Hello everyone!
It was SO lovely to see so many of you at our first drop in. We hope you all enjoyed the chance to have a look around. The children have all come home with a Maths activity sheet, this links to the learning we have done this week. We would love to know if any of you give it a try at home.
There are 2 whole school messages again 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”
A big thank you to those of you who have already made donations, but there is still plenty of time if you have not yet. Please 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.
Parent/Teacher Consultations
On Monday 17th October & Tuesday 18th October between 3.30-6.00pm we will be holding our Parent/Teacher consultations. This will be an opportunity to meet and discuss how your child has settled into school. This meeting can be either via ZOOM or an in person meeting.
Please note, in the first instance, if you wish this to be a ZOOM meeting please book for the Monday and if you wish it to be held in person then please book for the Tuesday.
Bookings can be made from Monday 10th October from 9.00am and is done via Scopay. If you are unsure of your Scopay login, please go and see the office as they will be able to issue with your details. It is important to have these details as they will be used to book trips, pay dinner money and make Parent/Teacher meeting appointments throughout your child's time at Down Hall.
Now on to our learning for the coming week, we will be:
- Starting our daily Phonics sessions, learning our first 4 sounds.
- Continuing with our "Just Like Me!" work in our Mathematics sessions, this week we will be sorting and comparing objects.
- Starting our Start-Bee handwriting sessions, learning about the pencil grip song and how to use our special lightboxes.
- Going on an Autumn walk around the school grounds and seeing how many different colours we can find.
- Carefully drawing around a template and then cutting out some Autumn leaves using different coloured paper.
- Talking about how we have changed since we were a baby. Many thanks to everyone who has sent in a baby photo so far. PLEASE send in a photo by Monday, this can be done via email if that is easier.
This week our drop in will take place on FRIDAY.
DON'T FORGET, the children's photographs will be in the Echo on Tuesday as part of their New Starter supplement.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley
