Delves Junior School

Welcom to the new academic year at Delves Junior School. We hope you all had a happy and relaxing holiday. This year the Year 5 team comprises 4 teachers and 2 teaching assistants, we are:

• Mrs Jones and Mrs Thorp     (Class 7)
• Mrs Overs                          (Class
• Miss Shaw                          (Class 9)
• Mrs Bass                            (Teaching Assistant)
• Mrs Sumner                        (Support Assistant)

We are all looking forward to the coming year and hope that we can work in partnership with you in order for your child to reach their full potential this year. We will keep you informed about the subjects that your child will be studying throughout the year, their homework and any special year group events that will be taking place via our half termly newsletters.

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y5-autumn-1-newsletter-2.doc

Welcome to the academic year at Delves Junior School. This year the Year 4 team comprises 3 teachers and 5 teaching assistants, we are:

• Mr Mowbray              (Class 4)
• Miss Sayers              (Class 5)
• Mrs Harrison             (Class 6)
• Mrs Robinson           (High Level Teaching assistant)
• Mrs Allan                  (ICT Support/Teaching assistant)
• Miss Moseley             (Learning support assistant)
• Mrs Vickers               (Learning support assistant)
• Mrs Brady                 (Learning support assistant)

We are all looking forward to the coming year and hope that we can work in partnership with you in order for your child to reach their full potential this year. We will keep you informed about the subjects that your child will be studying throughout the year, their homework and any special year group events that will be taking place via our halt termly newsletters.

Click link below for full details:-

y4-autumn-1-newsletter-2.doc

Welcome to the new academic year at Delves Junior School. This year the Year 3 term comprises 4 teachers, 1 teaching assistant and 1 support assistant, we are:

• Mrs Naylor            (Class 1)
• Miss Ubhi              (Class 2)
• Mrs Dangerfield     (Class 3)
• Mrs Archer            (Assistant Head)
• Mrs Pace               (Teaching assistant)
• Mrs Brady             (Learning Support assistant)

We are all looking forward to the coming year and hope that we can work in partnership with you in order for your child to reach their full potential this year. We will keep you informed about the subject that your child will be studying throughout the year, their homework and any special year group events that will be taking place via our half termly newsletters.

Click on the link below for full details:

 y3-autumn-1-newsletter-2.doc

Book Club

• Chris d’Lacey introduces Icefire
• Cliff McNish introduces The Silver Child
• Jacqueline Wilson introduces The Diamond Girls

Find it: English 1 > Book Club

TV News

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Food packaging campaign

The Women’s Institute are campaigning to reduce food packaging.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Taking action

Millennium Bridge sound art

A live feed of the sound of the Millennium Bridge is being piped into the Tate Modern Gallery.

Find it: Art > Galleries > Tate Gallery

News Bites

A news round-up of events in the form of four short video clips. The video clips are reporter-led pieces using language aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils.

• Queen’s children’s party
• Mummies help doctors
• Model insects on display
• Michelangelo exhibition

Find it: English 2 > News Bites

Newspaper articles this week include..

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Chalk drawing helps wildlife

The National Trust yesterday began the first wildlife survey of the Cerne Abbas Giant - a 180ft chalk figure of a man carved into the hillside near the Dorset village.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Wildlife

New emblem for Red Cross

The Red Cross are changing their emblem into an internationally recognised humanitarian emblem.

Find it: PSHE & Citizenship > Politics > World Politics

World Cup 2006 data [Data]

Data handling exercises using recent results from the group stages of the World Cup.

Find it: PE > Football > World Cup and Maths > Handling data > Data

Charles Darwin [Profile]

A profile of Charles Darwin that explores important events in his life.

Find it: History > People in history > More