Head of School’s Newsleer February 2020 Dear Parent/Carer Welcome back. I hope you all had a lovely half term holiday, despite the wind, rain and storm Dennis keeping everyone wrapped up and staying in the warm. Our enquiry queson this term is ‘What’s beneath our feet?’ We will be learning about Palaeontology with a parcular focus on learning about dinosaurs. Each year group’s topic web is on our website for you to look at. hps://www.wroughtonfederaon.co.uk/pages/learning/our-curriculum Our commitment focus this term is ‘Healthy Me,’ and our values linked to our commitment focus are respect and responsibility. Events in Term 4 We have some lovely events planned for Term 4. A full list of dates is at the back of the newsleer, but listed below are a few highlights for your diaries. Year 2 Living Rainforest Trip—Thursday 27th February. Fossil Dig workshop—Friday 28th February World Book Day—Thursday 5th March. Children can dress up as their favourite character. Families Together Aſternoon— Friday 13th Mach at 1.15pm . This is an invite only event. Leers will be given out by the end of this week. If you receive a leer please sign up if you are interested. This session will be on games. We look forward to seeing you there. Fabulous Friday Open Aſternoon— Friday 27th March at 1.15pm. Come along and spend the aſternoon looking at your child’s work and compleng various acvies with them. The focus this term is on algorithms in compung. Year 1 producon—Tuesday 31st March AM & Wednesday 1st April PM—Book a cket to come and enjoy the Hansel and Gretel show. Easter Church Service—Friday 3rd April. Come and watch the church service. If you would like to help walk children down then please let the class teacher know.
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Head of School’s Newsletter February 2020
Dear Parent/Carer
Welcome back. I hope you all had a lovely half term holiday, despite the wind, rain and storm Dennis keeping
everyone wrapped up and staying in the warm.
Our enquiry question this term is ‘What’s beneath our feet?’ We will be learning about Palaeontology with a
particular focus on learning about dinosaurs. Each year group’s topic web is on our website for you to look at.
We enjoyed lots of lovely events during term 3 and below are some highlights. The children were able to
enjoy Safer Internet Day, The school disco, cooking during Families Together event and meta cognition ac-
tivities for Fabulous Friday. We raised £453 to help Australia rebuild after the bushfires. The Australian cake
competition was very successful. Thank you to everyone that entered. The whole school community en-
joyed eating your yummy products.
Contact for Queries and Concerns
I would like to remind parents of our contact details and who to contact if you would like to share a
query or concern. You can contact via e-mail or by arranging a face to face appointment.
Firstly contact the teacher
If the concern has not been resolved you can contact the Year Group leader.
EYFS Lead—Mr Barrington Wilding
Year 1 Lead—Mrs Smith
Year 2 Lead—Mrs Pileggi
Or contact Miss Keeping, Head of School.
If you feel the matter has not been resolved then contact Mr Wilson, Executive Headteacher.
The staff email addresses are all on the school website for further details.
https://www.wroughtonfederation.co.uk/contact
Staffing
I would like to take the opportunity to welcome Miss Mullis into Wroughton Federation. Miss
Mullis has joined our team this week as teaching assistant in White Class. She has currently just
finished her teaching degree and will be working at Wroughton Infants until July.
Also I want to say a big congratulations to Miss Gomes, who has recently got marriage. Miss
Gomes’s married name is Mrs Desouza.
Friends at Wroughton Infants
Friends at Wroughton have bought the school 15 programmable toys. These programmable toys are
used as part of the computing programme where the children will learn about algorithms, creating
an algorithm and debugging it. During Fabulous Friday this term the children
will teach their parents all about algorithms
and how this resource has enhanced their
practical skills and knowledge with the
computing curriculum.
Thank you to all parents for investing and
supporting the school at the Friends of
Wroughton events.
Year 1 Phonics Parent Workshop
The Year 1 team are inviting parents to a Phonics workshop.
There are three session held.
On Tuesday 10th March at 5pm & Thursday 12th March at
9am there is a phonics workshop for parents. Staff will give
you all the information about how we teach phonics in school
and will discuss what the phonics screening paper looks like.
On Wednesday 11th March at 9am we are inviting parents
into the classrooms to observe one of the phonics lessons and see phonics in action. You will be
able to see the theory being put into practice. Please come along if you feel this would benefit you.
It will give you ideas on how to help your child with their reading at home.
Year 2 SATs Preparation
Not long now until May, when the Year 2 children will undertake their SATs. These are standard-
ised tests that the children will complete. This term the teachers and children will be working hard
to prepare for these. All the prep work will help give your child confidence when taking the tests.
Please help your child prepare by reading frequently and completing homework given. Reading
fluency is the key to helping all children to access the task ahead. Please help your child by encour-
aging them to read in their talking voice (not sounding out each word and reading from sight the
words) to help them prepare. This in turn will help children understand and comprehend what they
have read during the reading, grammar and maths paper.
The Year 2 team will be sending a letter out to invite parents to an Assessment Workshop. During
this session the teacher will go through what the papers look like and how they prepare your child.
The children will not know they are doing these tests as we like to organise it so the children are as
relaxed as possible. Therefore all children will be secret agents and will have to tackle the challeng-
es ahead to complete the mission. If your child comes home saying they have been secret agents
today then they have been practising their SATs. We would encourage you to use the same lan-
guage so that the children do not panic that they are being tested.
Many of the old SATs questions from the previous National Curriculum are online and if you wish to look at what the papers look like before the parent workshops. www.satspapers.org.uk The Parent workshop will be held on Wednesday 1st April at 9.30am and again at 5.30pm. Please sign up to a slot so we know how many people to cater for.
