07.02.22 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

We have had a lovely week finding out all about Chinese New Year. We have all learnt which animal year we were born in and have created some amazing dragons!

I have been asked by Miss Sharman to let you know the following: 

After half term, we will be making some exciting changes to our PE lessons. We will be welcoming some new coaches from Jack Of All Sports to our team. 

Mrs Perrins, Mr Attfield, Mr Gray and Mr Harrington will deliver lessons along with Mrs Williamson. 

Please ensure that your child has the correct PE uniform on PE days.  This should consist of:

• Plain, navy blue tracksuit (No logos please e.g. Nike/Puma etc)
• Plain, navy blue shorts
• School t-shirt
• Plain, black trainers (No bright coloured soles or stripes please)

We are really looking forward to working with Mr Harrington and his team and can't wait to welcome them to Down Hall. If you have any questions regarding PE, please email Miss Sharman using the Year 5/6 email address: year5_6@downhallprimary.com

In Early Years, the children will now be having Mr Attfield for PE on a Friday. The children briefly met him on Monday when he came into school to visit.

I have also been asked by Mrs Hurley to let you all know about a Parent Workshop she will be running about Times Tables, please see her message below:

INVITATION TO ALL PARENTS

Times tables are at the heart of mental arithmetic, which in itself helps form the basis of a child’s understanding and ability when working with numbers. Once children have learnt their times tables to fluency and instant recall, they are then able to work more confidently through a wide range of calculations and problem solving. 

Join us for a Parent Workshop based on Times Tables and how they are taught at Down Hall Primary.

Tuesday 1st March 2022 1.30-2.15pm

At this stage Mrs Hurley will be conducting this session via Zoom but there may be a change in restrictions which will enable the session to run in the school hall with social distancing measures put in place. If this is the case then we would need to limit numbers to a maximum of 30 people. 

With special guests (Times Table Champions)

If you would like to attend, please email Mrs Hurley: year3_4@downhallprimary.com

We would love to hear from you!

Now on to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Sharing non-fiction texts to find out facts about different dinosaurs. 
• Looking at fossils and learning about the job of a Palaeontologist.
• Continuing with our Maths work from last week, working on addition and finding the total using our 10 frames. 
• Comparing dinosaurs by their length, height and weight, using the facts we have found.
• Learning the next vowel digraphs in our Phonics sessions. 
• Enjoying the PTA coin run on Friday. (More information below).

On Friday it is wear something red day, to help raise funds for our PTA. The children can wear something red, along with their normal PE kit for a suggested donation of £1. They are also asked to bring in some coins to take part in the coin run. Each class will be laying their coins in a long line and the class with the longest line will win a prize! Again all monies will be going to the PTA.

Don't forget that there are new arrangements for home time starting on Monday. The information about this can be found here, if you have any queries please do ask or email me using earlyyears@downhallprimary.com.

The appointments for the Parent Teacher consultations will open on Wednesday, the information about this can be found here. Again, any queries please just ask.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield