The Headteacher's Blog
Introduction
Welcome to Lydgate Junior School.
We aim to ensure that all children receive a high quality, enjoyable and exciting education.
We feel that our school is a true reflection of the community we serve. Lydgate children are well motivated and come from a range of social and cultural backgrounds. Within the school community we appreciate the richness of experience that the children bring to school. This enhances the learning experiences of everyone and it also gives all pupils the opportunity to develop respect and tolerance for each other by working and playing together. We want your child's time at Lydgate to be memorable for the right reasons - that is, a happy, fulfilling and successful period of his/her childhood.
Yours sincerely,
Stuart Jones
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Welcome to Year 3!
The Y3 teachers are Mrs Dutton & Mrs de Brouwer (3D/deB), Mrs Holden (3SH), Mrs Noble & Mrs Finney (3N/R) and Miss Wall (3AW). We have three Teaching Assistants who work within the team: Mrs Allen, Mrs Dawes and Mr Gartrell.
We will use this blog to keep you up-to-date with all the exciting things that we do in Year 3, share some of the things that the children learn and show you some of their fantastic work. We hope you enjoy reading it!
The Y3 team.
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Welcome to the Year 5 Blog page.
The Year 5 teaching team includes our class teachers, Mrs Loosley (5NL), Mrs Rougvie and Mrs Jones (5RJ), Mrs Webb and Mrs Ridsdale (5WR) and Miss Cunningham (5EC). Many children are supported by Mrs Hill, Mr Swain and Ms Kania (the Year 5 Teaching Assistants) who work with children across the 4 classes. Our Year 5 teaching team aims to create a stimulating learning environment that is safe, happy, exciting and challenging, where each pupil is encouraged to achieve their full potential.
As a parent or carer, you play a massively important role in your child's development and we'd love to work closely with you. Please feel free to make an appointment to see us if you want to discuss your child's attitude to learning, their progress, attainment or anything else that might be on your mind. We'd also love to hear from you if you have any skills that we could use to make our Year 5 curriculum even more exciting. Are you an avid reader, a talented sportsman, a budding artist, a mad scientist or a natural mathematician? Would you be willing to listen to children read on a regular basis? If so, please contact your child’s class teacher. Similarly, if you have a good idea, a resource, a 'contact' or any other way of supporting our learning in year 5, please let us know.
We are working very hard to ensure your child has a successful year 5, please help us with this by ensuring your child completes and returns any homework they are given each week. If there are any issues regarding homework or your child finds a particular piece of homework challenging, then please do not hesitate to come and speak to us. In order to help improve your child’s reading skills, increase their vocabulary and develop their comprehension skills, we also ask that you listen to your child read and ask them questions to ensure they have understood what they have read.
We look forward to keeping you up to date on the exciting things that we do in year 5 through our year group blog.
The Year 5 Team
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We are the children in Y6 at Lydgate Junior School. There are 120 of us and our teachers are: Mrs Shaw and Mrs Watkinson (Y6S/W), Mr Bradshaw (until Mrs Parker returns) in Y6AP), Mrs Phillips (Y6CP) and Miss Norris (Y6HN). Also teaching in Year 6 is Miss Lee (Monday - Y6AP, Tuesday - Y6HN and Wednesday - Y6S/W) and Mrs Grimsley (Tuesday -Y6CP).We are also very lucky to be helped by Mrs Ainsworth and Mrs Biggs. We use this space to share all of the great things that are happening in our classrooms. Join us each week on our learning journey....
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Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Try this one: of the 155 children who did not take any fruit, vegetable or salad with their Friday school meal, 99 were boys. And all the children excluded from our school last year because of behaviour incidents were boys.
Does this show that not eating fruit or veg leads to poor behaviour, exclusion and therefore lower performance scores?
Not quite. Perhaps this shows that boys are more impulsive and can't be bothered to wait for a turn at the self-service salad bar. Or that boys can't wait to play out and so hustle along. Or that girls are already socialised into female roles of serving food, and so are more willing to serve themselves than boys are. Or does it show girls' earlier development and a greater manual dexterity - they can handle the serving spoons easier? Or have stereotypes already become deep-set, and boys see the whole healthy eating thing as soft or 'girly'? Or are girls more compliant and therefore easier to persuade on the health benefits of a colourful diet?
By the way, there was, right at the end, available to the very last child served a dinner at the hatch, a selection from:
Peas, sweetcorn, beetroot, cucumber, carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, fresh pears (peeled and sliced), fresh fruit salad and golden delicious apples, three types of yoghurt and the baked beans that over two-thirds chose.
I'm not sure what it tells us, but that gender difference must tell us something.
Ten team points if you can translate the blog title for me, and then what classic TV programme it was used in.
For brilliant examples of spurious statistical coincidences try a look at:
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
My current favourite is the apparent correlation between cheese consumption and deaths caused by entanglement in bedsheets.
