Dear Parents

We have seen our first snow flurries of the year, so thank you for ensuring that the children are wrapped up warm this week! The children in Forest School had a wonderful time making ice lanterns and leaf garlands. 

Cases of chickenpox are still emerging in school, so please continue to look out for symptoms if your child has not yet had it. 

Thank you for all your wonderful donations to the PTA’s Elfridges store today. The link for tickets will be published as soon as possible and children with tickets will be able to visit the store on Friday 6th December to choose a gift. 

Turkish Folk Dance Assembly

The children had a very special assembly on Wednesday morning, with a demonstration of Turkish folk dance. They were absolutely entranced by the experience of a new style of dance and music. Thank you to our governor Firat Yildizgoren for arranging this visit for us, his family and their dance troupe are incredibly talented! 

Teddy Lympics Competition

On Tuesday afternoon Mrs Scott-Simons and Miss Wakeling took 16 of our Year 1 children to the Teddy Lympics sporting festival at Chelmsford Sport and Athletics Centre. The children competed against 9 teams from other schools in a variety of events such as jumping, running and throwing. They worked brilliantly as a team, showed some amazing skills and behaved impeccably, coming 5th overall. Well done team, we are very proud of you! 

Year 2 Library Visits

Dolphins had a trip to Writtle library on Thursday where they were introduced to the library by Mrs Soden. Sharks will have their turn next week, while Year 1 and EYFS will visit next term.

Christmas Events

We had a wonderful surprise to kick off the festive season, when we received a call from Longacres Garden Centre in Chelmsford to tell us that we had won a competition to award a Christmas tree to a local school! You will see that we are now proudly displaying the 7 foot tree, with a stand, skirt and lights, all donated by Longacres. Thank you so much to Longacres and to the parents who nominated us on Instagram, we are incredibly grateful!

We hope to see some of you at Messy Church this Sunday at 10am. Please join me and Mrs Pluck at All Saints Church to help make decorations for the Christmas Tree Festival on 7th - 8th December. We will look forward to seeing Year 1 and 2 parents again the following day for Reverend Tony’s Advent Assembly, which starts at 9.30am. Please drop your children off at the usual time and then make your way to the church, keeping the reserved pews free for children and staff.

All parents are invited to our Christmas Storytime next Friday at 2.45pm. Please come into the classroom to read with your child for 15 minutes, before waiting on the playground at 3pm while we get the children ready to go home for 3.10pm. You are welcome to bring in your favourite Christmas or winter story with you, or we have plenty in school.

The children are preparing for their Christmas performances to parents. EYFS will have their event on Thursday 5th December, while Years 1 and 2 will perform on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th. Details will be sent home next week.

A final reminder that staff clubs have now finished for the term and all other clubs have their last session next week.

Stay warm this weekend!

Best wishes

Tracey Wilson