Welcome back
Happy New Year! I hope you all had an enjoyable break. It was lovely to see everyone on Wednesday and we have had a super start to the new term. Congratulations to the children who designed our new House Point Team characters and logo’s, we launched them in assembly on Wednesday and everyone was very excited.
Important information about your child’s learning is now available on the school website. You can find the curriculum overviews which explain the topics and areas of learning for the term on both the learning pages and the classroom pages. If you would like a paper copy, please let the class teacher know. You should have received a letter with all the important dates that have already been planned in for this term, and they are also available on the website – we have a full calendar of enrichment activities planned this term with visits out and visitors coming in to school.
Please remember that the school day starts at 8.45am. As you know, being in school on time is extremely important for all children in order that they receive the best possible start to their learning. Arrival at 8.45am enables staff to support children in a range of activities, for example, time to have ‘check ins’ with teacher or TA for Emotional Health and Well Being support, individual reading with an adult, opportunity to practise spellings, maths facts or pre -learning for lessons and sharing class news together. All of these activities maximise the opportunity for a settled start to ensure children are ready for their first lesson straight after the register is taken.
We welcome a new member of staff this term. Miss Egan is a very experienced teaching assistant who has joined the Year 5 team and we are delighted to have her at Apley.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend.
Mrs E Smith
Apley House Point Changes
At the beginning of last term, through discussions with the pupils, we discovered that they wanted to change the house points and not just have colours but have characters. School council got together and discussed ideas and set up a school-wide competition for the children to create their own character and name to represent each house group.
Many congratulations go to Avani in year 4, Mimi and Oliver in year 5 and Chloe in year 6 whose characters were chosen by the school council to win!
These designs have now been made into fantastic signs which will be up on display in the hall and classrooms. Well done to all of the children for sharing their ideas on how to improve our house points and for taking part in the competition.