Apologies for all the wet socks and tights coming home with the children today. Once the (very heavy!) rain had eased a little bit after lunchtime, we took the opportunity to do some puddle jumping. We did put on wellies and waterproofs, but even so – every single child managed to get their socks or tights completely sodden!
On the plus side – the children were very happy splashing through the deep puddles that had formed throughout lunchtime!
Thank you so much for all your yogurt pot donations, we now have plenty for our activity next week!
Also, on Thursday it is dress as a pirate day, however, I know that Room 4 have PE in the afternoon. So please either send your child in wearing some trainers / joggers with their pirate outfit, or send their PE kit in for them to change into for the afternoon. We haven’t had to get changed for PE yet this year, so that will be a big test for them (and us!). But either way, please make sure that they have trainers and a suitable outfit for moving around in – we don’t mind a few pirates doing PE!
Hello,
The week after next we will be doing a craft activity which involves empty yogurt pots. If you eat yogurts at home, please would you send your empty (and clean!) yogurt pots our way? We will need 1-2 pots per child. Just the little snap pots or something similar will be perfect for our activity.
Thank you in advance!
Miss Roberts
Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all have a very well deserved break, I can’t believe next term will be our last one of Reception!
Next term, our timetable is changing slightly.
Our Forest School day will be on Wednesdays and our PE day will be on Thursdays – please come dressed in the right clothes for both of these days.
Have a brilliant holiday and I’ll see you when you are all rested and relaxed.
Miss Roberts x
Some of the parents from Room 4 have recently set up a WhatsApp group for all the parents. Parents have had these groups before and they are a really handy way to keep up to date with what’s happening in school – especially when there’s a change of PE day or a special dress up day etc. I know parents in the past have found these really useful – and a bit of a life saver! Unfortunately at the moment it’s impossible to chat to other parents properly after school so it’s really tricky to get contact details for everyone.
If you would like to be part of the WhatsApp group, then please email me or let me know at the door, and I can pass your details on to Diane Jones who will add you to the group. There is no school involvement in this group at all, it’s just the easiest way to pass contact details on in these COVID times!
Miss Roberts
Just so you are aware, children only get milk for free until they are 5. Since we have had lots of lock down birthdays, there are quite a few children who are now 5 and aren’t entitled to free milk any more.
If your child would like milk each day (and they are 5) then please sign up for it using the Cool Milk website below.
Register (and pay) online at www.coolmilk.com by 5pm on a Tuesday to receive milk from the following Monday.
Next Friday, 19th March, is Red Nose Day. We would love to celebrate this day, have fun and raise a bit of money for a good cause at the same time. The theme for this year is ‘Superpowers!’ and we thought this was a great opportunity to get involved and celebrate a wide range of superheroes.
We have heard the phrase ‘Not all superheroes wear capes’ a lot over the past year and people’s superpowers have been demonstrated in many ways. From our fantastic NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics, our amazing scientists who have created the vaccines, the charity work and campaigning of people like Marcus Rashford, supermarket workers working all the way through the pandemic, you – our amazing parents and carers who have worked incredibly hard to provide stability, care and education, while working from home and spinning 27 plates, to our amazing children who have dealt with a year of incredible change and uncertainty and have returned to school with the most amazing attitude, smiling faces and resilience – they have truly shown what little superheroes they are!
So with all of this in mind, we would like to ask the children to come to school next Friday the 19th March dressed as their superhero of choice – so they could come as Superman, Wonder Woman, a scientist, a doctor or get creative and invent their own superhero. Basically anything goes so long as it is warm, comfortable and suitable to wear all day. We also totally understand that it isn’t very easy to go shopping at the minute and we don’t want people to go out buying costumes – so please just do whatever you can – home made is great!!! There may be some prizes for the best home made efforts!
There will be a section in the shop on School Money where you can make a donation to Comic Relief.
We are looking forward to a fun filled day, having missed out on celebrating World Book Day we are hoping the children will really get involved and have fun.
Thank you so much to everyone who has so kindly donated a book to the school. I know the teachers of each class will love sharing these books with the children and adding them to their class libraries.
Please note that this weekend is your last opportunity to order any books and they will hopefully be delivered to school next week.
Thank you all once again for your support as every book you purchase personally also helps the school to receive free books.
I would also like to express our thanks to Louise at Everybody Reads CIC for her time and effort in organising the book fair. You can also visit their site to order books at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Everybodyreads
There are lots of lovely books on here organised into different lists for inspiration – you may also see some lists on there with wonderful books recommended by the lovely Mrs Rowe.
Good morning everyone – it’s the last day of home learning!!! You’ve done it!! We have got a very easy last day today, I hope you have fun.
Morning activity
Have a go at completing the colour by numbers below. There are a couple, so just choose whichever one you would like to do.
Letters and Sounds
Go onto Phonics Play and have a go at any of the games to help you with the sounds that you need to get better at. Remember we have learnt up to ‘oa’ on our sound mat.
Maths
Since we’ve been learning about weighing this week I thought it might be a good opportunity to do some cooking! In school we are going to make some rocky road bars using the recipe below. These are great if you have anything that needs using up in your cupboards, you can add in any extras that you like.
If you don’t have the ingredients for these, then choose your own recipe to follow, or even help make your lunch or your tea for tonight. Just make sure you help your grown up do a bit of weighing!
Afternoon activity
This afternoon we are going on a school trip to Chester Zoo’s Virtual Zoo!
Choose any of the videos you would like to watch and have fun learning about the different animals.
Have an excellent day and a lovely weekend everyone, and I can’t wait to see you all on Monday!!
Miss Roberts xx
Hello
I hope you all had fun trying to guess who the poets were today.
Here is the answer sheet to check your score.
Answers – The Masked Reader Quiz
Pontesbury C.E. Primary School
Bogey Lane,
Pontesbury,
Shropshire.
SY5 0TF
Tel: 01743 790226
Headteacher: Mr Tom Lowrie-Herz
School Business Manager: Mrs Sara Andrew
