Dear Parents / Carers,
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a lovely break and managed to spend some quality time with your family and friends.
The children have started the new year with a great deal of enthusiasm and have settled so quickly into their learning, which is great to see.
Dear Parents / Carers,
Well what a final week we’ve had at school. Our Carol concert was so joyful. It certainly made us all feel more ‘Christmassy’. The children sang beautifully, the musicians showed off their amazing talents and Mrs Elkin did a fabulous job at getting everyone to join in and ‘raise the roof’ with their singing.
A massive thank you to both Mrs Elkin and Mrs Harris for organising such a lovely service.
A huge thank you to everyone who donated to the Baked Beans Christmas Tree for Alice Charity. It looked amazing and will be gratefully received.
Our KS1 Christmas performances were super. Eva, Louie and Elise sang their hearts out and certainly brought a tear to my eyes! All of the children were superb and your words of praise were passed onto the staff who have worked so hard to make the performances such a success.
And finally and a huge thank you to everyone for your gifts and cards with such kind words in. They really mean so much and are appreciated by the staff.
I wish you a wonderful Christmas and a peaceful New Year. I hope you manage to have some treasured time with your family and friends.
I look forward to welcoming you all back on Tuesday 3rd January 2023.
Thank you as ever for your continuing support.
Stay safe and take care.
Mrs Wilmer and the Friarswood Team.
I apologise now for the lengthy letter today! There’s some important information at the very end of the newsletter which you may find useful. Please feel free to pass on to family and friends.
On Monday our Year 3 class got to experience going on the Polar Express as part of their writing topic. As you can see, they had an amazing morning! They even got their very own jingle bell and a hot chocolate too.
On Friday last week and again on Tuesday this week, we welcomed our children’s grandparents in to enjoy Christmas dinner cooked by our catering team. It was lovely to see so many happy faces making special memories to cherish. We would like to say a big thank you to AIP catering for cooking so many lunches, the PTA for their help in serving and to Mrs Dean for organising and sorting it so that everyone who came along enjoyed their Christmas dinners in our school. #SucceedTogether
Dear Parents / Carers,
Once again, another great big thank you for the donations of chocolate ready for the PTA chocolate bingo.
It was wonderful to see so many families joining us for our afternoon on Wednesday. The children loved having you join them for their learning. Some of you even got to see your child take part in their piano lesson.
Thank you so much for the many lovely comments. We’ll hold another Celebration of Learning at the end of next term.
On Wednesday we had a Celebration of learning. A chance for our parents to see what wonderful work their children have been doing this term and to join in with a lesson. It was lovely to see so many parents in school and enjoying the lessons that they were taking part in. Thank you to everyone who joined us, it was great to see so many of you. #SucceedTogether
Dear Parents / Carers,
Thank you to everyone who donated to Children in Need today. I know everyone is being careful with their money but there are some children who certainly do need some extra support. Together we have raised £129
Dear Parents / Carers,
Thank you so much to everyone for donating to our PTA ‘bring a bottle’ event. Next Friday is non uniform for donations of chocolate.
The big event is Thursday 8th December at 6pm. We hope you can join us for the bingo fun.
This week we have had a lockdown practice. This is when the children and staff make themselves safe under a table and lock the class door incase of any intruders in school. We practise this each term along with fire alarms. Once a year we practise an evacuation drill. Our safe location should there be an evacuation is The Coppice. The Coppice use Friarswood for their safe location.
The following link will take you to a site that has lots of tips for stress free (or less stress) home life, work life and wellbeing The Lily-Jo Project . It has tips for online wellbeing and escalation techniques. It also has pages specific for children.
This week we have been taking part in various activities and workshops in class to learn more about the value of money and how we use it in our daily lives. The junior children had money workshops led by a money expert. They were great and the children completed the tasks set with brilliant confidence. The younger children looked at the money we use and how we use it, starting to show an understanding of the value of some of our currency. We would like to say a big thank you to the Citizens Advice Bureau for coming along in their van and offering advice to anyone that may have needed it. #SucceedTogether
Our Eco-Warriors went to do a local litter pick in the Three Parks in their lunch break on Thursday. They did an amazing job, cleaning up a community space that is used by so many. Thank you NBC Green Team for helping us today. Well done Warriors! #DoWhatMattersMost
