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Key Dates
♦ Tuesday 13th
October
Community Open Day
for New Reception
2016
♦ Wednesday 14th
October
Parent Evening lists go
up
♦ Wednesday 21st
October
Last day of term
This week we held our Harvest Festival. The Lay
reader from St Edmunds Church Jane Dryden,
joined us to share a story and give a blessing. We
had good weather and were joined by many
parents and grandparents. The children all took
part in the Harvest and we had a lovely display of
produce and groceries for our Harvest collection.
We raised £56.20 from the sale of the produce at
the end of the day and we have taken all the
donations which were left to Taverham Day Care
centre.
Thank you so much for joining us and for your very
kind donations.
♦ Monday 2nd
November
School re-opens
♦ Week Commencing
2nd November
Parent Evenings
♦ Friday 6th
November
Parent Assembly8
Before school
starts
Can we please
remind you,
parents/childre
n are not
allowed in
classrooms
before school
starts in the
morning.
9th October 2015
Attendance
This week the whole school
attendance is 96.9%
Our school attendance target is 95%,
so as you can see we are above
our target this week!
Absence Reminder
Please remember to fill in an absence
form if you have a planned absence from
school and please ring the school
absence line 01603 867976 if your child
is off sick and will not be attending
school. Thank you.
Reception Parents Workshop Evening
Reception parents were invited to an evening finding out about expectations in Reception class, including
learning about early reading, maths and phonics.
What you thought was good:
 Presentations of how maths and literacy are taught and how we can help our children at home –
follow the same methods/techniques.
 Getting ideas about how I can assist with learning.
 Ideas about fun games to play for learning.
 Finding out about what goes on in Reception and how I can help at home.
Other things you would like to have seen:
 Advice on how to get the most out of books with no words.
 A tour of the classroom as it is difficult to visualise.
 Resources or links to useful websites.
Action points:
 To make parents aware of expectations for the end of Reception – continue to work on this
through VLE and through information shared at parents evening.
 To generate as list of useful websites or add as links in the VLE.
 There will be further opportunities to come into the classrooms to take part in children’s learning
future informative events later in the year.
We would like to thank all the parents for their feedback.
Topic Homework
A big well done to everyone who has been busy completing topic
homework - I have seen some fantastic work! Thank you to everyone
who has completed their topic work on the VLE. If you create work or
upload it to the VLE please could you use the ‘publish to’ tab to
publish it to your year one or year two class page? That way all your
friends and teachers can see and enjoy it!
Please see your class teacher if you have any queries about this.
Friends
Photograph
Evening
Thursday 15th October
Families, Children and Siblings
Sessions start at 4.45pm until 7pm.
Please can you book your
appointment time with Mrs
Bradfield in the office.
Parent Evenings
Class lists of dates/times available for the Parent evenings will be posted up on Wednesday 14th October.
This is an important meeting to find out how your child has settled into their new class.
Reception - Mrs Warner’s Class
Front door in reception garden
Reception - Mrs Hart’s Class
Front door in reception garden
Year 1 - Mrs Bradfield/Mrs Westhead Class
External cloakroom door
Year 1 - Mr Hollis/Mrs Shepherd’s Class
External cloakroom door
Year 2 - Mr Whitehead/Mrs Shepherd’s Class
Notice Board outside School Office
Year 2 - Mrs Martin/Mrs Williams’ Class
Notice Board outside School Office
Nightingale First School
Nightingale Drive
Taverham
NR8 6LA
Parent Assembly
Friday 6th November
Come along and join us for our first Parent Assembly of the year.
Please note times:
Reception
-
11.00 am
Years 1 and 2
-
9.15 am
invites you to an
We will have a presentation from the Road Safety team and we
will also be having a visit from our local PCSO Chris Rolph.
The friends will be serving tea/coffee in the hall between 10.00 –
11.00am all parents are welcome to attend. The Friends will also
be selling second hand school uniform in the hall.
We would be very grateful to any parents that are able to ‘make,
bake and donate a cake’ for this occasion.
Also on Friday 6th November, 2.30 – 3.30pm – Friends
Cake Stall and second hand uniform sale in the school
hall.
‘OPEN DAY’
for Reception Pupils 2016
on
Tuesday 13th October 2015
Everybody Welcome
Times:
9.30 am – 11.00 am
1.30 pm - 2.30 pm
and between 2.30 pm – 3.00 pm
there will be a presentation by
Year 2 children, who will be available for a
Question and Answer session with the
Headteacher.
Pupil Individual and Sibling Photographs
All photograph proofs have been sent home with your child this
week. You now have 10 days to return your proof to your child’s
teacher if you wish to order any photographs.
The last day for collection is Monday 19th October.
No late orders will be accepted as the company only collects
once.
Yours sincerely
Rebecca Adcock - Acting Headteacher