It may have been bright and Sunny this week but autumn is in the air as we enter October.

On Tuesday, we celebrated Harvest Festival. Mrs Macpherson introduced the rainbow of colour that Harvest provides and the importance of fruit and vegetables in our diet. The residents of Swan House and Oakwood Court were grateful for the generosity of our families and asked us to pass on their thanks.

Holy Trinity opened their door to Y5 for a day of spirituality and craft. The children had a fabulous day and even met the Bishop.

A group of Year 2 children and a member of their family attended a ’Reading University Workshop’ on Thursday and graduated with flying colours. Walk to school month has started, to encourage all our children to be healthy and active.

Last Friday, Woodies celebrated it’s first birthday and I got active as I enjoyed a magical morning with Nursery and Miss Noakes in Forest School as we explored the world of Nature.

Today has been beautifully quiet in Y5 as they undertook a sponsored silence in order to raise money for supplies for their newly acquired pet mice. They wrote me such persuasive and formal letters asking for a pet that I just had to say yes, on the condition that they took their new responsibility very seriously.

Parent Consultation is on the horizon, please make sure you sign up for an appointment so we can discuss the progress your child is making. (Grids with times are in the Reception Foyer)

I hope you manage to get outside this weekend and enjoy the many changing colours of Autumn.

Mrs Newton

Friday 7th October 2016

National Walk to School Month (3-21 Oct) As part of this National Campaign, we are promoting “Dazzles Door to Door Challenge” campaign. Every child has been given an A4 poster showing Dazzle’s journey to school. Children are encouraged to walk, cycle, scoot or ‘park & stride’ (park away and walk to school) during October. Every time they travel actively, children can tick off a square on the path from Dazzle’s house to school. At the end of the month, children will receive a bronze, silver or gold sticker depending on how many active journeys they make.

Is your child active in their journey to school?

Macmillan Coffee Afternoon

Preparation for Macmillan Coffee Afternoon began in school earlier in the week as a group of children made a chocolate cake for our special event. Gabriel Upcott, Logan Westley, Joe Carter, David Whitfield, Tyler Melia and Morton Bickley plus George Webb and Jaylee Bateman. As you can see the boys ranged from Year 2 to Year 5 but all worked together brilliantly with Gabriel taking the lead. What amazes me is that no-one ate the cake before the coffee afternoon.

Thank you to our lovely pastoral team for organising and thank you to all our families who supported the event to help raise money for such an important charity.

Woodies First Birthday!

A very special event occurred on Friday, all the children who have attended

Woodies regularly over the past year celebrated Woodies first birthday. There

were balloons, a disco by our own dancing lady - Mrs Fillingham, a delicious buffet and a fabulous birthday cake, created by Joanne Simpson. It was a fantastic party! Woodies is enjoyed by many of our children and the numbers of children attending continue to grow.. We work our children hard during the day and so Woodies provides a half way house. A place to relax, enjoy lovely and varied activities, often planned and suggested by the children. We have an incredible team who make Woodies so special: Mrs Alves, Miss Chapman, Mr Butler and Mrs Siddu.

The leaf we are focussing on for the next week from our vision is:

Resourceful

The controversial question we are considering in school and to debate at home:

Why is it good to be resourceful?

Dates To Share

11.10.16 Parent Consultation for Y6, 1P and 4N only

12.10.16 Parent Consultation for Y6, 1P and 4N only

12.10.16 3P Class Assembly 10:20

13.10.16 Halloween Disco for Y1 - Y6 4:30 - 5:45

17.10.16 Y6 at Bryntysilio for the week

17.10.16 Explore and Discovery week

14.10.16 to 19.10.16 Book Fair after school

18.10.16 Parent Consultation for rest of the Academy

19.10.16 Parent Consultation for rest of the Academy

24 to 28th October Half Term

31.10.16 Children return to school

31.10.16 EYFS Pumpkin Party 4:30

Don’t forget there is a Teacher Training Day on Friday 25th November when school will be closed to children.

School Disco organised by School Council is on Thursday 13th October.

Time to dig out those spooky costumes and face paints.

School Council will be planning and considering how best to

spend any monies raised for the benefit of our children.

The Book Fair is coming to

Woodlands

Leaflets with examples of books that will be available to purchase will be

sent out early next week

Families will be able to visit after school on these dates. Y6 families will be able to visit on Friday 14th

before they leave for Brynti.

Friday 14th

Monday 17th

Tuesday 18th

Wednesday 19th

We hope you can support us. The more money we raise from the fair, the more money Woodlands has to

buy new books for our library.

Class

Name Reason

RE Amanique Nicklin Tiffany Gibson

For being able to independently blend word time words For drawing and labelling a picture from our story Owl Babies

RJ Deacon Mansell Seeley Pearce

For making a fantastic rocket from junk boxes – He put lots of scissors inside to make it “go faster!” Seeley chose a book about shapes. He found a rectangle and knew it had “4 sides like a square”. He said “My tablet looks like a rectangle”

1P Spencer Cooper Kayden Dennis

For independently solving addition sentences using the part-part-whole method. Excellent work! For persevering with his work in English. Kayden used adjectives to level up his sentences.

1H Bree Wall For her improved attitude towards her learning. Lets continue to follow instructions given to ensure we are achieving our full potential. Keep it up!

2G Bailey Muriqi Ethan Cook

For putting 100% into his writing. Bailey wrote a super character description of the Gruffalo and it was in beautiful handwriting too. For super maths skills when working out his number bonds to 20. Well done Ethan.

2RG Sophie Crumpton Abigail Foster

For fantastic effort and determination in maths which has really paid off. For amazing presentation in all of your work, keep it up Abigail.

3P Olivia Stevens Madison Riley

For fabulous listening and following instructions with the result being superb grids. For super use of Maths vocabulary when explaining her learning

3CP Linxi He Morgan Felton

For her Maths learning using addition with apparatus and challenging herself For talking about her Maths learning – using place value counters to add HTO + H with confidence and enthusiasm.

4N Joshua Baker Indigo Orton-Brown

For incredible enthusiasm for bug club. Keep up the reading at home. For superb home learning. He even extended it by creating his own lovely poster displaying rules. Well done!

4R Leah Hulse & David Etherington

For fabulous diary entries including 2A, PV, FL and TAD/PAD openers

5A Harry Gledhill Vikki Chen

For showing great enthusiasm during science, contributing to class discussions and leading his own learning For working hard to apply all of her year 5 learning so far to write a wonderful character comparison of Tom Canty and Prince Edward

5T Neve Bickley Ryan Griffiths

For your fantastic character comparison of the Prince and the Pauper For your great explanation of how the formal written method works for multiplica-tion

6E Grace Phillips Ben Woodfield

For investing 100% into improving her maths and English skills. She approaches every challenge with a wonderful positive attitude which inspires us all. For showing great enthusiasm towards all aspects of his learning. He made particularly interesting contributions to our science class discussion, drawing on his own knowledge and understanding to give reasons for the effects of different factors and components in a circuit

6P Ellie Cross Maisie Walker

For your fantastic organisational skills and super attitude towards your learning. You have participated well during discussions and set a great example. For your fantastic contributions towards class discussions, super pupil voice and great recording of learning.

Every Monday we celebrate the achievements of our children through the reward of certificates in our ‘Celebration of Learning Assembly’. These are the children that earned: Star Of The Week.