Lets go Sledging!

Some days you just need to go with it and experience the world around you! Badgers and Foxes swap their Maths books for bin bags! 🦊🦡⛄️

EYFS Trip to the River Severn

To wrap up Nursery Rhyme Week, the children in Reception visited the River Severn to find some ducks. We enjoyed singing 5 Little Ducks to the ducks (and swans!) before then feeding them.

What a lovely end to a fantastic week!

Old MacDonald had a Farm-Nursery Rhyme Week

Each day this week EYFS have been focusing on a different nursery rhyme song and so the Farm on Wheels joined us for Old MacDonald had a Farm!

Gabriela sings for Nursery Rhyme Week

Badgers & Foxes celebrate Nursery Rhyme Week with Gabriela 😀

We said ‘just go with it and see what happens’ and the children embraced the musical collaboration with songs being sung for everyone. Gabriela’s positivity is infectious, she had us smiling and laughing all afternoon. Music really can be food for the soul ❤️ It’s also great for our children’s mental health and wellbeing.

You can often see Gabriella busking in our town centre or at local events 🥰

 

Book for our Christmas Movie Night

Need a couple of hours to go Christmas Shopping?

We can help with our Christmas Movie Night for EYFS, Yr 1, 2 & 3 pupils!

Children should stay after school and be collected at 5.30pm.

Tickets cost £5 available on Arbor (No charge to our children eligible for Free School Meals)

EYFS Christmas Theatre Visit-Tuesday 17th December

We have arranged for EYFS to visit Theatre Severn on Tuesday 17th December  to see an afternoon performance of “The Owl who came for Christmas”, based on the book by John Hay and Garry Parsons.

They will be setting off around 1.15pm and will return to school around 3.50 to 4pm, depending on the traffic at that time of day.

The cost of the trip is £16.25, including transport costs and tickets.  Payment for this trip should be made via your child’s Arbor account prior to the date of the trip.

House Christmas Card Competition

All children are invited to take part in a Christmas Card Competition.

Help us create our very own Coleham School Christmas Cards to send to local businesses and organisations that help us during the year!

Winners…The winning design for each house will be professionally printed and delivered by pupils to local businesses from the school.  The winner from each house will also have some cards to take home and with family/friends.  House points will be awarded for all entries so we hope to see lots of designs.

How to enter….The design needs to be completed on A4 paper (landscape or portrait using any art supplies) and needs to have the child’s name, class and house on the back. Entries can be handed to any house captain who will collect these or can be put in the post box by the hall.

The deadline...Entries need to be handed in by next Friday 22nd November.

 

The Grand Old Duke Of York

Its Nursery Rhyme Week! When the Grand Old Duke of York set the children a Geography challenge today, they were only too keen to except. So off they went to see what can be observed from the top of the hill.

Pumpkin Soup

The children in Reception really enjoyed making some Pumpkin Soup, after reading a story about some animals making their own Pumpkin Soup. It was absolutely delicious, with some children even asking for second helpings!

EYFS Pumpkin Party

It is safe to say that all of the children in Reception had a wonderful time at the Pumpkin Party. What a great way to celebrate the end of their first half term with us here at Coleham

Careers in Helping Others for EYFS

The children in EYFS have been so fortunate to have had 4 Careers Visitors this week!  They have learnt about being a midwife, doctor, carpenter and firefighter!  These jobs relate well to our youngest children who often role play Doctors and Fire-fighters so to hear from guest speakers in action has developed our knowledge further.

Thank you to Lindsey, Daniel, Adam and Steve and the fire crew for giving up your time to inspire and educate our youngest children!

 

Farm on Wheels Visit to EYFS

As part of Nursery Rhyme Week we have arranged a special visit.  Our friends from Farm on Wheels will be visiting on Wednesday 13th November and bringing farm animals to help us with Old Macdonald had a farm.

In order to cover the cost of this event, we kindly ask that parents contribute the amount of £4.50 per child.  Payment is to be made via your child’s Arbor account prior to the day.

We will be celebrating Nursery Rhymes all week in school.

National Child Measurement Programme 2024 – 2025

Please see attached information from the Public Health Nursing Service about height and weight checks for our EYFS and Year 6 children.

The School Nurse will be visiting on Friday 15th November.

If you wish to opt out please pop to the school office to collect a form.

NCMP Parent Pre-measurement letter 24-25

NCMP Information Poster

Pumpkin Party Coming soon

The staff are throwing a Pumpkin Party for Badgers and Foxes after school.  Please make payment if your child would like to attend.

EYFS Trip to Holy Trinity

Today the children in Reception visited Holy Trinity Church to learn about Baptisms and how Christians welcome children into the Church.
Thank you Reverend Fi for hosting us!

EYFS Dress up day – I want to be …

Dear Parents/Carers

On Friday 4th October we are inviting all EYFS pupils to come to school dressed up as someone they would like to be when they grow up.
This will link to the work the children have been doing in Literacy, and the current EYFS topic ‘All About Me’.

Please don’t go out and buy anything special, their own clothes will be fine.

If you have any questions about this or anything else, please speak to your child’s class teacher, or email the school admin team.

Many thanks,

Miss Harris

EYFS Road Safety

As part of our Safety Week at Coleham, this week the children in Reception have been learning how to cross the road safely.
The children all listened well and successfully remembered the rules to safely cross the road. Well done Foxes and Badgers! 🦊🦡

Jim Bones Pirate Adventure

The Reception children had a fantastic finale to their first school year!  A lot of swashbuckling fun was had with walking the plank, musical islands, tug of war and a treasure hunt all led by the most infamous sea rogue Captain Jim Bones who taught the little mateys a pirate dance.  The children were so looking forward to their pirate party and helped to organise it all making the decorations and biscuits. Ooh Aghhh Mateys it’s been a grand olde day!

 

Parent Lunch 🦊🐼

Thanks to the record number of families for attending our Friday lunch of Fish and Chips. The children were so happy and loved showing their parents where to go.

Making Ice Cream

Children in Reception have been inspired by a trip to our local ice cream shop, Gelatistry today and decided to make their very own ice cream. Delicious!

 

Athlete Adrian Patrick leads Coleham Circuit Training

As a finale to our Olympics Week we were visited by a third medal winner!  Sprinter Adrian Patrick, a Commonwealth Games Gold winner for 4 x 400m relay led the whole school in circuit training.  These intensive 8 minute sessions saw the children do sit ups, press ups, squats and jumps which we all loved.  The perfect Friday morning work out! He talked to us in assembly about always remembering our vision and dream and not being distracted by behaviours that won’t lead us to our end goal.

What a week of incredible experiences.  Thank you to Miss Lewis for all her hard work and meticulous organisation.

 

Olympics Showcase Song

Our Olympics Festival Day was fantastic and we finished with a showcase song to parents.  Mrs Porrett led the children with ‘We are Shropshire’ and ‘Wavin Flag’.  There is nothing more powerful than when we come together to sing on mass.  Our Coleham Community all together! A lovely end to the day.

Olympics Festival

What a day!  Miss Lewis organised a day off curriculum for our own Olympics Festival.  It started with a whole school run to Paris, the equivalent of 435 miles.  For 20 minutes all the children and staff ran around the schools grounds and it was such fun!  500 happy faces walking, jogging, running to Paris with the music motivating us.

Out Festival contained sports stations entirely run by our year 6 cohort of Sports Leaders who were fantastic at explaining, demonstrating and encouraging the children.  The younger classes were buddied up with older classes working together which was really lovely to see. The children participated in long jump, high jump, relay hurdles, triple jump, an Olympics quiz, shot put before stopping for an outdoor picnic lunch.  In the afternoon the children played badminton, handball, discus, javelin, relay and we finally finished with a  showcase song to parents.  Phew!! What an action-packed day!  Now we are all ready to watch the Olympics starting on 26th July.

EYFS Parents Lunch Invite

We would like to invite you to join your child for a school lunch at 11.30am on Friday 12th July so that you can participate in the whole dining hall experience and sample our school meals for yourselves. Maximum of two visitors per child please.

If you are able to join us for lunch, please let us know by completing the attached link by Wednesday 10th July so the kitchen can ensure sufficient meals are prepared.

Please can you also pay for your Lunch on School Shop in Arbor- £3.15.

https://forms.office.com/e/kmz6hRuRDG

Thank you

EYFS Trip to Gelatistry

This week the children in Reception have been learning about data handling. What better way to learn about this than exploring the most popular flavour of ice cream before going to try some at our local gelato shop, Gelatistry!
The children loved ordering their gelato and identifying which was the most popular (it was chocolate brownie!).