Hi everyone,

Room 2’s Christmas party didn’t happen due to school closing early last term so their party (New Year Party) is going to be held tomorrow afternoon (Thursday 6th January 2022).

Children can bring in their party clothes (in a named bag please) for tomorrow afternoon, they will change after lunch.

Thank you!

Room 2 are having an additional PE lesson tomorrow! I know the children are dressing up as pirates but I have asked that all children come with their PE kit in a spare bag with their trainers so they can get changed before lunch.

I apologise for the convenience.

Regards,

Mrs Davies and Mrs Hilditch.

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that Colomendy cannot go ahead this school year as planned, obviously this is disappointing for the children as it has been cancelled twice. The good news is I have found an alternative and I am delighted to say on Thursday 16 September 2021 we will be bringing Camp PPS to school.

Camp PPS will be a 24 hour experience (hopefully at least 8 hours will be spent sleeping)

From 3pm on Thursday 16th September to 3pm on Friday 17 September the children will:

Put up (and take down) their tents, unpack their sleeping bags, pyjamas and teds

Fun and team building games

Make a hot chocolate with muddy water – by making a water purifier first!

The obligatory evening camp fire with toasted marshmallows, songs and interactive stories.

A variety of bushcraft activities to include:

Bugs buns and blazes

• Firelighting: using a sparking fire-steel, everyone will set cotton-wool ablaze!

• Bush-tucker challenge!

• Learning to make pancakes over the open fire (bug seasoning optional!)

Crash and carry

Your plane has crashed in the jungle!

• Gather supplies!

• Learn to help an injured teammate!

• Build a shelter!

• Survive!

They will be fed dinner, breakfast and lunch during the 24 hours and plenty of drinks and snacks, and of course the optional bugs!

We have opted to include a Night Watch so everyone – parents, staff and children can sleep soundly knowing the children are safe.

The company will be providing qualified instructors and of course PPS staff led by Mr Langford will be joining in the fun too.

The cost of this fabulous experience will be £60. So the extra good news is, if you have already paid for Colomendy then we owe you money!

If you have any questions please contact the school office. Further details and kit list to follow.

On Thursday we will be investigating magnetic and non magnetic materials for Science. So if you have a magnet to hand can you get that ready please.

Also Live lessons:

Wed 27th Jan @ 9am – expanded column method for adding 3 digit numbers.

Thursday 28th Jan @ 9am – Continuing on from Wednesday’s lesson. If children feel confident in the method then they don’t need to attend. If you think they want a little reassurance, then come along and they can apply it to a practical context.

Hi guys,

Because of the heavy rain, school has had to shut early today so the Live lesson for Science this afternoon has had to be cancelled. My apologies.

However, I have rearranged it for tomorrow at 11 am if school is back open. I have sent a new invite to your children’s email account for the Live so they can accept if they wish. Hopefully, we will see you tomorrow !

Regards,

Mrs Davies

Dear Parents of Room 2,

So myself and Mrs Hilditch think we have finally got our heads around the technology to offer the chance for the children at home to attend a ‘live lesson’. That means, if your computer has a webcam and a microphone the children at home can login and can join the children in school for an actual lesson being taught by either myself or Mrs Hilditch. This will also allow the children the opportunity to see their friends if they haven’t seen them in a while.

We are starting off small next week so it might only be for 20/30 minutes one day or one lesson on another but hopefully we will be able to increase this to more. Fingers crossed it will work!

Here is what we were thinking for next week.

• Tuesday 19^th January @ 14:00    Mrs Hilditch will be reading a chapter or two of our class book called Stitch Head by Guy Bass. It will last about 20/30 minutes.
• Wednesday 20^th January @ 9:10 Mrs Davies will be doing the introduction to the Maths lesson. It will last about 20/30 minutes.
• Thursday 21^st January @ 13:45 Mr Boffey (he is a teacher helping out Mrs Davies during Lockdown) will be leading another Science investigation into friction. This session will allow the children at home to see a whole class investigation being done in school along with the results. The children can watch the investigation and consider that their Science lesson done for the week or they can carry out a similar investigation at home when they have logged out of the meeting. It will last 20/30 minutes.

In order for the children to attend these lives sessions. You will need to have a few things set up first.

• The children will need to have their school email account set up ready to go. Mrs Andrews has created a video in order to help you. It should be at the top of ‘News and Updates’ page on the school website. Please have a look.
• The children will need to know their email address and password. This should be on the inside of their reading record book. The address is something like this 17Surname.A@pontesbury.shropshire.sch.uk followed by their password. If you are unsure what these are, then please email us or Mrs Andrews for them. If your child has already logged onto Google Classroom it the same information you needed for that.
• You will need to download Microsoft Teams. If you aren’t aware of Microsoft Teams it is like Zoom. That means the children can see the teacher, the classroom and each other. The children should also be able to access Microsoft Teams through their emails. If the children click on the 9 dots at the top of their email account, Microsoft Teams should be an option there.
• When myself or Mrs Hilditch set up a meeting a link for the meeting will go to the children’s email account. They can click on the link in the email and accept. They would then need to open up Teams and access the calendar tab at the side. Hopefully, the meeting will be in the calendar. The children need to click on the meeting to join.
• If you have chance could you show the children how to mute/unmute their microphones so we are not all talking at the same time!

I hope this helps, but I thought I would send it over the weekend to allow you enough time to set it up.

Hopefully, we will see the children there!

Regards,

Mrs Davies and Mrs Hilditch.

Please can I ask all children to come to school in their PE kit on a Tuesday each week?  We will now have art with Mr Farlow on Wednesday afternoons.

Thank You

Mrs Hilditch