Spring has sprung… It’s felt great to start and end our school day with more daylight and  – even sometimes – a glimpse of the sun! To cap it all, this Sunday marks the start of meteorological spring.

This week, children in Year 3 and 4 have been cooking pitta pizzas in their Cooking and Nutrition lessons. The children have practised their cutting skills and thinking carefully about the ingredients they use to make their healthy snack. They’ve enjoyed eating them too!

To make sure that we can continue to offer this, we asked for voluntary contributions in September for the year ahead. If you’ve not yet paid, please do consider a voluntary donation of £3 to £6 to pay for the ingredients. We really appreciate your donations.

For more about our Cooking curriculum, please check out our Cooking and Nutrition Curriculum Guide – they include the recipes and background information including the food preparation skills children will practise. (We’re in Year A this year.)

Number challenge

Does your child know their times tables and other number facts? On Wednesday, children did their number challenge for the second time – has your child’s scores improved?

Thank you for all the sponsor money collected.

World Book Day

Here’s a re-cap on an email we sent earlier this week…

Next Thursday is World Book Day. We’ll celebrate with lots of brilliant book-based activities through the day!

We alternate years when we dress up – this year is a dressing up year.
If your child wants to, they can come dressed as a book character or anything else book-related (but please don’t feel the need to go out and spend money on a costume).

In a reading-themed day, children will hear teachers read aloud their favourite stories, spend time in other classes reading with different children and explore new authors and books.

Attendance

Our attendance so far this year is 93.6% – this is quite a bit lower than the national figure for primary schools (94.8%).

Last year, our rate across the year was 95.2%, so we know we can do better! Let’s hope it can rise across Spring 2.

Please continue to check the NHS site, Is My Child Too Ill For School.