Your Voice Survey

In the next few weeks you will be able to complete the Your Voice survey from our Trust. This is a way for the school and the Trust to gather your views and to find out how the school can support and do more for you and your child. Look out for the text with the link, we would really appreciate it if you could fill it in. I should only take you 5 minutes to complete.

Skills Builder

Our focus this half term is Aim High. Please share with us any pictures of your child when they are showing that they are aiming high at home. You can take pictures and email it to your year group email which you can find here.

This week try to Aim High by doing an activity as a family like going for a walk to the park together and play a game as a family, or you can cook a meal together.

Attendance

In the next 2 weeks, we will be selecting a specific day and every parent/family who bring their child to school that day will receive a raffle ticket. Year 5 and 6 children walking home can take their raffle ticket home at the end of the day. If you are in on the chosen day you will stand the chance to win a prize in our raffle draw! So make sure your child is in school every day!

Dear Parents/carers,

It is the end of our very first half term this academic year. The majority of our children came back and settled really well into their new classes and have produced some high-quality work. The children clearly enjoy our wider curriculum and we’ve had a number of classes having experiences in school as well as going on trips. It is really nice to be able to go out and about more to give our children experiences which supports their learning.

I would like to thank all our parents who have attended out Parent Consultation evening this week. It was good to see so many of you in school and I am glad you had the opportunity to have a look at your child’s work. 

Skills Builder

This year, the school partnered up with the Skills Builder programme. The Skills Builder curriculum aims to teach all our children the 8 essential skills of listening, speaking, problem-solving, creativity, staying positive, aiming high, leadership and teamwork. These skills will support children not just now in Primary school, but also in all areas of their life as well as when they move to high school, college, university or apprenticeships. In the first week back, we will have our very first ‘Visioning Day’ where we will introduce one of these 8 skills, Aiming High. In our first newsletter back after the holidays we will share with you more on this.

Uniform

We are seeing so many more children with school uniform in school! Please make sure children come to school in their uniform, even on PE days, and now that it is turning colder we need children to come to school in a warm coat. If you have any old uniform or cots that have a bit of wear left in them, please donate them to school so we can share it out. Coming soon: Uniform swap shop!

Attendance

Please ensure you call the school if your child is going to be absent. We need to have the children in school every day so they have the opportunity to learn and build on their friendships. In the first week back, you will receive a letter with your child’s attendance. 

Have a restful and safe break and we are really looking forward to seeing you all back on the 1^st November!

3W’s Stone Age Topic

The children in Year 3 have made a great start to the year!

In English we have read the story Orion and the Dark, which the children really enjoyed. We learnt about speech bubbles and how to punctuate direct speech, which we then included in our own versions of the story. 

In topic, we have been learning about the Stone Age. The children have learnt about where Stone Age people live, what they ate and the tools they used. This week the children turned into hunters and gatherers and went to hunt for food. We then returned to class and made a Stone Age dessert. 

The children have been learning about light in science. So far we have learnt about light sources, reflections and how a shadow is made. We then made shadow puppets about characters from Orion and the Dark. 

Take a look

Parent Consultation Evenings

RESPECT Winners

Attendance Winners

School attendance is mandatory. Parents must make sure their children attend school when they are well enough to do so. Please make sure your children are dropped off and collected on time.

It’s Good to Grow with Morrison

Morrisons is giving away free gardening equipment to schools! With a MyMorrisons account, collect Grow Tokens when you shop online or in store and donate them to our school! 💐

For more information, visit itsgoodtogrow.co.uk

#itsgoodtogrow #makegoodthingshappen

COVID19 👈

Following current guidance, we do not have year group ‘bubbles’ and children and staff will be able to mix with each other throughout the school day. Bubbles may have to be reintroduced when necessary. 

Classes are set up differently to last year and children will go to Key stage assemblies. We will continue to have whole school assemblies virtually for the time being.

We will have staggered break and lunchtimes. This is to ensure that lunchtimes runs smoothly and children have more space on the playground.

Read more about our Coronavirus plans.

Self Isolation

The rules for self-isolation changed for England on 16th August. If you are unsure if your child should be isolating, contact school and we can help you.

National Online Safety

Co-op Academy Woodlands is now part of National Online Safety, a great free online resource about keeping your children safe online.

You can read more about online safety on our website too. Visit our online safety page.

Sign up here!

National Poetry Day!

This term, 5S are studying Anglo-Saxons and learning about Viking life in Britain. We have been extremely excited to have learned about how these tribes invaded England (Angle-Land) and Yorkshire and how they settled to live in towns and villages – and even Leeds!

Last week in our Golden Enrichment Time, we created a Viking Punch; using historical ingredients to make a “delicious” drink. We grated apples, chopped grapes and squashed blueberries before adding apple juice and a mixed fruit cordial. We then had a Viking biscuit (on Oat Nibble) to soak up all the punch. I think Year 5 were quite surprised (and happy!) that it tasted quite nice – we even had to make some more… just to check the taste of course! 

Mr. Senior