Hi everyone,
Today the children have brought home their reading folders and diaries. They were excited to pick their first "Core Books" to bring home. We would love to know how you get on at home sharing these books, so please, please do let us know by writing any comments in your child's reading diary. As mentioned in the diary these books will be changed on a weekly basis, but not necessarily on the same day each week, so please can they be in books bags every day.
We have 2 whole school messages this week to share this week:
Harvest Collection
This year we will continue to support Rochford Extended Services with our Harvest collection. Donations will be boxed up and distributed by them to the children and families that need them most within our own local community.
As a Gold Level Rights Respecting School, we do our best to advocate for Children's Rights and for sustainability. Articles 24 and 27 state that:
“Every child has the right to the best possible health and a good standard of living”
If you can send in any non-perishable items (the children can bring them in) before Wednesday 19th October that would be fabulous and you can find a full list of suggested items here. In school we will celebrate Harvest during the week of 17th October with some learning in class and by singing our favourite Harvest song in assembly. Please enjoy having a go at the Harvest Samba here and thanks for any contributions you feel able to make.
NSPCC’s Speak Out Stay Safe Programme
RRS Article 19: Children have the right to be safe
As a Rights Respecting School we are committed to keeping children safe and we are happy to be taking part in the NSPCC's safeguarding programme in school. This programme helps children to recognise abuse in a child friendly way and encourages them to speak out to a trusted Duty Bearer.
In school, children will watch an assembly delivered by Ant and Dec and then take part in follow up discussions in class. Please read the full details on the NSPCC letter here where you will find further links and resources that you can use at home to educate and support your child. We urge you to take a look at these.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to pop in and see us.
On to our learning for the coming week, we will be:
- Reading another story about the Ten in the Bed characters, this time they are playing Hide and Seek.
- Using our teddy bear puppets that we made last week to play "Where's the Bear?" game in our Maths sessions.
- Welcoming our families into our classrooms after school, for our first drop in session on MONDAY.
- Starting to create our Christmas card designs, these will come home over the half term holiday for you to see and order (should you decide to).
- Changing our Core Books and picking another one to share this with our families.
- Learning how to play some Circle Time games together.
The following week we will be looking at how we have changed since being a baby. It would be lovely if the children could either bring in a baby photo OR for 1 to be emailed in for us to print out in school. Please email them to earlyyears@downhallprimary.com. We need them by Monday 10th October, ready to use that week.
Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley
