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Marle Hall photographs and writings - sharing drop in.

Fri 29 Mar 2019

The children who went to Marle Hall have been engaged in writing tasks about their experiences. They would like to share these and their photographs with parents. To this end, we would like to offer you the opportunity to drop in to school to see their work. Children can come out of their class to accompany you if this is during the school time. The work will be available to view on Friday from 2:30pm. The work will be on display until 4:30pm. For parents attending the Easter assembly, we are hoping to make the work available to see after that, on the Friday morning.

Easter Egg Hunt

Tue 26 Mar 2019

Abacus Pre-School Nursery Easter Egg Hunt

On Saturday 30th March, Abacus Pre-School Nursery will be holding its annual Easter Egg Hunt from 11am-1pm on the Abacus site. There will be a barbecue, refreshments, raffle, face painting, a bottle stall and lots of other games and activities.

Egg hunt tickets are £2.50 per child, for children up to Year Two and are available from Abacus Nursery and Abacus Trustees.

Please bring along your jars of coins for the Small Change Mile, as there will a collection station there on the day!

Tue 26 Mar 2019

Parents Notices – Up to Easter

Just to Recap plus some new events.

Fanboats workshop – Fieldmice class will be taking part in a stem workshop, making boats powered with fans, on Thursday 28^th March in the morning. It promises to be great fun.

Marle Hall – On the last day of term, Friday 12^th April, there will be a post Marle Hall sharing session. The children from Years 5 and 6 who went to Marle Hall will be released from their classes. They are writing about their experiences of the residential trip at the moment and we felt that it would be nice for them to share these with you. At the same time, you will be able to see lots of photographs from the trip which were taken by the Dassett staff and the staff from Marle Hall. Mrs Hanna is busy compiling these. If you would like to drop in, from 2:30 – 3:15 please do. The photographs and writings will also be able to be viewed after school until about 4:30.

Easter – Years 3/4/5 will be heading up the Easter assembly this year. They will be sharing lots of varied work about this important time of year in the Christian calendar. The rest of the school are also learning songs for the assembly. If you can come to see and take part in this Act of Collective worship, it will be on Friday 12^th April in the morning at 09:15. It should last about 30 minutes.

Easter bonnet parade. _ The Abacus Easter bonnet parade will be taking place in the school hall at 11:00am on Wednesday 10^th April.

Warwick Arts Centre Trip – Years 1 and 2 will be going on their fun and exciting trip to Warwick Arts Centre on 10^th April

Class photographs – these will take place on Thursday 11^th April. Please let us know if you do not want your child to be included in the class photograph. These photographs will be displayed in school, as they are now.

Friends of the Dassett events – Movie Night is on the 5^th April. Check out the Friends page on Facebook for more information. Farmers’ Market – Saturday 11th May

Other Dates after Easter

Class assemblies –

Year 1 – Friday 24^th May at 09:15

NB:-INSET DAY – 3^rd June

Year 3/4 - Squirrels – Friday June 14th 09:15

Year 4/5 Fieldmice – Friday 21^st June 09:15

Year 2 - Friday 5^th July at 09:15

Year 6 – End of Year production – 11^th July – evening times TBC

Sports Day – 28^th June in the morning . More details will follow.

Mathletics

Tue 26 Mar 2019

Following a trial in Year 2 and Year 6, and the extremely positive feedback from parents in those year groups (many thanks for your time) we have adopted Mathletics as our home learning for maths from Year 1 to Year 6.

Each exercise takes approximately 10 minutes so class teachers will set 2-3 sections to be completed per week.Then the children can hone their skills while playing the fun, interactive games on Mathletics

http://uk.mathletics.com/primary

SATs Information for Parents - DfE Link

Tue 26 Mar 2019

Please see the link below for more information about the Key Stage 1 (Y2) and Key Stage 2 (Y6) SATs coming up in May.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694765/Information_for_parents_-_2018_national_curriculum_tests_at_the_end_of_key_stages_1_and_2.pdf

Bus Safety

Tue 26 Mar 2019

We have had reports of some children removing their belts on their bus journeys to and from school today – clearly this is an extremely dangerous thing to do and I have spoken to children about this.

It is also very unfair on the driver and the passenger assistant who are trying to ensure a safe journey for your children.

Please would you also speak to your children about the importance of this.

The coach company do have the right to refuse to take your children if they do not conform with the rules or behave in an unsafe or distracting manner. Thank you.

Marle Hall

Fri 22 Mar 2019

Well done to all of our children and adults who went to Marle Hall this week. They have returned safely after an exhausting, challenging, self-affirming week! Well done and rest up over the weekend.