Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Parents Evening

last week. It was wonderful to see so many of you so keen to

find out all about your child’s achievements this half term. It’s

certainly been a very long one, all the children certainly

deserve a break.

I am delighted to let you all know that our attendance has

increased slowly as the half term has progressed which is

wonderful but quite unusual! We finish on 96.37%. This is the

highest it has been for a number of years and shows us how

much the children are loving their learning.

I hope you enjoy a great ‘Halloween’ holiday and

don’t forget to get your ‘Rock Star’ costumes ready

for our TT Rock Stars day on Friday 9th November.

26th October 2018

Headteacher Update

Friday Letter for Parents and Carers

Debbie Cousins

October 2018 29th– 2nd November Half term

November 2018 9th TT Rock Stars Day

12th Lions Class Assembly 2.45pm

12-15th Anti-Bullying Week

15th Children In Need

16th Training Day

27th Wolves Class Assembly 2.45pm December 2018 14th Save the Children

Christmas Jumper Day and

Christmas Lunch

21st Break up for Christmas

Any changes/additions will be

marked in red

Dates for your Diary

Alligators

Mr Willson our Maths Leader has been

enjoying a special treat this week as he has

been on a visit to Shanghai in China. He has

had the amazing opportunity of observing

teaching in China. We look forward to

hearing all about it on his return.

Over the last few weeks, Team Alligators and the rest of Key Stage One have been exploring a variety of Traditional Tales. We started off by looking at Hansel and Gretel. We went out on an adventure to the copse to experience what it was like to be surrounded

by woodland. We used this experience to build vocabulary to help us with our writing. After that, we started looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears. As part of our creative curriculum, we tried different flavours of porridge and then designed our own new healthy snack for Goldilocks. We then went on to look at the 'True Story Of The Three Little Pigs'. We found out that the Big Bad Wolf isn't really bad at all!

To round off our half term, the children put on a fabulous class assembly telling the real story. All the staff were very proud of all the children and how hard they have worked.

Stars of the Week 18th October 25th October

Bumblebees Phoebe for starting to write her own name Daisy for eating her dinner in the hall Hedgehogs Sofia for trying hard to form her letters and being a fantastic member of team Hedgehogs Badgers Aubree for fantastic role play Tigers Tobias for fantastic writing doing our traditional tales unit Kangaroos Rian for always trying your best at everything Alligators Dylan for working really hard on his writing Owls Ryan for being a fantastic role model and giving 100% effort in everything Leopards Angel for showing great drive and resilience in all her learning she always wants to better herself Penguins Ellie for a helpful and positive attitude, helping organise the class assembly Pandas Holly for a great attitude Lions Evie for resilience in maths Wolves Katie for outstanding effort Koalas Lewis for amazing effort Sports star Harper for always having a smile on her face in PE and giving 100% Mrs Cousin’s Headteacher’s award Isaac for asking some brilliant questions when the wolf came to visit the tigers, you were a very good police officer

Hedgehogs Lincoln for being a super friend Badgers Demi-Lacey for always trying her best Tigers Rikki for showing a grown up attitude to learning Kangaroos Ryan for a fantastic first half term Alligators Blake for amazing effort in his maths Owls Lacey for great resilience Leopards Natalia for constantly working hard in every subject Penguins Kennedy for a brilliant attitude to maths this week Pandas Aaron for literacy and maths work Lions Harvey for amazing improvement in his maths Wolves Jayden for amazing writing Koalas Grace for resilience and persistence, working and helping around the classroom Sports star Tye for giving 100% effort and a very determined attitude Mrs Cousin’s Headteacher’s award Alexa for a really positive half term. You’ve smiled for the whole eight weeks and worked really hard. Well done.

After half term we will be handing out poppies to the children. If you would like to make a donation to help support the Armed Forces and their families please send it in with your child. We will be collecting donations for the poppy appeal during the run up to Remembrance Sunday.

We will be holding a ‘TT Rock Stars’

day on Friday 9th November and

invite children to dress up as a rock

star for the day. This could involve a wig, glasses a

blow up guitar or even flares!

We would also like to invite parents in to an open

classroom drop-in session for TT Rock Stars on:

Tuesday 13th November 2.45-3.15pm– EYFS, Owls,

Penguins and Leopards

Wednesday 14th November 2.45-3.15pm Wolves,

Koalas, Lions and Pandas

Monday 19th November 2.45-3.15pm Tigers,

Kangaroos and Alligators

This year we are celebrating Children in Need on Thursday 15th November. We would love it if the children could come to school wearing spots and if possible, bring a donation for Children in Need. It’s going to be a fun day!