Thank you for all your patience last week during the parent/teacher consultations, thankfully it all worked out in the end. It was so lovely to have the chance to speak to you all.
I can't quite belief that we only have 1 week left of term. Mrs Fincham and I are so incredibly proud of Pearl Class and all their amazing achievements this term, but in particular with regards to Phonics. Thank you all for all the support you are giving the children at home, they are all growing in confidence and using their phonic knowledge to support their reading.
The school office have asked me to remind you all again about a couple of forms that need completing. The first is the parent consent form. The form can be found by clicking the link: Parental Consent Form
There is also a Home/School agreement. This sets our everyone's responsibilities and expectations. This can be found by clicking the link: Home School Agreement
Many of you have completed one of these forms but not both. I would be very grateful if you could complete them and send them to office@downhall.essex.sch.uk.
In Pearl Class we have a student working with us. Miss Mortimer is in the second year of her degree and comes into class on a weekly basis. She asked me to share the following Google form with you, which is a short questionnaire along with a consent form for the research she is carrying out as part of her degree. I would be very grateful if you could take the time to support her with her degree. If you have any queries, please do ask. The Google form can be found here: Google Form or alternatively pdf versions can be found here and here. Many thanks to those of you who have already completed this, it is much appreciated.
On to our new learning, this week we will be:
- Creating our own version of the Christmas story by dressing up as the different parts we have chosen.
- Recording some special things to share with our families.
- Finishing our Christmas cards by writing them to our families.
- Playing Phonics games and trying to beat our best time for "Tricky Word Trucks".
- Watching an online Pantomime on Wednesday.
- Creating our own Fairy Light patterns and completing some Christmas counting activities in our Mathematics sessions.
