Mrs McGreevy 2024 - 2025

Mrs McGreevy

WELCOME TO YEAR 7 Class 5

Class Teacher = Miss McGreevy

Teaching Assistants = Mr Spence and Mr Prior

Other teachers, who teach you:

Miss Patterson (Music)
Miss Stone (Art)
Mr Hughes (Technology)
Mr Jones (PE)

OUR CLASS:

Welcome to all our pupils and all our families. We have had a very good start to our school year and pupils are making fantastic progress. We are all very proud of them.

In our class…

We aim for 100% attendance every week.
We show kindness to our peers and our adults.
We try our best in all lessons so that we can be the best that we can.
We use good manners to everyone in school.
We use our strategies, when we feel frustrated because we know that help and support is always available, when we need it.
We take responsibility for ourselves and our actions.
We are proud of our achievements and how we progress, when we are at Newfield.
Staff love to hear how well we are doing and help us to be even better.
We have fun learning together.

OUR LEARNING:

We experience a wide range of lessons in all of these subjects. We also enjoy school trips and attending a range of activities that happen in and around school.

I have attached our class timetable so you have an overview of our learning.

This term we will be studying the following:

Go to our Curriculum Page to see more

PE: Thursdays and Fridays - please bring in your school PE kit (plain black or navy shorts / plain black or navy jogging bottoms, a plain white top and trainers).

READING:

In class, we read most days. We have just finished reading Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson Our current class novel is Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Please also aim to read as often as possible at home, as it helps you in all your subjects.

HOMEWORK:

Reading:

Please aim to read each evening, either on your own or to an adult.
Read all types of print in books, comics, newspapers, online etc - and please remember to tell your staff. We love hearing about your interests.

Times Tables:

Please learn your times tables.
You have log on details for TT Rockstars - you do this in school, but you can also access this at home too.

OUR FAMILIES:

All our families give us fabulous support throughout the year and for that we thank you. We really appreciate you.
Together we are a fantastic team, looking after your children and teaching them, and encouraging them to be the best they can be.
If you have any questions, please just ask us.

News Items:

As part of our Asdan course we are enjoying our Spanish language and culture class iEstupendo! The students are really engaged and immersing themselves into this new language.

We are also doing a project on improving the environment which has included litter picking in the local area and beyond.

We had great fun developing our school woodland area! Class 5 donated and set up a large polytunnel which we will use to grow plants and fruits/vegetables.

Here's to a fabulous year.

Geography - making our own river types