18th November 2011
Dear Parents
Next week is Maths Week at school, and the children will be involved in numerous fun and creative maths activities throughout the week, see reverse for list of some of the activities that will be taking place.
Many of the maths sessions may be outside the usual classroom environment and children will also get the chance to work with other classes and year groups across the school.
Whole School Challenge:
Each class has been set the challenge to design, set up and run a small business either as a whole class or in small groups. Most of the work they will be doing in school next week will link to this.
Parsloes Pounds:
All the children’s house points they have gained for the past week will be converted in Parsloes Pounds, in preparation for next week The children will have opportunities next week to ‘make more money’ ie Parsloes pounds by offering services such as helping around the school. The children will only be spending Parsloes £s for all the activities during the school day including market day.
After School events:
There will also be opportunities throughout the week for parents to buy goods from the children in the playground after school, the times will be advertised through the course of the week. All monies raised from these sales will go to Children in Need.
Here are some of the activities that will be happerning during this week:
All Week Year 3 children need any old Christmas cards, kitchen roll tubes etc to help make and decorate their Christmas themed products so please send any donations to Mrs. Macleod and Mrs. Steyn.
On Monday 21st November the children in Class 1 AF will be making pizzas to sell throughout the week and the children are encouraged to bring in pizza menus.
On Monday 21st November Year 2 children need any old Christmas cards, glitter, confetti etc to help make and decorate their Christmas themed products so please send any donations to 2L and 2W
On Wednesday 22nd November at 9.00am Parents of children in class 1B are needed to help ice cakes, please see Miss Baker
Friday 25th November All children in Year 3 need to wear a green t-shirt/top as they are dressing up as elves to sell their Christmas goods. Please see Mrs. Macleod.
Year 5 & 6
All Week Pupils in these classes will be taking part in ‘Classroom City’. The classrooms will be turned into a town for the week and the children are citizens of their classroom town. They have already been earning Parsloes £s by attending school on time everyday. The children will be taught to budget their own money for the week. As a result the children will be required to set up their own businesses to earn money and to buy and sell to the rest school on Market Day.
On Friday 25th November Market Day will also be a non uniform day for
Classes 5O, 5J, 6MR, 6AR and they will be required to wear suitable clothes depending on their business, for example a suit and tie or an apron and chef’s hat.
If you have any further questions please ask myself or the class teachers.
Further information, dates and times will be advertised on the screens throughout the week.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Yours sincerely
Mr. Robbins
Maths Coordinator
