Watling Weekly

11th February 2025

Attendance

We had a great week of attendance last week, with every child from Year R to Year 4 in school on Wednesday and Thursday.

For the overall attendance last week, Hedgehogs led the way with 98.4%, followed closely by Otters on 98.3% and Woodpeckers on 98%. Foxes in 4th place still managed an attendance above 97%!

Hopefully we can kep this up this week, ready for a happy and healthy half term holiday.

Young Voices - Wembley Arena

The choir had a brilliant evening taking part in the Young Voices concert at Wembley last night with over 4500 children joining together to perform as one huge choir. We set off at lunchtime and after an afternoon of rehearsals, performed to an audience of thousands in the evening. We hope that parents who came, enjoyed the show. I am sure there will be a few tired faces this morning but it's a wonderful and unique experience that I am sure they will remember for a long time.

Half term holiday

A quick reminder that this week is our last week before the half term break. Friday is our last day in school and children return on Monday 24th February.

TT Rockstars Day

We had a great day on Friday with our TT Rockstars Day. Hopefully the children all had fun and are keen to log on to Numbots and TT Rockstars to improve their maths skills. As part of the fun, we had a timestables competition in the hall on Friday morning, with children from each house battling against their classmates to answer as many timestables questions as they can in the time limit.

Well done to all of those who took part. They were:

Foxes: Jack, Cece, Dylan O and Z'harie

Otters: Jake, Akiruthy, Ledley and Tudor

Woodpeckers: Delina, Marcus, Shayan and Sophia

There were also prizes for the best costume in each class and the winners were:

Hedgehogs: Nellie

Foxes: Dylan O

Otters: Noah

Woodpeckers: Cade

Year 4 Bikeability

Woodpeckers Class will have the opportunity to take part in Bikeability training on Monday 7th March.

This course is for children who can already ride their bike confidently without stabilisers and lasts for 2 hours long.

The whole session will be on the playground and introduces skills and practices for future road riding through games and fun activites.

Children will need to bring in their own bikes. (in good condition checked against our bike checklist). The organisers also have a few hire bikes available at a cost of £5 per rider per session.

To express your interest, please complete the form by clicking here.

Mastering Number Parent Sessions

We have our first Mastering Number Parent sessions coming up on Wednesday this week for Foxes Class. Hopefully every child will have an adult who is attending with them on the day. The workshops start at 9am in the school hall and should last about an hour.

The other workshops are scheduled for:

Wednesday 26th February- Year 1

Wednesday 5th March- Year R

Please complete this google form to confirm the name of the attending adult for your child's session. Each session is specific to that year group, so those with siblings will need to attend both sessions. Due to the nature of the workshop, we will unfortunately not be able to accommodate younger siblings.

These workshops have been successfully run at schools nationally so we how effective they can be in supporting parents to help their children.

Change of INSET Day

Please note that we have amended our INSET day in June. It has been moved so that the school will now be closed to children on Tuesday 24th June. This is the date for the Scholars Educational Trust conference so it was important that we aligned with them. The original date was their provisonal date.

Makaton - Sings of the week

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Green- Makaton Video.mp4

Red

Red - Makaton Video.mp4

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Red

Diary Dates

Monday 10th February: Young Voices concert at Wembley Arena

Tuesday 11th February: First AGM of the PTA

Friday 14th February: Last day of half term and Golden Apple Assembly

Wednesday 12th February: Mastering Number Parent Workshop - Year 2

Week beg: 17th February: Half term

Monday 24th February: Return to school

Wednesday 26th February: Mastering Number Parent Workshop - Year 1

Wednesday 26th February: Parent Consultations

Thursday 27th February: Parent Consultations

Wednesday 5th March Mastering Number Parent Workshop - Year R

Thursday 6th March: World Book Day

Friday 7th March: Bikeability - Year 4s

Monday 10th March: International Women’s Day

Friday 28th March: Eid Day

Friday 4th April: Last day of term and Golden Apple assembly

Tuesday 22nd April: INSET day

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