Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Week 3!

Welcome to Week 3!

Athletics
The weather is not so great for competition but it's looking like it will hold for the day. Here's the run down for the day:


Basic Facts (Maths - times tables)

After a recent assessment check in, it seems as though an alarming number of Aspire students  are struggling with their times tables. This makes their maths life difficult and in order to be at stage 7 (yr 7 & 8), one of the requirements is mastery of the times tables. This means that anyone who doesn't know them is in danger of not meeting the standards. How is your student going? Are they where they need to be? It's scary but some students are even struggling with their 4x tables! Eeeek!

We would love your help to get on top of this and it will make a big difference to how quickly they pick up new concepts and their confidence in doing maths.


Yr 7 Pathways & Yr 8 Leadership Projects

This is expected homework! Ask your student to show you their evidence. Pathways close on the day we go to the A&P Show!

Monday, 17 October 2016

Week 2

Good afternoon, it's Week 2  !!

This week we are back to our Aspire routines.  We have a new SRL up, focusing on the use of taglines, font and music to create a mood in video production.

Athletics practice has begun to prepare the children for next Wednesday.

We have assembly on Friday.

PCT
We have an opportunity to enter one team (four students) in the PCT competition this Friday.  We will let you know more details about this soon.

Homework
Homework this term will continue to be Pathways, Year 8 projects, basic facts, learning spelling and personal reading.