19th December 2014 Issue 46
Lomeshaye Life What’s Been Happening This Half Term? It has been another busy and productive term at Lomeshaye which reached its pinnacle this week when the year 3 pupils delivered an outstanding performance of The Christmas Nativity. All year groups have taken part in a diversity theme which has been highly successful at raising awareness and respect of different religions around the world. Assessments have taken place which show that pupils are making good progress. Year 5 visited Pendle Vale to watch their Christmas Concert and all classes have celebrated the end of term with a Christmas Party. Diversity Theme Through the use of artifacts, stories and visits pupils in all year groups have been immersed in different religions from around the world. They have used this new knowledge to produce high quality standards of writing, Art and DT throughout the school. Each year group studied a different religion: Year 3—Christianity; Year 4—hinduism; Year 5—Judaism and Year 6—Buddism. Year 3 worked with our creative practitioner, Nicole, to perform the nativity. Year 4 made Divi lamps from clay. Year 5 visited Manchester Jewish museum and held a mini carousel day making Jewish food and artifacts and Year 6 met a practicing Buddha monk who explained all about his religion and how he became a Buddha. Mentoring All pupils have met with their teacher this week to discuss their progress and achievement. Please take time during the holidays to discuss your child's targets and help them work towards achieving them. Homework has been set for all pupils. Please ensure it is completed to a high standard and that your child spends time reading during the holidays. Coding We live in a world surrounded by technology. And we know that whatever field our pupils choose to go into as adults, their ability to succeed will increasingly hinge on understanding how technology works. Our entire school were joined in on the largest learning event in history: The hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 8-14). Last year, 15 million pupils tried computer science in one week. This year, we joined students worldwide to reach 100 million pupils! Our hour of code is a celebration of all the coding we have been doing in school over the last few years. The pupils have been using Scratch to create animations and games for as few years and are becoming increasingly good at problem solving and logical thinking.