Nativity DVD

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you for coming to see and supporting our Nativity last Friday. 

We had an amazing turn out of adults in such horrible weather.  In case you missed it you are in luck!

We have recorded our Nativity onto DVD and will be selling copies for £5 in a full DVD case designed by one of our artists in Gruffalo base.

This year it also has separate chapters showing the Elmers, Seashells, Anansies and Bears singing.

If you would like a copy please contact the  class teacher by Thursday 20^th December so they can be made in time for Friday 21^st December.

Thank you

Walkley Primary School KS1 and EYFS team.

Our Trip to St.Bart's

We walked down to St.Bart's church where Kinder and his team sang songs with us. We played a special game of pass the parcel to tell the Christmas story. Thank you Kinder!

There was a layer with special paper, one with newspaper, 




a plain layer,


















                                               one wrapped with stars, 










new baby paper 

and then some presents! Can you remember what each layer was for? A Class Wide Reward for anyone that can!

While Shepherds watched their flocks...

We made sheep from different materials for our shepherds. Now we are all ready for the nativity performance on Friday-we can't wait!

Christmas Lunch

WOW

What a fantastic Christmas Lunch we had today!

Roast Turkey (or Quorn) with all the Christmas trimmings. 

All the adults in KS1 helped out today, and then we all sat down to have Christmas Lunch together!

HO HO HO

6th December - Read Write Inc Workshop

Read, Write Inc. workshop for parents 6^th December 2012

Helping your child to read.

Dear Parents/Guardians

Building on the continuing success of the Read, Write Inc programme and the well attended workshops in July and October; we would like to invite you to our latest reading workshop for parents. For those of you that were unable to attend our October session, we would like to provide an opportunity to attend an evening reading workshop in Burnaby Hall on Thursday 6^th December from 6.30pm until 7.15pm.

At Walkley we share your desire for reading and writing to be at the centre of your child’s development, and our commitment to this continues with an opportunity for support and guidance on reading with your child at home.

You will be given guidance on do’s and don’ts for reading with your child, including:

·         Helping your child to decode (sound out) words using pure sounds.

·         Recognising words that will be hard to read (can’t be sounded out).

·         Choosing quality storybooks - How to paint a picture with words to enhance comprehension.

·         Where to find resources and support at home.

We believe this will be a really helpful and useful workshop that will arm you with the tools to support the way reading and writing is taught in school through the Read, Write Inc programme.

If you would like more information and advice on phonics before the workshop, visit the parent support website; Oxford Owl at www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Thank you for your comment YF!

Thank you for your comment YF saying "These fireworks are great!" Sorry I could not publish it as it had a person's full name as the author, it must be initials only, if you need any help with this just pop into school and we can show you!

Safety Week

This week has been 'Safety Week' across school. In Key Stage One we have spent each afternoon in a different class in mixed class groups to learn about medicines, stranger danger and bullying. In Bear Class we learnt about bullying and, what it is and what to do if you see this. We designed posters to teach children not to bully and how this might make others feel.

Fireworks!

For our topic this half term 'Celebrations' we started this last week by painting fireworks pictures and learning about Guy Fawkes. Here are a selection of our pictures, can you spot yours?