Orton Wistow Primary School
Parent Partnership
Orton Wistow Primary School undertakes several initiatives annually to strengthen the fantastic partnership that we have with parents. Our Family Learning sessions, for example, enable parents and carers to work alongside their children in a teacher-led session. Our focus this year has been GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) and children and parents from years 1-6 have all enjoyed attending together.
Children and parents in Year Five (pictured above) had a busy hour started with a fun interactive game of Kahoot followed by some in-depth learning, including videos and written work on the tables. This included modal verbs and apostrophes, relative clauses and adjectives. Using a picture stimulus, the children with their families created a descriptive paragraph using the learning and knowledge from the start. Parents took home a writing check list to help support their child’s writing.
Children and adults in Year 4 (pictured above) learnt more about sentence types and punctuation, inverted commas, expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials, before applying these to write a story opening based on a picture of a mysterious ship. The event was very well attended, and Mrs Granville and Mr Nolan were very impressed with the quality of the writing that the children produced with support from their parent or carer.
Family Learning for Year 1 had an English focus, linking to the story, ‘The Jolly Postman’. We re-read the story, and then focused on the letter to Cinderella.
Miss Wyatt modelled how to write a sentence using adjectives. Year 1 then had a go at completing one together to describe the wicked stepmother and stepsisters before practising writing their own.
We’d like to thank everyone for attending and for parents' continued support and involvement in their child's learning.
Community and Charity Involvement
On Wednesday 11th December, the OWPS Choir went to Notcutts to perform some of the songs that we have been learning this term. The children represented the school brilliantly, and sang beautifully. They've been working very hard on aspects of their singing, trying to enunciate the words clearly, and include some dynamics and shaping into their songs. They were absolute stars and really enjoyed the performance. Thank you to those who came along to watch us - it was wonderful to have such a supportive audience. In the final week of term we will be visiting Napier Place and singing to the residents there.
Orton Wistow also raised £684 for Children in Need. Children were allowed us to wear non-uniform if we paid £1 to charity and the school kitchen made biscuits which could be purchased for 50p. The children also took part in a Children in Need Assembly and watched an inspirational video.
Sports Events
We had some fantastic results in sports this autumn term. These include:
Year 5 & 6 Football Tournament
A group of boys from Year 5 and 6 had the chance to represent the school at a football tournament at Jack Hunt School. Despite having never played together as a team before, they worked really well together and went from narrowly losing their first game 2-1, to winning the rest of their games without conceding a goal. They behaved very well throughout, worked brilliantly together as a team and were a real credit to the school.
Girls Win U11 Premier League Regional Cup
On Tuesday 3rd November, the girls football team took part in the city-wide qualifier for the Premier League U11’s Cup and won! In March, the girls will now represent Peterborough United and play against teams like Watford, Tottenham Hotspurs, MK Dons, Colchester and many more. If they win the southern finals, they then get to play at Wembley during the play-off final against the winners from the North!
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