Byfleet Primary Newsletter

Welcome back to the Summer term. It's been a great start so far. Despite many children having chicken pox, this week 2 has seen a rise in attendance so we are please to have all the children back in school with us fit and healthy.

• The children had a special visit from the Police last week and a Vet this week, as part of 'People Who Help Us'. 

• Reception extended their learning about 'People Who Help Us' today, by walking to our local sandwich shop near BPS to buy a delicious milkshake. 

• Year 4s are practising their tables up to 12 x 12 off by heart in preparation for their upcoming Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) in June. Please keep practising on Doodle tables every day at home!

• It's been great to see our Chartwells school meals uptake increase with more children opting for school dinners. We are very pleased with the nutritional and tasty meals prepared by our chef Nadine. If you are interested in trying a meal for a day or two a week, please book this on Scopay. 

• Our Pastoral Team (Mrs Wyatt and Mrs Sharkey-Yun) arranged a series of sessions for parents to come into school to work on setting up our Sensory Garden. Thank you to the parents who came and worked with their children to plant plants. This will be a wonderful space for our children to enjoy.

• Year 3 had an excellent trip to Horsell Common as part of their river study. See photos below.

• Year 2 had a wonderful time at Wisley on their trip, learning about plants. 

• Big thanks to our Friends of Byfleet PTA for purchasing the children a new large mud-kitchen. The children have been making some funky acorn soup and twig stew during playtimes. 

• Thank you to Miss Osborne for organising a local potter to work with our children across the school - they made some fabulous 'clay bunting' spelling out our school values: 'Ready. Respectful. Safe.' Once complete, this clay bunting will be proudly displayed in our main foyer! Well done everyone involved!

• Year 1 only - don't forget: Monday 29th April will be Year 1s Tray Day in lieu of missing the Spring Parents' Evening, 3.15 - 4pm.

• We welcome Mrs Omar to our admin team this term, who will be responsible for our finances and ensuring we secure value for money with our spending. 

• We are looking for temporary reading helpers to read 1-1 with Year 1 children in the summer term. If you have a spare 30 minutes or more each week, please let the admin team know. We are working hard behind the scenes to prepare our children for their Year 1 phonics screening check in June, so any help is welcome!

• Swimming lessons will commence on Monday, 3rd June 2024 for further details can be found on this link - Swimming 2024 letter.

• Thank you to the Year 6 parents who attended Miss Partridge's Year 6 SATs & Year 6 Residential meeting. We hope you found these useful. Only 10 school days left before the Year 6 SATs week so the children continue to work hard to prepare themselves. We're very proud of their efforts.

• If you are interested in hiring our school hall, a classroom, our outdoor hive or swimming pool for an event you may have in mind, don't hesitate to speak to Mrs Scott in the office who will be able to share our pricing details. 

Please see the links below to the homework matrix and curriculum overview for each class for Summer 1 2024:

Reception - Summer 1 Homework Matrix and Curriculum Overview

Year 1 - Summer 1 Homework Matrix and Curriculum Overview

Year 2 - Summer 1 Homework Matrix and Curriculum Overview

Year 3 - Summer 1 Homework Matrix and Curriculum Overview

Year 4 - Summer 1 Homework Matrix and Curriculum Overview

Year 5 - Summer 1 Homework Matrix and Curriculum Overview

Year 6 - Summer 1 Homework Matrix and Curriculum Overview

Reception Class are enjoying welcoming special visitors into their classroom for their new topic: People Who Help Us. They had a special visit from the Dentist prior to half term to kick the topic off, but last week we had a very exciting visit from the Police!

Two Surrey police officers brought along some real uniforms for the children (and Miss Vallins) to try-on, whilst also teaching us about the different roles police officers may have. They also showed us around their police car which was amazing because we got to sound the sirens (which were so loud!). What an exciting visit, and thank you to both police officers. What a brilliant visit... I wonder who will come next?! 

We have been super busy welcoming visitors into Reception this term, and on Thursday 25th April, we welcomed Dr. Zheng (who is a vet) from Medi-vet in West Byfleet. Vet Zheng showed us how to check-up animals using her handy puppy prop, and all the different steps she takes when she checks an animal is healthy. She told us how important it is for animals not to lick their wounds, and why they wear might need to wear a cone collar. She even told us that she has helped a snake before... how brave! Thank you for answering all our questions Dr Zheng, and thank you for the little animal finger puppets! What a special treat for us!

What a start to the summer term! Year 3 went to Horsell Common and what great weather we had! Children were able to go in the river and look for animals. We found Moss Creepers, Damselfly Nymph loads of Fresh water Hoglouse, Net maker and even two Fish! Children also went on a bug hunt and found spiders, worms, beetles and millipedes.

We have a brand new mud kitchen in our playground and all the children are so enjoying making some mud cakes and just being messy.

A big thank you to all the parent volunteers and children in school who helped us last week setting up our new sensory garden. This is a great project that Mrs Sharkey-Yun and Mrs Wyatt have organised, and we hope the garden area will be around for a long time for all our pupils to enjoy!

We are holding sessions every Friday from 2:30pm until the end of the school day (for Summer 1 term) to help with planting and getting the area established.  If you would like to come along on a Friday afternoon please email the school office (info@byfleet.surrey.sch.uk).  The school is also looking for any plant donations (including herbs, vegetable, fruit and flowers) or any other  garden decorations or outdoor paint you may have. 

Well done to the following children for being recognised for doing something brilliant this fortnight......

The dance instructor at Dancebites, Sam would love your child to attend this fun interactive club which takes place after school on a Tuesday !!  Please sign up here.  She is offering a free trial, see details below.