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Year 3 Message

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6 years ago
Posted on 02nd Oct 2020 by

CAVE PAINTINGS – under the table!

Today the Year 3 classrooms transformed into Stone Age ‘prehistory’ caves.

The children transported back in time to the Stone Age and became homo sapiens for the afternoon. The children used paint to replicate natural resources such as berries, mud and chalk whilst painting message of prehistory to tell a story on the cave walls. The enthusiasm was fantastic – the children didn’t even speak their own language, only grunting could be heard. The pieces of prehistory they replicated were detailed and clear. What a brilliant afternoon by all!

 

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6 years ago
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Year 3 Harvest Week – Poetry

This week Year 3 have researched about Harvest celebrations around the world. The children used their cross-curricular links to RE and compared Harvest celebrations in Sikhism and Christianity. Year 3 have been extremely creative by reading existing poems about Harvest, selecting and using some good adjectives, adverbs and phrases and then planned their own poems. On Friday the children reread first draft and edited them using up-levelled vocabulary. Then they took pride in the presentation of their poems. Finally they rehearsed and perform their wonderful poems to their peers in Forest school and outside in the Autumn weather.

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Year 3&4 Star of the Week

 

Theo (from Mrs Pablos and Mrs McLaughlin’s class) – for excellent Harvest poetry

Jamie (From Mrs Trevor’s class) – for fantastic home learning and reading with expression

Rowan (from Miss Macfarlane’s class) – for being so spectacular all week

Charlie (from Mr Jackson’s class) – for great enthusiasm towards all his learning and moving up groups in Maths and Literacy

 

6 years ago
Posted on 02nd Oct 2020 by

Information check sheets

Dear Parents/carers

We will be sending home check sheets with children in Years 1-6 to make sure that the information that we hold on our system is up to date. Please ensure that you check through, make any amendments and then sign and return to your child’s class teacher even if there are no changes to be made.

Many thanks

6 years ago
Posted on 01st Oct 2020 by

Covid 19 update

Dear Parents/Carers,

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-parents-and-guardians-when-you-should-book-a-coronavirus-test-for-your-child/letter-to-parents-and-guardians-when-you-should-book-a-coronavirus-test-for-your-child

 

We have sent this document out before, but wanted to make sure it reached everyone. We are trying so hard to prevent any positive cases in our school, but we need your help…

Please follow all of the guidelines and in particular –

  • Making sure you are not sending your child/children into school if they are unwell.
  • Making sure they wash their hands before coming in to school and on arrival home.
  • Ensuring your children and you yourselves are socially distancing at the key times of drop off and pick up.

 

Clearly we can not control what goes on out of school, but ask that everyone does ‘their bit’ in trying to keep the virus out of our community and therefore lowering the risk of it getting into our school.

 

Thank you for your continued support.

 

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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6 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2020 by

The importance of breakfast

Morning routines can be frantic and rushed, trying to locate book bags and coats but one aspect which is important not to forget is breakfast.

Research shows that, on average, 2 pupils in every class in England and Wales will arrive at school hungry at least once a week. If a child arrives at school hungry, they lose one hour of learning time a day. Thinking about that over a longer term, if a child arrived at school hungry once a week they would almost 9 weeks of learning time (70 per cent of a term) over the whole of their primary school life.

It is so important that children have a nutritional breakfast before they come to school. A healthy and balanced breakfast can provide the refuelling your child needs to make the most of the day ahead. Where possible, please try and avoid overly sugary cereals (easier said than done we know!). Breakfast foods such as cereals with added iron, wholegrain breads, eggs and raisins are all good sources of iron.

Please encourage your children to have breakfast before coming to school – it really is important!

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6 years ago
Posted on 25th Sep 2020 by

Autumn Parents’ Evening online appointment booking

I would like to invite you to attend our Parents’ Evening which will take place as follows:

Reception: Tuesday 6th October 2020 – Friday 9th October 2020
Years 1, 2 & 3: Monday 12th October 2020 – Friday 16th October 2020
Years 4, 5 & 6: Monday 19th October 2020 – Thursday 22nd October 2020

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic all meetings will take place via phone call. When booking your slot please leave the name of the person to be contacted and phone number as a message for the teacher. Each allocated slot is 10 minutes long and teachers will need to adhere to the timings. The incoming call to your phone may show as a withheld number or one of the school numbers.

The school will again use the online appointment booking system. This allows you to choose your own appointment times with teachers and you will receive an email confirming your appointments. Appointments can be made from Friday 25th September 2020.

Please visit https://newdale.parentseveningsystem.co.uk to book your appointments. A short guide on how to add appointments is attached with this letter. Login with the following information:
Student’s First Name:
Student’s surname:
Date of Birth:

If you do not have access to the internet please contact the school office who will be happy to add appointments on your behalf.

Please click on the links below to view the full letter and parent guide.

Parents Evening invite letter Autumn 2020

Parent Guide – Autumn 2020 Parents’ Evening