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Nursery – Welcome back! 06.01.2023

Happy New Year and welcome back Nursery children! The children were excited to return to their classroom to see their friends yesterday and we had a surprise – Santa has kindly given us some new toys which the children enjoyed exploring.

Key Dates/Information

Monday and Wednesday are our PE days – Children do not need PE Kit as they will do PE in their school uniform. Please keep practising taking off and putting on both socks and shoes.

We will still have our Library slot on a Friday morning so please ensure library books come into school each Friday.

Reading morning every Friday 8:45-9.00 – maybe a grandparent would like to come one week?

Monday 30th January – INSET day

Monday 13th – Friday 17th February – Half term.

Thursday 23rd February – Nursery Parent Consultations

Friday 31st March – Last day of term

Winter

This half term our topic is ‘Winter’. We will be reading stories linked to Winter and be thinking about the clothes we need to wear and why. We will look at the North Pole and the South Pole and talk about the animals that live there. Our new role play for this half term is ‘The North Pole’ where the children can spend time in the igloo, read stories, play with small world polar animals and enjoy the campfire.

Some pictures from the first two days back.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

Nursery – Merry Christmas

Thank you for all the Kris Kringle gifts that came into Nursery on the last week of term – they looked lovely under the tree. The children were really excited to receive their present from a friend in their class.

It really has been a great term, the children have settled in really well and I am so proud of how far they have come. They have gotten to grips with the routines within Nursery brilliantly and I am really looking forward to Spring term.

In the past week and a bit of term the children coped brilliant with the unexpected visitors we had, they performed their Christmas Nativity, had a visit from Santa and enjoyed a fantastic Grandparents Tea morning in which they sang so beautifully – they definitely deserve a well earned rest.

I want to wish all the Nursery children and their families a very Merry Christmas.

I will see you all in 2023!

Miss Taylor

Seasons Greetings

The Year 2 children have been incredible this half term. There has been lots of illness, but the children have been resilient and showed just how brilliant they are as they persevered through rehearsals when, on a number of occasions, a third of the characters were ill! We are all very proud of the wonderful production that they put on during the last week of term and the singing was joyful. Well done Year 2!

Mrs McAllister and I would like to warmly thank you for the smashing gifts that we received at the end of the term. We are very lucky to have such generous families. Have a very happy, healthy and holy Christmas.

Here is a very special Christmas message from Year 2 to celebrate the end term.

We are very proud of our sewing!
Merry …
Christmas!

Happy Christmas, Year Six!

Happy Christmas to you all!

Thank you so much for your kindness, Christmas wishes and gifts. It is very much appreciated.

I hope that you and your families have a wonderful Christmas, fully of health and happiness.

Enjoy your Christmas holidays, have a rest, be really helpful at home and read lots of good books.

See you in 2023!

Mr Hayes

Reception – Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas!!!

16.12.22

What a week it’s been!!! Full of surprises….

On a Tuesday we had our dress rehearsal and actual performance in one go… The children were absolutely fantastic! Did you hear all the singing? Little superstars. Well done EYFS for being so confident on the stage. I can’t describe how proud you made me feel.
BIG Thank you parents for supporting us in learning the lines, providing outfits and simply being there for us.
News, News, read all about it!!!

To finish off the week we had a scrumptious Christmas dinner! And guess what… all the teachers were serving us the food! What a treat!

And finally… our special visitor! Santa checked that we had all been good and then gave us presents! Thank you Santa for the lovely surprise!

Have an amazing weekend!
Looking forward seeing you all next week!
Mrs Solakova

Christmas dinner

.. was postponed by a day this year, but was enjoyed just as much as usual – including the ever-popular Arctic roll. Here are a few “action shots”.

We have been finishing off topics this week and we can all look forward to new topics next half-term. We are loving our reading book – “The Wild Robot”, which has echoes of “Iron Man” . I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

See how they grow!

Our fantastic Eco-leaders were busy last week, planting a tree as part of our school’s contribution to The Queen’s Canopy.

We will look forward to seeing our sapling shoot in the spring and its growth in years to come, as it adds to the beauty of our school grounds and becomes a home for a wealth of life in the eco-system of our school grounds.

Reception – Tricky, tricky words

09.12.22

Hello parents,

What a week we’ve had. With lots of practising, trying the costumes, singing the songs and remembering the lines. The children are getting better and better and are super excited to show you everything they’ve learned next week.
We made a beautiful wreaths to decorate our classroom and also to help us remember that the wreath represents God’s love, has no beginning and no end. We added 5 more characters on our advent calendar and tried to keep the promises we made.

Little Wandle
This week, as mentioned in my previous blog, I was assessing the children and also we revisited our tricky words. Well … the tricky words proved to be very tricky, so they were all around the classroom during learning to play. We played a special fly swatter game on the carpet, competing against each other. So much fun ….

In our sand tray we were decorating a christmas tree and the baubles were tricky words. Such a great way to play and learn at the same time.

The tricky words are so tricky because we can’t decode them, which means that we have to sight read them. Please make sure that you practise them with your child every day as this would really help them remember and use them confidently. New words are added each week and you can find them in your child’s orange book.

What a lovely finish to the week… we planted a tree and carefully filled the whole making sure the tree is nicely tucked under the soil. Hope our tree will grow big and strong for many years to come.

Dates:

Tuesday 13th December 10:30 am – EYFS Christmas performance.
Thursday 15th December Christmas Jumper and Party Day…if we are lucky a special visitor – HO!HO!HO!!
Friday 16th December – deadline for KK gifts (please find the sticker in your child’s reading record)

Thank you very much to all the families who have sent in their clothes for our Nativity. If you have not already done so, please aim to send them in Monday morning. If you have any problems getting hold of the items, please let me know.

Next week we will visit the library on a Friday morning.
Friday reading mornings – 8:45am to 9:00 am.
Our reading practise books need to be returned by Monday. Please make sure that they are in the zippy bags together with tricky words book and reading record.

To all the families with ill children, I am wishing you a very speedy recovery and hope to see you all back to school on a Monday morning.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Mrs Solakova

It’s performance time…

This week we saw the amazing talents of our budding pop stars, with the fantastic “Rock Steady” concert on Monday.

We have been very busy practising words for the parts and songs in the carol concert. Well done to everyone who is making a huge effort to deliver their lines slowly, clearly and loudly and to those children who suddenly became understudies, due to the original actors being stricken by one of the nasty bugs going around just now.

Thank you for the RE home learning. The children have thought carefully about the qualities needed to be a prophet today – people who follow God’s path and emulate Jesus, such as Marcus Rashford, David Attenborough or parents.

I hope you all have a bug-free, relaxing and healthy weekend!