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SAVE THE DATE - Halton Fatherhood Champions are hosting a 1 day conference on Thursday 13th February 2025, DCBL Stadium, to look at all things 'Father Inclusive'.

Further information will be circulated in due course including booking instructions but we are delighted to be joined by Dr Anna Machin as our key note speaker. Anna is a doctor of evolutionary anthropology, a writer and broadcaster. She is world renowned for her work in the science and anthropology of close human relationships and author of a book on fatherhood, The Life of Dad: The Making of a Modern Father.

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Next week is forest school week. All classes will be spending time in the forest. Children should come to school in their forest kit. Black jogging pants, jacket and white t-shirt. They will also need a change of shoes suitable for the forest. These clothes may get muddy.

Monday - Cherry Class

Tuesday - Willow Class

Wednesday - Sycamore, Larch and Oak Class

Thursday - Cedar Class

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Cedar Class - KS1 Speech & Language Base

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Cedar Class - KS1 Speech & Language Base

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This week we have finished off our activities linked to World Nursery Rhyme Week - releasing Incy Wincy from his icy trap and making our own currant buns. We have been learning the difference between naming objects and materials in Science, practising our Maths with numberblocks and starting to read and complete activities for the story of Nibbles the Book Monster.

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Reminder, to celebrate your birthday you can come to school dressed in non-uniform.

If your birthday falls at the weekend, during a school holiday or on a PE day you can pick a day closest to.

Miss Pope

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Monday 25th November

Larch Class visit to Runcorn Library

Monday 25th November

NSPCC Workshop for Year 2, Year 5 and Year 6

Wednesday 27th November

3.30 - 6.00pm Parents Evening, book via School Spider

Thursday 28th November

Oak Class - Virtual author visit, Marie Basting

Thursday 28th November

3.30 - 6.00pm Parents Evening, book via School Spider

Friday 29th November

Oak Class visit to Runcorn Library

Monday 2nd December

Sycamore Class visit to Runcorn Library

Monday 9th December

2.00pm - Reception & KS1 Christmas Performance

6.00pm - KS2 Christmas Performance

Tuesday 10th December

2.00pm - KS2 Christmas Performance

6.00pm - Reception & KS1 Christmas Performance

Wednesday 11th December

PTA Christmas Film Night - please complete the survey in school spider if you are able to help and also to suggest a film.

Thursday 12th December

Christmas Jumper Day

Friday 13th December

Non-Uniform Day, in exchange for a donation to the PTA Christmas Bingo

Tuesday 17th December

1.30pm - Whole School trip to the pantomime at The Brindley (children to be collected from The Brindley, details to follow)

This is fully funded by the PTA and BRSK

Wednesday 18th December

5.30pm PTA Christmas Bingo, door open at 5.30pm eyes down at 6.00pm

Thursday 19th December

Christmas dinner, Christmas Art, Christmas Parties!!!

Friday 20th December (last day Autumn term)

1.30pm Christmas Service at St Michael & All Angel Church on Greenway Road, all welcome to attend.

Monday 6th January 2025

First Day Spring Term 1

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech & Language Base

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Sycamore Class - KS2 Speech & Language Base

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The change in weather certainly took us by surprise this week! However, we have embraced the snowy conditions and used this as an opportunity to observe the changes in nature. We loved our forest school session this week - we wrapped up warm and spent some time playing with our friends. In British Values, we learnt about mutual respect and tolerance. Did you know that an ancient city has recently been discovered in a Mexican jungle? Sycamore Class enjoyed learning about this and we made some of their own pyramids in response to this. Finally, a huge congratulations to Charlie who has gained his 10m award in swimming! We love celebrating our pupils' achievements from outside of school!

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This week we have been building circuits with electricity sets- we then drew our circuits using the correct electrical symbols.

In music, we have continued our theme of film soundtracks by watching 'Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave' and writing what instruments we can hear at certain times of the film, and how it adds to the mood of the current scene.

Finally, in our Geography we looked at how the global population has increased over the last 500 years from 0.5 billion people to a whopping 8.2 billion now!

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The Year 3 and 4 children putting me to shame and showing their wonderful coding skills during our Computing lesson this week.

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What a week we have had, again, this week in Larch Class!

Despite the cold weather outside, we have kept our brains warm with some fantastic work in class.

The children have continued to develop their individual writing styles as they created recounts and setting descriptions based on our Class Story, 'Leon and the Place Between'. Some truly wonderful pieces of writing have been produced, with the children working hard to include a rich and varied vocabulary, a range of fronted adverbials, and a variety of powerful adverbials and descriptive language to describe time, place and mood. Fantastic!

In Mathematics, we have continued to work through the Multiplication and Division topic, with the Year 4 children beginning to divide by 6 and 7.

In Spanish, the children have started looking at months of the year and, adding to their knowledge of counting up to 31, have begun to have short conversations in Spanish to develop their pronunciation further.

In Computing, they have been coding this week and showing off their creative side - wowing me in the process!

In PE with Mr Kelly-Weekes, the children have stayed inside the warmth of the hall to develop their dodgeball skills, along with learning to calm and centre themselves with their yoga sessions.

Next Monday, we have our library visit, so a huge thank you from myself to those parents that have volunteered as chaperones to support us.

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Cherry Class have continued their writing about Nibbles the monster, who has been nibbling through books and even bagels in the classroom! The children have worked hard to include capital letters and full stops in their sentences so that they make sense. Our taekwondo sessions have also been going very well, we are improving our kicks and punches each week with increasing confidence. On Friday, we continued to work on our windmills in DT. We have learnt about the different parts of a windmill and what they are used for, then we created our own versions and decorated them with lots of colour.

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We have had such a fantastic week in Willow Class.

There was a real buzz of excitement when the children came into school on Tuesday, to find muddy footprints in Willow Class! After many wonderful discussions and questions asked, we came to the conclusion that it was lots of minibeasts who had sneaked inside! They had left us a bug hunt to go on and the children loved being explorers. We then wrote about what we saw using our phonic knowledge. This was the start of our new Pathways to Read story focus, "I'm Going to Eat This Ant."

In Phonics we have started to read "special friends." These are a combination of two or more letters that make one sound. The children are doing so well reading and writing these sounds.

In Maths we have been looking at the composition of 4 and using our super speedy eyes to play the game "4, not 4." We have also been using Autumn Treasures to create repeating patterns.

We have finished off our week by starting to learn the songs from our Christmas Nativity!

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Water Bottle

Snack

Packed Lunch or Pre-order school meal from School Hub

www.schoolhub.co.uk

Coat/hat/gloves

PE Kits - plain white t-shirt, plain black shorts, plain black jogging trousers and sweater or hoodie.

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School Meals - New menu from 4th November

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School Meals - New menu from 4th November

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Reminder - School meals must be ordered from home for each day. Parents can order up to two weeks in advance.

www.schoolhub.co.uk

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Whole School Attendance -

St Andrew - 95.7%

St David - 93.0%

St George - 98.6%

St Patrick - 94.6%

Whole School - 95.5%

Winners - St George

Punctuality Award - Year 4

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Pupil of the week

Willow Class - Theo

Cherry Class - Roy

Larch Class - Jude

Oak Class - Nehith

Cedar Class - Theo H

Sycamore Class - Billy

Mrs McIlroy - Reuben

Miss Pope - Emily

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Nya

Miss Lawson - Kingsley

Miss Corker - Theo

Tidy Classroom - Cherry Class