The Weekly Update #8

• Hull FC with Pearls and Rubies

• Hull FC with Diamonds and Sapphires
• Year 5 Arete English for two pupils

• Year 6 Arete English for two pupils

• Bonfire Safety assembly

• 13:00 – 15:00 Drax working with Sapphires on an engineering challenge (fruit battery)

• Diamonds school trip to Yorkshire Museum – Vikings Odyssey
• Sapphires live Siemens challenge

• Please can Pearls 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.

littlepearlsnursery@swinefleetprimaryschool.co.uk

We will be reading 'Room on the Broom', 'Sparks' and 'Best Diwali'.

As part of our focus, we plan to have fun creating some giant art, working together, mixing potions in the water area and recreating some celebrations that are personal to us in the home corner.

Have a lovely half-term and we look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 2nd November.

• 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.

Week beginning:

2nd November, 23rd November, 14th December, 18th January, 15th February, 8th March

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 summer 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 19th - 23rd October:

Pearls - 84% Below expected standard

Rubies - 98% Good

Diamonds -95% Below expected standard

Sapphires - 97% 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.