PE Days Autumn 2

Year 3 PE days are staying as Autumn 1:
Indoor PE: Tuesdays
Outdoor PE: Thursdays
No forest school this term.

Reception PE and Forest School Days

Hi all. We hope you have had a lovely half term and look forward to seeing you on Monday. Please find attached our Forest School and PE days.

Forest School Sessions: Monday Afternoon: Children to bring in their forest school kit and we will get them changed after lunch.

PE Days: Wednesday Afternoon and Thursday Afternoon. Children to come in wearing their PE Kit.

Please note due to the whole school Halloween event we will not be having Forest School on Monday 31st October.

Many thanks The Reception Team

Earth Day  

Dear Parents/Carers,

The children really enjoyed participating in our first Earth Day. Please ask your children what they got up to!

Thank you for the donations you sent in. We made a total of £374.50. When we take away the cost of our beautiful Earth day tree and the small charge from the Wildlife trust, we have £216 left over.

This money will go towards the development of our allotment. We want children to learn about being self-sustaining in growing their own food.

Everyone had a fabulous day which concluded in a celebration assembly and a reflection on why it is important to look after our Earth and what small steps we can do to support this process.

Have a great half term.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Happy Half term Year 2

Happy Half Term Year 2,

We hope you have a well deserved rest this week ready for another fun and jam packed exiting half term before Christmas.

Few bits to remember – Monday 31st is a PE day but children can bring a change of clothes for their Halloween disco.

A little reminder we will not be going to forest school this half term but we will be going on a Nature walk on Thursday 3rd November. Please make sure your child has a suitable coat.

PE days are Monday and Friday, please ensure your child is wearing the correct PE uniform. Thank you :)

See you in a week, Ms Trevor and Miss Hill.

Harvest

Dear Parents and Carers,

As we originally posted out at the beginning of October, this year for Harvest, we are collecting as usual. In the spirit of supporting our immediate community, we have decided that we want to support our own school community in these times of ever-increasing cost of living for everyone.

We will be collecting non-perishable donations (tins of food, toilet rolls, toiletries etc.) for a ‘give and take’ bank – hence the name GATEway (Give And TakE)!

With the contributions that are generously shared by families, staff and governors, we will be setting up a regularly replenished box of non-perishable items – into which you can add items (box 1) if you can; or take items (box 2) should you need. These boxes will be outside the main office in the parent shelter.

If you can give something, please add it to the box. The box will be based on trust and not manned, and we are very much hoping that it may support those in need as we move into the winter months and while the cost of living is ever more.

Our project will begin with a Harvest Dress Down Day which will take place on Thursday 3rd November. Children can come in their own clothes in return for a donation.  

The Gateway bank will begin to be operational from Monday 7th November when you can bring additional items / take items from the ‘Give and Take’ boxes.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Reception’s Earth Day

Today at Newdale we celebrated ‘Earth Day’. We all came to school wearing blue and green to represent the Earth and we took part in some exciting ‘Earth Day’ activities in our classroom. 

This morning in Reception we had a visit from ‘Morris Magpie’. Morris the magpie brought a HUGE pile of rubbish into our classroom that he had found dropped outside. Morris told us a story about why it’s important to recycle our rubbish and with a bit of help from Mrs Sturrock he taught us all about sorting our rubbish and recycling it so it can be reused again.

After we had learnt all about the importance of recycling we helped Morris the magpie sort the rubbish he had brought into our classroom. We sorted plastic, glass, fabric, metal and cardboard. We then carried out some other activities linked to recycling including colouring in, making posters, role playing working at the Recycling Centre and cutting, sticking and sorting some recycling pictures. It was great fun!

We are all going to work extra hard now at home and school to recycle and help protect and care for our planet.

Reception’s Earth Day Award

Congratulations to Oscar who is Mrs Sturrock and Mrs Evans’ ‘Earth Day Star of the Week’ this week. Oscar has been chosen for working hard on all activities during ‘Earth Day’ today and for his excellent explanation of recycling and what it is. Oscar also worked very hard to sort recyclable materials into the correct ‘recycling bins’. Well done Oscar. You have shown you are thinking very carefully about how to protect and care for our planet.