Dear Parents and Carers,

Everyone is definitely getting back into the swing of things! It is fabulous walking around school, classes are settled and children working and playing hard! We had visitors this morning who de-scribed the atmosphere in our school as a ‘happy family’!

YEAR 2 had a fabulous trip to Sunderland Winter Gardens this week. They learnt much about plants which is linked to their Science topic. Behaviour and enthusiasm were praised by the staff.

100% ATTENDANCE Well done to the children who managed to get into school every day last year. No mean feat! It is something all schools celebrate and we are no different. Thank you for all the ideas on Facebook, a couple of which we are looking into. We do also celebrate children who achieve 96% which is the minimum expected attendance figure and part of Miss Little’s job is to work with children and families below this figure. We do also understand the annoyance for chil-dren who have hospital appointments that they can’t help, the system does seem unfair, we agree but please remember it’s not our system! It is a subject which we are also going to discuss with School Parliament.

PACKED LUNCHES – we have more children than ever on packed lunches. All children are given plenty of time to eat their lunch, 20-25 minutes; sometimes they choose to spend more time chatting than eating! They are always encouraged to finish their lunch but sometimes there is just too much in their lunch boxes to make this possible. We cannot tell you what to put into your child/ren’s lunch boxes but we can advise healthy choices. Lots of children have started to bring in pasta or rice. Someone had a thermos cup with spaghetti hoops and cheese in today! (Fabulous idea!) A sandwich, fruit/veg, crackers, cheese and yoghurt (if you can stand the mess it makes!) is enough. As a guide it’s worth looking at the recommended daily calorie intake for children in Yrs 3 – 6 and checking out labels on processed food, they are very high in calories.

Age (years) Boys Girls 7 1,649kcal 1,530kcal 8 1,745kcal 1,625kcal 9 1,840kcal 1,721kcal 10 2,032kcal 1,936kcal

COME AND READ! Invitation still open to read with your child/ren straight after school so it ’s done and dusted! Let Emma at the office know. Sounds like we’re challenging some of you parents with the spellings. They’re hard! Have a dictionary and a thesaurus ready! It’s good to put spellings into context. Thanks for all the support you are giving at home. Reading plus has been rolled out this week for Yr 4, 5 and 6. Thanks for your enthusiasm so far!

YEAR ONE Bring Your Parent to School morning was lovely today. We are hosting an open lesson on Wednesday 8th November 9 – 9.45am, parents can join a phonics and SPaG (spelling, punctua-tion and grammar) lesson.

JOKE OF THE WEEK – from Lexie Y3. Which dog can do a magic trick? A labracadabrador! Love it!

Enjoy your weekend, let’s hope the weather is better!

Winlaton West Lane Community Primary School Newsletter

Autumn Term 2018 Issue 3

21st September

2018

‘We reach for the stars’

Happy family

Year 2

100% attendance

Packed lunches

Come and read

Year 1

Joke of the week

Forest school

Year 6

Faith week

Check your contact details

Reminders

Forest school

Attendance

Star of the week

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Mrs Tetley

Year 5 Birch please remember your wellies and waterproofs next Friday 21st September for Forest School. Thanks!

Year 6 Thank you for all of your plastic bottles. Keep them com-ing, all varieties please! Also can all children have an empty milk bottle for next week. Thank you!

Faith week— The week begin-ning 12th November will be our faith week. We will be looking at all faiths and we would wel-come any parents / carers who would like to come into school to talk to the children about their faith / religion and how proud of it you are. Please let Miss Grayson know if you would like to come in.

Do you receive our newsletter? We email our newsletter every Friday. It’s full of information you need to know. If you don’t re-ceive this please inform the office to make sure

we have the correct contact details.

Weekly Class Percentage Attendance 17th Sept—

21st Sept 2018 Congratulations to

Reception Willow for 100% attendance

Our attendance target is 96%.

Winlaton West Lane Community Primary School

West Lane Winlaton

Tyne & Wear NE21 6PH

Tel: 0191 414 2557 Fax: 0191 414 0764

Email: school@wwlcp.school www.winlatonwestlane.org.uk

Mrs C Tetley Head Teacher

Other News

Y6 Oak

Y6 Ash

Y5 Lime

Y5 Birch

Y4 Aspen

Y4 Beech

Y3 Rowan

Y3 Elm

Y2 Elder

Y2 Poplar

Y1 Holly

Y1 Chestnut

Rec Willow

Rec Hazel

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Star of the week

Nursery Berries Dylan B for being independent and always willing to help tidy up!

Rec Willow Amelia L for making her teacher proud and being confident!

Rec Hazel Marcy for a brilliant week in class!

Y1 Chestnut Ethan C for always listening and working hard in maths and literacy!

Y1 Holly Faye for really trying really hard and using verbs correctly!

Y2 Poplar Riley F for fantastic questions and enthusiasm on our school trip!

Y2 Elder Rebecca for amazing manners and great enthusiasm towards learning.

Y3 Elm Bailey P for always having a fantastic attitude towards his work!

Y3 Rowan Ava H for brilliant narrative work and being an excellent role model.

Y4 Beech Danny S for brilliant effort and helpfulness in class!

Y4 Aspen Jessica W for always being eager to take part & always triying her

best!

Y5 Birch Charlisa for great listening and work this week.

Y5 Lime Chanelle for outstanding progress in her work!

Y6 Ash Alice for always listening and being a superstar!

Y6 Oak Christos for showing great listening skills and improved handwriting.

Well done everyone!

Forest School Golden Time Club—As part of our

Golden Time Clubs on a Friday afternoon, Miss

Greaves and Miss Summers will be taking classes to

our Forest School. Please see below timetable show-

ing when each year group will take part in the Au-

tumn term. On your child’s day please can you ensure

they have wellies and waterproofs. Many thanks!

Autumn A Class

Week 4 – 28.09.18 Year 5 Birch

Week 5 – 05.10.18 Year 5 Lime

Week 6 – 12.10.18 Year 4 Beech

Week 7—19.10.18 Year 4 Aspen

Our stars of the

week.

Well done!!

What’s going on:

Head lice.

We have had a re-port of head lice in school. Please can you check your child’s hair regularly and treat if neces-sary. Many thanks.