It’s a few weeks now since Rotarian Mary Waine and Friend of Rotary, Clive Bennett, delivered dictionaries to our Year 6 pupils at Sugar Hill Primary. The dictionaries are making such a difference to our Year 6 pupils and are a very welcome classroom resource. Year 6 pupils are using the dictionaries every day to further develop their independent learning skills. One Year 6 pupil was keen to write a thank you letter to Newton Aycliffe Rotary, on behalf of all Year 6 pupils.
Dear Rotarians,
My name is Ava and I am a pupil at Sugar Hill Primary School. How do I begin to say thank you for this amazing dictionary! To begin with, these dictionaries are a lot more child friendly than our old ones we had in school. They also give us pictures to match our definitions and everyone likes a picture once in a while. The school also didn’t have enough copies of the other dictionaries to go around my class. We had to share them with people sat next to us. So to have our own is great! These dictionaries won’t just last through Year 6 but my whole life and when I don’t need it anymore, I can pass it down to a family member and tell them about when I received it.
So, I would like to say thank you to the person who delivered them from the Rotary Club and anyone else who helped put these together. Now, in school, we can find definitions for the spellings we don’t understand and use them anytime we are working on something. I have also spotted that they include some of our Roman numerals, a thing I forget a lot.
I would like to thank everybody in the Rotary Club who has delivered these over the years. It’s such a kind thing to do. Thank you!
Ava (on behalf of all Year 6 pupils)
