28.01.22

Dear Parents and Carers

Next week, Year 6 children from Sapphire Class will be taking part in Bikeability sessions.  The course will run across four mornings.  Please make sure that your child's bike is roadworthy before they bring it into school on Monday.  If bikes need to be left in school overnight, they will be locked away securely.

Ruby Class will take part during the week beginning 7th Feb.

Dates for Topaz class are to be confirmed.  Parents from Sapphire and Ruby should have received an emailed letter confirming their childs place on the course.  Topaz parents will receive a letter, once we have a confirmed date.

Homework pages for this week have been uploaded to Google Classroom.  Please make sure your child checks which pages they need to complete and remind them to hand their maths homework to their maths teachers, not to their class teacher.

This week, Ruby welcomed a new member to their class.  Herbie the hamster arrived on Friday and has already settled in to his new home.  

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Witherall 

21.01.22

Dear Parents/Carers

This afternoon, children in Year 5/6 took part in an online webinar with The 2 Johns.  The session entitled, Walk Online, is an annual event which we all thoroughly enjoy taking part in.  For those of you who do not know The 2 Johns; they are ex police officers who educate children and parents in online safety.  As always, their talk was entertaining and extremely informative for the children.

If you would like more information on what they do, please visit their web site https://esafetytraining.org/

On Thursday, children who had a school dinner were entered into a prize draw to win a tablet.  Congratulations to Isabelle from Ruby class who was the winner for our phase.

Please remind your children that homework page numbers can be found on their Google Classroom page.  Pages for this week have been set this afternoon.  

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Witherall

14.01.22

Dear Parents/Carers

This week in Year 5/6, children have been split across the three classes for reading and maths.  This is to prepare our Year 6 children for their SATs tests in May.

Homework pages have been posted on Google Classroom.  Children should hand their GPS books to their Class Teacher and their maths books to the teacher they have for that lesson.

Some children did not take their books home with them today.  They can take them on Monday.  We will not expect homework to be returned until Friday 21st January. 

On Friday 21st January, children in all three classes will be taking part in Walk Online.  This is an online safety session hosted by 'The Two Johns' who we know well here at Down Hall.  Their sessions are always interesting and informative and enjoyed by the children.

'The Two Johns' will be hosting a webinar for parents, to give you an insight into what they will be sharing with the children.  Please see details below:

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Witherall

Help keep your children safe online – free webinar Wednesday 19^th January 2022.

 

The Rochford District Community Safety Partnership, working alongside Sanctuary Housing, is pleased to offer a free online webinar that is taking place between 8.00 PM and 9.30 PM on Wednesday 19^th January 2022.

The webinar will be hosted by “The Two Johns” who have extensive knowledge of online safety issues affecting children, having previously worked in law enforcement investigating online grooming and exploitation of children.

The session is aimed at supporting parents and carers of Rochford District school children, and will reflect a similar programme that is being delivered by “The Two Johns” to Year 5, 6 and 7 pupils across the District during the week 17^th January to 21^st January 2022.

The session is run on Zoom and can be accessed via the following link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85677797432.  

 

Joining instructions:

• The session will be “live” 10 minutes before actual commencement at 8 PM.
• Click the link and a dialogue box will open – click “Allow”

 

• A Further dialogue box will open
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• In the “Your name” field, enter the name of the school your child attends and their year group e.g. Anytown Primary – Yr 5

 

• In the email field, enter your email address – this is required simply to access the session. Your email will not be visible to other participants and will not be stored or used for any purpose.

  

 

Further information regarding the Two Johns and the work they do can be found at Home - eSafety Training

07.01.22

Dear Parents and Carers

Happy New Year to you all!

It has been lovely to welcome the children back to school this week.  They have settled quickly and worked hard.

Next week, Year 6 will be taught together for maths and reading.  This is to prepare Year 6 children for the SATs tests which they will take in May.  Therefore, we would ask that ALL homework books are now returned to school in order for teachers to set work over the coming weeks.  

Homework for this week:

Maths - A TTRS battle has been set up between the three classes.  The battle will run from today until next Wednesday.

Please make sure that your child is continuing to read and work on the Year 5 and 6 spellings which can be found in their reading record books.  

Homework from the CGP books will be set from next week.  Children will be able to bring their books to and from school from then on.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Witherall