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Trinity Academy Eppleby and Proud to be Church of Academies Friday 9th October 2020 Autumn Term - Issue 5

A MESSAGE FROM MRS McLEAN Dear Parents and Carers, October is 'Black History Month' and we are utilising this as a launch pad to focus our teaching and learning around diversity in the present day, as well as finding out about some significant individuals from history. At the end of this month each class will share the work they have done on a whole school display. Do watch out for some examples on Class Dojo / Tapestry. Next week we shall be holding our parent consultations. This year they are being conducted via telephone. You should have received a link via Dojo/email to choose your preferred date and time slot. Please be aware that if you do not answer at your allocated time you will need to contact the school office to rebook an alternative slot. It has been brought to our attention that some acts of vandalism have taken place around the outside of the school, particularly around the parent carpark. Please can I ask you to be vigilant and if you have any further information then please contact Richmond police. Over the next couple of weeks we will be changing the way we communicate with you from Middleton Tyas. We will no longer send emails via ParentPay, instead we will use our Management Information System (Bromcom), which will send the email direct to your inbox from school. This will make emails clearer for all our parents. Eppleby already use direct emails to communicate so nothing will change for those parents. ParentPay will still be used to pay for lunches, wraparound, preschool sessions and trips, etc. Please make sure school have your up to date email address. Thank you so much to all those who have made Harvest donations. There is still time to donate, if you haven't already done so and would like to. Although our usual Harvest festival is not able to take place we have planned activities for each class that we are hoping to share with you soon. We have had a thank you from the Stanwick group of churches for the wonderful Harvest display that children at our Eppleby Forcett setting put together for everyone to see in church. Have a lovely weekend and stay safe! Kind regards, Mrs D. McLean Head of School

CONTACT WITH SCHOOL

From time to time you may need to contact the school. If your child is in Preschool or Reception, please direct all queries to Mrs Storrow at Eppleby Forcett. Tel: 01325 718298. Email: [email protected] If your child is in Years 1 to 6, please direct all queries to Mrs O’Brien at Middleton Tyas. Tel: 01325 377285. Email: [email protected] If your query or concern needs to be dealt with by a senior member of staff then our Head of School, Mrs McLean, can be contacted on a daily basis if necessary. Please do this by contacting the relevant school office and we will ensure Mrs McLean gets in contact with you. Our Executive Headteacher, Mrs Williamson, can be contacted if required but please bear in mind that she works for our schools 60% of the time, so is not always available. Thank you.

DIARY DATES - DATES IN RED ARE EVENTS RUN BY THE FRIENDS Week Commencing 12th October - Parent Consultations via telephone (further information to follow) Thursday 15th October - Flu Immunisations at both settings for all children in Reception to Year 6 inclusive Friday 23rd October - 100 club draw (numbers still available, please contact Friends) Friday 23rd October - Last day of this half term Monday 2nd November - Children return to school for the second half of the Autumn term Monday 9th November - Tempest Photography to take individual photographs at Eppleby Forcett Sunday 1st to Thursday 12th November - Virtual Christmas Fair INFORMATION WHAT HAVE YOUR CHILDREN BEEN DOING IN CLASS THIS WEEK? Preschool: Preschool's book of the week has been Handa's Surprise based in Kenya. The children counted some oranges, compared their size and used the segments to create some patterns and art. They then investigated a pineapple. Over the coming weeks, they will be learning about Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental crusader, famous for planting millions of trees. Reception: The children have been learning all about feelings this week. They have talked about how they could help each other and how they can keep their minds healthy as well as their bodies. They enjoyed learning about positive thinking and trying some laughter yoga. In Maths, the children have done some excellent sorting and grouping and in Phonics, they have been learning the new letter sounds 'g,o,c,k'; some tricky for now words 'I, the'; as well as some more high frequency words. Year 1: This week Year 1 have enjoyed reading their class story. They loved the amazing creations that the main character invented for his car; from a jet booster to help it fly through the clouds, to a swimming pool inside the boot. The children took inspiration and went on to design their own 'super cars' with football pitches in the footwells, spiky tyres to climb on any terrain and even ice cream machine handbrakes. It has been lovely to see them enjoying the story so much and even better to see the fantastic inventions of their own. Year 2: The class have worked really hard this ‘mechanical’ week. They have looked at their 2, 5 and 10 times tables. In English, they have worked on their new class book 'Papa's Mechanical Fish’. The children carefully identified different materials in the classroom in Science and they have also enjoyed PE, PHSCE and RE lessons. Another busy week! Year 3: Year 3 have been super busy studying their Romans topic. They have started to create their own 3D Colosseums identifying where different people sat or stood, worked with Roman numerals in Maths and listened to the story of Romulus and Remus and how they discovered Rome. In Science they have studied their teeth which led to interesting discussions about children having less teeth than adults and identifying their incisors, canines and molars. Year 4: This week, Year 4 have been using their knowledge of place value to solve problems using addition with four- digit numbers. It has been quite tricky, but the children persevered and got there in the end. The children have been using their skills as writers to make their writing much more interesting by using expanded noun phrases and by using statements, questions, commands and exclamations. The class have continued their research into the Romans and found out that the ancient Roman road called Dere Street went past Middleton Tyas up the A1 and crossed the River Tees at , where the ruins of the Roman bridge can still be seen! Year 5: In Year 5 this week, the children have been problem solving in Maths, and in English they have been writing sentences with relative clauses. They continue to follow the ups and downs of life as an evacuee in their class text. Olive and Cliff are now living with Ephraim, the Lighthouse Keeper but he is a mysterious character. In other areas of the curric- ulum, the children have drawn a scientific diagram of how their circulatory system works and they have written down their ideas for being mindful (see the photo of our class display on Dojo). Year 6: The children have been working hard investigating topics of their choice to produce some rather fantastic information texts about WW2. They have also been continuing their work on division and applied their learning to some tricky problem solving activities. In PE, the children have enjoyed some ball control work in football. It was great to see all children getting involved and working together superbly. Well done to Jude S and Harry for being our PE stars of the week! Finally, in Science the children have investigated the circulatory system and how oxygen and nutrients are transported around the body.

Our Stars of the Week are: Mrs James (Reception): Felicity Graham for some fantastic sorting in Maths, positive thinking and talking about her feelings. Miss Bartle (Y1): Georgina Hawkins for always trying your best in all aspects of learning and for being a fantastic role model to your friends. It is rare to not see your hand up ready to give things a try, keep up the super work Georgina! Ms Ray (Y2): Bertie Whent for taking pride in his Reading, Writing and Maths. Miss Yarrow (Y3): Edward Fretwell for being really keen in maths and contributing to class discussions. Well done! Mr Keane (Y4): Nell Downing for her exemplary attitude to learning and as a fantastic example to others. Mrs Parker (Y5): Charlie Beadle for super focus in lessons this week. Charlie has been trying really hard with his problem solving in Maths and he wrote a super piece of dialogue between two characters in English. Well done Charlie! Mr McCulloch (Y6): A huge well done to Ella Rose for being our star of the week. Ella always works so hard and gives 100% to everything. She is the perfect Year 6, well done Ella! INFORMATION

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ABSENCES COVID UPDATE If your child is unwell, please contact the The government is constantly updating their guidance. school before 9am each day. Please click here to be taken to their website which will give you the most up to date information. It is important that we know what is wrong with your Track and Trace: The NHS Test and Trace App is now child, so if you leave a message please do tell us what available. If you haven't already, please download to they are off with. your phone/smart device by visiting: https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/ If your child has COVID symptoms, then they MUST remain at home and get tested immediately. Please Tests: If you or any of your family have COVID symptoms, the government have advised you to get a click here to be taken to the website with all the test. Please click on the following link for information information regarding how to get a test. on how to do this. Please do not send your child to school if they have a https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test temperature and/or a persistent cough. If you are Advice for parents: By clicking here you will be taken unsure whether you can send them in, please contact to the government webpage that gives detailed the school office. information on how to help your child during the pandemic. This includes supporting their learning if Can we also remind you that if your child has had isolating at home and ways in which to help with their sickness and/or diarrhoea, they must not return to mental health and wellbeing. school until 2 days have passed since their last IF YOUR CHILD HAS ANY OF THE SIGNS OR episode of the illness. This helps SYMPTOMS OF COVID, PLEASE KEEP THEM AT HOME us to minimise the spread of such AND CONTACT THE SCHOOL OFFICE. bugs in our schools. Thank you. Thank you.

HARVEST COLLECTION WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY Thank you to everyone that has donated to our Harvest To celebrate World Mental Health Day, the children Collections so far. across both sites have been busy doing lots of lovely If you haven’t already donated and would like to do so, we mindfulness activities today, including: Mindfulness will leave the boxes out on Monday and Tuesday of next breathing and yoga; discussing emotions; discussing week for any last minute donations. ways to notice when they aren't feeling 'ok' - and most Pictured below are the donations we have received at our importantly discussing that this is ABSOLUTELY OK to settings so far. feel that way. They have created their own individual lists of ways that they can help themselves to get back to feeling more positive emotions in time. The children have then taken these ideas and created posters, which have been displayed around the school in both of our settings as a positive reminder to all of our school family that 'IT IS OK TO NOT BE OK!' PSHE Lead - Miss Bartle

VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS FAIR CHRISTMAS RAFFLE November 1st - 12th online As well as a Virtual Christmas Fair, we have decided to run our hugely popular Christmas Raffle. We’ve decided to take our brilliant Christmas Fair online Are you able to donate a prize? and will be running a Virtual Christmas Fair this year and we’re going to need lots of support in order to make it Do you know of anyone that is able to donate a prize? work. Do you have contacts in local businesses that may be It will run as a Facebook group and ‘stallholders’ will be able to help us by donating a prize? advertising their products and special offers on a rolling If so, please could you contact us as soon as possible programme across the 12 days. We’ve already got lots of so we can put together a list of prizes ready for the interest for virtual stalls but if you, or anyone you know, is sale of tickets. interested in joining in then please email us for details. Your help with this will be much appreciated. We’re hoping to have a great range of products on offer Thank you xx and even some Christmas themed events so it will be a Email: [email protected] great way to do your Christmas shopping and support your Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/friendsofTrinityEFMT/ schools and local small businesses at the same time.

WAYS TO DONATE AT THE MOMENT SECOND HAND UNIFORM BUY, SELL & SWAP We use Easyfundraising and We are in the process of setting up a Buy, Sell and Swap Smile Amazon to help raise group for good quality second hand school uniform. funds for our schools. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for further details and a You simply visit their sites, by clicking on the logos below, choose link to the new group. the Friends of Trinity EFMT as your chosen charity and then carry It’s a great way to do your bit for the environment and save on with your internet shopping as usual. a few pennies along the way. You will need to setup an account if you don’t already have one but this will not cost you anything. MY CHILD’S ART This means that you help us to raise money whilst doing online shopping without it actually costing you anything. Friends have organised a new fundraising personalised gift scheme this Christmas called:

100 CLUB

Our next draw is on Friday 23rd October. The children will be creating their unique Christmas design in school. This will then be sent to, and processed by, My We have some numbers left so please get in touch to Child’s Art. purchase a number. You will be given a leaflet from school and this will have It works out at only £2 a month with approximately details on how to purchase Christmas cards and a fabulous range of gifts, with your child's design on, through a 50% of the funds raised going to our schools. personal online portal! This will eliminate the need to send money to school. The products will be delivered direct to your door! You have to be in it to win it!