Friday 18th October 2024
Key Information
- Forest School After School Club – Due to our Year 1/2 Festival of Stories trip next Wednesday (23rd October) – we have decided to postpone Forest School club next week. We will do 5 Forest School clubs after half term running from 13th November to 11th December.
- Arrival time – Please remember that the school gates now close in the morning at 8.45am. Children arriving after this time must be accompanied to the school office to sign in.
- My First Five Years at School – Please see below a link to a National App that enables you to explore and understand your child’s development in their first 5 years of life.
www.mffy.com - School Lunches – Please book in School Lunches by midnight on Wednesday the week before on MCAS. Anyone who does not order by this deadline will have to provide their child with pack lunches, as the extra administrative work in booking and keeping track of late orders is very time consuming.
- Nursery Lunches – We shall continue to use the link sent to you via email.
- Rag Bin – We have a rag recycling bin in the school car park that you are welcome to use to recycle any torn or old clothing or material that is no longer usable. Please keep clothing that can still be worn for our Rags to Riches collection in the Spring.
Events
- Wednesday 23rd October – Festival of Stories – Years 1&2
- Thursday 24th October – Festival of Stories – Years 3&4
- Friday 25th October – School closed for Staff Training Day/ Half term holiday starts
- Monday 4th November – Back to School
- Tuesday 5th November – Parents Evening
- Thursday 7th November – Parents Evening
- Thursday 7th November – School photographs for anyone who was absent last time
- Wednesday 20th November – Deadline for Shoe Boxes
This week’s Stars of the Week
| Reception Harrison and Jorge | |
| Year 1 Jacob and Joziah | |
| Year 2 Chloe and Heidi | |
| Year 3 Neve and Seb | |
| Year 4 Matthew and Jude | |
| Year 5 Michael and Bradley | |
| Year 6 Bella and Lacey | |
| Mrs Harrison’s Star of the Week: Flora (Yr2) | |
| Forest School Stars of the Week: Arthur and Jack (YrR) |
Snap Shot of the Week
Wrens have been busy printing with apples to create a special ‘thank you’ message for Harvest. We worked together using autumnal coloured paints and have enjoyed singing Harvest songs. Mrs Ellis and Mrs Phillips were very proud of their teamwork.
Wrens
Snap Shot of the Week
This week we took our geography lesson outside and used coloured cones to map out the different climate zones of Japan!
Year 2
Snap Shot of the Week
In Science this half term, our unit has been all about living things and their habitats. We’ve managed to take some of our learning outside in the last couple of weeks which has been a lot of fun (and quite muddy, in parts!). We carried out an invertebrate hunt, collecting some to sketch. We observed them closely and considered their characteristics before classifying them into arthropods, annelids and molluscs. This week, we went on a plant hunt – trying to find examples of flowering plants , conifers, ferns and mosses in the school grounds.
Year 4
Healthy Hub
Please look at our Healthy Hub document for links to different websites supporting Mental Health and Well-being.
Parent Courses
Up coming Events
Herefordshire Council is running a very special competition for primary school pupils to help name our fleet of gritters that are in action to keep our roads safe during the colder months.
It’s a great opportunity for Herefordshire children to get thinking creatively over half term.
The competition is open to the following age groups:
3 to 5 years
6 to 7 years
8 to 11 years
All entrants have to do is visit the official competition page, enter a few key details so that we can contact the winners, and submit their suggested name for one of our gritters.
Each winner will be invited to attend the Balfour Beatty Living Places depot to meet their gritter in person, along with some of the winter heroes who maintain and operate them. They will also be awarded their own competition winner certificate to take home with them.
But this isn’t all – a new online system is launching this winter that will allow people to see the locations and progress of the gritters in real time. This means the competition winners will be able to follow their named gritter as they work hard to keep Herefordshire roads safe during the colder months.
The deadline for entries is Tuesday 27 October 2024.
If you have any questions about our gritter naming competition, please email submit@herefordshire.gov.uk