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Updates

Thursday 25th February, 2016

Sickness absence

Please could we remind all parents and guardians that if your child is sick or has diarrhoea they must not return to school until 48 hours after their last episode of being ill.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Mrs Johnson

Wednesday 17th February, 2016

February Half-Term Newsletter

Condover Residential

If you have not already returned it, the second instalment for the Year 3/4 visit to Condover is due by the end of February. Thank you for the monies received last week.

World Book Day

We are having another dressing-up day for World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March and children (and staff!) can come to school dressed up as a book character of their choice. Children will receive a £1 book voucher next week which can be spent in a range of participating stores; there is no charge for coming to school in non-uniform.

FOBs Valentine Disco – Thank You

Thank you to all the adults involved in FOBs and our resident DJ/balloon modeller/ entertainer Doug for another fantastic disco! Together with the recent Film Night, these events have raised over £440 which will benefit all the children of the school.

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Spaghetti Maths

On Thursday 25th February the school will be hosting an exciting assembly for Years 1-6 delivered by Spaghetti Maths, where ‘Jonny Cube’ will show the children some brilliant maths tricks and even blow a square bubble; parents are welcome to come along and watch the fun.

Following the assembly Spaghetti Maths would like to run a series of after-school maths clubs, aimed at inspiring the children with a new approach to learning maths.  They will focus on fun, hands on learning and discovery, with sessions on gravity, pop up shapes and amazing number patterns. After each session the children will get to take home what they have done, to continue the learning at home.
You can visit the company’s website for more information at www.spaghettimaths.co.uk
If you are interested, please come along to the assembly in the School Hall at 9:15 a.m. on the 25th or speak to Mrs Helen Jones for more information.
Hope you enjoy the rest of the week.  See you all next Monday.
Mrs Johnson
Friday 12th February, 2016

Class 2 update and homework

Year 1

English: This week we have been looking at a range of poems with the theme of night time. The children have enjoyed looking at them and have all identified features of poetry that they enjoy. The children have written their own ‘goodnight’ poems and have been adding adjectives and commas where appropriate.

The year 1 children have been given a sheet to complete over the half term holidays. Miss Owen would like them to write their own poem based on a theme of their own choice, remembering to include adjectives and commas.

Year 1 English homework

Maths: This week we have been looking at weight. The children can identify which items are heaviest and lightest using estimation and a balance scale.

Year 2

English: The year 2 children have continued to focus on punctuation this week; we have looked at capital letters, full stops, commas, question marks, exclamation marks and apostrophes over the last 2 weeks and learned how to apply these in our independent writing.

The year 2 children have been given a sheet to complete over the half term holidays. I would like them to write about their holiday, remembering to include punctuation, adjectives and conjunctions.

Year 2 English homework

Maths: Last week the year 2’s became much more confident with their multiplication work, this week have focussed on division and how we can use equipment and pictures to divide an amount.

D & T

This week we made our fruit salads. The children enjoyed this and should now progress to completing their evaluation sheet which was given as homework.

D & T homework

Spellings

I have provided the children with a sheet called ‘Spelling – Homework Ideas’, this provides the children with lots of fun, creative ways of learning their spellings. They do not have to learn them this way but I thought I would share it for those who would like to have a go.

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Spelling Homework Ideas

Have a lovely holiday!

Miss Edwards and Miss Owen

Thursday 4th February, 2016

Weekly News 05.02.16

FOBs Film Night

Thank you to FOBs for organising the film night last Friday.  It was a fantastic evening and, as you can see from the photos, children arrived wearing a wonderful array of onesies and PJs!

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Break-time snacks

We have noticed lots of children bringing in snacks for morning break recently that are unsuitable and, whilst we do not want to impose a ban on crisps or biscuits, children should not be bringing in sweets or lollies for a snack.  All children in Classes 1, 2 and 3 are offered a piece of fruit every day and Classes 4 and 5 are also offered fruit on regular occasions.  We thank you in advance for your cooperation and support with this.

Letters home this week

Condover residential – Year 3/4

Walford cross country – team of children involved

Instrumental workshop – Year 3/4/5/6 children involved

Food tasting permission – Class 2 children

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Johnson

Wednesday 3rd February, 2016

Forest Schools

If you have any old, good condition, toys/puppets (e.g. Woodland animals – squirrel/fox/badger/bird etc), unwanted yoga mats or garden kneelers the school would be very grateful to receive them for our forest school sessions.   Please bring to the school office.

Monday 1st February, 2016

Parent Governor Election

Further to the recent ballot for a new parent governor, all votes received by the end of the school day on Friday were counted and verified today and Mr Steven Davies was duly elected.  We would like to thank all 3 candidates – Steven Davies, Juliette Jennings and Andrew Yamaguchi-Cooke – for standing for election and also to parents who returned ballot papers.

Kind regards

Mrs Johnson on behalf of the governing body

 

Friday 29th January, 2016

Weekly News 29.01.16

Parent Governor Election

Thank you to everyone who returned a ballot form voting for a new parent governor.  The votes will be counted this evening and the parent governor who has been elected will be announced on Monday 1st February.

Condover Year 3/4 residential

The next payment is now due for the Condover residential and a letter will be going out next Tuesday which will also include details about when the final balance is due.

Thank You to the Coop

On behalf of all the children and staff, we would like to say a huge thank you to the Coop at Bicton Heath for donating cakes and buns for Class 4’s sale on Wednesday and for supplying the fruit cocktails and other fruits for Class 2’s tasting session earlier this week.  We are very lucky to have such fantastic support from Clive, Laura and the Coop team!

Year 6 SATs Booster

Just a reminder that Year 6 SATs Booster starts on Monday after school from 3:15 until 4:15 in Class 5.  We hope to see as many Year 6s there as possible.

Before-school Clubs

The new 8:30 Club seems to be working well and we hope it has helped parents by being able to drop children off earlier in the morning.  Please could we just remind parents that Breakfast Club runs until 8:30 (£1.50 per child) and children can then pay just 50p to be dropped off from 8:30 onwards. Please do not hesitate to speak to myself or a member of staff in the Hall, if you have any questions about this provision.

Hope you have a good weekend.

Mrs Johnson

Friday 29th January, 2016

Go Kart Party

We have been asked to display the following information.
Go-Kart Party are running Road Safety Awareness Days for Primary school children with some of the local secondary schools in Shropshire during the February half term holidays. It’s a great chance for the children to drive our go-karts, learn how to stay safe and have loads of fun at the same time.
 Shrewsbury at Grange Secondary School – Mon & Tues 15th & 16th Feb
Telford at TCAT College – Wed 17th Feb
Oswestry at The Marches School – Thurs 18th Feb
 We have had a fantastic response to our courses and they are proving to be very popular across Shropshire due to the high quality of delivery, child care and affordability.
Thursday 28th January, 2016

Parent Governor Election

Please can all ballot papers be in by tomorrow. Thank you.

Wednesday 27th January, 2016

Popcorn & PJ Film Night

Just a reminder that unfortunately for this event we are only able to accommodate children from Bicton School and not siblings who do not attend the school (as per event letter).  We apologise if this causes any inconvience.