Performance week has been fantastic in the Primary school over the course of the
week. A huge well done to all the students who got involved and many thanks to
our Music team for organising such a super event. We are looking forward to the
Solo Festival on Saturday morning and I hope to see you there!
The Primary Leadership Team and I are pleased to invite you to our upcoming
parent session called "Learning at Patana" on Tuesday, May 30th
in the Primary Hall between 8:00-9:00am. This is a chance for us to reconnect,
review the successes of the year, and exchange ideas for next year's parent
workshops. Please join us for a delightful and laid-back event where we will
serve tea, coffee and cake. We look forward to seeing as many of you as
possible!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Sarah McCormack
Wellbeing
This week the children were introduced the Year 3 Smile Squad'. We've noticed a large number of children aren't terribly good at acknowledging other adults or students, so we are actively encouraging them to become part of the 'Smile Squad' whereby we say hello and/or goodbye to people we see around, including other people not in our year group such as our security guards, cleaners and gardeners.
Snacks
If your child is bringing in a snack for playtime please can ensure it is a healthy snack and of a proportionate size. We have some students who eat so many snacks they have no room left at lunchtime! Many thanks!
Learning
This term, we will be learning about the theme ''Might Metals". If you would like to find out more about this please follow this link
RSE (relationship and sex) presentations
RSE lessons continue next week. During this lesson we will be talking about how the words we use to name our private parts. This leads onto a lesson regarding keeping ourselves safe, using Pantasurus!
Swimming Gala - save the date!
Swimming Lessons
Swimming lessons continue as follows:
3M, 3C, 3A and 3T will be swimming on a TUESDAY.
3K, 3P, 3D and 3J will be swimming on a THURSDAY.
For swimming, they need a black school swim suit , rash vest (optional), towel, goggles and a swim hat (for all hair longer than shoulder length).
Due to the heat at the moment please do not send your child into school with their swimmers under their uniform.
New PE Blocks
Starting next week:
Save the Date...
There will be a whole school Dress-up Day on the 2nd
June, with the theme of “Heroes”.
Global Citizenship
Recycling
Please can you send in any card boxes, cereal packets or items that could be used for junk modelling.
Busking Day
This is a charity event where all the students in Year 3 to 6 perform an act on repeat for about 40 minutes in a bid to raise money. During this time, the other students, parents and teachers walk around and drop coins at their favourite acts. The children were introduced to this during assembly this week.
Reading Book Amnesty!
We are missing a HUGE number of our levelled reading books from Year 3. Please would you mind having a really good look at home for any books that may belong to Year 3 (they should have a label on them saying 'Year 3 Curriculum') as we are missing over 100 books, making it extremely difficult for the children to change their book.
Events around the world
You can keep up to date with current events around the world by watching Newsround, an age appropriate news show. Being aware of current events will help your child to make connections with a range of themes when reading in class, and it is an ideal opportunity for you to model discussing your opinions and using experiences to draw connections between events and people.
Please ensure any snack or Birthday cakes/doughnuts that come into school are nut free. This is to ensure we are keeping all our students safe as we have some students in the Y3/4 Building who have severe nut allergies. Thank you for your help with this.
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