Summer Newsletter 5

Dear Parents & Carers

Our Y2 pupils have been sitting their end of key stage ‘quizzes’ this week. The children have worked hard & tried their very best – we cannot ask for any more. I’d like to thank the Y2 staff for the commitment they’ve shown to the children during the year – Mrs Crilly, Mrs Dempster, Mrs Forden, Miss Morgan, & Miss Newton – you are all superstars.

I’m very pleased to be able to announce that the junior trim trail is now complete. The children have been able to try it out it over the last couple of day & have found it to be great fun. The whole point of a trim-trail is to keep the children active – this new design certainly manages to do that! I would request that the trim trail is not used before school – we need the children to be ready to enter school at 08:45. If the trim-trail is used after school, your children will need supervising by an adult. Please remember, it is designed for junior children – some of the sections are not suitable for younger children to use. I would like to thank FOWSA for their support in making this installation possible. In particular, I would like to thank one of our parents, Mr Watson, for the extremely generous donation through his company, Worldwall, without which we would have waited much longer for this project to become a reality. 

Next week we have 2 special events on Thursday (26th May). Firstly, we have FOWSA’s Dare to be Different day – details of this have been sent home (via ParentMail) already. We are also celebrating Queen Elizabeth II being on the throne for 70 years with our Woodlands Platinum Jubilee Picnic. All the children will be having a picnic together at lunchtime. Holly the Chef & her wonderful team in the kitchen will providing a delicious packed lunch for everyone staying for school dinners that day - including a tasty Queenie cupcake! If your child normally stays for a packed lunch, feel free to decorated their lunchbox however you wish to celebrate the jubilee.

Here’s this week’s conversation starters to help you find out about your child’s learning…

Nursery

What foods did the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat on Saturday?

{Literacy: ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ Eric Carle}

Reception [Red & Blue]

Explain the life cycle of a butterfly

{Understanding the World}

Y1&2 [Green, Yellow & Purple]

How does water turn into ice?

{Science topic: ‘Materials & Matter’}

Y3&4 [3A, 3/4M & 4G]

Who was Christopher Wren & what did he do?

{History topic: ‘Charles II: plague & fire’}

Y5&6 [5D, 5/6P & 6R]

How does the UK mange the waste it produces?

{Geography topic ‘British Geography’}

This week, our whole school attendance is 96.7%, 0.3% away from our target of 97%. Well done to Purple Class (97.7%), Yellow Class (99.3%), 3/4M (99.3%), 4C (97.4%), 5D (98.6%) & 5/6P (99.4%) for breaking the 97% mark.

We had only had 4 classes who had no late marks this week: Yellow Class, 3/4M, 5/6P & 6R. We’ve had 16 late marks across the whole school. 16 late marks ‘before the register closed’ – that’s before 9.20am & 0 late marks ‘after the register has closed’, that’s after 9.20am.

Don’t forget. school finishes for the children on Thursday 26th May & they don’t return until Tuesday 7th June.

Enjoy the weekend.

KD Williams

Headteacher

Last word

What do you call an elephant that doesn’t matter?

Irrelephant

Thanks to Ivy