Lunch menus
Here is a link to the lunch menus for next term; they’re on a 3 week cycle. If your child would like to have a school lunch, let Nursery staff know your choice at registration each morning.
Welcome Back!
Welcome back to all the Year 5/6 phase. I hope you and your families have had a lovely summer. Whilst I’m sure there are some of you that are bursting with excitement to return to school, I’m sure there are some of you that might be feeling a bit nervous or anxious. This is completely normal and to be honest, the teachers are feeling the same way too. We can’t wait to see you all back at school and hear our classrooms full of learning and giggling again. If you are moving to a new class this time, we can’t wait to get to know you and you will be settled in in no time at all. Maybe make sure you start to think about your bedtime routines a bit now. Do you need to be going to bed a bit earlier before Monday? Have you got all your uniform and PE kit that you need? Make sure your making some healthy food choices over the weekend so you’re feeling healthy for the first day of term.
Anyway, enjoy the weekend and we’re looking forward to seeing you on Monday morning.
Welcome Back
The year 5/6 team are brimming with excitement at the thought of returning to school.
You’ll notice a few changes around the school such as the new fence in the KS2 playground. The biggest change for the classes is that we’ll now be known as 5/6A, B or C (hopefully less confusing).
5/6A -Mr Freeman, Mrs Ravenscroft and Miss Joicey
5/6B – Mrs Hogarth and Mrs Goodwin
5/6 C (C for cool obviously) – Mr Lindsay and Miss McAleer
We’re really looking forward to this year. Our first topic is geography based and called Where in the World am I? At home, discuss your local area, our county, capital city and where we fit into Great Britain.
We’ll also be learning how to read maps as we take a virtual tour of some of our national parks. We’ll be learning about some Uk rivers and mountains through the use of OS and digital maps.
This half term will see the return of our class assemblies which will be recorded for parents to view.
Finally, there’s just a few reminders:
- make sure your child comes with a water bottle
- when the bell rings at 8:50am (yes, that early again), children walk straight into class instead of lining up
- children wear PE to school on their PE days
See you all on Monday morning for a happy and healthy return to school.
The Year 5/6 team
Lunch menus
PE days – which day to I wear my PE uniform?
We are going to continue with wearing PE kit on PE days – this cuts down on lost property and saves learning time, so we’re going to continue this for at least next year as a longer term trial. On the days your child has PE, they should come to school in their school uniform PE kit. (Track-suit bottoms instead of shorts would be good on colder days. Footwear : black/brown/grey/white flat shoes which are safe to run around in.)
Footwear on PE days could be children’s ‘school shoes’ which are often a plain ‘trainer’ style anyway, if you want to avoid having to buy 2 pairs of shoes.
Here is a link to our uniform policy.
Please find below the days each class has allocated PE times, which will be taught outdoors, except in extreme weather.
- F2 Sunshine (Miss Parling) – Monday and Friday
- F2 Rainbow (Mrs Allen-Kelly/Mrs Wilkins) – Monday and Friday
- 1A (Miss Lowry) – Thursday and Friday
- 1,2B (Mrs Latham) – Thursday and Friday
- 2C (Mr Gathercole) – Wednesday and Thursday
- 3,4A (Miss Harker) – Tuesday and Thursday
- 3,4B (Mr Catherall) – Monday and Tuesday
- 3,4C (Mrs McCormick/Mrs Wadsworth) – Tuesday and Wednesday
- 5,6A (Mr Freeman) – Monday and Wednesday
- 5,6B (Mrs Hogarth) – Tuesday and Wednesday
- 5,6C (Mr Lindsay) – Wednesday and Thursday
Class information September 2021
1A – Miss Lowry’s class information
Below is some information about your child’s new class and some of the day to day things that will help your child settle into their new class and routine.
Email : kaylowry@spherefederation.org
- PE days – Tuesday and Friday (school uniform PE kit can be worn all day)
- Reading books changing day – Friday
- Library – Friday
- Spare clothes – can be kept in a small bag on their peg, if required
- Lunch menus – will be displayed in the window and on the Class News/Year 1 & 2 page of the website.
- Playtime snacks – fruit or vegetables only please but there is a fruit/veg bowl in each class for playtimes
- Water bottle – should be in school every day, can be emptied and refilled in school
- Children will have their own tray for suncream, tissues, hats/gloves, snack
- Coat – please send one every day as we may be learning outside
1,2B – Mrs Latham’s class information
Below is some information about your child’s new class and some of the day to day things that will help your child settle into their new class and routine.
Email : vickylatham@spherefederation.org
- PE days – Thursday and Friday (school uniform PE kit can be worn all day)
- Reading books changing day – Wednesday
- Library – Friday
- Spare clothes – can be kept in a small bag on their peg, if required
- Lunch menus – will be displayed in the window and on the Class News/Year 1 & 2 page of the website.
- Playtime snacks – fruit or vegetables only please but there is a fruit/veg bowl in each class for playtimes
- Water bottle – should be in school every day, can be emptied and refilled in school
- Children will have their own tray for suncream, tissues, hats/gloves, snack
- Coat – please send one everyday as we may be learning outside
2C – Mr Gathercole’s class information
Below is some information about your child’s new class and some of the day to day things that will help your child settle into their new class and routine.
Email: carlgathercole@spherefederation.org
- PE days – Wednesday and Thursday (school uniform PE kit is worn all day)
- Reading books changing day – Friday
- Library – Friday
- Spare clothes – can be kept in a small bag on their peg, if required
- Lunch menus – will be displayed in the window and on the Class News/Year 1 & 2 page of the website
- Playtime snacks – fruit or vegetables only please but there is a fruit/veg bowl in each class for playtimes
- Water bottle – should be in school every day, can be emptied and refilled in school
- Children will have their own tray for sun cream, tissues, hats/gloves, snack
- Coat – please send one every day as we may be learning outside
It’s nearly time…
We’ve had a super summer and we’re looking forward to another fun filled year in Nursery. Hopefully, you’ve all had lots of adventures too; we can’t wait to find out about them.
If you are one of our older children and are returning to Nursery, you’ll have received a letter before the holidays to about your first two days. Remember, we’re on home visits during the first week so we’ll have to wait until Monday 13 September until we see your happy faces again! Please refer to your letter for further details.
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (07-09 September) the Nursery team will be out and about to say hello to all of our new children and their families for their ‘door-step’ Home visit. Fingers crossed the weather will be kind to us but we’ll have an umbrella with us, just in case! During this short visit, we’ll introduce ourselves and answer any questions that you may have. Your child’s individual transition into Nursery (which included a Home Visit date, ‘Stay and Play’ details and their first session date) was outlined in your transition letter that you received in July. Please get in touch with us as soon as possible if you have any queries. Our Nursery email is scholesf1@spherefederation.org
What does my child need?
- A waterproof coat (NAMED)
- A pair of wellies (NAMED)
- A water bottle (NAMED)
- A drawstring bag containing a full change of clothes (including a top, trousers/leggings, underwear and socks – ALL NAMED)
- A sun hat on sunny days (NAMED)
In case you missed it above, you must NAME all items that your child brings to Nursery! You don’t need to get special name labels, a simple marker pen (e.g. Sharpie) in the care label is fine! It is very hard to return missing items to their owners when they’re not named.
Next week, we’ll also be busy preparing Nursery for you to come and play. Keep checking our News page and we’ll post some photos for you as soon as we’re ready.
See you soon!
Happy Holidays!
What a busy two weeks! We’ve had so much fun, playing in the sunshine, visiting the farm, joining in Sport’s Day races on the field and dancing at our ‘Under the Sea’ party. We’ve put together a short video for you to watch of our last few weeks in Nursery.
Nursery Video – End of term fun!
Thank you for all of your kind words, cards and gifts this week. We hope that you all have a great Summer holiday and we’ll look forward to seeing some of you in Nursery in September and some of you, next door in Reception! We’d also like to say good bye to those children that are moving to other schools – we hope that you love your new school and make lots of new friends. Finally, we’re very sad to say good bye to Miss Backhouse but we hope that she has enjoys her very well earned retirement.
Sunshine and Rainbow Superstars
Wow! What a fabulous year we have had!
Every member of the class has been absolutely amazing!
Here are a few snapshots of our final week in reception.
Have a wonderful summer and see you all in September.
Go Go Go-Karts!
We tested our prototype Go-Karts today and what an exciting event that was! This is the final part of the design – make – evaluate process.
All of our efforts in making the go-karts came together in the big test!
It was great to see so many different types of go-karts, with different components, come together. The children went through a quick and steep learning curve when testing them, realising what needed to be strengthened or supported in order for them to function better.
The design criteria for our go-karts was:
- to roll
- to steer
- to keep a character safe inside the kart
We also evaluated our Karts – see Aaron’s great work below.
