What an amazing week, Early Years have had an amazing time with
Glenthorne Drive Cheslyn Hay Walsall WS6 7BZ [email protected] www.glenthorne.staffs.sch.uk 01922 857000 Headteacher Mrs L Bridgwood Academic Year 2014-2015 Summer Term 2015 1st May 2015 Chair of Governors Mrs D Martin What an amazing week, Early Years have had an amazing time with our new chicks and watching them hatch. Year 1 have been busy nurturing their garden project and watching their beans grow. Our new playground markings have been a real success, children (and staff) have been eager to try them out! Mrs L Bridgwood Nursery Nursery and Reception have had a parent workshop very exciting delivery this week! Each class have taken delivery of Thank you to all the parents who attended the ‘mark making’ parent workshop. We hope you enjoyed coming into school to see some of what your children do during the an incubator with living eggs inside! So far this week we have 8 new born baby chicks! The children have watched in awe as the chicks break their shell and make their way into the world. The chicks are kept in the first incubator for the first 24 hours then placed in pairs into the larger incubator with food and water. school day. The children really enjoyed an assembly we held titled ’Explorers and adventurers’. Mr Griffiths visited our school and spoke to the children about his adventures and the adventures that they could make in their life. Ethan , from Year 4 answered a question that in all the schools Mr Griffiths at visited (55 at least!) no other child had answered so well done Ethan! The afternoon was very inspiring and the children now believe that anything is possible! We hope you have seen our new playground markings. They were completed over Easter ready for the children’s return to school last week. The children were very excited and pleased with the games they can now play. Many thanks to the PTFA who have very generously donated half towards the markings. Christmas Card Competition Spare Wool and Kinder Egg capsules! Our friends at Entrust catering have organised a Christmas card competition for the schools within Staffs County Council. The winner from each school will win a football and be placed into the final. The overall winner will win a whole football strip for their school! The theme for the cards is ‘Christmas on a farm’ the design can be drawn on A4 paper and must have the child’s name, year group and age on the back. The closing date is 21st May 2015 when we will pick our winner to be put through to the final. Good Luck! Ms Turner would be very grateful for any spare bits of wool that you may have to help make dreamcatchers and the PTFA are collecting the empty capsules from inside a Kinder egg in preparation for the Summer Fayre. Please send into school with your child. Many thanks. Also this week we have been….. Nursery, it has been a very EGGciting week in Nursery as our chicks have arrived and we currently have 3 chicks! All of the children have been doing lots of talking about the chicks and also enjoying showing all of our parents during our lovely mark making morning. Reception have had an incredible week with the eggs arriving. Each day we have had new chicks and on Thursday watched 2 chicks being born. Children have enjoyed writing about chicks and making them in creative area. Year 1 read the story ‘The Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle on Monday. This inspired them to plant some seeds. We are currently growing runner beans and salad leaves. The children are taking it in turns to water the plants and make observations. Year 2 have been reading books by Joanna Nadin and have been writing about these. We have also been looking at plants and how their leaves are different. Year 3 have been learning about Robots this week and how they can help. They have been writing news reports about events that happen and how the robots helped. Year 4 have been learning about the Shang Dynasty in literacy. In maths we have been learning about decimals, multiplication and division. Year 5 have been exploring different myths and their themes. The children are working towards writing their own. In maths, the children have been developing their mental strategies when adding and subtracting. Year 6 have been working very hard on SATS revision and have been busy practising all their skills to try and improve their levels. I have been very pleased with all the effort and enthusiasm they have put into their studies. Well done Year 6. We have recently set up a Glenthorne Primary School facebook page. This is a quick an easy way to keep up to date with things that are happening in school. There are already lots Reminder We are closed Monday 4th May for May of photos to see and Mrs Bridgwood can quickly day bank update the page with any news or information. We holiday, back in welcome your comments and suggestions and we are school Tuesday Stars of the week! Our fabulous stars of the week for our first two weeks back have been; Lydia Dutton, Reagan Smith, Sarah Clothier, Archie Lloyd, Lee Rodgie, always looking for new ways to keep our parents in- 5t May. Ethan Casserley, Dylan Tranter, formed. The website is still updated regularly and full We are also Cameron Hickman, Tyler Dunkley, of lots of useful information such as homework closed to pupils Cameron Rodgie, Isla Rosser, Nathan on Thursday Martin, Luke Gardiner, Rebecca weblinks and recent newsletters. We will be running both the website and facebook page to keep you up to date with all of our exciting news and information. 7th May due to polling taking place in school. Martin, Josh Mermod and Roxy Walker. Well done to all of you!
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