A snapshot of our Week:
Reception started the week by learning about the inventors behind some of the gadgets and contraptions that now make our lives easier / better, e.g. phone, cinema, aeroplanes, computers, dry cleaning etc. This led us to start reading ‘Izzy Gixmo’ about a girl who spends her time using her imagining and planning tools to come up with great ideas and then bring them to life. We have also discussed how to manage our feelings when things don’t work out the way we intended, for example, when Izzy’s inventions go wrong.
Year 1 have been using their planning and imagining tools to write their own version of the story ‘The Sea Saw’. In their own stories, ‘The Sky Saw’ they thought about different ways in which the sky could help the lost toy. They used adventurous vocabulary and conjunctions to add more detail to their stories.
Year 2 have been using their reasoning and perseverance tools to write an amazing fact file about the Great Fire of London! We have been learning how to use subheadings to make our writing easier to read and are getting so good at using conjunctions to extend our sentences!
Year 3 have used their planning tools to create an experiment to answer the question “Do people with longer femurs jump further than people with shorter femurs?” – we then went outside and found out the answer! We have also started to learn about angles in Maths which has been quite tricky but we have all persevered greatly.
Year 4 have been really stretching their imagining tool this week as they have continued to create their own unique civilisations. We have designed our own tree houses with special features, come up with our own game and invented our very own alphabet. We also learnt how to communicate using the Pigpen Cipher!
Year 5 have used our planning, imagining and managing distractions tools to write fantastically descriptive stories about ‘Odd’, a character from the book we are studying in Literacy. We used awesome adverbs, tremendous relative clauses and phenomenal noun phrases!
Year 6 had an amazing time at Dulwich College this week, taking part in an opera workshop run by the Wild Arts opera company. We used our collaboration and imagining tools to prepare and perform a brilliant scene from Mozart’s Magic Flute.
Dulwich College Service Day
Year 4 and Year 5 really enjoyed their Science workshops at Dulwich College last Friday. A huge thank you to Ms Stanley (one of our School Governors and Science Lead at DC) and Miss Summers for making organising this great opportunity for the children.
Girls Football
Last Friday our girls smashed it at the Southwark Girls Football Tournament; a huge well done and a big Thank you to Mr Dash and the other Kingsdale Sports Teachers who have been coaching Dulwich Wood Girls since September.
Coming Up
Dulwich Wood Summer Festival
Friday 12th July
Please read the following to check if any of the changes to the afternoon effect you:
- Children in Reception can be collected at 3pm and taken around to the front of the school to enter the Festival first via the main gate on Bowen Drive.
- Children in Y1 can be collected from outside their Classrooms at 3pm and can enter the Festival
- Children in Y2 can be collected from their usual place at 3pm and can enter the Festival
- Children in choir will be performing at 3.15pm on Bowen Drive and can be collected after their performance at 3.30pm
- The section of Bowen Drive outside the school will be closed from 3 – 5.30pm
- After School Club will take place at the Nursery. Children must not bring bikes or scooters on this day.
The event will cash free, therefore you will need to buy tokens!
- Tokens can be purchased from the School Office all next week or via this link.
- If you are purchasing tokens online, you must collect them in advance from the school office.
- Cards can be used to purchase tokens on the day and from the School Office.
- Cards & cash will be accepted at the BBQ, bike stall and the Boot Fair.
Please support our second-hand bike market by donating unwanted bikes to Dulwich Wood Primary. All donated bikes will be serviced and on sale at the Dulwich Wood Festival. You can drop off bikes anytime before the festival. The proceeds will go to Friends of Dulwich Wood who will be buying new bikes for Reception!
Dulwich Wood Sports Day
Tue 16th Jul
Dulwich College Sports Ground on College Road
- All parents/carers are invited.
- No Dogs allowed.
- Wear your PE Kit & house colours!
- Bring a water bottle (no snacks required).
- All children will have their usual lunch time at school.
9.00 – 10.30 – Year 1, Year 2, Year 3
- These classes only will go with their Teachers to the Sports Ground at 9am.
- Children will return to school after the long-distance race.
10.30 -12.00 – Year 4, Year5, Year 6
- These classes will go with their Teachers to the Sports Ground at 10.30am.
- Children will return to school after the long-distance race.
13.00– 14.00 (approx.) – Reception
- Reception will leave school at 12.30 (Parents are invited to walk down to the Sports Ground with their Child’s Class, please wait at your usual pick-up place by the Reception Class Gates).
- Parents can take children home after the last race.
- Please do not take your child before informing their Teacher.
Dates for your diary
Tue 9th Jul
Chess Fest Trip
Fri 12th Jul
KS2 Celebration Assembly
Fri 12th Jul
Dulwich Wood Festival (3pm – 5:30pm)
Tues 16th Jul
Primary School Sports Day
Wed 17th Jul
Y6 Chessington Trip
Thu 18th Jul
Y4 African Drumming Performance – 2:45pm. All Welcome
Thu 18th Jul
Y1 Brockwell Trip
Fri 19th Jul
Y5 Tate Trip
Mon 22nd Jul
Y4 Windrush Sq & Brockwell Park Trip
Tue 23rd Jul
Y6 Show & Disco
Wed 24th Jul
Term Ends @1pm. No Emu Club
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