Dear Parents and Carers

This week has been assessment week at school. Children across all different year groups have been assessed in their learning to help us determine end of year attainment. We will use this information to help us plan for September, as well as to help with our reports - our school reports will be given to parents on Friday 12th July. 

We sent out a letter this week by Mrs Pearce about our Sports Days - please save these dates in your diary. We can’t wait to invite you all for some sporting fun!

As a school, we have been focusing on the “Ethic of Excellence”. This is where we show excellence in our behaviours and in our learning. We have been encouraging our children to give the best effort they can and take responsibility for their own actions; by doing so, we can showcase ourselves to be “excellent”. Please speak to your children about the Ethic of Excellence and how they can show this at home and in school.

We hope everyone is enjoying the longer weekend. See you all on Monday.

Iman Atwal

Headteacher

We expect pupils to maintain a high standard of attendance here at Woodside. We want all our pupils to be able to achieve their very best and in order to do this, they need to be in school as much as possible so they don't miss out on any learning. Everyday is a new learning opportunity!

We want all children to come to school each day, but we know that there are some days children are just too ill to attend, or will spread illness to others.

The NHS website Is My Child Too Ill For School is a useful place to look for guidance.

If your child has vomiting or diarrhoea they should stay away from school until they have not been sick or had diarrhoea for at least 2 days (48 hours).

Children can attend school with cold sores, conjunctivitis, hand, foot & mouth disease, slapped cheek (fifth) disease, sore throat, thread-worms or ear infections as long as they don't have a temperature as well.

Please encourage your children to wash their hands regularly and use and throw away tissues properly.

POWS would like to say a huge thank you to all of the parents, carers, grandparents, aunts and uncles who kindly donated items for the hampers to make the Rainbow Raffle so successful!

Please come and collect your hamper from the Community Room by Friday 21st June 2024 - we will try our best to contact all winners. However, if any hampers go unclaimed after this date, they will be donated to the Surplus Food Store.

Congratulations to all of the winners and a huge thank you to everyone that bought tickets!

POWS raised a grand total of £670.30p !!!!

A special "Thank You!" to POWS PTA members, Stephanie Clark, Sharnee Green and Jasmine Sheehan who without their time, effort and passion, the Rainbow Raffle would not have been so successful.

Nest

Children have been continuing to enjoy the story 'The Tiny Seed'. Children have been taking turns to retell the story in their words, answering and asking simple questions.

In Maths, children have been identifying numbers 1-5 and counting in correct order. Children have also been really enjoying the nursery garden, exploring in the large sand pit, filling and emptying containers and talking about capacity

For Physical Development, the children have really enjoyed exploring with playdough, they made plants with flowers, using different tools. As children were engaged they named the different parts of the plant such as roots, stem and leaves. Children were making flowers out of construction materials and using the bikes and climbing up the large climbing frame. 

Nursery

This week, Nursery children have continued with their core-text  ‘Oliver’s Vegetables.’ They have been learning about names of different vegetables. The vegetables they were learning about are vegetables that most children do not like. They talked about their colours and described what they looked like before and after cutting them. They then went on to use playdough to create their own vegetables. Nursery children had good skills and were excited to be using different cutting tools.

Year 1

In English this week, year 1 have been learning about pollution in the ocean and writing fact files about how we can stop pollution. We have been learning about how to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic waste.

In Art, we have been learning about sculpture and are very excited about making our own sculptures of a jellyfish from recycled materials.

In Maths, we have been finding one more and one less of a number and using the the symbols less than ＜, greater than ＞ and equal to  ⚌  to describe the relationship between numbers.

As part of our Science topic we have been learning about the seasons and the months of the year.

Year 4

It’s a short week, it’s assessment week and Year 4 have started to complete their times table checks!

We have moved onto our new art topic this week, Surrealism. The children looked at and discussed some important works from the artists Valentina Brostean and Salvador Dali. They selected their favourites and created a ‘mood board’ of ideas that they can use in the creation of their own art.

Please note. When entering school property, you must dismount and walk with all wheeled modes of transport. This is to keep everyone on school property safe.

Thank you for your cooperation

We are starting to use in-app messages to communicate with parents through the app - please could parents ensure they are able to log-in and Arbor is set up to accept these messages - they should be visible in the Communications section of the portal.

Parents who have the app should enable Push Notifications - this will alert you through the app that a message has arrived.

Over 90% of our parents have logged into Arbor - if you are having difficulty,

please talk to the office who can help.

Check your Child's Data

Please log in to Arbor and check your child's/children's details are correct - and let us know if not. You can also request changes directly through the app which will take place once we have seen them - if we have questions, we will get in touch. Or you can let the office know directly.

It is important we have the correct data for all our families.

Please remember to check Arbor - either the Parent Portal (at https://login.arbor.sc/)  or the parent app (available from the App Store or Google Play).

Parents who log in can:

* see their child's attendance

* log consent for local trips and those further afield

* pay for trips and book and pay for clubs

* receive In-App messages - and message the school

* book parent consultations

* see their child's details and request changes to ensure they are completely up to date

If you have more than one child at the school, they should be visible via a drop-down so you only need to login once.

To set up your account, you need the email you use for school communications and the date of birth of one of your children. Follow the Forgotten Password link on either the app or the website.

If you need support with logging in, please talk to the office team who will be glad to help.

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