Wow! The last week of the Autumn term is here and the children have done fantastically well. They have learnt so much over the last term and hopefully you see this at home too. They are however extremely tired and emotional and ready for a break! We will be sending spare clothes, waterproofs and wellies home over the holidays so please could you try these on and check everything still fits. Please send back wellies, waterproofs and a complete set of spare clothes on the first day back in January.

This week we have mainly been doing Christmas craft activities as well as finishing off assessments and hearing the children read. They have made baubles, reindeer food, book marks and Christmas cards. They also made a hat for Christmas dinner day, which they really enjoyed.

We will be sending home a copy of the tricky words we have learnt so far this term.  Please can you practise reading these over the holidays.  The children will start to see these words in their reading books and will also be using them to write simple sentences over the course of the year.  We have also sent home some handwriting formation sheets - unfortunately  the photo copier has printed some of the sheets off pink!

On Monday we had the excitement of The Puppet Theatre coming to school and we watched a production of Aladdin.  We were also very lucky to  have a visit from Father Christmas and received lots of lovely presents, including coffee machine, pizza oven, slow cooker and construction toys which the children have really enjoyed playing with this week.

We hope you have fabulous break and wish you all the best for the holidays!