Foston C of E

Primary News J a n u a r y 2 0 1 7 I S S U E 3

After School Club Information. Sessions can be booked daily. Costs range from £3.50 to £5.50. Sibling discounts available. Please see Mr or Mrs Tyler to book places or for more information about costs. Breakfast Club Our Breakfast Club is run by Mrs Bailey from 8.15am-9am. For £2 the children will receive breakfast and a drink. Breakfast Club is available Monday to Friday.

Milk Cartons In Class 1 we are wanting to create a milk carton igloo for the children next half term. Please can you save and bring into school all large plastic milk cartons.

Dates for your Diary

Welcome back!

I am hoping everyone has had a lovely Christmas and New Year and is revitalised for another busy term at our fabulous school. A huge welcome to our latest nursery starters - Indie, Hugo and Rose. They have all settled in

extremely quickly and are enjoying all the fun and exciting learning opportunities. It is with great pleasure that we welcome Noah back to

Foston after a term at a school nearer his home. I know Oscar and Nate were thrilled to hear he was coming back. Since the last newsletter we have

appointed Miss Emma Hendry as a teaching assistant and she is doing a fabulous job.

Friday 13th January

Special Mention Assembly

Monday 16th January

IPM Meetings

Friday 27th January

Special Mention Assembly

Monday 30th January

Nurse to Visit Reception

Monday 6th February

KS2 Museum Trip

Tuesday 7th February

Parents Forum 3.30pm

Wednesday 8th February

Y5/6 Minster Visit

Thursday 9th February

PE Day at Terrington

Friday 10th February

Special Mention Assembly

Key Stage 2 Information

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This term our topic is Rainforests. In English the children will be looking at recounts and we will be writing about our Christmas Day. We will then be looking at traditional stories and adapted a story to make our own. In maths we are focusing on multiplication, division, money and measuring. Please look in your child's planner to find their KIRF targets to practise at home and also weekly updates on what we are covering each week in

lessons. In science our topic is Animals and Habitats in the Rainforest. The children will be using the internet to research animals that live in the rainforest, what they eat and why they are suited to a particular habitat. Our topic work is a mixture of geography and art focusing on rainforests and next half term we will be looking at a contrasting environment, the arctic. We will be watching videos on how to save environments, researching people who live there and finding the

continents and oceans of the world. We are having a DT day designing clothing for either the rainforest or the arctic. This will be at Terrington next half term. In RE we will be looking at Inspirational People and in PE the children will be doing invasion games with KS2 on a Wednesday. Our music lessons will consist of making rainmakers. Please can you listen to your child read regularly at home. Please also remember that homework is due in on a Wednesday.

Last half term the children enjoyed wrapping Christmas presents and writing Christmas cards in the role-play area. They also enjoyed playing with the trucks in the sandpit, creating autumn pictures, building huge train tracks, making a farm, navigating the robot and taking pictures on the camera. All the children love stories and they regularly ask for them throughout the day. This half term we have a dressing-up story corner in our indoor role-play area. We also have a home corner and school role-play area outside. The children still enjoy playing families and like to teach lessons. Please can you inform Miss Stringer or Mrs Bailey of any interests your child has at home so we can provide opportunities for them to develop their interests further at school. Please can you also complete WOW slips when you see your child completing their targets (next steps) at home.

EYFS Information

Key Stage 1 Information

This half term KS2 will be working on a history topic on the Romans. In science we will be investigating sound and light. PE is on Wednesday afternoons and will include basket-ball and netball skills, children will need PE kits suitable for cold, playground conditions. In RE we will be looking at Jesus’ life and teachings. English will include work on newspa-pers and historical fiction.

P a g e 3 I S S U E 3 Afterschool Club

Day Time Leading Adult

Monday 3.30pm - 5.30pm Mrs Bailey

Tuesday 3.30pm - 5.30pm Mrs Burton

Wednesday -

Thursday 3.30pm - 5.30pm Mrs Burton

Friday 3.30pm - 5.00pm Miss Cooke

News from the Chair of Governors

W.C Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday

9.02.17 Constructing and Creating Club

Lego Night Reading Club Choosing Club

16.02.17 Constructing and Creating Club

Art Club Peg Doll Making Choosing Club

23.02.17 Constructing and Creating Club

Play Dough Night Make a Story Night Choosing Club

30.02.17 Constructing and Creating Club

Music Night Marble Night Choosing Club

6.03.17 Constructing and Creating Club

Construction Club Design Club Choosing Club

13.03.17 Constructing and Creating Club

Ipad Club Games Night Choosing Club

I would like to wish staff, children and parents a Happy New Year!

The children had some lovely activities before Christmas which all governors were invit-ed to join them for. At Christmas dinner it was really nice to be with the children and see them having fun and enjoying themselves.

As you are aware Foston and Terrington Schools voted to fully federate, we are meeting on the 2nd February to reconstitute the new governing body. I am looking forward to working with both schools as a joint governing body.

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Fun Fridays

Junk Modelling In the EYFS class-

room we have a Junk Modelling Area for

the children to make exciting and

intricate creations. Please can I ask for

any donations of boxes or empty

packages for the children to use.

Tuck Shop

Children can bring in money for tuck shop

at break time. Toast: 20p

Remote Control Toys Required

As part of the EYFS Curriculum the

children need to learn to use remote control toys. Any donations of toys would be greatly

received .

Dressing Up Clothes The children in Class

1 love to dress up! Please can we ask

for any donations of outgrown or unused dressing up clothes for our dressing up

role-play area.

The children have had a fantastic time completing the workshops. In Jumba they learnt different routines on the trampolines and even made their own! In Cooking they made lots of delicious food. The recorder group learned to play ‘We wish you a merry Christmas’ and in Seasonal Crafts the children made lanterns, wreaths, Christmas decorations, remembrance poppies and lots more! To find out more about what the children have been doing please look at the Big Books available in the entrance. Pictures are also on the website located in galleries.

For our enrichment day we had a great morning building dens at Ter-rington on the field. Workshops this half term are:

Information will be revealed shortly about our next exciting enrichment day!

Workshop 1 Workshop 2

Session 1 Piyo Yoga

Session 2 Woodwork Electronics

PE Kits PE kits are

required on a Wednesday and

Friday.

Labelling Clothing Please can you

make sure that all school uniform and

PE kits are labelled.

PAFFS The Christmas

Fair raised £450 and the

Christmas Draw an amazing £295. We

had some lovely prizes

donated, thank you. We look for-ward to raising

lots more money in 2018. Happy New Year from all the

PAFFS Team.

Fun Fridays Involving children's families plays an important part in developing reading culture within school. The results of research on research has shown children who are supported in their reading at home are more likely to enjoy reading and tend to achieve more highly at school. Here is how you can get involved:

Use your child’s planner to record when they read

Hear and read with your child every day

Use the following websites for ideas and popular book choices

Encourage your child to bring a favourite book for show and tell or for us to read in class

www.wordsforlife.org.uk and www.booktrust.org contain ideas for home and suggested books.

www.booksforkeeps.co.uk is an online magazine with up to date infor-mation on books.

If you can spare time to volunteer in school hearing readers please let us know.

Please look at our website http://foston.n-yorks.sch.uk/ to find out more information about the curriculum, year group ex-pectations, classes, school reports, School Special Edu-cational Needs Information Report and policies. You can also view our gallery which is updated regularly with pho-tographs from our recent outings or learning in class.

We now also have a closed group Facebook page where we share pho-tos and information regularly. If you would like to join please search ‘Foston CE Primary School’.

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