Summer Newsletter 10 [Friday 12th July]
Dear Parents & Carers
We’ve had Circus Sensible in school today delivering circus skill workshops to all the children from nursery to Y6. What a fabulous time everyone had! Juggling clubs, walking wheels, plate spinning, stilt walking, flower stick juggling, hoola-hooping, static unicycling – the children had a great time honing their skills. We’re all really looking forward to Circus Sensible’s performances tomorrow – we hope to see you there.
Our Y2 pupils produced a couple of brilliant performances of Rock Pool this week – one for the pupils & the other for parents & carers. I was lucky enough to be at the parents & carers show. I can honestly say that I have not seen a better Y2 end of year show in all my 17 years at Woodlands. The children were magnificent: wonderful singing; delightful dancing; funny jokes. Luckily, spoiler alert, Crabbie got home in the end & teamed up with the Starfish Band becoming a guitar hero in the process. I’d like to thank all the parents & carers who helped assemble the children’s costumes – they looked fantastic!
Here’s the final ‘nudges’ of the 2023-2024 season…
Nursery
Can you talk about some of the things you have enjoyed doing in nursery this year?
{Communication & Language / Personal Social & Emotional Development}
Reception [Red & Blue]
Can you use positional language to describe where things are in your house & other places?
{Maths}
Y1&2 [Green, Yellow & Purple]
Can you talk about what you have learnt about Viking houses?
{History topic: ‘Anglo Saxons & Vikings’}
Y3&4 [3A, 3/4M & 4G]
Name as many quadrilaterals as you can & talk about their properties.
{Maths topic: ‘Shape’}
Y5&6 [5D, 5/6P & 6R]
What has been your favourite memory from this year?
I thought I’d show the overall attendance & punctuality for each class over the year:
|
Class |
Attendance |
Lates before 09:20 |
Lates after 09:20 |
|
Yellow Class |
97.5% |
90 |
4 |
|
3/4M |
97.0% |
20 |
4 |
|
Red Class |
96.7% |
34 |
0 |
|
5/6P |
96.5% |
9 |
1 |
|
Blue Class |
95.7% |
98 |
16 |
|
6R |
95.4% |
72 |
17 |
|
Green Class |
95.3% |
194 |
9 |
|
5D |
95.0% |
35 |
6 |
|
3G |
94.4% |
112 |
17 |
|
Purple Class |
94.1% |
229 |
17 |
|
4W |
93.2% |
153 |
8 |
We’ve got a couple of Y6 events next week: WOODfest IV on Tuesday 6th July & their leavers disco with DJ Alex on Wednesday 17th July.
Don’t forget, school finishes for the summer break at 2pm next Friday (19th July) – we’d hate your child to have to spend the summer in the lost property storeroom! School reopens for children on Wednesday 4th September
I hope you all have a maravilloso weekend.
KD Williams
Headteacher
Last word revisited
My partner just left me because they think I’m obsessed with football.
I’m a bit gutted about it – we’d been together for 3 seasons…
