Communications

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5 years ago
Posted on 30th Apr 2021 by

Star of the Week 💫

Congratulations Hannah in our reception class for being this weeks star! Like so many, you have waited patiently for this award because we can only pick one winner per week and we really could pick you every week for your amazing efforts, kindness, and work ethic. Superstar 🌟

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5 years ago
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Reception Spellings Information

As you know, we have had to change our spelling test days to accommodate the school closures and the guidance in terms of bringing reading diaries into school.

Now we are allowed to bring reading diaries into school daily again, we will now we administering the spelling test on a Friday and resuming our much loved Phonics Bingo Fridays!

Therefore, in Reception the system is now as follows:

¨ Spelling test Friday morning.

¨ New spellings stuck in reading diaries to practise for the whole week in preparation for the test the following week.

Your child will not be tested this Monday due to the Bank Holiday, so you have a few extra days to practise this set of spellings and we will begin this system as of Friday 7th May.

Any questions, please do ask.

Thank you for your support.

The Reception Team.

 

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RSE Information – Year 1 to Year 6

Dear Parent / Carer

Please look in your child’s communication diary for a letter which has been stuck in asking for your consent for your child to take part in RSE lessons.

Please go to the RSE page on the school website (learning/subjects/RSE) to see the outline of what your child will be taught.

Once you have read the information including the policy please tick and sign the letter in your child’s communication book.

Kind regards

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04.05.21 – Y4 Times Table Club- Cancelled due to Parents’ Evening

Due to Y4 parents’ evening on Tuesday 4th May 2021, times table club has been cancelled on this day.

Apologies

Mrs Fenn and Mr Jackson

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Update 30.4.21

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you know, we are fully open today and we are delighted about that.

I carried out a full site inspection with the Health and Safety lead early this morning and she was happy with all of our procedures linked to the fire and Covid.

We will continue to allow children outside for periods of time, following checks being made of the air quality by our team. Ventilation is being carefully managed to reduce the risk of the virus.

It is known that the fire will continue to burn for a few more days. The fire department is working hard to reduce this time as much as possible.

If there are any useful updates, I will pass them onto you later. We all wish you a fabulous bank holiday weekend and hope that those that live in the vicinity of the fire can get away from it for a few days.

Regards,

Miss Cook

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5 years ago
Posted on 29th Apr 2021 by

Update 29th April 2020

Update 29.4.21

Dear Parents/Carers,

As some of you will see, the plume of smoke is still in existence, but thankfully staying away from us.

I am meeting the Health and Safety council Lead onsite at 7am tomorrow to assess the site again.

The strategic update meeting between the council, health professionals and the fire department is happening now and we will receive some predictive information shortly.

We hope to again be open tomorrow, but as I have said, if smoke changes direction and puts the school as a direct hit, we may need to rethink.

I will update you later today with more probability information when I receive it. We are sorry that we can not give you a 100% straight answer at this time.

Thank you for your understanding.

MIss Cook

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Child Vision Screening (ages 4 to 5 years)

In many schools children in Reception Year (aged 4-5 years) will have their vision checked through Child Vision Screening. However, Covid-19 has caused major interruptions in education and child health services. This has meant
that the vision screening services have been delayed, postponed or cancelled for some of the children who started Reception Year in 2019/2020.

Children often cope very well with some eye problems which need to be identified and treated early to avoid lifelong visual loss. For this reason, it is important that even children with apparently normal vision should be tested. The screening assessment ensures that your child has good vision in both eyes, and that their vision is developing
normally. It is performed at this age so that any reduced vision or difference in vision between each eye can be picked up before the visual system is fully developed and any treatment necessary can be started.

Please click on the link to view the full letter.

Vision screening letter to parents 2021

5 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2021 by

Nursery phonics

Today, if possible, please can you work on the letter “c” with your child for letters and sounds.  When we say the sound “c” we do the action of a caterpillar crawling across a leaf using our hands.  One hand is the leaf and the other is the caterpillar.  When writing “c” please help your child form the letter from the top and then draw downwards.  We say “curl around the caterpillar” as we are writing.

Can your child then find objects around the house with the “c” sound in it eg cup, can, sack.

Please send in a photograph of your child’s writing and any objects that they find using evidence me.

If your child is very confident they could also have a go at trying to write the sounds in the objects that they found.  In addition they could also look at how “c” changes to “ch” in words such as “chip”.