School Newsletter Trinity Academy Eppleby Forcett and Middleton Tyas Proud to be Church of England Academies Friday 27th November 2020 Autumn Term - Issue 11 A MESSAGE FROM MRS McLEAN Dear Parents and Carers, We have had a lovely week in our schools and enjoyed getting creative making beautiful angels. This has been inspired by the 'Wing and a Prayer' project at Ripon Cathedral, where local children made origami angels to represent the NHS and people who have died due to COVID. https://www.riponcathedral.org.uk/wing-and-prayer/ We have sent our creations, along with all the other schools in the Trust, to All Saints Church of England Academy, where an amazing installation, with over 2000 angels, will be created. Do watch out for the finished display, as it will be a wonderful sight to see. The Christmas trees have arrived at our schools and are looking beautiful. A huge thank you to Friends for organising delivery and to Mole Valley for their extremely kind donations. We have organised a way of Christmas cards coming into our schools safely. Cards can be brought into school and placed in the class post box. The closing date for Christmas cards into school is Friday 11th Decem- ber. Cards will be distributed the following week, after a period of quarantine, at which point the children will be able to take them home. We have had some damage to the grit box and bollard in the parent car park at Middleton Tyas, which now has to be replaced. Please can I ask parents to park carefully in the designated bays and not on the grass verges. Have a lovely weekend and stay safe! Kind regards, Mrs D. McLean Head of School PARENT GOVERNOR ELECTION, TRINITY ACADEMY EPPLEBY FORCETT & MIDDLETON TYAS We need to appoint a parent governor to provide skills and support to our governing body. We are very ambitious for our schools to provide the best possible learning environment for our children and continuously develop and support our staff to achieve this. The governing body already has good representation from people with an education background. We would be particularly keen to hear from people with finance, communications or business skills. The schools are part of the Dales Academies Trust and the Governing Body forms part of the Dales Trust governance arrangements. If you are interested and would like further information, please email the Chair of Governors Janet Probert at; [email protected] or visit our website - www.trinityefmt.dalesmat.org. DIARY DATES - DATES IN RED ARE EVENTS RUN BY THE FRIENDS Friday 11th December - Christmas Jumper Day Friday 11th December - Christmas Dinner at Middleton Tyas Wednesday 16th December - Outdoor Nativity Story at Eppleby Forcett (more details will follow) Wednesday 16th December - Children’s Christmas lunch at Eppleby Forcett Wednesday 16th December - Christmas Party Food at Middleton Tyas Friday 18th December - Last day of term Monday 4th January - Inset day (school closed to children) Tuesday 5th January - School re-opens to children INFORMATION WHAT HAVE YOUR CHILDREN BEEN DOING IN CLASS THIS WEEK? Preschool: It was all about bugs in Preschool this week! The children built a five-star bug hotel that was kindly supplied in our 'Hanson Box'. They will regularly visit and observe the bug hotel to find out what type of bugs are staying there. The children then used lollipop sticks, paper shapes, scissors and glue to make pictures of different types of bugs. They also counted how many legs each bug had. Reception: The children have really enjoyed continuing to learn all about numbers 4 and 5 this week. They explored the numbers in many different ways: counting and subitising items; counting to and back from 5; finding different ways to compose the numbers using addition; recognising the numeral and matching it to a quantity; and their favourite, finding different ways to represent the numbers using 'stampolines' inspired by Numberblocks. Our book of the week was 'Hibernation', a fact book all about animals getting ready for their winter sleep. The children were amazed to find out that arctic ground squirrels sleep for 8 months of the year! Year 1: This week Year 1 have started to read their new class book - Rosie Revere Engineer. They enjoyed using clues on the front cover to predict what Rosie might do during the story and they also wrote Rosie a wonderful letter to encourage her to persevere and try her best. In Maths this week, the children have been learning all about number bonds and have used systematic patterns to help them answer lots of Maths problems. Year 2: This week in Maths, the children have continued to look at money. In English, they have been looking at our class book called, 'If I built a car?' From this book, they have been looking at SPaG and focusing on past and present tense and a range of conjunctions. In Science they have been looking at the process of how new materials are discovered and in Art, the focus has been our unique Advent Calendar! Year 3: Year 3 have really enjoyed their class text this week and written some fantastic descriptions of the Emperor and written questions, exclamations, statements and commands too. In Maths, the children have worked through lots of problems involving the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. Supermovers have helped us learn our times tables too with their quirky routines and rhymes. PE saw the children really enjoying Hockey and taking part in a virtual golf tournament and in Science they have designed and discussed what makes a healthy diet and all the different food groups. Year 4: This week the children have been very excited to start part 2 of their story 'Romans on the Rampage - Jailbreak!'. They used their improving writing skills to predict what would happen next in the story, and listened really well to each other reading their predictions. In Maths, the children have worked hard on their times tables challenges and everyone has made good progress in this area. Along with improving their hockey skills this half term, the class have been practising their archery skills and are entering a virtual competition next week to compete against other North Yorkshire schools - we will let you know how they get on! Year 5: In Year 5 this week, the children have been building suspense in their narrative writing. They used the power of film to generate some spine-tingling paragraphs based around ‘Alma’s’ visit to a mysterious toy shop. In Maths, they have continued their work on multiplication and have now completed a unit on square, cube and prime numbers. The Christmas stockings are taking shape; the children have joined the front and back pieces of their felt using overstitch. Year 6: The children have again written some fantastic stories in Literacy, using the short film 'Alma' to base their writing on- the work was First Class! Please do check your child's Dojo as many have uploaded it for you to see. In PE this week, the class competed in a virtual orienteering competition, they completed different courses set out on the MUGA in a timed event. Well done to Bobby, Josh, Fraser and Jack who completed all 6 courses in less than 3 minutes! The class have also completed their 'Advent Calendar of Kindness' ready to begin next week. It has a random act of kindness for each day in December which they're looking forward to doing. Our Stars of the Week are: Mel and the Team (Preschool): Georgia Batty for good tidying-up, sharing, comforting others and trying to do good listening. Well done Georgia! Mrs James (Reception): Sophie Mortimer for fantastic cursive letter writing, as well as bringing a super smile and a touch of sunshine to the classroom! Miss Bartle (Y1): Delphine Tarn for persevering and pushing herself all week in every single lesson. She has been focused and ready to learn at every moment and has been a great role model to her friends in our class. Well done Delphine! Ms Ray (Y2): Rafferty Wilmore for having the best positive and curious attitude towards learning. Miss Yarrow (Y3): Alex Clapham for working extremely hard this week, especially in Maths, solving problems and developing his confidence answering questions in class. Well done! Mr Keane (Y4): Joseph Hawkins for showing enthusiasm and interest in his work and for always contributing well to lessons! Mrs Parker (Y5): Lili-Belle for working extremely hard on her Maths. Well done for persevering with your work on multiplication and for finding different arrays. Mr McCulloch (Y6): Biba Farnaby for being a delightful young lady who always works hard and gives 100%. She is kind, pleasant and respectful to everyone and is the perfect Year 6 role model. Well done Biba. INFORMATION Cont…….. SCHOOL ADMISSIONS SEPTEMBER 2021 COVID UPDATE If you have a child that is due to start in their The government is constantly updating their guidance. Reception year in September 2021, you will need to Please click here to be taken to their website which apply for their school place on the North Yorkshire will give you the most up to date information. admissions website, before the deadline of Friday Track and Trace: The NHS Test and Trace App is now 15th January 2021. available. If you haven't already, please download to www.northyorks.gov.uk/school-admissions your phone/smart device by visiting: https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/ Mrs James has produced a lovely virtual tour video to show you what we have to offer at our schools. Tests: If you or any of your family have COVID symptoms, the government have advised you to get a Please click on the links below to view the video and if test.