Key Diary Dates
First Half of the Spring Term: Monday 27th January – Class 3 Young Voices; Wednesday 29th January – Year 6 Oaker Wood residential instalment due; Tuesday 4th February – Reception Eye Tests; Thursday 6th February – Class 2 & 3 Trip to Envirosort; Friday 7th February – PTFA Bingo (TBC); Half Term – Monday 17th […]
Term Dates for 2020-2021
Term dates for the 2020-2021 academic year have now been published on the website. Please click on ‘Information’ followed by ‘Term Dates’.
Food Safety and Hygiene Inspection
On Wednesday 15th January we received an unannounced inspection from Herefordshire Council’s Environmental Health department regarding school lunch provision. The inspection judges the level of current compliance with regards to food hygiene and safety procedures, including food handling practices and procedures and temperature control. It also judges the confidence in food safety management and control […]
Young Voices
Class 3 are very excited about attending Young Voices on 27th January. Young Voices arrange the largest school choir concerts in the world and if you haven’t previously attended a concert the scale and atmosphere can translate into an emotional and unforgettable experience. Young Voices can ‘inspire children to discover their love of music’. T […]
Class 3… A Fantastic Start to the New Term
We have started our new topic of India over the last two weeks. We have looked at what the children already knew, identified where India is and also looked at some basic information about the country. In literacy we are looking at adventure stories. We have studied our example story and had great fun writing […]
Swimming
Kings Caple will be swimming at Ross swimming pool in the summer term. A letter outlining arrangements and costs will be sent to parents nearer the time but key points to note are: Year 1 to 6 will swim on Monday’s starting 20th April; There will be a total of 10 sessions, each lasting 30 […]
Welcome to Our Student Teacher
Class 2 will be joined for seven weeks by a student teacher from Monday 27th January through to 20th March. The student will be on placement from the PGCE course at the University of Worcester. The student is a psychology graduate and in previous placements has thrived on getting to know pupils and being supportive […]
How You Can Help Your Child in Class 1…
Regularly listen to your child read and talk about their books, ask them to retell the story in their own words or spot interesting words. Play games that involve counting, adding and taking away. Talk about the numbers they see about the home and in books. Explore any phonic sounds they are learning by encouraging […]
How You Can Help Your Child in Class 2…
Practising rapid recall of multiplication tables will support children in their problem solving maths work in school – your child will know which tables he/she is working on. The children may be asked to complete homework tasks related to our class activities – talking about ideas, facts and information as well as supporting the children […]
Spring Term Plans for Class 2
This term Class 2’s theme is ‘The Romans’. In English children will read ‘The Magic Brush’and use Talk for Writing to learn the text and innovate the original story with changes of their own. They will then write a brand-new finding and losing story, using the model text for support. Pupils will focus on writing […]
