming events and workshops, is available to download from their website. We've picked out a couple of things that stood out to us below. Scan the QR codes or click on the pictures to book!

https://dacorumdspl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DSPL8-ParentsCarers-Newsletter-Spring-Term-16125-1.pdf