Dear Parents and Carers,
This week’s senior leader assembly was led by Dennis, Esme and Isaias from Year 4. Today (6th October), is World Cerebral Palsy Day. The children spoke about their experiences with Cerebral Palsy, their worries and how other people can help them in and around the school. Both children were fantastic, showing honesty and resilience.
In celebration of World teacher Day on Thursday, I ended the assembly with a thank you to our teachers, conveying a few words of thanks that the children wished to share about their teachers.
We have also had parents’ evening all week. I hope you found the meeting both informative and helpful and do please complete a feedback form as this is always helpful in understanding what is working and ways we can adapt if and where needed.
Further to my newsletter two weeks ago, last Friday, some of our year 6 girls used their enterprising skills and organised a bake sale. They raised money to replace old or missing sports equipment (including footballs, goals and cones). The new equipment will help the girls train for their external tournaments - last week they came 2nd in a local schools tournament. They raised over £300.
On Wednesday, Year 2 enjoyed traditional tales from Freshwater Theatre. It was an interactive session where the children listened to and helped to recreate Anansi stories. The classes explored the morals of these stories, through Ashanti folk tales and creation stories which have a strong storytelling tradition. They encountered characters such as Mmoboro the Hornet; Onini the Python; and Osebo the Leopard. Here are some quotes from the children:
- Hao’er – “I liked Arlo’s acting because sometimes he used different voices.”
- Dash – “I liked the part when Anansi found all the different ways of trapping certain special animals.”
Yesterday was our Census Day and the ‘Out of this World’ space themed lunch was delicious! I do hope your children enjoyed it.
Next Week:
- Year 6 go on their residential school journey. Kate G, Penny, Dominic, Shivani, Kay and Tery will be accompanying them. The children who are not attending the residential have a week of exciting things planned and am sure you will join me in wishing them all a wonderful week.
- Tuesday 10th October is World Mental Health Day. We are encouraging children and adults to wear something yellow to school on Tuesday to raise awareness about mental health and show their support. The children will take part in some wellbeing activities on the day, and we are also going to get involved in ITV’s Britain Get Talking campaign. They have set a national homework task for all schools to encourage and prompt children to have a proper chat about what’s on their mind with an adult at home. We will send them home on Tuesday with a sheet that they can use to write or draw about their worries or fears, which will hopefully help open a conversation with someone at home. We will also be talking to the children about this during Monday’s assembly. Click here if you’re interested in finding out more about the campaign.
- Tuesday 10th we are holding a Parent Phonics workshop for parents of children in reception and year 1. If you have a child in these year groups, do come along, I am sure you will find it most useful. A letter with a wufoo link was sent outlining details: reception and year 1.
- We look forward to welcoming our reception parents for an open morning on Friday 13th giving parents an opportunity to interact with their child’s learning environment. These mornings are a great way to bridge the home-school link. Details of this were sent in the reception weekly learning letter.
On the last Friday of this term, we will be holding a SEND coffee morning from 09.15 to 09.55. The theme of the coffee morning is “Dealing with anxiety.” Whilst the coffee morning will be led by Dennis and Nicola, it will provide a forum for parents to discuss their experiences and share strategies to support our children and each other. If you would like to attend, please sign up here.
Call for help: As you may have seen, our ‘stage’ (the decking area next to the cage) needs renovating. Friends of Kilmorie (FOK) has agreed to fund this project, but for us to get this off the ground we need some support with ideas and costing. If anyone is in the garden / carpentry trade and could help us with ideas and or quotes, do please get in touch via info@ and put ‘Kilmorie stage’ in the subject line.
Libero from FOK would like to launch a weekly 90-minute Jam Club for year 5 & 6 children. Before we proceed any further, we would like to find out interest. If you think your child would be interested, please send an email to friendsofkilmorie@gmail.com with JAM CLUB in the subject line, specifying your child's year group and the instrument they play.
PE Kit Years1-6: To confirm, you may choose to send your child to school in their kits on PE days, however all children will need to be dressed appropriately for every PE lesson in: • Indoor PE - shorts or leggings, T-shirt. • Outdoor PE - jogging bottoms, T-shirt, long-sleeved top (in colder weather), trainers or plimsolls. All jewellery should be removed before arriving at school on PE days and shoulderlength or long hair, for safety reasons, needs to be tied back.
Alternatively, children may choose to bring their PE kit into school on a Monday and pick it up on a Friday to ensure it is available for all PE sessions.
As we are now in autumn, where the mornings are chilly and the afternoons warm; to accommodate this, we are wearing layers. Please make sure all items of clothing are labelled so we can make sure it gets back to the right person. Our lost property is already overflowing! I do hope you all get time to enjoy this rather warm autumnal weather this weekend and look forward to welcoming you back on Monday.
Kind regards
Julie
