Dear Parents/Carers,

Lockdown Home Reading 

As from next Monday, and then every Monday, school reading books can be exchanged for new ones. Please arrive at the reception entrance within your year group time slot and ring the office bell.

We ask you to use your child’s current reading bag to transport them to and from school : this will enable us so as to establish a full exchange and match books accordingly.

Please place returned books in the collection boxes ready for quarantine. A selection of new books can then be handed across by Mrs Martin or Miss Wakeford. 

• 9.30-10am - Reception
• 10-10.30am - Years 1 and 2
• 11:15-11.45am - Years 3 and 4
• 11am -12.15pm - Years 5 and 6

If you are unsure of using this option or require more texts in the week there are many books available on line. These are found on the classroom google account for your child.

Zoom Assemblies - update

On Friday we had our second Zoom assembly. Again, it was a fantastic way of celebrating the success of children over the last week. To ensure the assembly is managed safely, we are only currently inviting classes in school, staff in school and children at home who have awards that week - if we have permission to do so.

This means that the children listed below can join the assembly next week.

To help us to manage these assemblies safely:

• We will require permission via email if we do not already have it.
• Can children use their real names on Zoom. Zoom does enable children to change their names, but this makes it difficult to know we are admitting the right person into the assembly.
• Unfortunately those joining the assembly late, will not be admitted.
• To avoid disrupting the assembly, please can every ensure they remain muted throughout. If we have participants who are unable to mute, we may have no choice but to remove them from the assembly. 

We have now started to share videos of the assemblies on Facebook, so you can all watch it and join the celebration! 

School Uniform

Our school uniform suppliers have recently moved and can now be found at:

julian@shclothing.co.uk

SH CLOTHING LTD

UNIT 17

BARNACK TRADING ESTATE

NOVERS HILL

BEDMINSTER

BS3 5QE

Headteacher’s Awards

Reception -

• Kiki for doing fantastic phonics and for being able to sound out the word ‘jacket’
• Vicka for doing excellent home learning particularly in her phonics and decoding whole sentences such as ‘The hot sun’ well done Vicka!

Year 1 -  

• Lyla - Firstly for being a tremendous reader, she is now on green level and secondly for mastering the complicated task of learning to tie her own shoe laces - she has persevered and kept on trying at home and in school  for weeks!
• Matheo - for completing lots of his assignments at home including reading, art, completing lots of puzzles and for joining our class zoom!
• Noah - for being super brave at home while he has been getting better after his operation. 

Year 2 -  

• David - For super improved reading and moving up through our reading levels.
• Lindsay - For a fantastic painting of one of the animals from our class story.
• Shayne - For a fantastic picture of a giraffe.
• Alfie - For making a good effort to take part in our classroom zoom meetings.

Year 3 - 

• Zak- For completing all of his home learning and sharing photos of his wonderful work. Zak has also joined in enthusiastically with our daily Zoom meetings.
• Conrad- For persevering with his joined handwriting and ensuring his letters are carefully and neatly formed. 

Year 4 -

• Anta and Liliana - For consistent engagement and a positive attitude with the home learning.

Year 5 -  

• Kaya - for listening to feedback and taking risks with words and sentence types to make her writing even more exciting.
• Emily Z - for seeing things through with maths and achieving great results with her fractions work.

Year 6

• Astou - for responding to and acting on her online feedback for home learning. Her work is of the highest quality - well done!
• Matylda - for being such an active member of our online community. Matylda is always the first on our Zoom meeting. She responds really well to feedback and always submits high quality work - great job!

Dates for Diaries

End of Term 3 - Friday 12 February 2021.

Term 4 - Monday 22 February 2021 to Thursday 1 April 2021.

Term 5 - Monday 19 April 2021 to Friday 28 May 2021.

Term 6 - Monday 7 June 2021 to Wednesday 21 July 2021. 

Yours sincerely

Matt Condon

Headteacher