Harvest time!

We have had such a busy time in school since September and the next two weeks are going to be full of lots of lovely activities!

We are learning lots of Harvest songs in readiness for our Harvest Festival and Coffee Afternoon.  We hope you can come and listen to our performance on Tuesday 19th October!

We have our school trip next Monday and can't wait to visit the farm.  Don't forget coats and packed lunches.

The PTA Parties are also on Tuesday after school.

Thank you to everyone for sending the school bags back in every Monday.  It makes it much easier to send the children's work home once a week rather than every day.

Regards

Mrs Burton-Little

Welcome back to school!

I hope you have all enjoyed a lovely summer holiday and are excited to be back in school ready to learn lots of new things.

We have had a busy start to the term as the children get to know all the new members of staff who will be working with them this year and get used to their new classroom and area.  It's all very exciting!

Mrs Ryan has joined our team this term and will be working alongside Miss Williams who is our classroom assistant and Mrs Channon and Miss Brush.

I hope you all received our Parent information letter and termly planning yesterday and that this will help to keep you informed about your child's learning this term.

Don't forget I am always available if you need to make an appointment for the end of the school day to discuss anything.

Good luck to all the children in Class 11 during their year in Reception, I am sure they will all be happy and successful!

Mrs Burton-Little

Well done Class 10!

It's nearly time for the pupils of Class 10 to move on and I will certainly miss them! They have all had a very successful year growing up, becoming more independent and sharing lots of new experiences and I am sure they will continue to do well in Year 1!

I hope you all have a very happy holiday. Let's hope the sun shines on us! Stay safe and I will see you all in September!

Take care everyone!

Mrs Burton-Little

Home/School Task

You should all have received a letter with details of our Home/School Task this week.

Choose a children's bucket to decorate and plant with a flower or shrub. You can be as imaginative as you want. We will be displaying the buckets in our Outdoor Area and Golden Garden.

The completed buckets should be sent to school on Friday 11th June.

Have lots of fun with your children designing the buckets.

After the holiday we will be gearing up for Sports Day. Please send in a pair of daps or trainers that can be used on the field when we are practising. If possible send in a pair that can be left in school during the week and sent home on a Friday.

Hope you all have a fab holiday!

Enjoy!

Mrs Burton-Little

"Shiver me timbers!"

Class 10 have really enjoyed learning all about Pirates this week.

We have made Pirate hats and old maps. We have been on a treasure hunt and we have role played on the Pirate Ship. We have enjoyed some interesting stories such as 'A New Home for a Pirate' and 'Mungo and the Picture Book Pirates'. We have written about being a Pirate and drawn and painted Pirate portraits. We painted colourful parrots using our hand prints. It has certainly been a busy week!

Well done to Emily for finding out about Pirates on the computer! Thank you Sydney, Martha and Elin for all the Pirate dressing up clothes and treasure you have brought to school!

After half term we will be learning about the seaside in preparation for our trip to Weston and the Aquarium.

Look out next week for a new home/ school task for the half term holidays.

Thank you for all your support

Mrs Burton-Little

Pirates!

We are about to begin a mini topic on Pirates. We will be learning about some of the traditions of Pirates, reading some lovely stories including 'A New Home for a Pirate', role playing on our Pirate ship and making lots of exciting Pirate essentials such as hats, money bags, maps, parrots and of course treasure.

To make the most of the learning experiences the topic lends itself to I would be grateful for any dressing up costumes, old costume jewellery, Pirate storybooks or songs on CD or tape.

I would like the children to begin finding out about Pirates over the weekend. Use books or the internet, perhaps visit the library and then bring any information into school next week. It may be a picture of a pirate or a Pirate ship or a few lines describing what they do and the things associated with Pirates.

Enjoy finding out with your child!

Kindest regards

Mrs Burton-Little

Africa Week!

We have had a very busy time in school since returning from the Easter holidays. Africa week has been a great success thanks to Mrs Decaro and Mrs Dobbins who have organised some excellent events for the children to experience. We have been to an African Drumming class and listened to an African Storyteller. In class we are making African animal masks and African Jewellery. We have created collages of an African mud hut. We have used our library to find out all about animals from Africa. Did you know that an elephant can weigh as much as 7 cars? Cory found this out for us! Ask your child about our story Handa's Surprise, can they retell the story to you? We had great fun tasting the fruits from the story. We liked the mango, tangerines and passion fruit but the avacado didn't go down quite so well!

Next week we will be concentrating on 'Growing Things'. We are already growing Potatoes in our Golden Garden with help from Mrs Honey. Class 10, 9 and 8 are competeing to grow the biggest potatoe and to see who can harvest the most potatoes. We will be planting shrubs in our new planters, growing cress, planting beanstalks and hunting for minibeasts. If you would like to donate any shrubs, seeds or compost to our garden please do, we are always grateful for anything we can use in school.

You will receive a topic web and information sheet this week with details of the summer term. We are looking for holiday clothes, suitcases, bedding etc. for our Hotel Role play and anything linked to the seaside which the children can sell in our Beachside souvenir shop.

I would like every child to bring a smooth pebble into school so that they can decorate them later in the term.

Thank you all for helping us make the changes to entering and leaving our Area so smooth. The children in Class 10 are very grown up now!

Mrs Burton-Little