Chesterfield Road
Sheffield
S8 0SB
Woodseats Primary School
Headteacher: Mrs S Fox
Telephone: 0114 2554619
Fax: 0114 2589224
email: [email protected]
website: www.woodseatsprimaryschool.org.uk
16th December 2016
Dear Parents/Carers
What a wonderful term we have had, here are a few highlights;
Nursery have enjoyed learning about and experiencing the changing seasons.
Including celebrations from around the world, for example Diwali and of course
Christmas.
Reception have been enjoying watching the changing of the season from autumn
into winter. They began the festive season with an Advent spiral, then there was
great excitement when we were visited by St Nicholas on 6th December. They have
been busy practising their songs and dances for the Nativity performances this week
and making shopping bags and candles for Enterprise Week. They even managed to fit in some Maths and
English!
Y1 have had a great half term learning about their topic ‘Moon
Zoom’. They had an exciting start to their topic as they
discovered a spaceship crash in the school yard. They found
different materials and discussed the properties of these. They
then wrote a recount of the exciting event. In history, they learnt
all about Neil Armstrong and created wonderful sketches of him
on the moon. In D and T they explored wheels and axels and made their own moon
buggies. They also carried out a science investigation of making an astronaut fly.
Y2 have been busy with their topic ‘Muck, Mess and Mixtures’. They have enjoyed looking at
and creating, work by different artists. As part of their topic and for the Christmas Fair, they
have done some baking. They made chocolate slabs and stained glass window biscuits. They
enjoyed getting messy!
Y3 have done a fantastic cross curricular topic called ‘Scrumdidliumptious’. This involved
linking healthy food choices in their topic work to writing instructions for cake recipes in English
and measurements in Maths. They also created posters in computing for the Christmas Fair,
where their delicious cakes sold really well!
Y4 have enjoyed their topic ‘Potions’! They looked at how to write instructions
to make potions and how to write reports about a Wizard’s best friend, the
Woodseats Fire Breathing Dragon. In maths, they focused on multiplication and division.
They used these skills to investigate what their total profit was from the Christmas Fair
(suffice it to say that they did very well!)
Y5 have been learning all about the wonders of space! They have found out the
different features of each of the planets in our solar system and have written
mnemonics to help them to remember their order! They have researched the work
of astronauts such as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Helen
Sharman. In literacy, they wrote some extremely silly explanations based on the
book ‘Until I Met Dudley’ and produced instructions to explain how to make the wonderful bracelets they
made for the Christmas Fair.
Y6 have been enjoying their topic ‘Darwin’s Delights’ learning about evolution and
adaptation. They especially enjoyed their trip to the University of Sheffield, where they
learned about sea creatures! They have also carried out a fun science experiment
pretending to be hungry birds, using pegs as beaks to investigate how beak shape has
evolved to suit the food source.
Well done everyone!
After School Clubs: The two choir clubs are continuing after the holiday and also the morning recorder
groups and the Spanish Club. Pyjama Drama is continuing for Y1’s and Y2’s on Wednesdays, and the
sports clubs will also return. Please see our website for more information about all our clubs.
The Christmas Fair on 9th December was a great success! There were lots of stalls and each class sold
items that they had made during Enterprise Week. The classes made a combined profit of £1,160.64 –
well done everyone! Thank you to everyone who came to the fair and supported us.
Thank you also to everyone who sent in the marvellous cakes which brought in a good
amount, and thank you also to everyone who brought in toys for the toy stall. Friends of
Woodseats raised a fantastic amount and we would like to thank them for all their
hard work in organising the Fair and the Christmas Raffle. We would also like to
thank Father Christmas who took time out of his busy schedule to see us during the
Christmas Fair and also visited all the classrooms today and brought presents for all the
children.
Pupils and staff wore Christmas jumpers today and from that, we are
raising money which we will be donating to the Save the Children
Christmas Jumper Day appeal.
We would like to thank Friends of Woodseats who
organised and paid for the entertainment at the Christmas
parties for KS1 and KS2. Barney Baloney entertained the
KS1 children on Wednesday and the KS2 children enjoyed their disco yesterday afternoon with the
DJ, Daniel Synyer.
We would also like to thank the many volunteers who come into school to help
with lots of different things including keeping our library tidy, reading with the
children, baking and helping with school trips. It is very much appreciated by all the
staff and pupils. Many of these volunteers were able to join us for our Mince Pie
Morning yesterday and enjoyed listening to our Choir who sang some beautiful
Christmas songs.
Nativity performances took place this week in Nursery, Reception and KS1. Thank
you to everyone who came along to watch, we had some lovely feedback from
parents and families and the children really enjoyed practising and performing their
plays.
We were very excited to hear that we came first in
the recent Tesco Bags of Help scheme and would
like to thank everyone who voted for us in the local Tesco stores. We can’t
wait to spend the money we were awarded on our Nursery and Reception outdoor spaces!
School Holiday Dates
Christmas
Teacher Training Day
Teacher Training Day
February Half Term
Easter
May Day
Monday 19th December 2016 – Monday 2nd January 2017
Tuesday 3rd January 2017
Friday 17th February 2017
Monday 20th February – Friday 24th February 2017
Monday 10th April – Friday 21st April 2017
Monday 1st May 2017
More dates for your diary and lots of other information can be found on the school website:
www.woodseatsprimaryschool.org.uk
The next newsletter is due on Friday 20th January. This will be put onto the school website and
emailed to all parents as we no longer send paper copies home. If you would still like a paper
copy, please collect one from the School Office.
Finally…
Our last day at school is today, Friday 16th December 2016. We look forward to
seeing you all when school re-opens on Wednesday 4th January 2017.
On behalf of all the staff and governors, we send you our best wishes for Christmas and
the New Year.
Sinead Fox
Headteacher