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Love Children Spring 2 Week 2
Love Learning
Open Gates
11/03/2022
School Value Focus: curiosity
Dear Parents,
We have literally landed into Spring 2 and hit the ground running! The children and staff are in full-
swing of learning in all curriculum areas with planned, purposeful and creative activities taking place
across the school.
The school value we are focusing on this half term is CURIOSITY. The children
understand that being curious is important in every aspect of life if we want to
know more and remember more.
We will be making links to this across all our learning this term as well as
celebrating examples of showing curiosity.
Our World Book Day events were thoroughly enjoyed by the children and staff and a particular highlight
was the annual character dress-up day and book fair last Friday. Thank you for supporting your children
and the school; reading is fundamental to every aspect of learning. ‘If we teach them to read, we open
up the world to them’.
You may have noticed some vegetable stickers appearing on your children’s uniforms - this is because
we are taking part in the ‘Eat them to Defeat them’ Caterers’ Challenge again this year. Children who
have school meals will be encouraged to eat a range of vegetables over the half-term. If your child has
a packed lunch, you can join in too by providing the vegetable of the week in their lunchbox. The
children have taken home some promotional materials including their own ‘mission pack’ containing a
reward chart.
Nursery applications:
If you have a child who will turn 3 years of age this term or during the summer term, please check the
admissions page of the website for information regarding registering them for a place at our nursery.
Please follow the link for details: Nursery Admissions information
Ukraine Appeal
Thank you for the teddies you have generously donated; please keep them
coming - the deadline is Friday 18th March.
In addition, please see a letter below from Richard Gill, CEO of the ATLP about a collection all schools in
the partnership are arranging as part of an international response.
If you have any concerns or questions, please remember that we are here for you; just call the office on
01827 213 855 or e mail office@twogates.staffs.sch.uk
You can also follow news and events in real time on our Twitter page @2gatesprimary
Mrs Llewelyn-Cook
March 2022 Dear Parents and Carers As a family of schools Arthur Terry Learning Partnership want to support the people of Ukraine during this desperate time for them. Within our schools, staff will be supporting children to understand what is happening in Ukraine. We are now reaching out to our school communities to support an appeal for Ukraine. We will be supporting the international response to the growing refugee crisis. All of our 19 schools will be collecting items which the Red Cross and Unicef have identified as being essential. These items can be seen on the flyer on the next page. We will be collecting over the next week, with items to be in school by Thursday 17th March. The items collected will be delivered to a regional collection hub, where they will be transported directly to Poland to support the refugee effort. Our motto is ‘Together we are Stronger’ and as our school communities come together to support this appeal we can, in a small way, offer our solidarity and support for the people of Ukraine. We will share with you the results of our appeal once we have all of our items ready for collection and then share when they have arrived in Poland. Take care and stay safe. Richard Gill CEO ATLP
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Robins - Teddy B O R KER
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Kingfishers- Daria S
Doves - Daisy J
Falcons - Freddie J
Eagles - Poppy L
Swans - Corey W
Kites - Blake R
Buzzards - Mason B
Kestrels - Ronnie J
TIMESTABLES
ROCKSTARS BRILLIANT
BEHAVIOUR
Well Done to Mrs Dodds'
BREAKFAST
Robins - Florence C
Maths Group!
Kingfishers- Bradley G
Year 5 Battle of the Bands
Doves - Joseph S
Champions for February! Falcons - LarnA T
Eagles - Florence B
Awesome work everyone! Swans - Daniel F
Kites - Samuel R
Buzzards - Kailen B-H
Kestrels - Nieve E
TOP
ATTENDANCE
CLASSES
KS1
Doves - 96.30%
KS2
Kites - 98.24%
Nursery children took
their daily 'rhyme time'
to the forest. The
children loved singing
outside and exploring the
environment.
Nursery pupils using
their observational
and
fine-motor skills to
paint daffodils
They had a little
turtle, his name
was... Leo! Nursery
loved meeting a new
hard-shelled friend!
The Nursery children enjoyed making
bubble wands from pipe cleaners. We
were blown away by the size of the
bubbles they made!
Nursery
children
sharpening
their gross-
motor skills in
gymnastics
Nursery have enjoyed
sowing seeds in empty
eggshells this morning.
What's going to happen
next?
Nursery have been reading 'Handa's
Surprise' by Eileen Brown We further
explored the story by trying exotic fruits
like those mentioned in the text!
Reception used their
'fabulous Fred talk' to
read words and find
the matching picture
around the
classroom.
What topping would
you choose?
Traditional lemon
and sugar or
chocolate syrup?
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MM
YU
Nursery children have
been very busy
repurposing old resources
to make flowerbeds for
the bees. We can't wait to
watch the flowers grow!
What are these beautiful smiles for?
Because Year 2 are so proud of their wonderful
descriptive writing! They have been applying
their learning about adjectives and noun
phrases to create incredible setting descriptions.
Awesome work!
TIMES
TABLES
ROCK
STARS
And the winner is... Mrs Dodds' Maths Group!
Year 5 Battle of the Bands Champions for
February! Awesome work everyone!
Check out the Times Tables Rock
Congratulations to
Stars Most Valuable Players in
Summer and Olivia for
Year 5 for Battle of the Bands! In
successfully completing
Mrs Dodds' class, winners were
level A!
Logan, Kara and Dylan. Top
players in Miss Parsons' class
were Jack, Gabe and Sam. We
can't wait to see your
performance in the next battle
coming soon!
WOW! 50,000 words read by Leo, Gracie and Harper.
Also, a huge well done to James for completing
Level B. We just can't stop reading!
Year 5 taking on the
role of journalists;
directing and
recording their news
reports to 'publish'
their writing.
Year 5 practising their
‘Dance by Chance’ action
and dynamics... Gabe was
clearly impressed with
Blake’s ‘Butterfly kick’!
As part of their PSHE learning,
Year 5/6 enjoyed talking to Mr
Hyde about what it's like to be a
local town councillor and the
impact that his role has on
residents in his town.
We are working hard in Year 6
to edit and improve our
already fantastic information
texts about Victorian
Workhouses. Miss Ford and
Mrs Bishop can’t wait to read
the final drafts.Investigating different types
of mechanisms. We are D&T
problem solvers in
Miss Ford’s
classroom. Will
cardboard work?
How could we
make it even
better? What will
happen if we
change the shape?
Kestrels LOVED
learning about
mechanisms this
afternoon! We used
lego to explore
cams and how the
shape of them
affected the motion
of the follower.WORLD BOOK DAY
2022
Thank you to Morrisons
Tamworth for your wonderful
donation of books for our school
library. We can't wait to read
them!
WOW!! We are very popular - EVEN MORE
DONATED BOOKS- this time from our
partners @AVFCFoundation -Thank you!!!
World Book Day stands in
solidarity with the people
and children of Ukraine.
This year we hope World
Book Day brings joy and
hope at a time when
children need it most:
Happy World Book Day. How lucky are
we? Even more lovely books for us to
read - kindly donated by Spalding BooksNow guess which
Professor is hiding
behind this
classroom door in
Year 5..........
Check out Mrs Hughes' Class door
for our school competition. can
you guess which book they've
chosen for their class read?
Surely this World Book Day Door
Competition entry should read 'The
World's Best Teachers"?
Year 2 have LOVED reading this
series of books. Their door entry
shows off their latest class read...Year 6 couldn’t possibly
choose one book that
has inspired us - we
chose lots!
Giraffes can't dance- When World Book Day fever has even
YET! The importance of swept across the cleaners! Thank you to
a 'can do' attitude is our wonderful cleaning team for their
growing in Year 1. Look entry into the door decoration
at their wonderful competition- the children love it! And a big
door decorations! thanks for keeping our school so
wonderfully clean and tidy.
Miss Parsons' class
have decorate their
door with lots of
characters to
celebrate World
Book Day.
Who can you spot?Year 5's workshop with
author Judy Brulo We had a
today- inspiring us to wonderful
read and write. World Book
Day with our
special visiting
author Judy
Brulo
Wow! Look at Kestrels’ amazing
world book day costumes!
Who's who in Year 2?
Mrs Greenway has been
playing 'Where's Wally' on
duty this playtime!Can you guess which book Miss
Denton's class have been
enjoying? Another amazing class
entry to our World Book Day
decorate your door competition!
Year 3 had a wonderful World
Book Day
Their classroom door
looks fabulous too!
Miss Milligan's class have been
enjoying World Book Day
They've been reading Winter's
Child in VIPERS and chose this text
to decorate their classroom door
with.Children across school have been taking part in our Book Sale. There were
lots of fantastic books to choose from. Thank you for your donations. We
hope you enjoy story time at home and the new additions to your book
shelves.
Congratulations Y3 and Nursery on winning our World Book Day door
decorating competition! Enjoy choosing and reading your new books!RED NOSE DAY
IS BACK ON
FRIDAY 18
MARCH 2022
Red Nose Day is coming. And
whatever you do, no matter
how small, you can help
people live free from poverty,
violence and discrimination.
This includes funding
organisations that are
supporting people right now
in Ukraine, and those
attempting to cross the
border. Because you have the
power to change lives.
Come to school
dressed in RED.
Don't forget your
£1 donation!Chartwells may Follow us on Twitter
We are going to be
experience food sharing many more
shortages pictures
and videos of the work
we are completing
If our menu changes we CLICK HERE
will let you know. @2gatesprimary
FOREST SCHOOL
Please ensure that children
bring a spare pair of shoes Diary Dates
into school so they can
change after being
outdoors. Friday 18th March
Comic relief / Red Nose Day
Thank you Wear RED to school for £1 donation
Friday 25th March
Non school uniform for donation of
Chocolate
Monday 28th March
PTA - Chocolate Bingo
Doors open at 4:15pm
Thursday 7th April
Last Day of term
Safeguarding Alert Friday 8th April
School Closed
Slender Man
Wednesday 27th - 29th April
Click Here for more Year 5 visit to Whitemoor Lakes
Monday 9th - 13th May
details Year 6 SATS weekYou can also read
