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Remembrance Assembly

A reminder that parents and carers of children in the Eagles’ class are welcome to join us as the Eagles lead our Service of Remembrance at 8.45am this Thursday, 13^th November.

Health and Wellbeing

One of our school priorities this year is to encourage children to engage in more physical activity and exercise throughout the school day. By doing this, we hope to improve children’s health and wellbeing. There is a great deal of evidence that children with better health and wellbeing are likely to achieve better in their learning.

Some of you will have noticed that we are having some new playground equipment installed on the Key Stage 2 playground. As well as an outdoor gym, there is also a traversing wall and a three-way shooter (similar to a basketball hoop). Most of this equipment is designed to encourage collaborative play. The equipment will be available to the children in Years 3-6 to use at playtimes and lunchtimes. It will also be used during some PE lessons. At the end of this week we will also be having all the pitch markings re-laid and some new markings installed. We are sure that all this equipment will excite and interest the children and encourage them to be more physically active at playtimes and lunchtimes.

A further strategy we are using to encourage children to be more active is the Moki Bands. These are screen-free activity trackers that count steps and active minutes throughout the day. The children in the Swallows’ class successfully trialled these last year and we are now going to roll these out to all the children from Year 1 to Year 6. Most children are naturally competitive and with some friendly competitions, such as between classes and school teams, we hope that children will be inspired to be more active during playtimes and lunchtimes.

Our goal is to build a school culture that inspires children to stay active and carry healthy habits with them for life.

Times Table Rock Stars

Times tables are important. Children feel more confident in mathematics when they have a solid grasp of times tables. They serve as a building block for many mathematical concepts and have practical applications in daily life.

Times Table Rock Stars is a fantastic resource to help your child learn their times tables in a fun and interactive way. All children from Year 2 upwards have a login for TTRS and are encouraged to access this from home on a regular basis. Younger children have a login for Numbots. Visit ttrockstars.com/parents for more information.

Attached to this newsletter:

This month’s online safety newsletter (also available on the school website under Parents/Online Safety)