Update letter-Sunday 28th June

COVID-19 Case - Sunday 28th June 2020

Dear Parents and Carers,

I am writing to inform you that one of our parents/carers has tested positive for COVID-19, we have contacted Public Health England who have advised us that there is nothing extra we need to do at this stage.

In the interest of trust and transparency though, we feel it is important that you know the following -

The parent in question has children in Pre-School (Group A Kingdom) and Year 1 (Inspired Kingdom - Group 1B). The family and any close-contacts (with the confirmed case) will now self-isolate for fourteen days. 

Both children have been tested today and we await the results. 

As soon as the results are shared with me, I will write to you all again. 

If the results for either child are positive, both Pre-School Group A Kingdom and Year 1 Inspired Kingdom - Group 1B will close to all pupils and adults for fourteen days.

The current guidance states that if anyone in an education or childcare setting becomes unwell with a:

- new continuous cough and/or

- high temperature and/or

- a loss of, or change in, normal sense of taste or smell (anosmia)

they must be sent home and advised to follow the COVID-19: guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection guidance. 

There are things you can do to help reduce the risk of you and anyone you live with getting ill with COVID-19:

- wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds 

- use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available

- wash your hands as soon as you get home

- cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze

- put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards.

Further information is available at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ 

Please be assured that the family in question know that I am sharing this information with you all and know that we stand with them at this time. 

I will update you all in due course.

As ever, we would like to remind all parents and carers that we continue to adopt a ‘YOUR CHILD, YOUR CHOICE’ ethos and will continue to fully support children and families who choose to stay at home. 

We will continue to do this through our Virtual School Programme and associated support activities including phone calls, food parcels, physical resource deliveries, loan of school equipment (including desks, chairs and Chromebooks) and virtual ELSA sessions (as required).

Parents will not be penalised by the authority if they decide they do not want to take up the offer of childcare or any school sessions. 

We continue to stand with you at this time.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Gary Spracklen - Headteacher

Hello everyone

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a lovely weekend. 

We have continued to enjoy our seaside theme this week. Next week we will be continuing our theme of the seaside.

We have had a fantastic week in pre-school.

Here is each groups news of our learning throughout the week.

Group B:

On Monday we really enjoyed playing and exploring outside. We had the challenge of crossing the shark infested water using hoops and then only being able to use 3 hoops. The children came up with some amazing ideas on how to get across the water. We also enjoyed making pirate hats and decorating them. We also had a shell hunt in the garden and we did some great counting to 15. We also enjoyed looking at fossils and learning all about them at group time. 

On Tuesday we enjoyed making some starfish using bubble wrap and paint. It was a great technique to use. The children thought about which colours they wanted to use and patterns to make. At group time we discovered and learnt all about different types of seaweed. We then created a mermaid with the seaweed along with lots of other natural materials. The children created a library outside and enjoyed role playing a trip to the library. They made library cards and their own books. 

On Wednesday we made strawberry ice cream and we cut all the strawberries up and mashed them. We also enjoyed playing lots of games outside like what's the time mr wolf, duck duck goose and making pirate soup. The children really enjoyed making up their own stories to act out. We also created rock pools using stones, shells and sea creatures. We enjoyed exploring what happened when you put water in them. We also created our own treasure maps using tea to stain the paper. We had a delicious ice lolly for snack in the afternoon.

On Thursday we enjoyed playing outside making mermaid potions. We also made some delicious strawberry ice cream for our snack. We also made some salt dough and created some mermaids and turtles. Next week we will be painting these. We also enjoyed playing bus journeys and we made our own bus tickets. 

On Friday we had a wonderful day outside playing and exploring. We went to the play trail and enjoyed role playing dinosaurs. We also had a water fight with the other group from across the fence. We made some bubble mixture and made some bubble wands.
Throughout the week we have really enjoyed playing in the fishing boats catching numbered and lettered fish with the magnetic rods, playing with the small world pirate ship, listening to seaside stories, singing, FRED talk, board games and lots more.


Group C:

This week on Monday we used different shapes to make seagulls,  threaded stones with holes, made a fish mobile,.

Tuesday we made our own ice cream and a price list for our ice cream shop. Visited the roundhouse with glow sticks using them in the dark and light, we also discovered fairy dust! 

Wednesday we went pond dipping finding newts, bugs and beetles, played with ice cubes and frozen shells.

Thursday we made pasta bracelets and bird feeders with pipe cleaners. Practiced our dance for Dance Day and shared a Puff the Magic Dragon story Ruby brought in, the group loved listening to the song and singing along.

Also lots of mud kitchen, water play, painting, mark making, sensory play, rhyming and FRED talk.

Group D:

On Monday we explored the rock pool in the tuff tray and discussed what each of the sea creatures were and how they moved. The children had so much knowledge of different sea creatures and they enjoyed sharing this with their friends, from how a crab pinches to why jellyfish sting and how an octopus releases ink. We also made some jellyfish.

On Tuesday we read an information book about different fish. The children enjoyed comparing the different sizes and patterns of fish. We then started making our own bottle fish, decorating them in a way that made them different to others. We also had fun on the play trail, climbing up the ropes and sliding down the side. We sang some seaside songs in the boat and pretended to be lifeguards.

On Wednesday we made our own strawberry ice cream, the children chopped up the strawberries and mixed the ingredients together before popping the ice cream in the freezer. We also went to the field, we played football with the beach ball (the children love the beach ball) We also played duck duck goose and what’s the time Mr Wolf. We finished the hot day with a special ice lolly snack from Julia, yum!

On Thursday we used the interactive whiteboard, some children were inspired to write their names and others drew some beautiful pictures. The children organised themselves independently to make sure that everyone had a go. We went to the woods where the children explored the trees. We enjoyed trying our homemade ice cream for snack. Because Thursday was a hot day, we spent lots of time in the shade where the children challenged their own learning. Some completed puzzles independently and others tried putting different sounds together to make a word. Beau was great at selecting b, a and t to make the word bat. All of the children are so good at identifying sounds and joining in with Fred talk that they are now beginning to do this independently.

On Friday we spent a lovely morning on the field playing different games and exploring the school grounds. We stopped for a socially distanced chat with Mrs Johnson and Mrs Smith. The children that are moving to reception in September were super excited to see their new teachers. In the afternoon we had fun with the water squirters, everyone had lots of fun, poor Julia got rather wet. 

Notices:

This week on Friday 2nd July we have got dance day, we will be practicing our dance in preparation for this.
Also Pre-school will be having a sports day session on either the 1st or 2nd July with Mr Treble. Unfortunately we will be unable to have parents/carers  come in due to the current government guidance but that we will take photos of these events. 

If you are not at Pre-School I  will be continuing  to catch up with you throughout the week but please do email if we can help with anything. We are now in school 5 days a week so just give us a call and we will get back to you. We hope you all enjoy the home learning pack

Here's to another amazing week.

Julia, Suzanne, Helen, Karen, Colleen, Sharon, Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. We hope you all liked our cards and presents we made for our dad's and special people in our lives. 

We have enjoyed starting our seaside theme this week. Next week we will be continuing our theme of the seaside.

We have had an amazing week in pre-school.

Here is each groups news of our learning throughout the week.

Group C:

Monday we started our beach theme using paint to explore colour mixing and different ways to apply the paint to make some waves.

Painted pictures of ourselves thinking about our hair colour etc.

Played with shaving foam ice cream and read the Lighthouse Keeper.

Tuesday we began our big beach picture. 

Visited the roundhouse for an egg hunt and disco! 

Watched and listened to some sea songs, The big ship sails on  the ally ally oh, A sailor went to sea sea sea and When I was one I sucked my thumb... singing fast and slow. 

Wednesday we shared a letter about VE day Zoe brought in to share from her Great Gran.

Played I-spy with colours.

Made some sun safety pictures.

Thursday we practiced our sounds with Fred frog and rhymed some of the words.

Read the Rainbow fish and made some of our own fish.

Danced to some frozen songs. 

Group B:-

On Monday we had great fun making telescopes and then going outside to hunt for golden egg treasure. We were amazing at using the telescopes to find the treasure in all sorts of places. We also started to making our cards for the weekend. We played bucket skittles as well outside. We used balls to knock down the buckets. We made pasta salad for snack which was very yummy. We didi all the cutting by ourselves. On Tuesday we made our cards for the weekend and made a special treat of chocolate biscuit cake. We were great at weighing out the ingredients and cooking. On Wednesday we did the water bucket challenge in teams which was great fun. We had to carry the water from one bucket to another bucket in relay using a smaller bucket. The aim was to empty the bucket without loosing too much water. We got a little wet! We also did some cooking and made chocolate biscuit cake. We had a visitor come in, which was a live crab!! We enjoyed watching him move and learning all about crabs.

On Thursday we enjoyed painting pebbles with pictures on. We also finished off our cards ready for the weekend. We had PE with Mr Treble and enjoyed playing some running around games and praticing our ball skills.  We all enjoyed playing the water bucket challenge a couple of times in teams. At the end of the day we enjoyed watching a bit of Frozen 2 on the tv. We also enjoyed singing some songs with Ivy's talker. On Friday another group made chocolate biscuit cake to take home. We also went to the play trail and enjoyed climbing, sliding and balancing. We enjoyed playing outside with the hoops, balls and the mud kitchen. We did some singing and sand old McDonald at the ocean. 
Throughout the week we have enjoyed listening to seaside stories, continuing to learn our letter sounds and FRED talk. We have been exploring objects that sink and float in theatre tray. In the sand tray we have made sandcastle with flags and decorated them with shells. 

This week we will be welcoming Suzanne who will be working with myself with Group B. Suzanne is our Early Years Governor and also  qualified teacher with experience of working in the Early Years. We very much look forward to welcoming her to our team. 

We will be continuing our theme of the seaside including making strawberry ice cream, looking at creatures that live under the sea, fossils and lots more. 









Group D:

We had a lovely time last week making our Father’s Day cards and gifts. All of the children enjoyed thinking about and discussing why their Daddies are so special to them. We hope that you are all having a fab Father’s Day. 

We also started our new beach topic this week. We have played lots of beach ball games on the field this week and enjoyed a PE session. The children are getting very fast in their running races with Mr Trebble. We have also been practicing our phonics with our phonic fishing activity, making telescopes, Captain Hook’s hook, exploring different beach sensory resources and going on a treasure hunt. The children really enjoyed a virtual aquarium tour and discovering lot’s of different sea animals. It was amazing to see how many animals the children could already identify!

Next week we will be continuing our focus on our beach topic, conducting some science experiments and exploring the differences and similarities between different sea creatures. We will continue our phonics and Fred talk practice with a sea shell phonic activity and we will be out and about exploring the school grounds as much as possible.  

Notices:

The weather this week is going to be hot, please could all children come with a sun hat and suncream applied  before school to last the school day.

Next week on Friday 2nd July we have got dance day, we will be praticing our dance for the next 2 weeks in preparation for this. 
Also Pre-school will be having a sports day session on either the 1st or 2nd July with Mr Treble. Unfortunately we will be unable to have parents/carers  come in due to the current government guidance but that we will take photos of these events. 

If you are not at Pre-School I  will be continuing  to catch up with you throughout the week but please do email if we can help with anything. We are now in school 5 days a week so just give us a call and we will get back to you. We hope you all enjoy the home learning pack

Here's to another great week.

Julia, Suzanne, Helen, Karen, Colleen, Sharon, Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. Once again a big thank you for the lovely surprise gift you gave us.


We have enjoyed continuing with the theme of beans this week. Next week we will starting the theme of the seaside which we will be exploring for the next couple of weeks. 

We have had an amazing second week back in pre-school.
Here is each groups news of our learning throughout the week.

Group B

On Monday we received a letter from the giant and he had left some footprints around our classroom. The giant left us a letter asking us to measure objects that were shorter and longer than his feet. We had great fun measuring with rulers and tape measures.

Last week the children on Thursday planned that they would like to have a golden egg hunt so on Tuesday we painted some eggs gold with paint and then we went to the forest school area and had a golden egg hunt. Julia hid them first and we found them. We then had a go at hiding them. We had 12 eggs to find but we could only find 10 eggs!! We also enjoyed singing some of our favourite songs.

On Wednesday we made muffin pizzas for snack. We spread the tomato sauce and grated our cheese to go on our pizza's. They were very yummy. The children came up with this idea for snack.  We also enjoyed playing a game of number bingo. We had great fun playing with the bubbles and catching them.

On Thursday we received a letter from the giant along with some cooking ingredients and utensils. The eggs were golden eggs and we decided to make some unicorn rainbow cakes. We measured out the ingredients, mixing and cracking an egg. The children knew how 100 was written and could spot it on the scales when we had enough sugar, butter and flour. We really enjoyed decorating our cakes and eating them for snack. We all enjoyed playing the shopping list game. We learnt some sign language in particular zoo animals. Can you remember he different signs?

 On Friday we enjoyed playing outside in the garden in the morning. we did some great sweeping up with the brushes and going to the compost heap. We also did some great number problem solving and were amazing at showing our fingers to represent a number.

Throughout the week the children have really enjoyed playing sleeping giants. One person is the giant and the other people have a cone which was golden. When the giant was a sleep we could move towards the cone but when the giant wakes up, you have to freeze. The aim of the game is to get the cones. We have also enjoyed continuing playing the bean game and making up our own beans and actions.
We have all really enjoyed playing with the babies in the water tray with bubbles, toothbrushes, flannels, ducks and jugs. We have been making some great enclosures for the zoo animals with the wood blocks. 
We have also been doing lots of Fred talk and the children have made great progress with this. 

Group D:

We had a great week exploring Jack and the Beanstalk further. We made a giant from leaves, sticks and flowers found in the forest school area. We painted our own beanstalk using different techniques including, forks, cotton buds sponges and of course our hand prints. On Wednesday we received a special letter from the Giant asking us to help him find his golden eggs stolen by Jack. The letter gave us clues as to where they might be, the children listened very carefully and were great at solving them. We have spent lots of time out and about, enjoying time on the field with frisbee’s and balls and time on the play and trim trails. 

We finished the week on Friday by making a chocolate cake. The children decided the week before what they wanted to make and helped the adults to write the shopping list of ingredients. We have had such a lovely week! 

Group C:

This week we:

Played outside with painting, water play, coloured water, bubbles, noodles and bean cutting and lots of mud cooking

 On Monday: We played on the field racing and playing bean games.

Started watching our beans sprout 

Wren brought in a bird nest and the group had some great questions and ideas

We threaded giants harps and did a jack and the beanstalk puppet show

Tuesday we: Went on a golden egg hunt in the forest school area

Played on the big yellow slide

Pinned our own work and pictures up on display

Some drama, the group turned us into different animals with their magic spells

Wednesday:

We painted giant footsteps

Made our own pizzas for snack

Began our fathers day surprise

Thursday:

We used the bikes and scooters a lot today

Saw Mr Treble for some races and golf

Experimented with colours and water

Made our own library

Thought about what we would like to play with next week

Notices:

If you are not at Pre-School I  will be continuing  to catch up with you throughout the week but please do email if we can help with anything. We are now in school 5 days a week so just give us a call and we will get back to you.

When dropping off and picking up our current guidance is, only one parent/carer can escort a child to/from school. Where possible, siblings should also not escort a child to/from school.

There will be another delivery pack coming to you soon.

Please remember if you have booked hot lunches to send the money directly to the pre-school or school office in a named envelope as soon as possible. Each meal is £2.40.  Thank you.

Here's to another great week.

Julia, Emma, Helen, Karen, Colleen, Sharon, Zoe and Chloe

Thank You

Hello everyone,

I would like to say a very big thank you for our lovely gift today to the pre-school staff. It was a wonderful surprise and we can't wait to display it in our classroom.

It is so lovely to be able to welcome you back at pre-school and seeing all the happy and smiley faces.

Once again a big thank you for our lovely surprise.

Julia, Zoe, Helen, Karen, Sharon, Colleen, Chloe, Caroline

Hello everyone

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. It was amazing to welcome the children back last week into Pre-school. They have settled really well back into pre-school and it has been lovely to see all their smiley happy faces. It has been lovely to see the progress  everyone has made in their learning.

We have enjoyed learning all about beans this week and will be continuing with this theme next week as well.
Here is each groups news of our learning throughout the week.

Group D

Monday- We enjoyed getting to know our new friends and settling in to our new play room. We went to forest school and read the storey, Jack and the Beanstalk. We then went on a beanstalk hunt.

Tuesday - We began making our spiral beanstalks. We enjoyed time on the field playing games such as, magic beans, duck duck goose, and the grand old duke of york up the bank.

Wednesday - We enjoyed planting our beanstalks and drawing our castles for our plant pots. We had beans on toast for snack. We loved spending time at the play trail.

Thursday - We had PE with Mr Trebble, the children listen so well and enjoyed learning how to jump over hurdles. The children decided that they wanted to build dens, so we went to forest school to do this and we ended up finding a bear!!

Friday - We had fun making and wearing giant feet. The children experimented how they could move and dance with enormous feet. We also played rugby on the field and practiced our football skills. We enjoyed exploring the nature garden and found some pond skaters in the pond.

We had such a lovely first week back!!

Next week we are going to plant some beans without soil. We are going to make a giant out of leaves and other items that the children can find. We may even find the giants golden egg! We will have lots more time outside around the school grounds!

Group B

We have really enjoyed listening to the story of Jack and the beanstalk and Jasper's beanstalk. We made our own beanstalks using leaves and felt tips. We also enjoyed drawing around ourselves to make ourselves in to giants. We use paint and pens to decorate our giants. We have planted magic beans and made a castle for our bean to grow towards. We will be watching these grow and watering them regularly. We really enjoyed having beans on toast for snack and Suki taught us a knew song about beans. We also liked playing the game Beans in our outdoor space.  Can you play this at home? We made up our own bean names and actions to do. We have enjoyed playing outside and playing with the bubbles. On Tuesday afternoon we enjoyed acting out the story of Jack and the beanstalk using the tree house and we adapted our story by using different characters. In the morning we went up to the roundhouse area and threaded flowers through our heart shaped cardboard. On Wednesday afternoon we had Mr Treble and we got to play some ball games. On Thursday afternoon we made fruit smoothies after playing the knicker blocker glory game. They tasted very yummy. On Monday and Friday we have really enjoyed playing hide and seek outside. Also we played What's the time Mr Wolf. We enjoyed talking to Oliver and Albert using Goggle meet and talking about what we had been doing.

Next week we are going to be planting some beans without soil so we can watch the roots and how the seed grows. We are going to be going on a golden egg hunt and making our own golden eggs. We will be trying some different green beans for snack and lots more fun things throughout the week.

Group C
This week we have...

Started our beanstalk display with a giant beanstalk, golden eggs, hens, giants and castles.

Planted beans in pots and bags to watch grow and talked about what they need to grow.

Rhymed words Jack, bean, egg, hen etc

Sang bean songs.

Read Jack and the Beanstalk and an alternative and discussed the differences we could spot.

Chatted to Henrietta the hedgehog about our feelings.

Started watching Jack and the Beanstalk.

Described what we had in our lunchboxes for the others to guess what it is.

Counted magic beans and matched them to numbers.

Chalked giant beanstalks and found the longest and shortest.

Visited forest schools for sticks and leaves to add to our beanstalk and discovered  some caterpillars on threads!

Lots of outside play

If you are not at Pre-School I  will be continuing  to catch up with you throughout the week but please do email if we can help with anything. We are now in school 5 days a week so just give us a call and we will get back to you.

I hope you all enjoy your packs which were delivered at the end of last week please send us any picture of your home learning.

Notices:

Caroline is working on the new invoices credits/refunds and hopefully next week these will be sent home.  We will do our best to issue refunds as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

Here's to another great week.

Julia, Emma, Helen, Karen, Colleen, Sharon, Zoe and Chloe