Achievement Awards

Miss Clay’s class- Jacob for working hard towards SATs at home and in school.

Mrs Thomas’ class- Milly for producing some fantastic writing- a future estate agent…!

Mr Banfield’s class- Olaf for following the SMART code and making school enjoyable for visitors to our classroom.

Miss Myler’s class- Sophie for always bringing a smile to everyone’s face!

Mr Jackson’s class- Roland for impeccable behaviour, always being beautifully polite and caring to others in the class.

Miss Macfarlane’s class- Matthew of working really hard with his reading at home.

Mrs Pablos/ Mrs McLaughlin’s class- Erica for brilliant analogue time telling.

Mrs Trevor’s class- Gabriella for progressing in class with the quality and quantity of her work but most importantly her enthusiasm towards reading at home. Keep it up, we are proud of you!

Miss Newport’s class- Sophie for fantastic attitude towards all of her learning and for always smiling.

Miss Jones’ class- Alfie for great effort in his handwriting and for being polite to everyone!

Miss Hailey’s class- Karlie for having a fantastic week, working really hard in all subjects.

Miss McCullagh’s class- Noah for having a brilliant attitude towards your learning and producing a fantastic piece of independent writing.

Mrs Plimmer’s class- Max for Dot Dash Robot work.

Adult achievement awards

Evie in year 3 would like to nominate Mrs Trevor, ‘for always making lessons fun’.

Miss Hailey would like to nominate Mrs Huda, as she has been really supportive in year 1. She is calm and welcoming to everyone, and she has endless patience!

Smart cup winners

Miss Myler’s class as they have approached some really tricky concepts positively and they have had a great first week back because of it.

Star reader year 1,2,3- Megan from year 3 for reading well at home and for always being really keen to read with adults in school.

Star reader year 4,5,6- Adan from year 5 for reading eight times over half term and has also read four times this week. Amazing dedication and hard work.

Nature Walk: Wednesday 4th March

Next Wednesday afternoon (4th March) the children will be going on their first nature walk. We will be looking for Gorse, Silver Birch, Bramble and larch. Later on in the year we will be revisiting the site to see how it has changed.

Please can the children bring in their wellies in case it is muddy.

Many thanks The Reception Team

 

RSE – Drop In Session for Parents Monday 30th March 2020

We are holding an RSE drop- in session for parents on 30th March 2020 from 3.20pm.

This will be an opportunity for teachers to share information which will be taught to your child.

Parents are welcome to drop school age children into the school hall via the main office. All classes will be open from 3.20pm for you to see the topics that will be covered in your child’s year group.

 

Y4 Nature Walk- Friday 28th February 2020

Just a reminder that Y4 will be going on their nature walk Friday 28th February 2020 AM.

To save time, please can children come to school in their forest school clothes and bring their full uniform in their school bag.

Please can children make sure they have appropriate waterproof clothing, spare socks and a plastic bag to put any wet (hopefully not!) clothing in.

Thanks

Y4

Wonderful Wednesday

We are planning to start Wonderful Wednesday on 4th March.

Red, purple and orange group will be in the woods in the morning followed by cooking in the afternoon.  Blue, green and yellow group will go to the woods in the afternoon and after cooking in the morning.

Please send wellies in addition to inside shoes and a warm waterproof coat.  If it’s cold a hat, scarf and gloves are very useful too.  Please ensure all items are named though so we can return misplaced items, thank you.

World Book Day

Dear Parents and Carers,

This year’s World Book Day will take place on Thursday 5th March.

As usual, we are all looking forward to seeing your child dressed up in costume as one of their favourite book characters. Teachers cannot wait to get involved too!

The World Book Day website has lots of ideas on how to do this with as much or as little effort as you would like. There are some excellent ideas to get you started: https://www.worldbookday.com/dressing-up-ideas-2019/ and https://www.worldbookday.com/ideas/dressing-up-gallery/

However, children are equally welcome to come to school in their pyjamas all ready for a bedtime story if they prefer – just remember to bring their favourite book too!

As always, your child will receive a £1 book token to spend on a FREE book, or to save £1 on another full price book of their choice.

Full details are available at www.worldbookday.com where you can see the fabulous books that are on offer this year.

Many thanks to those of you who have already sent in photographs of your children reading in all sorts of strange and wonderful places!

Happy reading,

Mrs Thomas

Literacy Coordinator

Our Great Fire of London 🔥🔥

We have been working really hard this week to build our very own Pudding Lane. First, we designed and built our own house models. Then, we took our houses to Base Camp to construct a street. Miss Taylor helped us to start a fire in the ‘bakery’ and we watched as the fire spread along the whole street.

The Great Fire of London 🔥

As a grand finale to our Great Fire of London topic this half term, this week the children have created their own model London city of 1666!

Today we recreated the Great Fire at Base Camp with Miss Taylor using our models. All we discovered about how the Fire spread from house to house came to life!

Can your child tell you about how the Great Fire was eventually stopped?

 

Our investigation into waterproof materials 💦

Our class bear Bert doesn’t like getting wet in the rain very much so we decided to make an umbrella for him. Today, we carried out a science experiment to test which materials are waterproof and which are not!

Can you remember which material you decided would make the best umbrella?