Dear Room 3 Parents,
Please send your child to school with either a pair of wellies or trainers in a plastic bag on Wednesday 26th January. Please note that they are likely to get muddy during our science fun.
Many thanks,
Mrs Pittaway
Africa Bulletin
Room 3- Trainers or wellies for tomorrow
Dear Room 3 Parents,
Tomorrow (Wednesday 19th January), please send your child to school with either a pair of wellies or trainers in a plastic bag. Please note that they are likely to get muddy during our science fun.
Many thanks,
Mrs Pittaway
Year 2 and Reception Staffing From January 2022
Dear Parents and Carers
As you are aware, Miss Roberts will be starting her maternity leave after Christmas and Mrs Pittaway will be returning from her maternity leave.
Through the autumn term, we advertised for a reception teacher to take over from Miss Roberts and, whilst we had a good interest, none of the candidates, with the exception of one, were of sufficient calibre to join the Pontesbury staff. The one candidate who was shortlisted and invited to interview unfortunately withdrew her application: she was offered another post.
Therefore, I am writing to inform you that, from January, Mrs Pope will be teaching the reception class, supported by Mrs Roberts, Mrs Davies, Mrs Dignam and Mrs Cherrington, who will be joining the Reception team.
Mrs Pittaway will return to the year 2 class (3 days) with Mrs Manna (2 days) supported by Mrs Keyland, Mrs Christopher and Mrs Butler, who will be joining the Year 2 team. Mrs Pittaway and Mrs Manna will ensure that the Year 2 class continue to have a very highest quality of education.
Miss Roberts will be starting her maternity leave on 17th January so will continue for the first two weeks in January and work alongside Mrs Pope.
The decision to ask Mrs Pope to teach the reception class was taken to ensure that the highest quality of provision continues for our wonderful reception children, and I am very grateful to Mrs Pope for agreeing to take up this post until the end of the year.
Mrs Pope will still, of course, be accompanying the children when they go to Colomendy.
If there are any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at the start of next term.
I wish everyone a very happy Christmas, a fantastic New Year and I look forward to seeing you all again on the 5th of January.
FAO Year Two Parents and Guardians – Mrs Pittaway’s Return
Dear year two parents and guardians
Mrs Pittaway will be returning from maternity leave after Christmas and will be resuming her role as year two teacher with Mrs Pope.
She spent today in school to start getting everything ready for her return in January – including teaching the children this morning; they were very excited! Mrs Pittaway will be popping in again before Christmas to liaise with Mrs Pope to ensure everything is in place for the new term and it will be wonderful to welcome her back to the fold.
As usual, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact.
Mr Langford
Colomendy 2022
We are delighted to be able to offer this residential visit again to our Year 2 children. It will take place on Thursday 17 & Friday 18 February 2022.
There will be a meeting on Tuesday 21 September 2022 @ 3.30pm in Room 3, Mrs Pope will share lots of information about the visit and will answer any questions you have.
The consent form and a deposit of £45 are needed by Monday 1st November 2021 at the latest please.
Packing List (please note swimming costumes will not be required for this visit)
A change to PE
Hello everyone,
In a little change to our normal PE times, this week and next week our PE will be on a Thursday afternoon (9th and 16th Sept). After this, our PE days will return to normal on a Monday and Friday. Please can the children come in their PE clothes for the next two Thursdays.
Thank you,
Mrs Pope
Parents and Carers of Children in Year 1 and 2
Dear Parents and Carers
I have been asked by Mrs Roberts, one of our wonderful TAs working in Room 5, for your help. Her daughter, Harriet Roberts, is a third year student studying Psychology at the University of York and she is about to embark on a research project called ‘The SleepStory Study!‘; she needs some volunteers.
Harriet explains:
Children aged 5-7 are being invited to take part in research conducted by students at the University of York, supervised by Dr Lisa Henderson.
The purpose of the research is to explore how children learn words from stories read to them by their parents, at different times of the day. You will be asked to read your child a story in either the morning, afternoon or at bedtime. Straight after reading the story and the next morning you will be required to ask your child some short questions about the story and see how many new words they remember from the story.
All responses will be kept completely confidential and stored anonymously.
The storybook and questions will be provided via email along with clear instructions about what to do. You can complete the task at home, on a day that suits you and your family. In order to take part you must have access to a laptop/tablet.
If you are interested in participating please register your interest on this link below in order for us to confirm your eligibility. We will be in contact with the relevant materials for your participation shortly.
Please click this link to register:
If you have any questions. please use the link below:
Email storystudy.uoy@gmail.com
Many thanks
Mr Langford
Letters and Sounds
Dear parents/carers,
Normally we host a Letters and Sounds information evening for parents every year. Obviously this year we can’t do this as normal, so we are offering an online video instead.
I hope it manages to explain everything as clearly as it could if it were a face to face session. In the PowerPoint it mentions a video to help you with how to pronounce each sounds, this video is below.
Many thanks,
Miss Roberts
Room 3 Staffing Update
Dear parents and carers,
As I hope you are aware, we are constantly trying to do our best for our children whilst complying with changing and often challenging guidelines.
We have a duty of care to protect not only your children but also the staff working within school. With this mind, as a school we have decided to restructure the staffing in Room 3.
Mrs Smout has joined Mrs Pope to teach the year 2 children with Mrs Pittaway moving out of the classroom to teach and support smaller focus groups. This means the lucky children in R3 now have three amazing teachers up to the point Mrs Pittaway starts her maternity leave! Mrs Pope will be teaching the class from Monday to Thursday, with Mrs Smout on Friday and Mrs Pittaway supporting from Monday to Wednesday.
If there are any questions about this staffing arrangement, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Mr Langford
Message from Mr Langford – some lovely news and a request!
Congratulations to Mrs Pittaway – she is pregnant! Lovely news!
Please note though, due to extra precautions needed during these Covid times, if a parent wishes to speak to Mrs Pittaway before or after school you must ring the office to book an appointment. Please do not just turn up hoping to catch her.
Thank you.
Mr Langford
