Dear Parents / Carers
Please find below this week’s Weekly Update!
Letter of the Week – Our chosen letter for our next session is ‘v’! Please can your child bring in an item which has a ‘v’.
Makaton – Our chosen sign will be ‘Daddy’.
Playhouse Activities This Week – This week we have enjoyed sport with Richard. We enjoyed going on holiday; the children pretended to put on suncream. They also pretended to have ice creams with cones and used bean bags which they had to throw and catch onto the cone! We had lots more fun games. We have been sculpting with clay. We’ve also enjoyed building with hollow blocks and the children decided to build the Three Billy Goats Gruff bridge, they also retold the story in their play. The children also made a house and stage using the hollow blocks and put on a great dance show. We celebrated Shrove Tuesday and enjoyed pancakes with jam or syrup.
Forest School This Week – This week we were rained off but, we will ensure that we have lots of fun experiences next week by looking at bugs and birds.
Playhouse Activities Next Week – Next week we will look at the Indian Ocean and we’ll talk about the animals that live in the ocean and plastic pollution. We will learn new Nursery Rhymes .. There’s a Hole in My Bucket, Goosey Goosey Gander and If You Go Down To the Woods Today. We will enjoy lots of activities around those rhymes and we’ll read the books together. We will celebrate World Book Day on Thursday and we’ll be celebrating literacy. Rachel has had some very successful Lteracy Workshops. Thank you to everyone who attended. If you would still like to attend, please speak to Rachel. Your child can dress up as their favourite book character. We will pop over to John Clare School and we’ll join them for a short while in their World Book Day Assembly. Please arrive promptly at 9.00am so that we can join the assembly quickly. Thank you.
Raising Awareness of Down Syndrome – Educating your child about all our differences is so important. Knowledge is power so by educating our younger generations will help us to promote inclusion and eradicate discrimination. We will be raising awareness of Down Syndrome over the next few weeks and to support our learning, please take a look at the Down Syndrome website for more information: https://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/about/resources-for-schools/ We would like to let you know that World Down Syndrome Week is coming up 16th – 22nd March and to celebrate awareness of Down Syndrome & to support their campaign you can buy a pair of socks: https://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/product/lots-of-socks-socks-2020/
Diary Dates – Here are a few dates for your dairy.
W/c 9th March – Hindu Celebration – Holi
W/c 16th March – World Down Syndrome Week
Have a lovely weekend!
Kind regards
The Playhouse Team