Brain and Phonics!!

Thanks to everybody who came this afternoon for our brain activities - we know that the children love it when you come in - so thank you for giving up your time!!

In phonics this week we have done the letters i-n-m-d and recapped the tricky word 'the'. We have also been practising blending and segmenting the High Frequency Words (HFW) in-is-it-at. The children are really good at saying the sounds and names of letters - we now need to do lots of practice at writing them!!

Thanks

Mrs Foster and Mrs Ashby

Brain Week!!

Just in case you missed your invite - the children would like to invite you into school on Thursday 15th Oct at 1pm to come and join us for some brain activites. You are welcome to stay until hometime - but if you just want to pop in for an hour or so that is fine too.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Phonics!!!!

Just a quick update......

We have started phonics this week as we said at the meeting - by the end of the week we will have learnt s-a-t-p and the tricky word 'the'. We have also mentioned the names of these letters so you can use those at home to.

We still have technical probs with the colour printer - but I haven't forgotten about the Jolly Phonics handout!

Thanks
Mrs Foster and Mrs Ashby

Curriculum Evening

Just wanted to say a big thank you to all that attended the curriculum evening tonight - it was great to see so many of you there!! I know there was a lot to take in, but I do hope you found the evening useful? Please post your comments and let us know!!

Our next curriculum evening will be Wednesday 2nd December - 5:30pm - 7pm we really hope that you will be able to come!

Don't forget the Brain Awareness meeting next week (8th October) - that will be a really good night and very informative - not to be missed!

If you were not at the meeting tonight - please see either me or Mrs Ashby and we would happy to give you the reading handout!!

We will let you all have the jolly phonics pictures as soon as we can print them out!!

Thanks again for coming tonight - it really makes it worth while for us when so many of you come! :)

Mrs Foster and Mrs Ashby

Brain Awareness Week at Methley Primary! wb 12th October 2009.
This is a week dedicated to increasing our understanding of the human brain - how it thinks, learns and remembers. The pupils at Methley Primary are the first generation of children who will get to write a manual for their brain! They will discover how to use their brains to learn and achieve in the classroom and in their lives. Staff and pupils will participate in a range of exciting activities to learn about the amazing human brain!!
Before the week itself there is an evening brain training session for parents called "Your Child's Amazing Brain!" this will be held at school on Thursday 8th October from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. Its aim is to enable you to become better partners in your child's learning by examining the key role you have to play in nurturing the young brain. We promise it will be informative and fun!!
We are very excited to be running this amazing brain week in school and seeing the positive affects it will have on each child's learning journey.

Curriculum/Phonics Evening

Reception will be holding the first of 2 curriculum evenings on the 1st October at 6pm. This evening will mainly focus on Phonics and Reading. The parents who attended the phonics meetings last year were very positive and they found them very useful when helping their children at home with their reading and writing. We really hope you will be able to attend and will be sending home letters shortly with more infomation.

Thank you

Mrs Foster and Mrs Ashby

Snacks

Methley Primary School has gained 'Advanced Healthy School status and a big part of that award is our 'Food Policy'.

There seems to be a little confusion about the kind of snacks that the children are allowed to bring to school.....

The children are allowed to bring the following:

-A piece of fruit.
-Vegetable sticks (Carrot/cucumber etc)
-Dried fruit (raisins/apricots etc)
-Plain biscuits (digestive/rich tea...) The plain biscuit option is only there for children who REALLY don't like fruit/veg.

The children are not allowed to bring:

-cereal/muesli bars
-chocolate biscuits, party rings etc
-Fruit bars (school bars etc.)
-Yogurts
-Smoothie pouches/drinks
-Crisps (inc Mini Cheddars)
-Cheese sticks
-Anything really that isn't fruit, veg or a plain biscuit.

We don't enjoy being 'Snack Police' but we have to adhere to school policy and if we say yes to one thing then it opens up the flood gates to all sorts. We hope that you will continue to support us in our Healthy School status and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask any of the Reception/Year 1 Team.

Thank You