COVID update On Tuesday, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care set out the next steps for living with COVID-19 from today, 1st April. The UK Health Security Agency has published guidance this morning, though not specific to school settings. We will update you if more information becomes available. New guidance states:

Free COVID-19 tests are no longer available, other than for specific groups including NHS staff and eligible patients.

• adults with the symptoms of a respiratory infection, and who have a high temperature or feel unwell, should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people until they feel well enough to resume normal activities and they no longer have a high temperature.
• children and young people who are unwell and have a high temperature should stay at home and avoid contact with other people. They can go back to school, college or childcare when they no longer have a high temperature, and they are well enough to attend.
• adults with a positive COVID-19 test result should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 5 days, which is when they are most infectious. For children and young people aged 18 and under, the advice will be 3 days.

Football result very well done to the football team on their 1-0 win against Staynor Hall, and good luck tonight as they play Longman's Hill.

Y6 bake sale A group of Y6 children from Nebular class are organising a bake sale next Friday in aid of charities supporting Ukraine. If you are able to send in any donations of cakes, buns and biscuits, they can be brought in on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday next week. Children can then bring in 50p or £1 on Friday to choose a treat, and any leftovers will be available in the afternoon during the open classrooms session.

Parents evenings The first few days of parents evenings have gone ahead this week, with a few technical hitches along the way, but overall they have gone smoothly. Some teachers still have appointments available for next week so if you haven't managed to make one yet, please check the link that came in an email. If you can't make the times offered, please contact us and we will make sure the teacher gets in touch with you.

Open classrooms Friday 8th April Because we are having the parents evenings by video call it is not so easy for you to be able to see your children's work. So that you can have a look at their books and their classroom, we are having an 'open classrooms' session on Friday 8th April from 2:45pm. You can visit your child's classroom, where they will be able to show you their work before we finish for the Easter break.

NEXT WEEK Easter Services Please join us at St Wilfrid's for our Easter Services on Thursday 7th April, for sharing the Easter story, singing and prayer. So we can fit the children and family members in, we have to do this twice over, with these timings for each class:

9.30am

Venus

Jupiter

Neptune

Mars

Pluto

Nebular

10.45am

Galaxy

Saturn

Earth

Asteroid

Constellation

If you would like to help us to walk up to church, please meet us on the green at 9:10am for the first service and 10:25am for the second. Thank you!

School uniform We have sent reminders out by text and email about school uniform this week. We understand that, after uniform was relaxed so much as part of the Covid arrangements, some children may not have clothing which is exactly as stated in our uniform list. We don't expect anyone to go out and buy brand new items to replace these right now; but from September as children are growing out of things, we will be expecting the appropriate school uniform and colours to be worn by all children every day. We do have stocks of second hand uniform which is in very good condition: just contact us via the office and we will help out.

Earrings To keep children safe and avoid any painful injuries, earrings must be removed for PE. If your child can't take their own earrings out, please make sure they are left at home on PE days. If you are not sure when PE is, then please check with the class teacher. We can't use tape or plasters as these are not considered safe by the School Sports Partnership and the NYCC Health and Safety team.

Free school meals: save up to £450 a year With so much in the news about the cost of living and now energy prices going up, you can check whether your child could be eligible for a free school meal, whatever school year they are in. All the information is on the NYCC website at https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/free-school-meals

If you would like any advice or support with this, please contact the school office. We treat these matters with complete confidentiality and are always happy to help if needed.

Whole school attendance last week dipped to 90.9%. Please keep supporting us in improving school attendance by making sure your child is at school on time and ready to learn with everything they need, and that they miss as little school as possible.

Next week we will be sending letters out to families where we have concerns over attendance, and where this needs to be improved over the next half term.

The graph below shows our school attendance since the start of the school year up to the end of last week (we are the pink line).

An amazing 311 children have had 100% attendance this week: very well done!

Friday 1st April 2022: Y5/6 football match vs Longmans Hill

Thursday 7th April 2022: Easter Services at St Wilf's (am). Exact times for the classes are above

Friday 8th April 2022: Y6 Ukraine bake sale

Friday 8th April 2022: PTA Easter chocolate tombola, £1 per child

Friday 8th April 2022: open classrooms from 2:45pm

Saturday 25th June 2011: PTA Summer Fair (TBC)

I’d like to really encourage you to follow this link and watch Ukrainian Christians of all ages reading Psalm 31 in their bunkers.

It is deeply moving, not least because the words of Psalm 31 could not be more apt.

Thanks

Blessings

Pete

https://youtu.be/f1ImRaAhP5Y

St Wilf’s Spring Fair is on its Way!

Hello folks!

We've had to wait a long time but at last we can hold our first BIG fundraising event at St Wilfrid's for over two years!

Our very first SPRING FAIR will be held on Saturday 14th May from 2.00pm to 4.00pm.

The St Wilfrid's Spring Fair will be held in the church, the Parish Hall and outside in the church grounds and rectory garden.

There will be lots of stalls and activities held inside and out including crafts, tombola, cakes, jewellery, hand made cards and refreshments, games and activities for children and much more.

We hope it is an amazing success and that you will all come along to support our Fair.

But first of all CAN YOU HELP by providing any of the following?

Prizes and bottles for the Tombola

Chocolate for a children's tombola

Raffle prize

Children's toys and games

Pieces of nearly new jewellery and toiletries

Baking for the cafe........(list in back of church coming soon)

After Easter we will leave boxes at the back of church for any non-perishable items you wish to donate or contact Lis Middup, Simeon Pearce-Storm, Ruth Breeze, Cathy Rodgers or Pat Jarvis

Please drop cakes off early on the Saturday morning of the fair. Church will be open from 9.30/10am on Saturday 14th May. If this is not possible please contact Cathy or Lis.

You can help in other ways too....

Help to run a stall.

Tell all your friends, bring your family.

Any new ideas for fundraising or interesting stalls? Let us know.

If you know of anyone who would like to set up a stall, please let us know. PLI needed. (For more information please contact Lis Middup)

If you'd like to offer your help or need more information please contact

Lis Middup

07770440214 lismiddup@aol.com

Pat Jarvis

01757708881 churchwarden@stwilfridsparish.com

Hallie Long

Brooklyn Hearld-wox

Taylor Wanless

These are Compassion, Thankfulness, Fellowship, Hope, Humility, Justice and Service. We don't just believe in these values, we live by them every day in school. This week's class work is positively brimming with examples of all our school values - well done everyone!

This week we have started to look at the Christian festival of Easter. The children have enjoyed learning about the Easter story and looking at Easter traditions. We have had lots of Easter eggs to explore in the tuff tray and the children have thoroughly enjoyed filling them with coloured rice. We have practised mark making in cocoa, using our fingers to decorate eggs with lots of fiddly gems, and using food colouring and shaving foam to decorate our Easter cards!

In phonics we have continued to look at initial sounds and we have also started to orally segment and blend the sounds in words. Oral segmenting and blending are essential tools in early reading. In maths we have been developing the children’s understanding of capacity using the language full, empty and half full.

Star of the Week:

James Hardy

This week we have focussed on the story ‘The Last Tree' by Emily Haworth-Booth. We have discussed the blurb and made predictions as well as giving our own opinions about the people’s houses in the story and how they worked together to save the last tree. The children wrote about what they would do if there was only one tree left in the world and we were amazed at the imaginative thoughts they had. We celebrated the book by planting an apple and pear tree on the school field. Hopefully this will be a constant reminder of such a fantastic week as the children progress throughout the school.

On Thursday we had the chance to take learning out of the classroom for the day and into the great outdoors. It definitely added a sense of excitement and adventure for the children, who were free to explore and manipulate the environment around them using all of their senses. The snow, rain and wind didn’t impact our day, if anything it added to the excitement!

The children really worked hard on improving lots of skills including physical fitness, independence and healthy risk-taking as well as continuing to develop their gross and fine motor skills.

In teams they made dens for a teddy and decorated our Willow Arch with lots of coloured fabric and ribbons. They also had to hunt for items on the field to design a face made from a clay base and finally designed and painted their own paper lanterns.

After all the children’s hard work we finished the day with a well-deserved hot chocolate and a biscuit! We were so proud of their resilience, determination and perseverance throughout the day.

Stars of the Week

Moon – Eryn Carlton

Mercury – Jack Carmody

What a busy week we have had in Year 1. We have enjoyed sharing two versions of the fairy tale 'Billy Goats Gruff': Trip Trap Trouble and The 3 Billy Goats Fluff. We compared the difference in characters, story plot and ending in both stories. We had lots of fun creating our own 'troll' and coming up with questions we would like to ask him/her. In maths, we have continued to measure, focusing on volume/capacity. We ordered, compared and investigated problems involving volume before applying these skills and creating our own 'troll potions' - yuk! In science, we have continued to investigate plants and identified a range of garden flowers and trees. In RE we looked at the Christian symbols of Easter and enjoyed tasting hot cross buns and creating our own Easter crosses. In DT, we finally got to make our moving pictures - they look great!

Stars of the week

Galaxy - Eleanor Watson

Venus - Emilie Knight

In English this week, the children have created characters for their own version of George’s Marvellous Medicine. They have written the beginning of the story, setting the scene in great detail to help the reader create a vivid picture in their mind. In Maths, the Year 2 children have learnt about vertices and symmetry of shapes. The Year 3 children have learnt all about the different types of angles, as well as how to draw accurately in centimetres and millimetres. In Art, the children have drawn in the style of Quentin Blake and used the key elements of his drawings to illustrate their own characters. In Science, we have continued learning about the human body; this week focusing on muscles. The children thoroughly enjoyed making a model of a hand, to show how the skeleton and muscles work together to move.

Stars of the week

Neptune- Alex Beaumont

Saturn- Harvey Halliwell

Jupiter- Frankie Clowrey

We’ve had another busy week in Year 4. In our English, we have been writing an account of the fine dining and celebration in the great mead-hall of Heorot. We’ve also been creating our own Kennings poetry, these are Anglo Saxon riddles and have been great fun to write.

In RE we have been focusing on the Easter story over recent weeks, culminating with Easter Sunday this week and why it is so important to Christians today.

In our history we have been delving back in time to look at what became a key year in British history, 1066, looking at the local battle of Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings. This Norman conquest is close to Anglo Saxon times. We have also enjoyed drawing our own choice of scene from the Bayeux tapestry.

Stars of the week:

Earth - Scarlett Scott

Mars - Theo Hutchinson

This week we have written our stories about our future lives. I must say the thought and planning that has gone into these pieces has really paid off, they are amazing! In Maths, we have continued to explore decimals, finding their equivalent fractions and learning how to change decimals to fractions and back again. In Science, we have continued to investigate forces, using Newton meters to measure the force needed to move objects. We have discovered how levers and pulleys are used to lessen the effort needed to move heavy objects, we even had a go at making our own pulley systems. We have also completed our marble runs, the creativity and innovation shown has been fantastic to see.

Stars:

Asteroid: Harley Stansfield

Pluto: Archie Hill

This week in year 6, the children have continued to work incredibly hard in all of the lessons that were thrown at them! In English, we perfected the art of mummification; detailing to even the smallest of detail, what the process includes and the grammar conventions that are expected to be used in each of the different paragraphs. We have recapped our knowledge of all things fractions - adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. In guided reading, we have continued with our twin tales of how Jack Cadogan becomes Anubis! In Science, we continued our journey around the circulatory system, this time stopping off at the lungs. At last, the construction of our Egyptian temples is complete (some took as long as the real thing!). The desired features were present and correct and perfect for worshipping our Gods from.

Stars of the week:

Nebular - Stanley Bugg

Constellation - Isabel Stansfield

Best attendance this week: Yellow!

Yellow Hive: well done!

Blue Hive: keep it up!

Millie Rowan from Constellation and Green Hive is the child with the most hive points so far this year.

Libby Fielder from Yellow Hive is the top Bee Points scorer this week.