It might be cold, but one of the highlights of our day is to stand by the gate at the start and end of the day – it’s always good to see happy and healthy faces!
Living and Learning
This week’s Living and Learning theme has been about giving and receiving compliments.
Spend a week giving compliments to each other at home each day. Try to make sure the compliments are about what we’ve done and not just how we look – we’ve got more power to change what we do than how we look so these compliments can be much more effective.
Some children find it hard to receive compliments, so this week of giving compliments might help, too.
How we communicate with you
As we’ve been using Arbor for a couple of months, we thought it would be useful to let you know about the different ways that we communicate things with you.
Anything urgent (such as the cancellation of an after-school club) or a quick reminder about something (like the photographer being in school) will be sent via the Arbor app. If you haven’t already downloaded it to your phone, please do so. It may be useful to set it so you receive notifications of messages. As it’s free for us to communicate with you this way, we’ll use in-app messages rather than texts. If you don’t have the Arbor app installed, these messages will come to you via email.
Our weekly message on Fridays contain information about things coming up, such as parents’ evenings or sports days, as well as other information that we think you might find useful, such as top tips to support your child to stay safe online. Most letters will be emailed out to you, too. We’re moving away from sending out hard copies of letters. Please try and check your emails daily, so you don’t miss anything important.
For anything relevant to your child’s class, please check the
Class News pages of the website (we recommend doing this at least once a week). Nursery and Reception tend to put reminders on their Class News page, as they don’t have a homework page.
After-school club – early closing
Next Friday is the last day of term. If you use our wrapround care on Fridays, please remember it closes early: 5pm.
Have a happy and healthy weekend.
