Hello everyone,
The children have had another busy week and we have been busy making scarecrows ready for our Harvest Assembly next week. Today they have all brought home a "Core Book". These are stories to share at home and the books will be changed on a weekly basis, the day may differ depending on what we have planned, so we would appreciate them being in bags each day. We hope you enjoy them.
We have 2 whole school messages to share this week:
Harvest Collection
For Harvest this year we are collecting for The One Love Project; a soup kitchen and food bank providing support for those families and children that really need it. We will celebrate in school with a special assembly where we will share songs that we have rehearsed for the occasion. If you are able to send in any non-perishable items for the collection before Friday 6th October they would be most gratefully received. We thank you for your continued support in helping our children to understand Children's Rights and learn how to look after ourselves, each other and our world.
RSS Articles 24 and 27: Every child has the right to the best possible health and a good standard of living.
Football Skills Masterclass Day
We are excited to welcome Jamie Knight to Down Hall on Tuesday 3rd October. Each class will receive a masterclass session during the day. They will learn a number of football skills as well as attend an assembly, where Jamie will demonstrate some of his tricks.
ALL YEAR GROUPS WILL NEED TO WEAR PE KIT ON TUESDAY.
After school, Jamie will host an extra masterclass from 3:15 to 4:15. In this class, children will learn an extra 10-15 tricks. At the end of the session, Jamie will be available for photos and autographs. The cost of the after school session is £10. There are 40 spaces in the class. We expect this to be extremely popular, so please return the slip and payment (cash only please) to Miss Sharman on Monday to secure your child's place. Places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.
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.
- Starting our Phonics sessions, learning the first 4 sounds.
- Using our teddy bear puppets that we made last week to play "Where's the Bear?" game in our Maths sessions.
- 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).
- Playing some Circle Time games together.
- Singing our "Dingle Dangle Scarecrow" song and sharing our scarecrows in our Harvest assembly.
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 9th October, ready to use that week.
The Echo supplement will be out on 10th October, both classes have had a photograph submitted.
This week's drop in will be on THURSDAY.
Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley
