At t endance - 99.2%

Such an improvement with our attendance this week!

Thank you..

Let 's aim for 100% in WOW week!

Our t arget is 97%

Elem ent s Pr im ary School21st January 2019

Dear Parents,

Firstly can I say a big thank you to all those who attended our parents' meeting about our residential to Nell Bank. It is good to know so many of you are supportive of our plan to take our children away for an overnight stay. We can't wait to see it become a reality.

Our children enjoyed their first full PE lesson. They showed us how independent they are becoming. They organised themselves really well, getting changed and then dressed again all by themselves.

Thank you for your support with getting your children to school every day. Our attendance has been excellent this week - 99.2%! Fantastic, well done.

Miss S Horsbrough

Executive Principal

REM INDER

Please do not al low chi ldren to br ing toys in to school fr om hom e. I t is very di ff icul t for us to m ake sure they are looked after and not al l ch i ldren have

toys to br ing.

Please help us by keeping these toys at hom e. Thank you.

We now have a direct telephone number for Breakfast Club and After

School Club. You can use this number if, for example, you are going to be late for

pick up.

This num ber is for cont act st r ict ly bet ween 7.30 - 8.30am and 3.00 - 5.30pm .

For general enquiries and booking places please still contact the main school office.

0113 532 8699

WOW Week - W/Beg 21st January

We need your help please!It 's not t oo lat e!

We st i l l need shoe boxes and em pt y m ilk car t ons. Please do br ing t hese int o school for us t o use dur ing our

WOW week!

Our S t a r s of t he Week!

SCHOOL CALENDAR

FOR

2019/2020

Our Learning this Half Term

Our topic for the first part of the term has still been ?Let?s Pretend. We will then be moving onto ?Houses and Homes? during WOW

week. We will be mainly focusing our activities each week around the different types of houses and homes that people and fairy tale characters live in. The topic will start with the story of ?The Three Little Pigs? They will look at the different materials that each house is made out of and which is the best to use and why. We will then

look at the similarities and differences between the types of houses within our local area. The children will have lots of

opportunities to talk about their own home and houses found in other countries.

The children are continuing to use ?Fred talk? to sound out unfamiliar words and then encouraged to ?Fred in their head? to

read words they are already confident with. Lots of opportunities to learn the daily sound will be placed in the provision in the

classroom for the children to access independently. All the sounds that the children learn are displayed around the classroom. Each day in phonics the children have time to practise forming letters

correctly that they have just been taught and also practising ones taught previously. Also as part of our Maths lessons the children

will be reciting one more and one less than any given number to 10 and beyond. We will also be looking at place value of numbers up

to 10. Thinking about different ways to make the number using the part, part, whole model.

Quick Reminders

- As the weather is constantly changing from sun to rain,

could we kindly ask that your child is sent to school in a

warm coat and that they have a pair of wellingtons in

school.

- Could we please kindly remind you to label all your

child?s clothing even items such as coats and shoes.

Me s s a g e s f r o m Re c e p t i o n Cl a s s

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Den Bu i l di ngOur chi l dr en w i l l be t aki ng

par t i n a den bu i l di ng sessi on on Wednesday 23r d. 9am Di amonds Cl ass

1pm St ar s Cl assChi l dr en need t o have a w ar m coat , hat and g l oves for t hi s

sessi on . They w i l l be w ear i ng our school ou t door w at er pr oof

cl ot hi ng over t hei r ow n cl ot hes. Thi s sessi on can be

col d and muddy!Par en t s ar e w el come t o j oi n t hi s sessi on . Unfor t unat el y w e can on l y cat er for ONE par en t per chi l d t o at t end.

23rd January - Reception Den Building

AM Diamonds Class/ PM Stars Class

24t h January - Trip to Abbey House Museum

31st January - School nurse visit

WOW Week - W/Beg 21st January

Book Fair

There w il l be a Book Fair i

n school

every day dur ing WOW week. You

w il l be able t o

browse and purchase

some beaut iful new books every day

af t er school.

Recept ion w ill be going on a t rip to the Kirkstall Abbey

House Museum on Thursday 24th January .

This is an all day t rip. A packed lunch w ill be

prov ided.

If y ou are av ailable to v olun teer to help out w ith this t rip w e w ould be v ery grateful. Please con tact the

school of f ice if y ou are able to help w ith this.

W e are asking for a con t ribut ion of £2.50 per

child tow ards the cost of the t ransport for this t rip. Please pass this to the school of f ice

in a named env elope.

Our New Build Update

I mport ant N ot iceT his w eek t here w il l be an increase in t he vehicles and heavy plant arr iv ing

on sit e as our building w orks get underw ay.I n order t o keep t he access t o t he sit e clear and saf e it is very import ant t hat Acre Terrace is kept clear. T his is t he narrow road t hat runs across our sit e in

f ront of t he school gat es.T heref ore, w hen bot h dropping of f and col lect ing children please only do so f rom w it hin t he school car park or on T horpe Road. Please do not use Acre

Terrace.I n order t o keep our building w orks on t rack it is import ant t hat w e w ork w it h

t he cont ract ors. Please do support us by adhering t o t his request .

Please do not drop of f , collect , or park on Acre Ter race. Please use t he school car park only.