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Achieving Success through Motivation, Knowledge

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Newsletter 5- March 2012 Dear Parents and Carers

Term 4 is nearly over and Easter is fast

approaching. I do hope Key Stage one parents and

carers will join us for our annual Easter bonnet

parade. I am really looking forward to seeing the

array of beautiful and very creative bonnets at the

parade as well as the display of imaginatively

decorated eggs from our Key Stage two children.

We have already stocked up on prizes and look

forward to sharing these on Friday.

The children have worked really hard over the last

two terms and we have been delighted to welcome

so many of you to the events we have hosted.

BEDTIME STORIES FOR FOUNDATION STAGE

The children and the teachers were really enthralled with their

story.

Being able to read for meaning and understanding

is such an important skill and as such we ask you to

continue reading and discussing the content of the

books your children are reading. We know that the

more confident and skilled children are with their

reading, the more successful they will be when

learning across all subjects.

Foundation stage: role playing, reading and writing

MATHS AND MUNCHIES

Our maths and munchies session was really well

attended and we have had some super feedback-

thank you. We hope this has given many of you

ideas of how you can support your children with

‘everyday life’ maths activities and how these

activities link to their maths learning at school. We

were particularly impressed with the fantastic

booklet created by Chloe Bird in Acorn class. It

was lovely to see all the fabulous activities Chloe

and her mummy had fun with at home. We will be

proudly presenting this with our attendance display

in the main corridor.

Regan and Aaron from year six teaching their mums about

fractions, decimals and percentages.

And Deniz teaching his dad

PHONICS

We would like to share the latest changes to

phonic teaching and testing with our year one

parents on Tuesday 24th April. Please come and find

out how and why we are teaching your children and

how you can support them at home. Parents/Carers

from other year groups are also welcome to come

and find out about these changes.

LOLLIPOP LADY

We are very pleased to welcome

Katrina Cornish as our new lollipop

lady. We all feel much safer to

have her helping our families

across the road.

PARENT’S EVENING

We hope you have time to read through your

children’s reports and have been able to

congratulate them on their successes and talk to

them about their targets or any concerns. If you

haven’t yet made an appointment for parent’s

evening, please contact the class teacher to find a

time to meet with them early next term as it is

really important to consider how we can all work

together to support each child with their learning.

ATTENDANCE

We are really pleased that Term 3 attendance

95.7% has again pushed our past our target of

95%! Congratulations go to Oak and Holly classes

as they both achieved 100% attendance in week 1

of term 4. Please take time to share our

attendance display with your children at parents

evening this week.

SPORTS RELIEF

We had another fantastic turn out for sports

relief last Friday. The children were terrific

running their mile and they raised an amazing

amount of money; £138 has been collected so far.

Well done to everyone involved and to Mrs Allen

for organising the event.

Post Sports relief celebrations with our families

LUNCHTIMES

Thank you to all the parents/carers who have

returned their slips to confirm their attendance

over lunchtimes during terms 5 & 6. We hope by

seeing first hand how well the children play

together, many of the worries regarding

supervision at lunchtimes and lunchtime behaviour

can be cleared. Mrs Smyth our play leader will be

available to meet with to remind you of our play

policy or to answer any questions you may have. We

are really lucky at Woodlands to have

so many dedicated lunchtime staff.

The staff have undertaken a huge

amount of training since September

which allows them to understand how

children play and how to support the

children to resolve conflict in a safe

and well considered manner.

FUNDRAISING

All our fundraising to date has allowed us to order

sufficient waterproof trousers for all KS1 children.

These will be available from September 2012. We

will continue to put future funds towards buying

waterproof trousers for years 3 and 4 and also

develop more play opportunities for our children.

SUMMER FAYRE

Many thanks to our 7 volunteers who have agreed

to support school fund raising events. If any other

parents/grandparents/aunties/uncles from our 207

families would be able to offer help to support our

events like our summer and Christmas fayres, quiz

nights etc, please do speak to Mrs Gould via the

office staff.

PLAY POLICY FEEDBACK

We would like to thank all parents/carers, children

and staff for giving us their feedback on our play

policy. We have taken all these ideas on board.

Some of the changes we will bring about are:

During extreme weathers, certain areas will

be sectioned off; particularly excessively

muddy areas.

All outdoor shoes will be changed out

doors; seating and storage will be costed

and a rolling programme put into place for

these to be actioned from the new

academic year.

YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM!

Year three and four will be kick starting their

topic dressed for the theme of Pirates when we

start back in term five. Good luck with costumes!

HELLO/GOODBYE

I am really pleased to welcome Mrs Alison Read as

the Acting Deputy Assistant Principal. She has

quickly got to know so many of our children and

families in such a short space of time and is a real

asset to our primary phase.

We are very sad to say goodbye to Mrs Lewis-

Williams but wish her every success in her post at

Hambrook Primary School. We look forward to her

visits on her days off! We also welcome Miss Lisa

Griffiths to Cherry class and thank everyone for

her warm welcome.

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Please take note of the updated events list for the

rest of the year.

Kind regards

Julie Hogan

Dates for the remainder of the Year

Thursday 29th March 2.40pm Willow class assembly Thursday 29th March Parents consultations 3.15 – 6.00pm Friday 30th March Easter bonnet parade 9.30 am

KS2 decorated egg competition Friday 30th March End of Term 4

Monday 16th April Term 5 begins Thursday 19th April Relationships and sex education meeting for parents Tuesday 24th April Year 1 Phonics meeting with tea and biscuits 9.00am

(Toddlers welcome) Thursday 26th April 2.40pm Poplar class assembly Monday 30th April Relationships and sex education fortnight begins Thursday 10th May 2.40pm Acorn class assembly Monday 14th May Y6 SAT week Thursday 17th May 2.40pm Cherry class assembly Monday 21st May Y3,Y4 & Y5 tests week Thursday 24th May 2.40pm Mulberry class assembly Monday 28th May Science week Thursday 31st May Dad’s in School Day Friday 1st June End of Term 5

Monday 11th June Term 6 begins Thursday 14th June 2.40pm Willow class assembly Monday 18th June 3.15 Y5/6 camp meeting Thursday 21st June 2.40pm Oak and Sycamore class assembly Friday 22nd June Sports day KS1 -10.30 KS2 – 1.30 Monday 25th June Arts week Thursday 28th June 2.40pm Beech class assembly Friday 29th June Non Pupil day- YIA INSERVICE Day for staff Wednesday 4th July KS2 production 1.30 and 6.30 Thursday 5th July2.40pm Holly class assembly Saturday 7th July Summer Fayre Thursday 12th July Open afternoon 3.00- 4.30 – tea and coffee available Friday 13th July Reserve sports day Wednesday 18th July Leavers assembly – Further details to be announced (You

will be in for a treat!) Thursday 19th July End of Term 6 INSET DAYS 2012-2013 Monday 3rd September 2012 Friday 21st September 2012 Thursday 15th November 2012 Friday 28th June 2013 Friday 24th July 2013