A letter has gone home with your child today regarding the Vision Screening for Reception Class Children.

On Thursday 20th October Reception will be having vision screening to test your child’s eyes, treat squints and lazy eyes etc. The tests will be short simple matching games with letters which will involve wearing a pair of glasses with one eye covered, in order to test the vision of the other eye.

If you DO NOT want your child to take part in this vision screening, please send the opt out form back to the school office before Wednesday 12th October.

Thank you!

Printable copy of the letter sent home today Vision Screening Letter October 2022

Dear Parents and Carers,

As you know, our topic this half term is all about vehicles. As part of this, we would really like the children to have a walk around Pontesbury, looking at all the different vehicles we can spot and collecting data for our maths work. We will be going for our walk around Pontesbury on Tuesday 1^st February.

On the way back through Pontesbury, we are going to call in at Hignetts Bakery and the children can collect an iced bun.  There will be a small charge of £1.10 for their cake.  We would like the children to have the experience of paying for the cake themselves, so please can the children bring £1.10 in a sealed envelope with their name on it.  We will collect the envelopes up before we go and hand them out in the shop so that the children can pay for their cake themselves.

We will be leaving school on Tuesday around 9.30 and be back in school no later than 11am.  The children will not need a packed lunch as we will be back in school in plenty of time for a hot lunch.  They will need a warm coat and hat and sensible shoes for walking. I know it is usually our PE day, but please can the children wear their school uniform on this occasion.

If you are free to help us walk around Pontesbury, we would really appreciate it.  If you are available, please could you let me know by Friday afternoon.

Thank you,

Charlotte Pope

There will be no Forest School this week as we’ve got a busy week of panto, partying and crafting ahead of us. Forest School will resume again after Christmas.

You might have noticed some of your children showing you a magic way that we have learnt to put our coats on. It’s a great way to encourage a little bit of independence as it’s a really easy way for them to put their coats on by themselves. Over half term, could you encourage children to keep having a go at putting their coat on independently until they are really confident with it? It would also be amazing if you could help show them how to do their zips up too.

With the colder weather approaching it’s hard work helping 30 children to put their coats on all at the same time, so the more they can do themselves the better!

Have a watch of the video below if you aren’t sure of the method then have a watch of the video below.

Have a lovely half term everyone – you have definitely earnt it!

Hello,

Just to let you know, I have managed to ring half the parents so far today. If I haven’t managed to contact you about how your child is settling in then I will do this next Friday, but please feel free to email me or speak to me at the door after the sessions in the meantime.

Miss Roberts

Hi everyone,

I am so excited to get to meet all your lovely children properly next week. I’ve got lots of exciting things planned and I’m sure they are going to love coming to school.

Just a quick reminder about PE and Forest School.

Forest School will be on a Wednesday. Children need to come into school wearing clothes for outside on these days, and there’s no need to bring uniform for them to change into afterwards. Please bring wellies and waterproofs in for us to keep in school.

PE will be on a Thursday. Children need to come in wearing their PE kit on these days, some PE sessions may be taking place outside, so please remember to make sure children have a PE jumper / fleece with them on these days too.

Forest School and PE will be starting the week beginning 20th September, once all children are in full time, so no need to worry about this for the next few weeks!

Also, please remember to make sure your child has a water bottle with them in school each day. We politely ask that it is water in bottles and not juice, as this is our school policy.

See you all next week,

Miss Roberts

I can’t believe our last few days of Reception are finally here! It looks like it’s going to be a scorcher, so please remember sun cream, sunhats and water bottles every day this week.

We will be sending a few bits home with the children this week, including their books that they have been working in this year. I will choose 3 children and keep their books in school for a year, and theirs will be sent home at the end of next year. So please don’t worry if your child comes home without their books.

We will also be sending wellies and other Forest School bits home this week, so please can you all send your child into school with a carrier bag to bring them home in? Or just take them with you in the morning / at the end of the day if you would prefer.

Remember there is no Forest School on the last day – so come in uniform on Wednesday please!

If you haven’t already, please have a little hunt for any reading books at home and send them into school. We will be passing on their reading records to Year 1 so that the adults in there know which books to start off with next year, so please send these in too.

Thank you!

Miss Roberts