From January, if your child bumps their

head we will only telephone you if we

consider that they need to be taken home or

require medical attention. We will however

send you a “courtesy text” to inform you of

the injury. The child will be given a

wristband to wear which will be a visual

indicator to staff and yourself that they have

bumped their head today, they will also be

given a note to bring home.

Follow us on Twitter @WykeRegisFed for regular school updates

We would like to thank The Friends for their

ongoing contribution to the Federation. This

year‟s Christmas Fair was so well attended

and left us all feeling very Christmassy. The

Friends always come up with lots of creative

ideas to raise funds to benefit our pupils. We

want to also thank all parents, carers and

children for supporting all our fundraising

events including Harvest Festival, Children In

Need , Dress Down and Dress Up Days and

donations made at our recent Christmas

performances. We also raised £479.47 at the

Book Fair. Thank you.

The menu for Spring 2019 is now available to

view on our website and a copy has been

emailed to all parents. As there have been a

few issues with the online ordering, please

double-check your order if you have already

placed it to ensure that your child has the

right choice of meals.

Thank You

Reminder The Deadline for applying for your child‟s Reception or

Yr 3 Juniors School place is 15th January 2019.

Governor Update

It‟s been great to recently see and hear the

Infant school choir at the Wyke Christmas

Street Fayre and to see and hear so many of

the Federation‟s young people at the Carol

Concert in All Saints Church on 11th

December. We are lucky to have so many

talented young people representing our

school and to have dedicated teachers who

spend time with them developing these

skills. On behalf of the Governing Body I do

hope you all have a Joyful Christmas and

New Year. I look forward to 2019 being a

successful year for us all.

Gary Hepburn, Chair of Governing Body

Bumped Heads

Diarrhoea & Sickness

Just a polite reminder to parents that children

are only allowed to return to school 48 hours

after the last episode of diarrhoea or sickness.

Wessex FM

The Infants have been very lucky this term! As

well as performing in our Nativities and

Concerts Year 1 and 2 also sang in Wyke

Square on Sunday 2nd December. Wessex FM

were so impressed by our singing that they

asked us to do the 'Sleeps till Santa' song for

Christmas Eve! It will be aired at 7.35am on

Christmas Eve as well as various points in the

day! The video will also be on Wessex FM's

website.

School Meals

WYKE REGIS PRIMARY FEDERATION

2018— Autumn Term 2

Attendance—National Expectation - 96%

Infants— 95.2% Juniors— 95.8%

We continue to monitor attendance closely and work within Dorset County Council‟s guidelines which

include implementing holiday fines and working with parents and carers to ensure attendance issues are

dealt with quickly and effectively. Please speak with Mrs Ellis or Mr Kirwin if you are having issues with

your child attending school regularly.

Diary Dates

7 Jan Spring Term starts

9 Jan Yr 1 Visit from First Response

Team

14 Jan Y2 SATs meeting

4L Swimming starts arrive 8:10am

15 Jan Closing date for FS2 (Reception)

Yr 3 applications

6 Feb Y2 Awesome animal, 2.15pm

Parent Event

Spring Term Parent Consultations

7 Feb Spring Term Parent Consultations

15 Feb Y1 Fit Friday, Parent Event

18-22 Feb Half Term

26 Feb Yr 6 PGL Meeting for Parents

5:30pm

2 March Weymouth & Dorset Music

Festival, St Aldheims Church

6 March Yr 5 Gp 1 New Barn Field Trip

7 March World Book Day

Yr 5 Gp 2 New Barn Field Trip

8 March Weymouth & Dorset Music

Festival Concert, Evening

15 March Comic Relief

18—22 March Yr 6 PGL Week

18, 19, 20 March Maths Cafe

25 March Y2 Potions and Mixtures, 2.30pm

show and tell to parents

29 March Class 1MR Assembly 9:15am

Dear Parents and Carers,

It is lovely to be back at school and to see how all

the children have grown! What a difference a

year makes. What is also very clear, is that the

staff are continuing to work very hard to ensure

that they are all making the progress they need

to. I am pleased to see new initiatives like

Accelerated Reader, Race to Reading and Times

Table Rock Stars in place too, which all

contribute to improving learning achievements.

You will notice in the recently published Y6

Performance tables that the school’s results have

increased for the second year running. We are

confident that this will continue to be the trend

this year. Similarly Y2 and Foundation Stage

results were very pleasing again; with Y1 Phonics

the best result ever at 83%! Keep on supporting us

with reading at home please—it’s a real team

effort which makes the best impact for children.

Thank you for supporting the Christmas shows

and services across the Federation which have all

been lovely—well done children. Although it is

not a competition , I think Year 1 win the award

for best drama kings and queens of 2018!

I trust you are all looking forward to the

Christmas break with family and friends and on

behalf of the staff at both sites I wish you a very

happy Christmas. We look forward to working

with you all in the new year.

Mrs. Wanda Roberts

This year Year 2 went to the Church for their

Christmas performance. We told the Christmas story

through song and words, finishing with an amazing

rendition of „A Million Dreams‟ from The Greatest

Showman. The children sang beautifully and looked

very colourful in their Christmas jumpers. At the end

of the performance we all had a mince pie to really get

us in the Christmas spirit. Mrs Bristow

The Nursery children have had a

great term and are getting excited

about Christmas! We have been

doing lots of cooking recently and the children have

enjoyed making festive biscuits for our 'Craft and

Songs' extravaganza on Friday. We've been working

on our fine motor skills and practising name writing

for our beautiful Christmas cards and decorations -

coming soon to a home near you! Our Nursery

library has been a great success this term and we

are delighted to see so many children taking lots of

lovely stories home to share. Looking

forward to more fun together in the New

Year. Mrs Van der Worp and Mrs Horn

Nursery

Reception

Yr 1

What an amazing half term we have had in

Foundation! We have finished learning all our initial

sounds in phonics, are moving at super speed learning

one more and one less in maths and most exciting of all

received our first reading books!! The Christmas play has

been performed and was fantastic both times, such a

great effort to learn all of our songs, dances and lines! I'm

sure everyone will agree the hard work was worth it. The

role play area has been turned into santas grotto, with

presents being wrapped, trees decorated and mulled

water being supped! Mr Davidson

Year One have had a fantastic half term learning about transport. We were

very lucky to have a visit from the local PCSO's and their dog Bravo. The Police

officers showed us round their police vehicle, took our fingerprints (which we

got to take home) and we even got to try on some of the

uniform. It was a great way to end our topic. We then

practiced and practiced and practiced some more so that

our Christmas Show was absolutely amazing. The teachers

were incredibly proud of how well every single child sang and

joined in with the performance. We wish you all a very

peaceful Christmas and can't wait to welcome you back in

the New Year with our new topic; Marvellous Medicine.

Mrs March

Yr 2

Year 3

Yr 6

Year 4

Year 5

Year 5 have had an „Out of this World‟ experience during

this half term. They have been learning all about planets in

our Solar System, exploring how day turns to night. They

also made some wonderful paper mache planets to help

create our Space Room, setting the scene for us to widen

our knowledge on the sizes and distances between them.

There was something in the atmosphere (or at least we were hoping!) on our rocket launch day

when the children got to conduct a science experiment investigating what forces send rockets

into orbit. Back down to Earth and into the classroom, the children showed off their ICT skills by

creating amazing presentations to enlighten Year 2 with fun facts and information about Mars,

Neptune and all the other planets. We hope you all have a relaxing Christmas and a Happy New

Year! The Yr 5 team.

Year 6 had a fantastic trip to Nothe Fort as part of their Weymouth

Through Time topic this term. The children became evacuees for the

day and many of them had very convincing costumes so they could

really get into the spirit of things. They experienced what it was like

in a WW2 classroom, learnt about rationing and „old

money‟ and even dashed into an Anderson Shelter

when an air raid went off. It was an enjoyable and

very informative day.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all

very happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing

you in the new year. The Yr 6 Team

In Year 3 we have enjoyed our topic of The Dark this half

term. We have written tales of fear in dark settings,

written 'brightly' poems, looked at shadows, and have

produced a nativity performance in shadow form for our

Christingle. We shall also be looking at electricity and

producing some Christmas decorations that light up!

Mrs Banner

Year 4 have been enjoying the preparations for Christmas. We have

looked at the poem 'The Night Before Christmas' and included a

performance of it in our Christingle service. We particularly

enjoyed watching the sugar plum fairies dance! The Christingle

service itself was beautiful and the children should be very proud of

themselves and their contributions towards making it such a

special service, putting us all in the Christmas spirit. Well done Year 4!

Miss Lynch