Prestonpans Infant School Newsletter

February 2012

These are the things our children love about our school and

their wishes to make the school a better place....

• I like art/painting/colouring in /drawing. x 18

• I like school because I have friends/playing with my friends. x 17

• I like school because we have gym x 14

• I like the teachers x 11

• I like learning.

• I like teachers because they are fun and they always teach us good things.

• I like maths/numbers x 10

• I like writing x 10

• I like golden time x 10

• I like singing x 9

• I like playing in the playground x 8

• The dinner ladies are nice./ I like school dinners. x 13

• I like lunchtimes because sometimes I am really really hungry.

• I like macaroni at school dinners and I eat all my macaroni. X2

• I like when it’s work time/ do our jobs. 8

• I like playing in the Post Office and being the postman. It’s good. x 7

• I like when we go outside x 6

• I like choosing time. x 6

• I like playtime x 10

• I like computer.

• I like reading x 5

• I like playing football x5

• I like Lego x 5

• I like dancing/running in the gym hall. x 4

• I like when it’s home time x 4

• I like the house corner. x 3

• I like when I do jobs x 3

• I like the playground toys. x 3

• I like that I’ve learned all my letters/ sounds. x 2

• I like Christmas time x2

• I like painting in the classroom. I don’t have any paint in my house.

• that there was more baking x2

• that we had playdough in red.

• there was more golden time/ we had more golden time

• we had more work.

• no work

• more maths / no maths challenge.

• we could do more singing x 5

• I wish I could read already.

• Gym every day

• the playground to be changed x 6

• we had a climbing frame.

• I want soft ground.

• the football pitch was here.

• the playground had more toys x3

• we had more footballs/ more time for football x 2 • to make the wall better outside where we play. I would paint it a nice colour.

• I want to change the train in the playground x 2 paint it

• I will like it better when the big toys are in the playground.

• one day when we can bring in toys. x4

• I wish everyone could be happy in school.

• I would like to see nobody skidding in the corridor. x 2

• I would like the children to behave.

• everyone was good. Nobody was naughty. x 3

• I would like served at school dinners, like the Christmas one.

• packed lunches could change • I would like to take photographs and put them in the gym hall and dinner hall.

• wallpaper on the classroom walls.

• paint the corridors red.

• paint the walls green.

• change the colours of the toilets. x3

• that Ms Laing would spend more time with us.

• one day that we can wear our own clothes to school x 3

• I would like animals in school. / I wish there was fish.

• don’t change anything.

• I haven’t got any friends. I would like to make some friends.

• I want to change the birthday train to a birthday card for everyone.

• I would like for the boys and girls who can’t afford scarves, hats and

gloves to have some.

• there was lots of sweets.

• it was always Christmas at school.

Many of the children’s wishes

are already in place. Here you

can see our fantastic new

playground equipment and the

children are loving it. Thanks

to everyone for working so

hard to provide it. We have

at least one member of staff

supervising each of the climb-

ing frames at break. Before

and after school, parents and carers are responsible for mak-

ing sure their children are safe on the equipment. Please keep

a close eye on them all. Thank you.

Can you believe that just by clearing out your old

clothes and putting them in our Ragbag, you have

contributed £187.50 to the Playground Fund.

Wow!

Our fabulous field was great fun to play in

during January and some of the children are

missing playing on the field and in the woods.

So for the rest of this term, the children will

play on the field at break and lunch EVERY

WEDNESDAY. Please make sure they have

their wellies or strong shoes on WEDNES-

DAYS. We will be discussing this at Parent Council on

Wednesday night (22nd Feb).

On Mondays and Fridays this fortnight, we

are selling fairtrade items at our snack

trolley. Fairtrade cookies from Preston-

pans Small World shop are the favourites!

Thanks to Mrs Harris’ great idea

and hard work, we raised

£273.50 for Prestonpans Chil-

dren’s Gala at our recent Bingo

night. Thank you to all who do-

nated prizes, came and played

and came and worked. Great fun.

Come to our Race Night at

Prestonpans Labour Club on Satur-

day night, 3 March 2012, at

7pm. It only costs £5 to get in

and there’s a chance to win great

prizes and take part in a tremen-

dous Fundraising Auction. This is

a big attempt to raise a lot of money for the Playground so

spread the word and invite your neighbours along.

We are celebrating World Book Day on Fri-

day 24 February. So this is a great oppor-

tunity to dress up IF YOUR CHILD WANTS

TO. The idea is to dress up as a character

from a book. It’s free and fun so please

don’t get stressed by it but if your child

wants to join some of the staff dressed up,

then that will be grand.

(BUT REMEMBER .... THEY DON’T HAVE TO!)