The Weekly Update #10

• Hull FC with Pearls and Rubies
• Anti-bullying week
• Odd Socks Day - come in odd socks

• Hull FC with Diamonds and Sapphires

• Rubies trip to cinema (screening 10 – 11:40)

• Year 5 Sport Arete

• Year 6 Sport Arete

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• If your child is in Rubies please ensure you have given permission for the free cinema trip.
• Please can Diamonds bring clothes they can get dirty for outdoor learning on a Monday.
• Please ensure all items are clearly named.
• Please ensure children have a coat in school.
• Please ensure PE kit is always in school all week.
• If any of your contact details have changed please let the school office know and change on your Arbor account.

littlepearlsnursery@swinefleetprimaryschool.co.uk

We have a very busy week planned in nursery next week! We are going to be exploring our senses and this will include lots of fun activities: a sound walk outside, yummy food tasting, exploring different textures such as ice in the water tray, making scented playdough and adding different smelling herbs into the mud kitchen so we can create some delicious dishes.

The children will be invited to have a go at exploring what they can see using torches to create shadows and will even have a go at making their own shadow puppets.

During forest school next week, we will be having a go at making our own nature instruments. If you have any clean plastic bottles that you could donate for this we would really appreciate it.

• If you have any clean plastic bottles you could donate to us next week we will be using them to make instruments. Thank you
• Remember that Wednesday's are our Forest School style sessions so we will get muddy so old clothes are advised.
• Please ensure all items are clearly named and that your child has a coat in school.
• If any of your contact details have changed please let us know via the nursery email as soon as possible. Many thanks.

16th November - 20th November

As a school, we want to encourage high attendance as we know the positive impact this has on children not just academically but socially too. Many schools give out rewards for 100% attendance but this is not something we do. We appreciate that children can be ill and do not want to discourage those who always attend when they can. We are parents ourselves and can appreciate the battles that sometimes occur in a morning trying to get your child to school when they are not feeling it that day so do want to try to help with this.

We do not want to penalise children for being off but want something that we can all aim for to encourage high attendance. As a team, we have decided that we will trial a new approach this term. For every 50 sessions that your child attends they will earn some form of reward. The first one will be non-uniform for the day, which is always popular. This means if your child is ill they do not miss out, all children will achieve this when they have earnt 50 sessions. We hope that if for example your child is on 45 sessions it might encourage them to attend to reach their 50.

This week's attendance 9th - 13th November:

Pearls - 100% Excellent

Rubies - 94% Below expected standard

Diamonds -96% Below expected standard

Sapphires - 95% Below expected standard

The below workshop is being put on by the MHST who work with our school and in the authority. A number of parents have accessed other workshops before and found them really useful. The up and coming workshop is listed below:

Understanding Anxiety: A Parent/Carer Workshop

• 4 February 2027, 4:30pm (Online)

The workshops are free to attend and offer parents and carers the opportunity to learn evidence-based approaches to supporting their child's emotional wellbeing and behaviour.

Parents and carers can book a place via the Eventbrite page (East Riding Mental Health Support Team) or the direct links next to each workshop.

New dates are in red and purple shows a change in an originally planned date.

We will share resources each week but also see our monthly newsletter for a collection of these resources that have been sent previously.