Year 1 Phonic Check Champions!
Our Year 1 children have impressed us so much this week with their phonics. The Phonics Screening Check is a short statutory assessment taken by all children in Year 1 in England. It is designed to assess how well children use their phonics skills to decode words. The check involves reading a list of 40 words. Some of them are real words and others are made up alien words.
I am delighted to say that our Year 1 children have done brilliantly. Their hard work and progress have been fantastic! We will share their scores on their school reports once the pass mark has been released. Well done Year 1!.
Year 4 Multiplication Check
The Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check is a statutory assessment that all Year 4 children take in June. It's a short online test designed to check how well children know their times tables up to 12x12. The check consists of 25 questions and children have 6 seconds to answer each one.
Our Year 4 children have done a great job. They approached it with confidence and gave it their best effort. We are looking forward to receiving their results soon which we will share with you in their end of year reports.
Another Busy Week!
Year 4 have had a superb computing workshop with Julian Hughes from GEM Education this week. They were learning how to do Microbit Coding. In Design and Technology, they built structures using midget gems and cocktail sticks. Next week, we will make stable and strong structures out of card.
Year 3 children have been coming to see me to share their wonderful diary
Year 1 have loved reading in the new outdoor space outside our Treehouse. We are planning a grand opening of the Treehouse on Friday 11th July.
Nursery have loved learning about birds in Forest School this week. They also enjoyed creating birds out of clay!
PTFA
Thank you all so much for your generous donations on Wednesday. It is all systems go now in school to get everything ready for our biggest PTFA event of the year- our Summer Fair! This one is possibly going to be the best one yet! There are so many fun and exciting activities and some delicious food on the menu! It is free to enter and you are welcome to bring along friends and family members that do not attend Grange First too. The fun starts at 11am and we finish at 1pm. Please bring cash as we only have very limited access to card machines.
What food will be available at the Fair? A BBQ with meat, veggie and halal burgers (gluten free buns are also available), Syrian chicken and rice, hot dogs, artisan home made pizza slices, home made samosas and falafel. There will also be a cake stall and sweet bags for sale.
What activities and stalls will there be? - A bouncy castle, a tin can alley where you can shoot Nerf guns, lucky dip, bottle pull, tombola, hook a duck, throw a wet sponge at Mrs Clougher (if you dare!!!), an obstacle course, penalty shoot out, nails, glitter tattoos, poo in the loo! decorating biscuits, pocket money toys, book and toy stall.......
A Magician - There will also be a magician performing his magic tricks at the fair!
OPAL Play
This week we have had fun playing in our newly themed pallet houses chosen by our Opal cadets. We have our very own beach complete with sand and deck chairs. An aquarium, which is in progress, with children creating their own fact sheets and pictures and finally a Minecraft house to encourage children to be creative and build with Lego and Duplo.
Our Nursery children also enjoyed their weekly outdoor play session and this week it was in the forest school yard. They loved exploring the new pallet houses, playing in the mud and water areas enjoying the beautiful weather at the beach!
Congratulations to our Golden Welly Winners!
COFFEE MORNING Wednesday 18th June 9.00 - 10.30
Do you ever wonder…
Why your child has tantrums or emotional outbursts?
What’s happening in their brain during a meltdown?
How you can respond calmly and effectively?
You're not alone—and there are ways to help!
Please come along to our coffee morning and meet our guests from Action for Children who will be available to give you hints and tips, as well as introducing some online resources for you to access at home.
In addition, we will also have a representative from Welfare Rights who will be available to offer advice and support regarding benefit and tax credit issues.
Lesley Brookes, Parent Support Advisor and Tracy Gregory, SENCO will also be available to speak to.
Please let us know by Monday 16th June if you are able to attend.
Summer Term Dates
NEW DATES AND TIMES HAVE BEEN ADDED- PLEASE READ!
June
Thursday 12th June - Julian Hughes- computing workshops with Year 4
Monday 16th June - Bikeability for Maple Class
Tuesday June 17th- Nursery Sports Day 9.30am
Wednesday 18th June - Parent Coffee Morning 8.50am
16th – 20th June - Cherry Class swimming
23rd – 27th June - Maple Class swimming
Friday 27th June - Bikeability Cherry Class
Monday 30th June - Year 4 to Housesteads Roman Fort
July
Tuesday 1st July - Year 1 trip to Newcastle Keep
Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd July - Transition Days
Monday 14th July - Year 4 Leavers’ Disco 3.15-4.30pm
Tuesday 15th July 2pm - Reception Picnic – all parents invited
Wednesday 16th July - Nursery Graduation- Nursery parents invited 2.15pm
Thursday 17th July - Year 4 Leavers’ Assembly- Year 4 parents invited 2.15pm
Friday 18th July - Last Day of Term
September
Tuesday 2nd September - Back to school!
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