Friday 4th March 2016

COLLECTING CHILDREN AT THE END OF THE DAY

All children who are being collected at the end of the day at either 3:20pm (Reception) or 3:30pm

(Year1—Year6) should be collected from the front playground. Teachers will only release a child once they

have made eye contact with the collecting adult. Please can we ask that parents wishing to speak to a teacher,

wait until all children in the class have been released. If parents require a longer conversation, please arrange

a meeting with the teacher before / after school. This is to ensure that teachers can release children to their

parents/carers safely without being distracted. We understand that some parents wait at the bottom of the

playground due to the high number of parents in the area at this time of the day, however can we ask that

you make your way towards the class teacher when you see him/her, so that they can acknowledge you before

releasing your child. Thank you for your support.

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This award is given to the class which has the highest attendance each week, and last week the award went to:

1H & 5B

HM QUEEN ELIZABETH II 90TH

BIRTHDAY

If you would like a commemorative medal/

coin for your child, we are able to

purchase it at a reduced cost of £2.00.

Please send £2.00 in an envelope marked

MEDAL, with your child’s name and class

by Friday 11th March.

An order of 50 medals is required.

SCIENCE WEEK Beg:14/03/16 (please send in material for

children to make rockets i.e. bottles, boxes

Full dress-up day: SPORT RELIEF (wear something sporty)

(Dates and more detail to follow)

Please can Nursery & Reception bring donations next week.

Thank you for your support.

PLEASE CAN WE ASK

PARENTS NOT TO CLIMB UP THE GRASS

BANK TO TALK TO KS1 & EYFS TEACHERS

AT THE END OF THE DAY AND WAIT

BESIDE THE STAIRS UNTIL ALL THE

CHILDREN HAVE BEEN RELEASED.

We can only order a hot dinner if a menu is completed, the week

before. Children will be provided with a sandwich if we do not have

a menu in time. All Reception and KS1 parents are required to

complete a menu and should not be providing a pack lunch from

home as we have a free sandwich option on the menu for you to

select. Thank you!

School House Captains will be on the front playground

from 8:40 am each day to collect any donations (easter

egg) to take to Sandwell Youth Carers and Acorn’s

Children’s Hospice. Thank you for your support.

We have developed a pen-pal link with a

small school in the Auvergne region in the

heart of France. We have already received our first set

of short letters and a range of year groups from across

Ryders Hayes are in the process of replying.

We hope this link will deepen our cultural understanding

of France and that the children will enjoy

comparing and contrasting their lives to

those of children of similar ages elsewhere in

the world.

Friday 5th September 2014

In RE this week, Year 3 have started to investigate the Easter Story. We explored

the symbolic values of bread and wine (orange juice in school). In our Roman

topic, we have made timelines and looked at how a roman soldier would have

dressed.

Following our exciting Science assembly on Tuesday, Year 4 have been writing recounts about the experience. We

enjoyed the experiments, particularly the one involving toilet roll and a leaf blower! In Me in My World this week we

have been discussing all of the different rules we have in our lives and why it is important to follow them.

All children in Years 3 and 4 should now have their login details for PurpleMash. If your child does not have theirs, or

they have any issues logging on, please speak to your child’s class teacher. Children have all been set a piece of

homework to complete, for Year 3 they have been challenged to label a Roman soldier and Year 4 need to research

and present information about a volcano of their choice.

Year 1 and 2 have had a fantastic week! We were entertained in assembly on Tuesday by a

scientist who taught us lots about science and showed us some amazing experiments.

We have also dressed up as our favourite characters for World Book Day on

Thursday. Thanks to parents for supporting

your children and helping them to look their

very best!

Also a reminder about the Purple Mash

competition….don’t forget to get you entries in

before Friday 18th March.

Years 5 and 6 Purple Mash: Don’t forget the competition entries need to be

in by Friday 18th March. Both year groups have enjoyed this week: being entertained by the

Mad Scientist, Rick Radium on Tuesday. The children are producing some writing from this

show. World Book Day

All the children and staff came dressed as various book characters on

Thursday and really got into the spirit of

World Book Day!

Book Busters Quiz: Year 6 completed a class quiz on Thursday ready for Book Busters; the successful chil-

dren taking part next Tuesday are: Amelia, Katie, Baden, Jack, Charlie, Libby, Erin, Mia. Reserves are Elise

and Niamh. A final team of four will be chosen after next Tuesday.