Monday,

25th January 2016

Lane Head Nursery School News

Curriculum Corner
This week we will be using our crocodile fingers to develop pencil control. Your
children are working hard to learn to Squiggle Whilst they Wiggle. Heres a
reminder of what each squiggle looks like and how they link to letter formation.

Squiggle 1:
Up and Down (This will help form the letters: i l t u)

Squiggle 2:

Circles-

(This will help form the letters: c o a d )

Squiggle 3:
Humps -

- over hump
- under hump

(This will help form the letters: n m h r b)

Squiggle 4:
Snail Shells (This will help from the letters: k p )

Squiggle 5:
Twist (This will help form the letters: g q e )

Squiggle 6:
Lazy 8 -

(This will help form the letters: j y f s )

Squiggle 7:
Straight lines (This will help form the letters: v w x z )

Try this technique at home and see if your

child can move their imaginary squiggle pens
up and down and round and round to their
favourite songs!
A Rocket to the Moon!
The children have really enjoyed our
Treasured Text Whatever Next by Jill
Murphy. Im sure youve seen the many space
rockets that keep landing in the Messy Room
modelling area! This week your children will be
using full sentence stems to retell the story
with a friend.
We will be using our problem solving skills to
see how many children we can fit into
different sized rocket boxes. Maybe try this
at home with different sized cardboard boxes,
asking the question, How many cuddly toys do
you think will fit inside this box? Then test
your ideas out!
WOW of the week!
On Friday we will be taking a trip to the moon
to have a picnic with Teddy. We will be making
astronaut food bags to take with us. Please
read the notice board for potential allergies
and let your childs Group Leader know before
Friday!
Attendance: The best attending morning
group was Orange and the best attending
afternoon group was Red.
The attendance target is 96.1 %
The attendance achieved last week was
90.15 %.

Rosedale C.E. Infant School News

Celebration Slot
This week our celebration slot goes to YOU! A huge thank you for
attending out Maths curriculum workshops last week. Once again, it
was really well supported and there was lots of positive feedback. If
you havent already completed the class evaluation form, can I please
ask you to do this and pop it into the school office as we are always
looking at ways to improve and develop our practice. If you werent able to attend, your
childs class teacher will give you the information at the parents evening next week. Please
see below for further details.

Curriculum Corner
Chinese New year celebrations are beginning early in Reception this
week and I am sure the children will have lots of fun exploring the
traditions of this special event.
In Literacy, the children are looking more closely at the behaviour of Goldilocks so this should
open up some interesting debates and in Maths, the children will be using a range of practical
resources to explore subtraction. What a busy week!
In Key Stage One, the children will be taking one giant leap for
Mankind... as they learn about the life of Neil Armstrong and what
it was like to be an astronaut. The treasured text of the week is
One Giant Leap by Don Brown.

Whats coming up...

Next week on Wednesday and Thursday evening, we will be holding the second of our Parent
Keeping in touch meetings. Please look out for the signing in sheets which will go up in our
entrance hall on Tuesday.
Please note that due to church commitments, our Education Sunday celebration will now take
place on Sunday 20th March instead of 6th March. If possible, please keep this Sunday free
and come and join us in Rosedale school hall for a special school and church joint celebration.
And finally -Well done to Tyler-James Shorthouse in Sunrays,
who was the winner of our Census day raffle. He won a special
lunch invitation and chose three of his friends to share in his
treat.

The children enjoyed being waited upon and spending

time with myself and all the teachers in the staffroom.

Attendance: Our attendance is currently standing at 96.7 %.

We are achieving our attendance target of 96.1 %.
Lets see if we can push the figures higher this coming week. Well done!

Short Heath Junior School

News
Reading - 2016 will be the Year of Reading for Walsall!
World Book Day takes place on Thursday 3 March 2016, and we would like to invite you to
join us in helping your child to make the most of this special occasion. World Book Day
celebrates the joy and value of books and reading, especially for children. To help get
them started on their reading journey, every child receives a 1 World Book Day Book
Token that can either be exchanged for one of TEN special 1 World Book Day books or
used to get 1 of any book costing 2.99 or more. You can find out more about the books at worldbookday.com
We will also be asking everyone, children and staff, to dress up as their favourite book character!

Thank you to everyone who entered our writing competition but a well done to Hayah (Y6), Alex (Y6), Rihanna
(Y4) and Samuel (Y3) for their winning 500 word stories.

Safer Internet Day 2016 - will take place on the 9th February with the theme
Play your part for a better internet! Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet
Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations get involved to help promote the
safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young
people. Mr. Hodson will be leading a Computing workshop on Monday 8th February to
discuss what we do in school and how you can play your part at home. Please come along from 4:30pm until
5:30pm.

Keeping in touch Meetings - Please come and sign up for a time to see your childs Class Teacher on
Wednesday, 10th and Thursday, 11th February.

Tidy Classroom Award This weeks worthy winners are Beech Class!
Sharing Assembly - The next Sharing Assembly will be on from Ash (3S) Class on Friday 5 th February, we
look forward to seeing family and friends there.

Board Games Do you have any board games (with all the pieces and parts) that you no longer use? How
about donating them to us at school to use during Golden Time? All donations will be greatly
appreciated, thank you.

House Points Well done for everyone supporting the gaining of house points by reading
at home 5 times a week, completing homework and wearing the correct uniform this in-

cludes wearing school shoes not boots or trainers when inside school.

TEAM, TEAM GOOD AS GOLD - LET ME SEE YOUR FINGERS ROLL3S

Attendance:
There have been lots of illnesses this week but we thank parents/carers for supporting us
in promoting good school attendance by sending their children in to school as soon as they
are better; last week our attendance was 94.5%.
Well done to Horse Chestnuts and Beech with 98% attendance last week.

Our attendance target is 96.1 %.

Lets hope we can improve this for next week!

Lane Head Nursery -Wow Moments

Well done this week to our special
Stars of the Week chosen by Group
Leaders for doing Something extra
special this week.
Golden Groups of the week are
Orange am. and Orange pm.

Colour Group

Morning Group

Afternoon Group

Red

Alexa Taylor-Steed

Marley Parsons

Yellow

Kenzie Clayton Elwell Price

Tayo Parsons

Purple

Anaya Numaan

Green

Cameron Powers

Lily Williams

Orange

Nico Fiore

Cameron Shelton

Rosedale C of E Infant School Golden Learning Awards Awards

Sunrays
Star of the Week

Layla Swindell

(RICH Learning)
Golden Classroom
Award -Tidiest
Classroom
Golden Lunchtime
Award - best class

at lunchtime

Callum Jaques

Moonbeams Bluebells Rosebuds

Sapphire -Leigh
Hopkins

Louis Cole

Wezleigh
Darby

Dilreen
Channa

Butterflies

Dragonflies

Sam
Haynes

Marianice
Gomes

This weeks

Dragonflies

House Points Mission Award goes to....

5.... 4.... 3.... 2.... 1....

Enterprise!

Dragonflies

Well Done!

Last Weeks Class Attendance Award goes to Butterflies - 100 % attendance. Well Done!
Best Attendance Award for the Year so far -goes to Dragonflies 98.2% attendance. Well Done!

Short Heath Junior School Weekly Awards

Star of
the Week

Ash

Oak

Silver
Birch

Horse
Sycamore Beech
Chestnut

Maple

Willow

Alexis
Keylock

Harry
Walford

Tilly
Handley

Lydia
Grocutt

Zane
Bailey

Louis
Street

Kyle
Chonkria

Summer
Smith

Sarah
Millington

Karen
Shergill

Brandon
Millership

Lily Moss

Daisy
Charlie
Hardwick Pitt

Gloriously Lewis
Green
Matthews

Last Weeks Attendance award goes to Horse Chestnut and Beech 98% attendance.
Well Done!
Furzebank Worship Centre meeting at Rosedale C. of E. Infant School

Services:
11.00am

Family Service or Holy Communion Service (on alternate weeks) with

Sunday School during school term time.

6.00pm

On Family Service Sunday, there is a service of Holy Communion at

6.00pm. This is a short, quieter service

Diary:

All dates for mid-week activities can be found on our website

www.furzebank.org

Furzebank Worship Centre invite

you to afternoon tea and coffee
in the Worship Centre on
Monday, 8th February 2.45 - 3.45 pm.
Come in from the cold for a nice
warm drink.

Contact: The Rector, John Deakin, is usually available in the Worship Centre each Monday
afternoon after school, so you can come and have a chat and a coffee. Otherwise you can
reach him by phone:
School Term Dates

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Spring Term 2016

Monday, 4th January

Monday, 22nd February

Friday, 12th February

Thursday, 24th March

Summer Term 2016

Monday, 11th April

Monday, 6th June

Friday, 27th May

Wednesday, 20th July