And they're off!
Well done to all the children in Ash and Elm for completing their first full week and their first set of full-time days!
The children are doing well at getting into the swing of the school day and following our classroom routines. After hanging up coats and bags in the morning, we have been encouraging the children to vote for the book they would like to listen to at the end of the day. Each child can collect their photo from the class pot, stick it on the Velcro under the book that takes their fancy and see which book wins the vote later in the day! Feel free to help your child with this when they come into the classroom each morning.
This week we have been getting used to having lunch in the hall. We are becoming experts at collecting our meal, sitting with our classmates and clearing our plates after. Fish fingers were a firm favourite on Friday, and everyone tucked into the delicious chocolate sponge for pudding- yum!
In class this week, we were introduced to Jigsaw Jenny. We have begun to look at how we are all wonderful individuals who share common interests with each other (lots of us love swimming), but that we have differences, too (not all of us are keen on being in the sea- too cold and too many crabs!). We also found out a bit more about the staff working in Ash and Elm: Mrs Sadaoui, for example, loves to cook and will be cooking with us throughout the year. We also discovered that all of us love eating delicious food, so this is a match made in heaven!
Please remember that it is PE on Monday. Your child can come to school wearing their PE kit for the day.
We also politely remind you to label coats, jumpers and cardigans etc. It's easy for us to get them back to the right child if they have been labelled.
We look forward to next week and our first full-time week! Pick up is at 3:15pm. Thank you for making such an orderly queue outside the classrooms! This makes our jobs so much easier at the end of the day, as we get to know the names and faces of all the parents and carers.
