Singing at Marlow Regatta on Sunday
We are looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday with 8 other Marlow primary schools singing at the Marlow Regatta Festival.
Please meet Mrs Downing and Mrs Howarth at 12.30pm to the left of the stage (as you look at it). We kindly ask for children to come wearing their red jumper/cardigan over their weekend clothes.
Whole school trip to Kew Gardens
Thank you to those parents/carers who have provided consent already.
We still have a number of children without consent. Please provide consent through ParentPay ASAP so that we can make all the necessary arrangements for the trip. We must have consent for your child to be allowed to take part in this trip.
Creative Week
Calling all creatives! We welcome any parent/carer with a creative background to come to school and run a workshop with the children for an afternoon. We would love you to share your creative knowledge in a fun, hands-on way for both classes in your children's year group. It can be any day during this week, from 1.30pm-3pm.
Transitions
This half-term, we will be spending some time getting the children ready for their next steps in education, and we thought that it would be good to share with you some of the plans that we have to help the children prepare for moving on.
PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Economic) lessons focus on transition this half-term and children begin to learn that change can be a good thing and that moving on to another class or school is just part of their learning journey.
Class mixes
Reception to Year 1
When the Reception children move to Year 1 in September, they will be in new class groups. We take this opportunity to mix children from Ants and Bees to create 2 new classes: Butterflies and Ladybirds. This is to enable us to balance the classes using our in-depth knowledge of the children, something that we didn't have last July. Reception children and their parents will find out which class they will be in on Tuesday 2nd July.
Year 1 to Year 2
The mix of children in Year 1 will not be changed for their move to Year 2. They will find out which class they are moving to on Tuesday 2nd July.
Year 2 to Holy Trinity
Year 2 children who are going to Holy Trinity Junior School will be mixed and put into 3 class groups ready for their move. Again, we will use our in-depth knowledge of the children to make as balanced a mix as possible. Holy Trinity will then add children from other schools starting with them in September to the 3 groups. Children and parents will find out their class on Tuesday 2nd July.
Transition activities
This week, we started the first of our transition activities. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, the Reception children visited the Year 1 classrooms. They spent time in each of the classes so that they could meet some of the Year 1 team and familiarise themselves with the Year 1 learning environment. They have not visited their class teachers for next year nor were they in their new class groups, they simply visited Year 1.
Also, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, the children in Year 1 visited Year 2. They visited one classroom on Tuesday and the other on Thursday. Again, this is for children to meet the Year 2 team and get used to the Year 2 classrooms, which are very different to the Year 1 learning environment.
In addition to this, on both Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, we also welcomed some of our new Reception intake to spend some time in school.
For the Year 2s, on Tuesday 18th June in the afternoon, they will be visiting Holy Trinity School (if that is where they are going to for their Key Stage 2 years). They will spend some time playing on the field, will meet the Year 3 teachers and will have the opportunity to ask them questions.
There are more activities planned over the coming weeks and there will be more details in future newsletters.
Praise in the Park
For the first time since the pandemic we are going to be holding, Praise in the Park. Praise in the Park is where church schools in Marlow gather together to sing and retell bible stories through dance. This year we are being joined by Holy Trinity School, Little Marlow School and Saint Peter's School. The event will be held in Higginson Park on Thursday 4th July from 1.30pm-2.30pm.
Parents, carers, grandparents are invited to join us as it's a whole community event. There will be more details next week, but in the meantime, we will need some volunteers to walk with the children to and from the event.
2-inch paintbrushes
If anyone has a couple of spare 2-inch paintbrushes, we would kindly accept them for painting the large cable drums for use in the Year 1 outside areas.
Tissues
It's this time of the year when we go through a lot of tissues in school, and we would be most grateful for donations of tissue boxes from parents please. Thank you in advance.
The Eco Warriors are pleased to announce that we collected over 300 batteries as a result of their Waste Week action. The batteries were collected and taken away for recycling.
Get ready to bid like crazy on the Sandygate Silent Auction! Starting on Monday 17th June there are over 60 lots; including hampers, family days out and mystery alcohol. You need to be quick as the auction closes on Saturday 22nd June at 9pm.
Pack up your sleeping bags, camp night is back! Bring along your tent and spend a night camping in the school field.
The PFA AGM will take place Thursday 18th July at 7pm at school. This is a shorter meeting than usual, legally required to take place each year.
During the last weeks of summer term we would love to bring ice cream to school every Friday as an end of the week treat; it helps raise funds for school and is cheaper than the ice cream van! 