New Year letter

Welcome back to the Spring term. I hope you have all had a great Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your families. I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for the lovely Christmas cards, gorgeous gifts and Christmas wishes I received. I was truly humbled and overwhelmed thank you so much, what a lucky teacher I am.

We had a brilliant half term learning all about London Now and London Then and will finish the topic over the next few days before moving onto our new topic The Big Freeze. The children worked so hard and are making amazing progress. Remember to look at our class BLOG on the school website to find out what we have been doing and on Learn Anywhere (using your child’s username and password) where I  will post any videos or website links we have been using.

Through our new topic The Big Freeze, I will be introducing the children to places in the world that are cold, they will be finding out about the continents in the world, looking at habitats of animals and investigating ice. Our role play will be changed into our very own Ice Cream Parlour- how exciting! If you have any plastic or metal ice cream scoops or bowls, old ice cream tubs, small bottles we can make into sprinkle jars, sundae spoons or can pop into an ice cream shop on your travels and ask for some freebie bowls, spoons etc for school I would be extremely grateful and it will make our shop look even more realistic. Watch out for some pictures on the BLOG.

We have said goodbye to Miss Whittaker, our student teacher, for now as she continues her teaching practice at Friezland School. She will return after the Whit holiday and complete her placement during the summer term. In three weeks’ time we will welcome Miss. Fernando, another teaching student, who will be with us until Whit. This is her second teaching placement and she is looking forward to getting to know the children and planning exciting lessons alongside myself.

Thank you so much for your continued support with learning at home, The children are making fantastic progress with their reading, they are enjoying the range of books we read during guided reading sessions and it is lovely to see the children reading a range of books at home, including books borrowed from the library. Spellings will be checked on Friday’s with new spelling also given on this day and reading books changed weekly. The new home work sheet will be stuck in this week and I have tried to add a few more maths activities. In the next few weeks I will be sending home more information about the methods the children have been learning to help them to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems.

Please send PE kits back asap and remember we try to get the children out in all weathers so please make sure they always have a warm waterproof coat, gloves and hats, especially on snowy days as we will be having fun playing, investigating and experimenting in the snow. (I always have a tin of hot chocolate in my stock cupboard ready to add to our milk to warm us up after our fun!)

Thank you so much for your continued support with the children’s learning at home and for always providing boxes and junk for our creations. Next half term we will be going on a trip to Salford Museum- I will send out more information nearer the time.

Mrs. Hunter