A message from Miss Quarmby
What an incredible week it’s been - filled with festive fun and fundraising that's for sure! Our Cash for Kids fundraising campaign has been a huge success, and we’re so grateful for your generous donations and unbelievable support. Today’s Creative Christmas dress-up day was the final push, and we’re thrilled with how much we’ve achieved together. Don’t forget, all donations need to be in by 12pm on Monday. We’ll be sure to share our grand total with you soon! This week has been packed with festive cheer and memorable moments. Here’s what we’ve been up to:
- 🎥 Year 1 Movie Night
- 🎉 UKS2 Bingo Night
- 🎨 Art Exhibition
- 🥪 Year 4’s delicious staff lunches
- 🏃♂️ Elf Run
- 🍽️ Year 2 Christmas plates
- 🌟 Reception kickstarting our Christmas nativity performances
It’s been such a lovely week. Thank you again for helping to make it so special. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend—see you on Monday!
Autumn 2 dates
- 17th December - KS2 Church Service - 10am (please don't park in the Community Centre Car Park due to an event taking place in the Community Centre for people with mobility difficulties).
- 18th December - KS1 Nativity @ 9:30am (Parents of 2KD and 1LBR) and 2:00pm (Parents of 2CH and 1JL) - 2 seats available per child
Attendance
This week, finishing in first place with 98.51% are 5AK. In second place are 6NT, with 97.78% and in third place are, 4AS with 97.5%. A shout out also goes to 1JL, 2CH and 3RD, who have also finished the week above our school target of 96.5%. The whole school attendance this week is 95.16%: can we beat this next week? The only way to do that is if we all come to school as often as we can.
Let's take a look AT WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON THIS WEEK
EYFS - Wriggly Nativity!
This week, Reception performed their first ' Wriggly Nativity'. The children have been practising songs, dances and the story of Christmas this term on the lead up to the show and on Thursday 'Wow'd' all of their families with their super performance! There were dancing sheep, singing shepherds and sparkling stars and angels! The EYFS team could not be prouder of the children for their performance. Well done!
Key Stage 1
WOW! What an exciting week it has been in Year 1! From smoothie making, Elf Runs, Christmas Movie Screenings to visiting St. Mary's Church to celebrate Christingle, we have had a blast! Miss Richardson and Miss Lynch have been extremely proud of our independent writing this week; our pupils have been writing postcards to Santa to tell him all about what our cheeky classroom elves have been up to!
Year 2 have had a fabulous week learning about 3D shapes in Maths. In Art, we have been exploring thick and thin brushes. In History, we have learnt the difference between rich and poor Victorian children. We have also been rehearsing for our Nativity and we can’t wait to show you next week!
Lower Key Stage 2
We have had a lovely week in Year 3. Despite being busy getting ready for Christmas and practising for our Community Centre performance, we have still managed to fit in lots of wonderful learning! In English, we have written our own renditions of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. They are super! We also finished our Art paintings in the style of Georgia O'Keefe, where the children combined all the skills we have learned this term to a flower painting.
This week in History, Year 4 continued to learn about the Romans. We were very excited to look at lots of Roman artefacts including mosaics, tiles and wax tablets.
Upper Key Stage 2
Year 5 had an excellent week this week! In Maths, we began learning how to convert mixed number fractions to improper fractions. The children have truly blown Miss Richardson and Miss Kaur away with all their hard work and determination.
In Year 6, we have begun writing our non-chronological reports all about WWII. These have been utterly fabulous and we are so proud of how much progress our Year 6 authors have made so far this year!
Both Year 5 and 6 well and truly got into the Christmas spirit this week as we had an am amazing time participating in the Elf Run and our family fun Bingo night. All of the money raised will be going towards our Cash for Kids competition, which ends on Monday! Well done UKS2!