Dear Parents,

I would like to say a very Happy New Year to you all. The children have come back in to school really well and have got back into the class routines with a lovely enthusiasm.

This term we will be starting our year off with a mini topic discovering all about nocturnal animals and their habitats before moving on to our topic ‘Antarctica’.

This is a great cross curricular topic which allows us to discover facts about this coldest continent on Earth. Within this topic we will be learning how we must protect our world and change the future, how and why the climate is changing and the impact this is having on our earth.

We will link our literacy work to history and the explorers of the past such as Earnest Shakleton and Captain Scott along with discovering fun facts about the emperor penguin and how they manage to live in this hostile environment.

Please can all children have their books in school each day as we read throughout the week.

Kind Regards,

Mrs Brown.

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Welcome back!

It is so lovely to see you and the children back in school. They have all come back with a wonderful enthusiasm and it has been really lovely sharing all their summer news. The reception children have managed really well in their new classroom and with their new routines and the year one and twos have come back all grown up with a wonderful enthusiasm to our new year. Our topics this term will be ‘Ourselves’ followed on with traditional stories. We will have mini topics too, looking at lighthouses and the four countries of the UK and nocturnal animals.

We will continue with our ‘share a story’ on a Thursday morning. This is a lovely low key session where parents and carers stay and read stories with the children; we generally aim to finish at 9.15.

Please would it be possible for the children to have a healthy snack each day for break time and also that they have a pair of wellingtons and a set of waterproofs in school. Please can you make sure everything is named? We will continue to go down to Forest schools each week. The children need a t shirt and a pair of shorts (named) for PE. This term we will be inside so they don’t need any other kit for PE and will be on a Thursday afternoon.

I will continue to send homework home in the children’s homework folders along with their reading books. I will also put information into the reception children’s book bags explaining the reading and phonics scheme.

As always if there is anything at all you need, please do not hesitate to ask!

Kind Regards,

Mrs Brown.