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It has been a fun week of enrichment across the school this week with themed reading activities taking place over the course of the week culminating in our World Book day dress up. It was great to see so many colourful and varied costumes with the children keen to express themselves through their favoured books and characters. Thank you to all of the parents who engaged with our reading open morning and books and breakfast. The children love it when their parents or family members attend and it is great to work together to promote a love of and the importance of reading. As well as all of the reading activities, our Reception children were wowed by their beekeeper visit this Tuesday in what was a fantastic way of bringing their learning to life. In sports this week, our girls had another match at the Meridian sports league where they battled their way to a strong performance against windrush Charlton and we continued our link with Blackheath Rugby club who have been in training the Y3 and Y5 children in tag rugby ahead of a big tag rugby festival which will take place at the end of the month.

Wishing you all a restful weekend from myself and all of the staff

Mr Phillips

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Parents Evening

We are delighted to confirm Parents Evenings on the following dates. Please log onto Arbor to make a booking.

Nursery

Tuesday 19th March from 3.30pm to 6pm
Wednesday 20th March from 1pm to 6pm

Reception to Year 5

Tuesday 19th March from 3.30pm to 6pm
Wednesday 20th March from 3.30pm to 6pm

Year 6

Tuesday 19th March from 3.30pm to 6pm
Wednesday 20th March from 3.30pm to 6pm
Thursday 21st March from 3.30 to 16.10pm

Ms Bywater and Corinne, our link CAMHs nurse practitioner are delivering a workshop: How to support a child with Anxiety on Thursday 14th March, 1.30pm - 3.00pm.

All parents are welcome!

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World Book Day Information

Absence from School Procedure

If your child is absent from school, please ensure you follow this guidance: -

Telephone 0208 8545055 or email info@inspirewoodhill.co.uk or message on Arbor by 8.30 am on the 1st day that your child is absent. Please continue to update the school daily on your child’s illness. Please also follow it up with medical evidence, where possible.
Absences will only be authorised if medical evidence has been supplied to the school. Medical evidence can be a copy of a prescription for medicine, the prescribed medicine or packaging and medical appointment letters/card or text message.
Make any dentist/doctor/hospital appointments outside of school hours or school holidays where possible.
Do not keep your child away from school if there is a school issue. Please contact the school to discuss the problem with a senior member of staff to help resolve the issue.
Do not keep your child away from school for reasons other than severe illness. Absences due to birthdays, holidays, relatives’ visits, shopping trips and your own ill health will not be authorised.
All holidays will not be authorised and you will be at risk of a penalty fine from the Royal Borough of Greenwich Attendance Advisory Service.

What we have learned this week

Year 2 - Year 2 has had an exciting week, firstly we had World Book Day, which the children have been counting down the days for. Darcy was very pleased to unveil her costume this year and shared that she "could not wait" for World Book Day. We had magnificent characters arrive at Woodhill! The children pulled out all the stops to recreate all their favorite characters for a range of different genres - teaching staff included. Year 2 were also revisiting some previous learning in Maths to strengthen our recall and retention. Marcello was pleased to recall that an 8 sided shape was called an octagon and said "that a hexagon, a 6 sided shape, looks very similar." Ellyna helped to remind us that a shape that has only 1 side "is just a straight line." Year 2 were very pleased with all the knowledge they had retained and could showcase from earlier in the year but now can't wait to move onto weighing mass next week!

Year 5 - This week Year 5 have been immersed further in their core text, Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah. They wrote a journal from the perspective of the main character Leonard, expressing his frustration about having to leave his beloved home and grandma in Jamaica.

In history they have learned about the reasons for immigration from the Caribbean to the UK in the 1940s and 1950s, and the experiences faced by the new arrivals.

In PE Year 5 are lucky enough to have a rugby coach teaching them on Thursday afternoons. After learning some basic skills, they are already beginning to play matches!

In computing the children have been learning to build a circuit and program a microcontroller called Crumble, to make an LED switch on and flash in different colours! Billy and TJ said "We included a forever loop to make sure it never stops flashing!"

In science Year 5 learned about the reproduction of plants, drawing and labelling the parts of a flowering plant. In RE they have begun learning about Islam this term, and the hajj journey performed by Muslims.