What a week!
We hope that you’ve been following our posts on social media to keep you up to date.
The last couple of days, after the announcement that schools would close, have been hectic and stressful. We’re grateful for your patience and your words of encouragement, and your kind messages which have reassured and revitalised us when we’ve needed it.
There’ll be more information soon regarding how you can support your child at home with their learning. We’re busy preparing it all at the moment. Please continue to check the website and Nursery page regularly for more information.
On that note, our chicks are due to hatch very soon. We have our fingers crossed that the eggs survived the journey to Mrs Long’s house! We’d hate for children to miss out on all of the chick excitement, so Mrs Long will do her best to take lots of videos and photos to share with you as soon as the hatching begins.
Living and Learning : I recognise my own talents
We had a fab homework review today in the form of a ‘talent show’. Children showed skipping, football, dancing, reading, gymnastics and drawing skills. Thank you to everyone who emailed videos and photos for us to see too.
Thank you – ALDI sticker collection
This week, we received our free sports kit from the ALDI sticker collecting we did last year. We collected two posters worth, so got two bags! We look forward getting sporty with them in the not too distant future.
Stay and play cancelled
We are following government guidelines regarding social distancing. We have therefore cancelled the Phonics Stay and Play on Wednesday 25 March. We aim to rearrange this stay and play and will inform you when we have an alternative date.
Parent/carer meetings – postponed
As outlined in our latest social media post, we are following government guidelines regarding social distancing. We have therefore cancelled our parent/carer meetings next week. We will inform you of the alternative dates when we have more information.
Living and learning: I know what body image
Year 5/6 have been discussing body image. In their classes they generated a class definition of this term and identified what this means to them. They recognised that body image includes our feelings, and thoughts about their height, weight, shape, skin colour and appearance. The children looked at how image had changed over time. Each child was given a template of a bucket and we talked about how we all carry a bucket around and we fill it with the words people say to us. It is important to fill other people’s buckets with positive comments. We finally spent time writing positive comments on every persons bucket and ended the lesson reflecting on these. It was great to see so many positive comments from the children to each other.
The Y3,4 Easter production
Current government guidance around the coronavirus outbreak is clear that schools should remain open. However, there is a possibility that schools may close at some point.
If schools were to close, children would miss out on valuable learning time with their teacher. (We have plans in place to provide some home learning in the event of school closures, but this won’t be the same as children coming to school to learn with their teacher.)
Because we prioritise learning, we want to ensure children are benefitting from as much time as possible in the classroom.
Based on this reason, we’ve decided to postpone or possibly cancel the Y3,4 Easter production. This is because the production involves quite a lot of time in rehearsals. Whilst this can be a useful time for children to develop wider skills, we want to prioritise learning in the class – just in case later on learning in the class is missed.
We’re continuing to follow government guidance. This decision is not due speculation about bans on mass-gatherings, for example.
Home Link – Spring
We’re beginning to notice some changes in our Nursery garden; spring is definitely here. Over the next few weeks we’ll be learning about spring time. Please continue with this learning at home by taking part in one or more of these activities.
- Go for a walk, what signs of spring can you see? Buds and leaves growing on trees? Birds singing? Baby farm animals in the fields? Take some photos or even better, draw a picture to show us what you saw.
- During spring, lots of animals have their babies. Find out the name of some baby animals e.g Sheep, pig, goat, duck and cow.
- Draw a picture of a flower you can see growing on your walk to Nursery or in your garden. Remember to draw the petals, a stem and some leaves. Talk about the shapes and colours as you draw.
- During spring, seeds begin to grow. In the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack’s magic beans grow into a beanstalk. Tell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk with your grown up, you could even act it out together.
Remember to let us know when you have completed some learning at home together so that we can add a star to your child’s photo.
Parent/carer meetings
We’re looking forward to meeting you all over the next two weeks to discuss your child’s progress in Nursery.
Our evening appointments on the 16 and 25 March will take place in the main school entrance hall. Please wait in the lobby for your allocated appointment time.
Morning appointments will be held in Nursery so please come to the Nursery door before your appointment time and somebody will greet you.
Sport Relief – take two
We joined in with Sport Relief again today. Each class completed their own sport challenges – trying to improve personal best scores in skipping, basketball, running and football. Thank you for all the donations to this charity.
