14 Nov 2008 - Newsletter 14th November 2008

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Christmas Lunch Letter
Lunch Arrangements Letter - part time Reception

CHRISTMAS CRAFT DAY

Friday 28th November 2008

Don't forget to book this date in your diary. We all have lots of fun helping the children with their craft.

Eco Committee      GENERATION GREEN
We now have 9,587 leaves and have reached 35% of our total.
Grown ups please complete the Energy Savers Report and donate the leaves to our school. It only takes 5 minutes and it is quite interesting. The web site address is: www.generationgreen.co.uk
Thank you Mrs Taylor and the Eco Club

CHRISTMAS FAIR
The Christmas Fair will soon be upon us.
It was great to see so many people at the HOPA meeting last night but please don't forget that we need lots and lots of people to help before and on the day.

DON'T FORGET
Next Friday is the first mufti day. The children can come into school in their own clothes. (Please remember that they will be going outside to play during the day and therefore need warm clothes and coats.) Every child is asked to bring a donation eg filled jam jars / books / toys / games or £1 (so that HOPA can purchase prizes for the Fair).
Thank You.

Cinderella
This year we will be performing the Oaktree version of 'Cinderella'. You will be receiving a costume letter soon. If you have any problems with the costume please see your child's class teacher
The performances are on
Tuesday Tuesday Wed Thursday
9th Dec 9th Dec 10th Dec 11th Dec
9.30 am 2.00 pm 9.30 am 9.30 am
ADULTS ONLY ADULTS ONLY ADULTS ONLY
There will be an opportunity for younger children, accompanied by an adult to watch the performance on Thursday 11 th Dec (if you make this choice this would be counted as only one of your two tickets).
Reception classes will not be taking part in the performance on Tuesday 9th December at 2.00 pm.
Please return the slip at the bottom of the newsletter to indicate which performance you would like to see by Friday 28th November. Please return your slip as soon as possible to enable you to get the day of your choice. Tickets will be distributed through the book bags from Thursday 4th December.
Due to our lack of space we can only offer 2 tickets per family.

WOKING DIWALI PARADE
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Diwali parade on Friday night. Our lanterns stood the test of time and our legs the long walk.
The parade consisted not only of children with lanterns but companies and societies in Woking who had made some amazing huge lanterns. We were accompanied by a band and dancers. The highlight of the evening was our stop at the Fire Station for hot drinks and balloons.

PE Kits - Reminder
A large number of children did not have their PE kits this week. Please can you make sure that every child brings in their PE kit on a Monday.
 

Year 2
Our work this week has been both exciting and challenging. Our maths work has been all about multiplication. We have learnt this can be called lots of different things such as lots of, arrays or repeated addition. The children should be able to tell you lots more! We are all getting good at multiplication tables but extra practise at home would be very valuable. Start with 2's and 10's and progress onto 5's,3's and 4's when your child is really confident. Next week we will be continuing with this work so practise makes perfect.
Literacy has been linked to our History topic about Florence Nightingale The children are working towards making non-fiction leaflets about this historical character. This week they have been learning about the layout of non-fiction texts with headings, sub-headings, pictures and captions. Next week they will make a finished article after travelling back in time to meet Florence. It should be exciting.
The children have now been put into groups for Maths and Literacy and may be working in any of the three year two classes during this time. Maths groups are Sapphire, Emerald and Chrystal and Literacy groups are Saturn, Callisto and Earth.
Thank you for your continued support

The Year Two Team

Maths Challenge
Can your child sort through their socks. How many lots of 2? How many altogether? Could they compare it with their brother or sisters socks or maybe yours?

Reception
Sounds and key words for the coming week
ar, er, ou, oi, ue
you, are
Please remind your child to bring in something for the
sound table.
Yellow Hat (what we liked this week)

We enjoyed our rhyming stories and making up our own rhymes.
Outdoors, we loved making fireworks in the firework factory and acting out the story of Guy Fawkes and the 'Gun Powder Plot'.
In maths, we learnt to sort 2D shapes and to write the number four.
We explored different ways to change clay by twisting, cutting, stretching, rolling, flattening and dissolving it in water.
Help from you
Please could you help your child to find rough objects for our Science Investigation Table. We are also collecting boxes and cylinders (e.g. kitchen rolls) again for the children to make models of buildings and vehicles.
Homework Challenge
Talk about family celebrations.
Thank you very much for all your support
Year R team

Please reserve me_____ticket(s) for the performance on__________(day)__________Dec
at 9.30 am / 2.00 pm (please indicate a time for Tuesday 9th Dec)
Child's Name_______________________ ____________________Class
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE CAN ONLY OFFER 2 TICKETS PER FAMILY
PLEASE RETURN SLIP BY FRIDAY 28TH NOVEMBER TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED ON THURSDAY 4TH DECEMBER