Dear Parents/Carers
Happy Friday, everybody! We hope you have all had a lovely week and are ready for a well-earned break for Easter! The Easter Bunny made a visit this afternoon and left the children with a special gift…
The children in Year 6 have been working hard to prepare for their SATs and have brought home a pack of facts and activities to continue to prepare for both English and Maths. There are page numbers to be completed for year 5 on Google Classroom.
Blue & Yellow Day
We all looked great today and raised much needed money for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. We focused on how many children in Ukraine are not having their Rights met, including their right to a home (Article 27), their right to be safe from harm (Article 19), and their right to an education (Article 28).
Thank you to Mrs Gittings, who has raised over £300 thanks to her beautiful ribbons.
Easter Activities in Essex
Please see below a message from Nicola Sparks, our Healthy Schools Engagement officer:
Easter Holiday Activities
ActivAte Holiday Clubs
Essex are pleased to be working in partnership with Active Essex to deliver over 100 Essex ActivAte
holiday clubs across Essex – supporting the physical and mental wellbeing of school aged youngsters!
We have once again extended the offer to provide spaces for those from low-income working families, alongside those who are eligible for benefits based on free school meals.
Find clubs near you and book here: www.activeessex.org/children-young-people/essex-activate/
Library Activities
There are lots of events and activities taking place in libraries during the Easter holidays. I would be grateful if you could share the information below with your colleagues, networks and the families you support:
Children’s Author Events – 8 children’s author events with 3 children’s authors are taking
place across the county. Full details and booking information is on our
website: https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/news/easter-holiday-author-events-for-children/
Big Easter Book Hunt – find golden tickets hidden in library books between 2 and 23 April
to be entered into a prize draw to win a Lenovo Tab M7: Full details on our
website: https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/news/big-easter-book-hunt/
Circus at the Library – several libraries are running circus-themed events across the
Easter holidays. Additionally, Chelmsford Library will be running a circus skills workshop
(booking required and for which there is a charge):
Full details on our website: https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/news/circus-at-the-library/
Essex Libraries Photo project – we are looking for families to send us photos of them
reading in their favourite places in order to create colourful customer galleries in local
libraries. Full details of how to submit photos can be found on our
website: https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/news/essex-library-service-photo-project/
Story of the Month – to celebrate the Essex Year of Reading we are launching a virtual
story of the month. The video we share will be accompanied by activity ideas. The March
story is up on our website now: https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/news/story-of-the-month-march/
Bringing Stories to Life – we are hosting some storysack workshops in conjunction with
ACL: Full details and booking information is on our events
listing: https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/events/?&EventName=bringing&page=1
Other events and activities – there will also be other family events and activities
taking place at numerous libraries and full details can be found on our events listing
which is searchable by library and by audience: https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/events/
Have a great break!
We hope you have an ‘egg-citing’ Easter holiday.
Please note our emails will not be monitored until Tuesday 19th April when the children return to school.
Take care
Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Witherall.
