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Dear Parents and Carers, Friday 15th January 2021 Thank you to those parents who have emailed in with words of support and thanks over the last week – they really lift our spirits along with the rest of the team! To go from a position of being open as usual on Monday, closed to all on Tuesday, open to Nursery on Wednesday and launching our critical worker provision and remote learning from Thursday – we think the expression ‘rollercoaster of a week’ is perfect to describe last week! We hope those families where children are at home are adapting well, rest assured we are working hard to rectify any teething issues with technology and access. If you have not read our update letter this week please read it here. While we cannot know for certain what will happen after the February half term, we think it is worth saying please consider this period as a marathon, not a sprint, and pace yourself with home learning and expectations of yourself and your child – the most important thing is to look after your own and your family’s well-being above everything. Please get in touch if you need any support, particularly as the weeks go by during this lockdown period. Have a lovely weekend! Miss Nicky Mann & Mr Jamie Hallums, Co-Head Teachers

Wallace Fields Infant School

& Nursery

NEWSLETTER

Hi Kingfishers! I wanted to say a HUGE well done to you all for adapting to home learning so quickly. I have been looking through your work and I am so impressed! Although I haven’t been able to see you in person, it’s been really nice to read with some of you via Zoom. Keep up the good work! Miss Cann

Hiya Hedgehogs! Firstly, I just want to say I am SO proud of all of your hard work over the last week. I have loved looking through all of your wonderful work and I am so impressed with everything you have been doing. It was really lovely to read with some of you on Zoom and I am looking forward to reading and chatting with the rest of you. Keep working hard and keep smiling! Miss Russell

Hi Butterflies! I hope you are all enjoying your learning activities this week. I have been so impressed with all of the amazing learning that you’ve been uploading to Class Dojo, I can definitely tell your brains are growing! I also loved hearing some of you read via Zoom - you have all definitely been working on your sound blending, keep up the great work! Miss Steeper

Hi Bumblebees! I am so proud of all of you for your amazing home learning that you have been doing and uploading onto Class Dojo. I hope that you have been enjoying your home learning for this week. I really enjoyed reading with some of you on Zoom this week. Keep up all of your amazing learning! Miss Davies

Hi Owls! I hope you enjoyed your first full week of remote learning. I have been so impressed and LOVED looking through all your wonderful work. Please keep working hard and making me proud. I have really enjoyed seeing some of you on Zoom for your reading sessions and if I didn’t see you this week, don’t worry you’ll be up next week! Miss Langley

Hey Badgers! I have been so impressed with your amazing home learning, your Class Dojo portfolios are brimming with all your fantastic work! It was really lovely to read with some of you on Zoom this week and I can’t wait to read with more of you soon. Keep working hard and don’t forget to have fun! Mrs Nicholson

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Golden Ticket

Well done to the children who won a golden ticket this week for their efforts and achievements (see below)! Keep up the great work everyone and we look forward to finding out who will be our golden ticket winners next week!

Owl Class

Kingfisher Class

Badger Class

Bumblebee Class

Butterfly Class

Hedgehog Class

A huge well done to Millie this week for her fantastic piece of writing about ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’. Millie remembered to use capital letters, full stops and even extended her sentences using ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘so’.

Keep up your hard work, Millie!

A huge well done to Hugh this week for using his sounds to

describe his own magic wellies. Hugh even told

me that his magic wellies would go to the park. Keep up the great

work!

Well done Chester for all of your amazing learning that

you have been doing! Chester looked at

comparing different groups of objects using our key

words of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’. Keep up all of your

hard work!

Josh, I was so impressed with your character description. You used commas in a list to tell me about the snail’s personality and

used lots of wonderful adjectives.

Heidi, I’m so impressed with your SPAG work! It’s great to

see you have spent time spelling your ‘il’ & ‘al’ words. Then continuing to use those words in sentences – really great practise. Well done!

Well done to Jordan for creating this fire rescue

plane using recycled materials! He used his glue gun to attach all

the parts and even installed a water tank!

Your Design & Technology skills are

amazing!

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‘Splash!’ Topic Booklets

Nursery please click here, Reception click here, Year 1

click here and Year 2 click here to view a copy of our

new topic ‘Splash’ for each year group from Nursery up

to Year 2. This leaflet provides information about what

exciting learning opportunities the children are going to

be experiencing this term, along with key vocabulary and

key learning questions.

We are delighted to welcome to our WFIS &

Nursery Team … Miss Sophie Grimshaw – Apprentice Assistant Teacher

Miss Katie Marman – Apprentice Assistant Teacher Miss Justine Berry – Assistant Teacher

Both Miss Grimshaw and Miss Marman will be working in Shining Stars Nursery and KidsQuest. Miss Berry will be

working in Reception.

Pupil Parliament Before the children broke up for Christmas we had a Pupil Parliament

meeting to discuss the ways in which we show respect for our school

resources inside and outside of the classroom. Most of the children

felt that we did respect our school property, for example, we have a

food bin for our fruit waste and the children always check the book

band colours to ensure that they go back into the correct place. We

also discussed what we could do to make sure we respect our school

resources more. The children suggested that we could make sure

that all of the playground equipment is tidied up after playtime and

lunchtime. They also said that they could pick up coats and hang

them back up if they notice that they have fallen onto the cloakroom

floor.

Woodland Trust’s

Green Tree School Award!

During our ‘Into the Woods’ topic, we achieved our Bronze award for the Woodland Trust’s Green Tree award. We completed a variety of activities, such as creating woodland themed art, planting new seeds and taking part in a Woodland trust

assembly to achieve this certificate. We can’t wait to reach silver!

Is your Child Starting School in

September 2021?

If your child was born between 1st September 2016 and 31st August 2017 you will need to apply for a school

place between 2nd November 2020 and 15th January 2021.

Is your child in Year 2? If your child attends an infant school i.e Wallace Fields Infant School, then you will

need to apply for a place at a Junior School or primary school with a year 3 intake.

To find out more information and apply online please

click here

We have the following places available at WFIS &

Nursery for children in the following years:

Academic Year 20/21 Big Rockets & Little Rockets – Spaces (Little Rockets to be booked on a termly basis)

Academic Year 20/21 Little Stars – Spaces available– Book Now

Academic Year 21/22 Big Stars – Spaces available– Book Now

Academic Year 21/22 Little Stars – Spaces available– Book Now

Reception – FULL

Year 1 – FULL Year 2 – FULL

Miss Grimshaw Miss Marman

Miss Berry

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SHINING STARS

NURSERY

Our Big Stars group activities this week

are…

Sorting clothes into the different types of weather we wear them in.

Making a rain gauge – I wonder how much rain we will collect?

Talking about the weather and what happens in different types of weather and seasons.

Our Big Stars table top activities this week

are…

Using tweezers to put pompoms and buttons on our rainbows.

Drawing a picture of where we think the Little Raindrop might go on its next adventure.

Making our own rainy pictures using sponges.

Home Learning Ideas

To listen to our story please follow the link https://watch.vooks.com/videos/little-rain-drop

Can you describe the weather each day? Maybe you could make some

weather symbols to match.

In Little Stars we will be….

Making our own rainbows using collage material.

Learning our friend’s names.

Practising our cutting skills using cutting sheets and cutting different materials.

Hello.. We have had a fantastic first week or so back in Nursery and have loved seeing all our nursery

children’s smiling faces each session! We would also like to welcome our Spring intake of Little Stars who are settling in very well! Next week we are focusing on weather and the story ‘The Little

Raindrop.’ We are missing some of our nursery children who are not with us at the moment and we hope to see you all very soon. If your child is not in nursery you could have a go at some of our Nursery activities

with your child at home. You could also try our home learning ideas at the bottom of this page to support your child’s learning during this time. We would love to see any of your child’s learning

activities on Tapestry. Rest assured a member of the team will respond to your entry but please note this may not be as quick as during our whole Nursery closure as all of our team are working fulltime

in the Nursery setting! Best wishes, Miss Barron & Mrs Dave

Look at

our

fantastic

learning!

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