England Football Under 15’s Schoolgirls
The England U15 Schoolgirls will take on Wales U16 Schoolgirls in a friendly fixture at The New Saints FC in Oswestry on Sunday 10th March with kick off at 11am. This will be the England schoolgirls’ only fixture on home soil this season before they fly to Ireland to play in the Bob Docherty Cup against the other home nations. Adult tickets are £5 and concessions are £2. Tickets can be purchased on the day and not in advance.
World Book Day Menu
The kitchen will be providing a special menu for World Book Day next Thursday 7th March which is shown on the attached poster. As we are unable to amend the menu on ParentPay, if your child would like a lunch off the special menu please make the following choices. For the Chicken & sweetcorn pie select chicken and golden rice and for Spaghetti with Meatless meatballs select Mac and Cheese.
Jacket potatoes and sandwiches will be available as normal.
World Book Day Menu
Wraparound Provision Questionnaire
We would appreciate if any parents/families who use our wraparound care club could fill in the following questionnaire on our provision: https://forms.office.com/e/H4PqcMyPmF.
Tag Rugby – Swancote
Just to clarify that the Tag Rugby competition (at Swancote) is on Tuesday 5th March, which is the day after the second after-school practice – as described in the letter itself (and not as describe on the return slip). The other two dates (today and Monday 4th March) are practices.
Apologies for any confusion.
Viking Experience Day
Last Thursday, Scorpions and Bees had Erik Eriksson who brought and discussed a collection of Viking replica artefacts:
World Book Day (7th March) and Comic Relief (15th March)
We have two upcoming events that we are planning on celebrating in school.
World Book Day (Thursday 7th March)
For World Book Day, children are encouraged to come to school dress as character from their favourite (or any) book/story – and also bring along the book (if the have it); however, we appreciate that not all children will enjoy “dressing up”. If so, they can come in their own clothes. As this is not a charitable fundraising event, no donation are being requested.
On the day, the children’s classes will be mixed to form 5 new classes (with children from reception to Y6 in each class). The classes will then rotate around a variety of different book-themed activities throughout the day.
In the afternoon, we’d like to invite any parents and carers (and others) to come into school – in a similar way as last year – to share some reading books or stories with your child or any others . This will be from 2:15pm. At around 2:45pm, we will be having our usual celebration assembly – which anyone is also welcome to stay for.
Comic Relief – “Red Nose Day” (Friday 15th March)
We are also having a fundraising day for Comic Relief. Children can come into school in their own clothes (with something red). We are requesting donations for this event as it will be raising money for Comic Relief; however, the amount is entirely up to you.
As part of the day, children can also bring in their own joke – written on piece of paper with their name on. The joke doesn’t have to be an original one. Teachers will be picking their top 20 jokes – which will be shared in assembly and the top joke (by volume of laughter it generates) winning a prize! Unfortunately, due to timings, this will be an assembly with just children.
New Whole-school Reading Reward System
You may well have heard from your child about our new reading reward system that we have just started in school
The reasons we are exploring this is that we have noticed a significant drop-off in engagement in reading outside of school over the last few years – which is something that has been noticed across the whole country – and it is something which is seeming to have a noticeable impact on comprehension skills (both reading and generally).Talking to children, we found that this mainly seems to not being in the regular habit of picking up a book to read – and that most actually enjoyed reading once they did.
The way our new reward system works is that every time a child reads at home (shown by reading records entries in KS1 and a filled-in “reading ticket” in KS2) they will be given a raffle ticket. Each week on a Thursday celebration assembly, we will have a raffle ticket draw – where the winning ticket/child will get to choose a brand new book from collection of recently purchased books on the following Friday.
With this week’s celebration assembly having to be cancelled due to the Scorpions’ and Bees’ Viking experience day, we did the first of these on Friday’s normal assembly, and our first winner was Grace in Dragonflies!