Hello everyone!
What a way to begin December! The children loved seeing the heavy frost and then the snow this morning! We put their wellies to great use and they ran around on the field and our garden. We had some warm chocolate milk to warm ourselves back up during snack time too.
The children have now picked their parts for our Nativity and we will be working hard on that next week. The costumes are all sorted and from next week some of the children will be bringing home some words to learn and we would be very grateful if you could support them with this.
Upcoming Events
- Thursday 7th December - Christmas Jumper Day
- Thursday 7th December - Christmas Dinner
- Friday 8th December - PTA Movie Night
- Monday 11th December - Non-uniform Day (Chocolate donation for the PTA Bazaar)
- Friday 15th December - PTA Christmas Bazaar
- Wednesday 20th December - Our Nativity (at 9.30am)
Christmas Jumper Day - Thursday 7th December
On this day, the children can wear their fabulous festive jumpers and make a £1 donation which goes to our continued sponsorship of Thoko in Malawi. The charity Action Aid use this money to ensure that Thoko and the other children in her community enjoy their right to an education, just like all of us at Down Hall! (Articles 28 & 29)
SO, to clarify, on Thursday, the children need to wear their normal uniform but with their Christmas jumper (instead of their Down Hall jumper/cardigan).
On to our learning for next week, we will be:
- Practising our Nativity, singing the songs and learning our words.
- Starting to make our own Christmas cards and calendars for our families.
- Working on our blending and segmenting of 3 phoneme words.
- Learning more about 2D shapes in our Mathematics sessions and talking about the different shapes in a Christmas picture.
- Wearing our Christmas jumpers for Christmas Jumper day on Thursday and talking about Thoko and enjoying Christmas Dinner together.
Finally, if you are in Rayleigh over the weekend and have the time, please pop and vote for our Christmas tree in the Holy Trinity Christmas Tree Festival. All of the children in Pearl and Quartz have made a decoration - the tree will return to school on Monday and you will also be able to see it at our drop in on TUESDAY.
Wishing you a lovely weekend!
Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley
