Non Uniform Day – 13/11/2020 – BBC Children In Need

7th November 2020Mrs L Rae

In aid of BBC Children In Need, Friday 13th November will be a non-uniform day. Please make a minimum of a £1 donation via SIMS Pay. Alternatively, you may bring a cash donation to school on the day. All monies raised will be given directly to the charity.

Children may wear an outfit of their choice including costumes, pyjamas, sports kits. Please keep in mind the weather and ensure your child is suitably dressed for outdoor activities.
We look forward to seeing your outfits on the day!

Sadly Pudsey is not able to join us this year due to the COVID-19 restrictions.

A Wonderful Wellie Walk

By Sarah Scofield9th October 2020

Hello Everyone,

We had a beautiful morning for our wellie walk today. It was cold but sunny so we wrapped up well and headed out to explore our forest area and the school fields which most of the children hadn’t visited before. Great fun was had collecting leaves, twigs, acorns and apples as well as having a good squelch in the mud and then playing on the tyres. The children looked lovely and bright in their clothes this morning and we have to say a great big thank you for all the packets and tins you all sent in. Also, thank you for the beautiful conkers and Autumn objects you have sent in – we have plenty for counting, making patterns and collages next week. We look forward to talking to you next week about how your child has settled in. Have a good weekend!

The Nursery Team

 

 

 

Forest School Murals

6th October 2020Mrs J Hartwell

Mr Rolison set Year 6 with the task of creating some mural designs so that their ideas can be used to brighten up the fences in our forest school. Here is what they came up with:

We’re looking forward to getting involved in turning these designs into our class mural!

Year 5’s first few weeks

By Aimee Piercy1st October 2020

Year 5 have enjoyed a successful return to school. Our first few weeks back together have been full of smiles, laughs and a lot of hard work both in the classroom and outside. Highlights have included:

 

Using maths skills in an unexpected location.

 

 

 

Setting ourselves up for success for our first class trip.

 

 

Putting our skills into practise at Quarry Park Disc Golf Course with help from Mr Youson and Mr Regan.

 

 

Exploring the forest school and developing our teamwork skills.

 

Staffing and Transition for 2020-21

By Mr A Cooke3rd July 2020

Dear Parents,

We are now pleased to be able to confirm the allocation of teachers to year groups for the next academic year.  Due to the current circumstances, this has been much more difficult than it would usually be and we thank you for your patience and understanding.  As we fully digest all of the information and guidance related to the full re-opening of school in September, we will be able to confirm teaching assistant allocation – hopefully by the end of next week.

Year Group – Teacher
Nursery – Mrs Schofield
Reception – Mrs Jilks
Year 1 – Miss Corkerry
Year 2 – Miss Clarke
Year 3 – Miss Hayden
Year 4 – Mr Rolison
Year 5 – Miss Piercy
Year 6 – Mrs Hartwell

We are delighted to have appointed Miss Aimee Piercy into the position of a full-time class teacher, following her successful year of training with us.  We were also delighted to appoint Miss Madison Hayden as a class teacher, following the departure of Miss McDonagh.

Each teacher has written a letter to the children they will be receiving in September.   These letters are available to download below.  Please take the time to download and share this letter with your child:

Children entering Nursery in Sept 2020
Children entering Reception in Sept 2020
Children entering Year 1 in Sept 2020
Children entering Year 2 in Sept 2020
Children entering Year 3 in Sept 2020
Children entering Year 4 in Sept 2020
Children entering Year 5 in Sept 2020
Children entering Year 6 in Sept 2020

In addition, for children entering Years 1-6, we will be holding transition sessions, via Zoom, next week.  The schedule for these is below and the individual meeting details will be emailed out to you early next week.  For Years 1-3, the sessions will be done in groups.  The email link that you receive will indicate the group/session your child should attend.

Year Group in Sept 2020 – Zoom day/time
Year 1 – Wednesday 8th July (Gr1, 10:45-11:30am; Gr2, 11:30-12:15pm; Gr3, 12:15-1:00pm)
Year 2 – Thursday 9th July (Gr1, 10:00-10:45am; Gr2, 10:45-11:30am; Gr3, 11:30-12:15pm)
Year 3 – Friday 10th July (Gr1, 10:00-10:45am; Gr2, 11:00-11:45am)
Year 4 – Wednesday 8th July, 1-2pm
Year 5 – Thursday 9th July, 1-2pm
Year 6 – Friday 10th July, 1-2pm

Finally, at the end of next week, each teacher will be making available a small pack of activities for the children to complete during the Summer holidays.  These will be posted here on the school website.

Whilst the school will be closed to children during the Summer break, we are acutely aware of how difficult the past few months have been (and continue to be) for some families.  Should you need to make contact, myself and Mrs Quinn are still available via email ([email protected] / [email protected]) throughout the summer – although please do bear in mind that it may take us a little longer than usual to pick these up and reply to you.

 

*Year One* Home Learning – W/B 18th May 2020

21st May 2020Miss R Corkerry

Another week of fantastic learning from Year One. I am so proud of all you have achieved and really enjoy reading your emails and looking at your photos.

George has had another busy week. He has been working on his RE, Design Technology, geography, reading comprehension and continuing his fantastic building of Lego. I loved his prayer and his fantastic story below! Please have a read. Well done George!

Phoebe has had another busy week and has worked really hard on the tricky concept of time. Phoebe sped through the work after it ‘clicked’ and is looking forward to receiving her own clock! Phoebe has also been working hard on her writing and has written some promises that she is going to try and keep after reading the story of Jesus promising his disciples that the Holy Spirit would come to them.

We also send huge birthday wishes to Phoebe who celebrated her birthday earlier in the week! Hope you had a wonderful day!
Well done Phoebe!

It was lovely to receive an email from Tai this week showing how well he has been getting on with the concept of time. He enjoyed watching the videos and has flown through his maths work. He also wrote me a letter as his writing task this week and it is lovely to see how well he is getting on with his handwriting. In his letter he said he is missing his friends at school and asked if I was missing them too. I really am missing you all Tai and hope to see you all soon! In his letter he also explains that he is making an Optimus Prime suit that transforms into a car! Once again, showing his fantastic imagination and creativity. Keep it up Tai!

Veronica sent in more of her maths work. She continues to work hard in maths and has answered some quite tricky word problems for measurement using her own strategies for addition, including column addition. She has also had a go at reading some scales for measuring volume and mass, despite the computer moving all the boxes around! Well done Veronica!

Another week of hard work for Grace. She has focused particularly on maths and has challenged herself to complete some of the more tricky elements of time such as word problems and working out hours less, hours more and reading the time to o’clock and half past. Having learnt about the promise Jesus made and Pentecost in RE, Grace wrote an invitation for a Pentecost party! I’d love to join especially as there promises to be singing and dancing! I also loved seeing Grace’s fruity art! She made a fantastic owl using many different fruits. Fantastic! Well done!

All Sorts Early Years and Extended Services

By All Sorts14th May 2020

I hope that you and your families are all keeping safe and well.

Yesterday emails were sent with an attached letter to all of the families that use our service. If your child accesses both Early Years and Extended Services we are currently in a position where we have to treat these services differently so you will have received two slightly different emails and letters.

We are currently planning for the proposed opening of Early Years on 1st June which in itself brings many challenges!  We have yet to make any decisions regarding our Extended Services provision. This is mainly down to the guidance we have received since Sunday informing us that children who attend are to be kept in ‘bubbles’ and are not mix outside of this ‘bubble’. I am sure you can appreciate that opening Extended Services to all Year groups that are allowed to attend school would go against this guidance so there is much more planning to do here. I will keep you all informed accordingly.

As always if you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me via email and I will endeavour to get back to you as soon as I can.

 

Stay safe and well

Sharon x

 

Nursery Work

By Sarah Scofield7th May 2020

I am really proud of the work that Ollie sent me and I know that Ollie and his mum are super proud too. He went into the garden and did these wonderful pictures of his family all by himself. Mum spelt out the words for him and Ollie wrote them  – amazing!

Thank you for all the lovely work everone has sent me. Keep it coming and I will post it on the Home Learning page for you now that I have eventually worked out how to do it!