Whiteheath Infant and Nursery School
Whiteheath Infant and Nursery School Ladygate Lane Ruislip Middlesex HA4 7RF Tel: 01895 630262
Learning, fun & friends
Co-Headteachers. Ms C Weaving & Mrs R Blake [email protected] www.whiteheath-inf.hillingdon.sch.uk
Friday 18th March 2016 (for w/c 21.03.16) http://www.whiteheath-inf.hillingdon.sch.uk Important information – Dates to remember 23rd March 23rd March 24th March 24th March
Last Day for Nursery Reception Year – Odds Farm Trip Parent Forum meeting 9.00am in the Activity Room School closes at 2.20pm
External - After School clubs running this week
Multi-Sports
French & Spanish
Internal – After School Clubs running this week
Stories Around the World (Tuesday), please collect your child at 4.15pm from the main school reception door
After Easter Holiday - dates 1st week back 11th April 11th -15th April 13th April 14th April 14th April
School re-opens for the Summer Term 8.50am Clubs running this week are:Dance, Mulit-Sports, Drama, French & Spanish, Football and Tennis Stories around the world (internal – run by school staff) Year 1 – Meet the teacher meeting 9-9.30am in the school hall Year 2 – Meet the teacher meeting 9-9.30am in the school hall BAGS 2 SCHOOL collection day Please leave your bag in front of the school on the grass area
In the March 2016 budget speech, the Chancellor announced that schools must become academies by 2020 or have official plans to do so by 2022. We want to reassure you that the governors are looking into this, and will set up a working party to discuss the implications for our school.
CLASS NEWS NURSERY Next week will be our ‘reading week’. Due to our last day being Wednesday the children’s reading days will be: Monday: Suns Tuesday: Stars Wednesday: Moons
We will be baking biscuits. The ingredients that we will be using are butter, sugar and plain flour. Please let a member of the Nursery team know of any allergy concerns. Reminder: Nursery’s last day of term is Wednesday 23rd March. RECEPTION Next week in literacy we will be learning about the ‘Easter story’. We will be writing a retell of the story focussing on our sentence checks (capital letters, finger spaces and full stops). In topic we will be following the instructions to make Easter nests. We will be using melted chocolate and cornflakes and we will be decorating them with chocolate mini eggs. Please let your class teacher know of any allergies that your child has and provide alternative ingredients. In phonics we will be continuing with reading and writing tricky words as well as revising phase 3 digraphs. Odds Farm Trip – Wednesday 23rd March Please arrive at school as normal for 8.50am. Children MUST be wearing school uniform and school shoes. You can provide wellies in a carrier bag and staff will decide if these need to be worn (depending on the weather). Please provide a sensible coat and an appropriate hat (depending on weather). All children must bring a packed lunch in a carrier bag as all items will be thrown away after lunch. Please provide water in a disposable bottle to allow children to have a drink throughout the day. Items not allowed: Nut products/ Fizzy drinks/ Sweets / chocolate bars / Money Children will be dismissed as normal from their classrooms at 3.20pm. Polite reminder: please remove large keyrings from book bags as they do not fit in the children’s trays.
YEAR 1 As it is ‘Easter week’, we will be learning about why Christians celebrate Easter, making cards and little baskets. In English we will be focussing on using our phonics in games and handwriting. In maths we will be continuing to consolidate our use of the blank number line for calculations, counting money using different combinations of coins and carrying out weight and capacity investigations. Please ensure that you child has their library book on Tuesday as they are being collected in for the holidays. If you have misplaced the book please see your class teacher. PE kits need to come back on the first day of next term. Please ensure the whole kit, including trainers still fit your child and that all items are clearly marked with their name. Many thanks. Please remember that we finish early at 2.20pm on Thursday. We wish you a safe and happy Easter holiday.
YEAR 2 In English we will be working on exclamation sentences in letter writing, e.g. 'What an amazing performance!' Our phonics focus will be on suffixes - ment and - ness e.g. amazement, kindness. In maths, we will revisit multiplication and division word problems, writing corresponding number sentences and working out answers to them. We will also continue to read scales of different numbers and comparing properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
In RE we will be talking about the ‘Easter story’ and the symbols associated with Easter a cross, a chick, a bunny and a hot cross bun. In our next challenge, the children will be asked to choose an animal to research, this is in preparation for our new topic after the Easter holiday - ‘animal kingdom’. Reminder - school finishes on Thursday at 2:20pm. Have a lovely Easter holiday!
WISA We’re looking forward to the Year 1 and 2 Disco on Friday 18th March. Please note we are not issuing wristbands but everyone who applied for a ticket has one. A choice of drink, crisps and packet of Haribo sweets is included with the cost of the ticket. If your child is allergic to any of these items please let us know by sending a note marked for the attention of WISA via your child’s book bag. Bags2School This is another great way to raise money for school and a very good reason for that all important ‘Spring clean’ sort out. The next collection takes place at drop off on Thursday 14th April. Bags will be going home via book bags next week and we would be grateful if you could look out any items for this.
May Fair Saturday 14th May
Raffle prizes If you work for a Company who are prepared to donate gift vouchers/theatre tickets or anything which you think would make a great raffle prize please let us know. So far we have been given a brand new Leap Pad, a bundle of toys from Hasbro, a £25 voucher from Mail Boxes Etc., a 1 to 1 Pilates lesson, and a £25 voucher from Ruislip Frame Works. We will be producing an A5 event programme for the Fair and giving local shops and businesses the opportunity to sponsor a page. Should you require more information please email [email protected] Tables for businesses A number of stalls are available for £25 each. Please contact us for more information. Coopers signs Thanks for the response so far but we are looking for around 25 more people to have a Coopers advertising board in their front garden to advertise the May Fair. Coopers will put the board up and take it down a week after the event! All you need to do is send an email with your name and address to [email protected]
Learning, fun & friends
Co-Headteachers. Ms C Weaving & Mrs R Blake [email protected] www.whiteheath-inf.hillingdon.sch.uk
Friday 18th March 2016 (for w/c 21.03.16) http://www.whiteheath-inf.hillingdon.sch.uk Important information – Dates to remember 23rd March 23rd March 24th March 24th March
Last Day for Nursery Reception Year – Odds Farm Trip Parent Forum meeting 9.00am in the Activity Room School closes at 2.20pm
External - After School clubs running this week
Multi-Sports
French & Spanish
Internal – After School Clubs running this week
Stories Around the World (Tuesday), please collect your child at 4.15pm from the main school reception door
After Easter Holiday - dates 1st week back 11th April 11th -15th April 13th April 14th April 14th April
School re-opens for the Summer Term 8.50am Clubs running this week are:Dance, Mulit-Sports, Drama, French & Spanish, Football and Tennis Stories around the world (internal – run by school staff) Year 1 – Meet the teacher meeting 9-9.30am in the school hall Year 2 – Meet the teacher meeting 9-9.30am in the school hall BAGS 2 SCHOOL collection day Please leave your bag in front of the school on the grass area
In the March 2016 budget speech, the Chancellor announced that schools must become academies by 2020 or have official plans to do so by 2022. We want to reassure you that the governors are looking into this, and will set up a working party to discuss the implications for our school.
CLASS NEWS NURSERY Next week will be our ‘reading week’. Due to our last day being Wednesday the children’s reading days will be: Monday: Suns Tuesday: Stars Wednesday: Moons
We will be baking biscuits. The ingredients that we will be using are butter, sugar and plain flour. Please let a member of the Nursery team know of any allergy concerns. Reminder: Nursery’s last day of term is Wednesday 23rd March. RECEPTION Next week in literacy we will be learning about the ‘Easter story’. We will be writing a retell of the story focussing on our sentence checks (capital letters, finger spaces and full stops). In topic we will be following the instructions to make Easter nests. We will be using melted chocolate and cornflakes and we will be decorating them with chocolate mini eggs. Please let your class teacher know of any allergies that your child has and provide alternative ingredients. In phonics we will be continuing with reading and writing tricky words as well as revising phase 3 digraphs. Odds Farm Trip – Wednesday 23rd March Please arrive at school as normal for 8.50am. Children MUST be wearing school uniform and school shoes. You can provide wellies in a carrier bag and staff will decide if these need to be worn (depending on the weather). Please provide a sensible coat and an appropriate hat (depending on weather). All children must bring a packed lunch in a carrier bag as all items will be thrown away after lunch. Please provide water in a disposable bottle to allow children to have a drink throughout the day. Items not allowed: Nut products/ Fizzy drinks/ Sweets / chocolate bars / Money Children will be dismissed as normal from their classrooms at 3.20pm. Polite reminder: please remove large keyrings from book bags as they do not fit in the children’s trays.
YEAR 1 As it is ‘Easter week’, we will be learning about why Christians celebrate Easter, making cards and little baskets. In English we will be focussing on using our phonics in games and handwriting. In maths we will be continuing to consolidate our use of the blank number line for calculations, counting money using different combinations of coins and carrying out weight and capacity investigations. Please ensure that you child has their library book on Tuesday as they are being collected in for the holidays. If you have misplaced the book please see your class teacher. PE kits need to come back on the first day of next term. Please ensure the whole kit, including trainers still fit your child and that all items are clearly marked with their name. Many thanks. Please remember that we finish early at 2.20pm on Thursday. We wish you a safe and happy Easter holiday.
YEAR 2 In English we will be working on exclamation sentences in letter writing, e.g. 'What an amazing performance!' Our phonics focus will be on suffixes - ment and - ness e.g. amazement, kindness. In maths, we will revisit multiplication and division word problems, writing corresponding number sentences and working out answers to them. We will also continue to read scales of different numbers and comparing properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
In RE we will be talking about the ‘Easter story’ and the symbols associated with Easter a cross, a chick, a bunny and a hot cross bun. In our next challenge, the children will be asked to choose an animal to research, this is in preparation for our new topic after the Easter holiday - ‘animal kingdom’. Reminder - school finishes on Thursday at 2:20pm. Have a lovely Easter holiday!
WISA We’re looking forward to the Year 1 and 2 Disco on Friday 18th March. Please note we are not issuing wristbands but everyone who applied for a ticket has one. A choice of drink, crisps and packet of Haribo sweets is included with the cost of the ticket. If your child is allergic to any of these items please let us know by sending a note marked for the attention of WISA via your child’s book bag. Bags2School This is another great way to raise money for school and a very good reason for that all important ‘Spring clean’ sort out. The next collection takes place at drop off on Thursday 14th April. Bags will be going home via book bags next week and we would be grateful if you could look out any items for this.
May Fair Saturday 14th May
Raffle prizes If you work for a Company who are prepared to donate gift vouchers/theatre tickets or anything which you think would make a great raffle prize please let us know. So far we have been given a brand new Leap Pad, a bundle of toys from Hasbro, a £25 voucher from Mail Boxes Etc., a 1 to 1 Pilates lesson, and a £25 voucher from Ruislip Frame Works. We will be producing an A5 event programme for the Fair and giving local shops and businesses the opportunity to sponsor a page. Should you require more information please email [email protected] Tables for businesses A number of stalls are available for £25 each. Please contact us for more information. Coopers signs Thanks for the response so far but we are looking for around 25 more people to have a Coopers advertising board in their front garden to advertise the May Fair. Coopers will put the board up and take it down a week after the event! All you need to do is send an email with your name and address to [email protected]
