POWSA Social

POWSA Social

Hi there guys,
Just to let you know that the next POWSA meeting is being held on the 9th July at 19:45 at the new Wagamama restaurant in Brewery square. New faces are always welcome.  We are a small group of committed parents and teachers who enjoy raising money for our school and children, and without all your help and support this just wouldn't happen.  However, our core group is getting smaller and smaller and as a consequence recent events have been much harder to organise and run.  Therefore we would ask you to seriously consider coming along to the next meeting, ask your questions, find out what its all about and see if becoming a POWSA member is something you would like to do.  There is no expectation on your time, we won't sign you up to do anything, we just ask you come along, meet us and enjoy a nice meal.  If you do fancy coming would you be kind enough to let a POWSA member know, or leave your name with the school office, just so we can ensure a big enough table.
Hope to see you there!

Trubloff

Today we read the story of Trubloff  by John Burningham as our introduction to school reading week that starts on Monday.

Trubloff the mouse lives with his family in the village inn but dreams of becoming the greatest balalaika player in the whole country and one night he runs away with a band of gypsies who promise to teach him to play. Trubloff's poor family are overcome with worry but in the end it is Trubloff's gift for music which saves them from an awful fate.

All the school will be reading, exploring and learning from this book next week, we look forward to spending the morning with reception on monday and welcoming some suprise story readers in during the week.

Watch out for questions about favourite family books and requests for photographs of unusual places you and the children have been found reading a book.
Amanda

a good start to the week!!

Parents,
we have had a great day today, I think everyone enjoyed the zoo lab visit. We had a chance to see a tarantula, snake, land snail and other creatures, look at the display to see more and have a go with the recordable pegs to hear what the children have to say.

Can anyone remember which insect has 250 legs??

We hope to have our picnic tomorrow.

Have you read Mr Gibson's blog? its on our pre school page.

Amanda

Parents,
This week we start the week with a visit from Zoo Lab who will be bringing lots of insects and mini beasts for us to look at and learn about.The theme will be a book called ' Creepy House'.

After the visit (weather permitting) we will be taking a picnic up to the field and then we will be having a bug hunt.
 We will repeat this activity later in the week so as many children can take part as possible.
The children will then be looking at the bugs they have found through the microscope onto the computer screen.
The  children will also be going to the school library to look for non fiction books about insects and bugs.
Some of the other activities this week will include making insects from salt dough, pond dipping, drawing and painting pictures, rhyming words and sounds.

Next week the 24th June is a school themed reading week, we have lots of fabulous activities planned so watch this space!



Amanda

Transition to Reception...

Hello all! 

I have finally had the chance to meet most of the children that will be starting in reception this September and I am becoming extremely impatient! All the children had the chance to explore their new classroom and are certainly enthusiastic about their learning. There will be another session for each group of children before a final session where the whole class will be together. We hope to do a tour of the school during the next session so we are all hoping for sunny weather!

If any children missed, or were unable to attend, the previous two Thursday's sessions then please let the school know and we will make sure that they have the chance to attend.

I look forward to seeing all of you again!

Mr. Gibson

Dear Parents,
This week we will be creating our Fathers Day card and talking about super heros, discussing real super heros and asking the children who is their superhero!

We will also be continuing with our words that begin with f, and exploring words that rhyme with the words we have already found that begin with f.!

Do have a look at our very long list of our words that begin with f, the children thought of every one themselves.

The children are trying very hard to only use kind and polite words to each other, so everyone will get a caterpillar badge at the end of the day if they are able to achieve this, when everyone on the class list has achieved this the children have chosen to go on a picnic as a treat, as we will be revisiting this issue a lot with the children we hope the issue of kind and polite words will resolve itself.
Amanda

things that start with f

Welcome back to the second half of the summer term, we are looking forward to spending lots of time outside exploring and learning.

Before the holiday the children were enjoying making and playing with paper aeroplanes. So last Friday we made a list of all the things we could think of  that can fly both natural and man made. (can you add to our list?) we will be making lots of the things the children have chosen and seeing if we can make them fly!

we will also be thinking of all the words we can that start with f.
we will be contining to plant and care for our vegatables and plants.

looking forward to a sunny half term.

NO SWIMMING MONDAY 3RD JUNE.