Weekly News – Friday 20th June

Dear Parents,

Year 1 and Year 2 both had their summer days out this week and what wonderful weather they had! Year 1 enjoyed all the animal encounters at Maldon Promenade Zoo on Monday, while Year 2 managed to keep cool in the shade as they built dens and pond-dipped at the Wilderness Foundation, Chatham Green. We were very proud to receive some wonderful compliments about the children's behaviour at the trips, so thank you to them all for representing the school so well. We’ve seen some amazing work from the children too this week - well done to Nevai for her incredible project on influential women, inspired by our history lesson on Mary Seacole!

Sports Day

Please check ParentMail if you haven't already, as we have let you know which colour team your child will be in for Sports Day next Tuesday.  If you do not have the correct coloured t-shirt at home, your child will be provided with a bib or coloured band to wear. Access for parents will be via the green playground gate at the Junior School, the fun starts at 1.15pm. Please ensure your child has their full PE kit, trainers, sun hat and water bottle on this day, plus sunscreen applied before school.

Summer Fair

The Summer Fair is next Saturday 28th June, 11.30 - 2pm. We would love to see as many families as possible there! Thank you for your donations for our dress down day today. Next Friday is also a dress down day in exchange for donations of cakes and sweets. If you can't make the fair, you can still buy raffle tickets to support both schools, there are some amazing prizes to be won!

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Reading Books

We are missing a lot of reading books in school as they have not been returned from home. Please have a look at home and return any you find. Many of our sets are now incomplete which means we do not have enough for our reading groups in school and cannot send home books to some children. Please remember you can access e-books through the Collins library, personal login details were emailed to you in December.

Attendance

We continue to monitor attendance rates across the school. Even though an attendance rate of 90% sounds good, you can see from the graphic that it actually equates to 19 days of absence across the year, almost 4 weeks of learning. Please work with us to ensure that children are in school every day, on time. We continue to receive applications for holiday taken in term time. Please be aware that this will always be unauthorised and can lead to further action taken by the Local Authority.

Health Advice

A reminder that every Tuesday afternoon we offer a Health Advice Drop-In service with one of the school-age health practitioners. The team are available in the library for you to discuss any health concerns about your child(ren). Please click here to book an appointment.

Stay cool this weekend. It's Messy Church on Sunday, please take a look at our Community Links page for details.

Best wishes,

Tracey Wilson

Home learning

Spelling Practice

There is also some spelling practice for Year 1 and Year 2 below.

Year 1 children will undertake the phonics screening check next week. The link below gives you more information about the check. This term we are revising Phase 5 phonemes in preparation for the Phonics Screening Check (PSC) in June. Please practise the words in the spelling document below with your child, to help support them with their reading. Please also continue reading with your child at home. Some children will be sent home with phonemes and words practise reading in order to help them prepare for the screening check.

Year 1 Maths

Miss Smith has prepared a document which should help you if you would like to give your child additional support with their maths at home.

Year 1 - Ways to support your child with maths at home

EYFS Tapestry Challenge

Can you make your own repeating pattern using whatever you like?

Highlights of the week

EYFS

The children have coped really well considering the heat. In the garden, we have had lots of water play to keep cool and even made a foot cooling station! Well done everyone.

Year 1

Year 1 loved their trip to Maldon Zoo on Monday. The children learnt about many different animals and some children were even brave enough to stroke some of the animals! They were brilliantly behaved and it was a pleasure to take them on this exciting trip.

Year 2

Year 2 have had a great week, made even better by their fantastic trip out to the Wilderness Foundation, where they explored all things nature in the nice, shady woods!

Keeping Children Safe

  • Thanks to those parents who have supported us in protecting the children’s privacy by waiting on the path by the main entrance until 3pm.
  • Emergency contact details must be up to date. Please email us at parents@writtleinfantschool.com if your details have changed.
  • Any food brought to school must not contain nuts or egg-based foods (e.g. egg mayo, scotch egg, omelette etc.).
  • We all have a duty to safeguard the children in our care. If you have any concerns about a child, please contact the school, the Chairs of Governors (if your concern is about a member of teaching staff), or the Essex Child and Families Hub on 0345 603 7627.