On Thursday 9th December, Miss Hobson’s class visited Paula at our local Morrisons store! 

The children wrote letters to Paula to ask for ingredients to make Christmas biscuits. She also gave the children some extra goodies!

Upcoming events

As the end of term draws closer, we have a number of key dates for our families to be aware of:

• Year 6 will be swimming every morning next week. Check the letter sent home earlier this week for information, or speak to your class teacher.
• Both KS1 and KS2 will be sharing videos of their Christmas performances next week, keep your eyes peeled!
• Reception and Nursery will be sharing their Christmas performance videos on Class Dojo next week too.
• We close for the Christmas holidays on Friday 17th December.
• We return in the new year on Tuesday 4th January.

Meeting Point Cafe’s Christmas Fun Day

Head down to Meeting Point Cafe on Harehills lane on Thursday 23rd December for their family Christmas fun day! There will be Christmas carols, games and lots of festive fun! Each child will also recieve a present free of charge!

Find out more about Meeting Point Cafe on their Facebook page.

Year 3’s visit from a Volcano Doctor!

Dr. Mark Thomas, a volcano doctor from the University of Leeds, visited Year 3 and told them all about his job. He brought in some examples of different types of rocks as well as some fossils. The children got to hold a T-Rex and a mammoth tooth which was very exciting! 

RH visit Morrisons

Miss Hobson’s class visited Paula at our local Morrisons store! The children wrote letters to Paula to ask for ingredients to make Christmas biscuits. She also gave the children some extra goodies!

Christmas Jumper Day

Attendance

Thank you and well done for everybody trying hard to come to school this week! Our attendance this week was the highest so far this year for the whole school and I would love to see this getting better and better. Remember, we have the raffle and we have a week left where we have selected a day where everyone in school that day will receive a raffle ticket. You stand to win an amazing prize for your family with your raffle ticket. You have to be in it to win it!

Meet our new Reading Ambassadors! These children have been chosen by their teachers as good role models for reading. They will be working closely with their friends in classes to encourage them to read at home, filling out our book bag battle charts and standing up for our right to read!

I am thrilled to be working with our Reading Ambassadors this year. We are going to succeed together in supporting everyone in school to read and getting even more children to read at home with their families. Keep your eyes peeled throughout the year to see what we get up to – we have lots of exciting things coming up!

Read more about our English curriculum here.

Welcome back after the half term holidays. We were so pleased to see our children back and working hard in their lessons.

Skills Builder

In the last newsletter we told all parents about our whole school skill-building curriculum and that our focus for this half term will be on Aiming high in their learning and in life. This week all the children had their first session on this and it was really great to see so many of them talking about their futures, what they would like to do as a job one day and what they need to do in learning and at home to reach this ambition. In school we will be referring to the work in class and what children can do to Aim high in their learning to reach their goals. To support this we would like children to also use these skills to for example set themselves challenges by for example doing extra reading for their Reading challenge, doing an extra project based on their topic this half term or by doing extra tasks around the house to help you out.

Please share your stories with us by emailing your child’s class teacher, the email address for your class can be found on the website at https://sites.google.com/coopacademies.co.uk/woodlands-learn-at-home/home. Here you will find your year group and if you go onto the platform you can reach the email address.

Attendance

As you are well aware it is important for your child to be in school every day to help them with their learning but also to ensure they maintain good friendship groups and have as many opportunities as the school and a good education can offer. We are sending letters home to inform you of your child’s attendance of the last half term. We had 150 children last half term who had a 100% attendance and we are planning a reward for them in the next few weeks. If you have any questions or need to speak to us about how we can support you in improving your child’s attendance, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Anderson directly.

Contact Information

Last half term we send data collection sheets home to inform the school about any changes of address and/or contact numbers. It is really important for the school to hold the right information for you as we should be able to reach you in case of an emergency and/or if we need to share anything of importance with you. Please do answer your phone when school calls you as it will be important.

Our First Skills Visioning Session

National Online Safety

Co-op Academy Woodlands is now part of National Online Safety, a great free online resource about keeping your children safe online.

You can read more about online safety on our website too. Visit our online safety page.

Sign up here! 

On Thursday, Year 1 visited Yorkshire Wildlife Park as part of their science topic on animals.

The children saw lots of different animals. Their favourite animals were the lions, giraffes and polar bears. The children also learned a lot about their eating habits and whether they were herbivores, carnivores or omnivores.

Check out Year 1’s curriculum for the autumn term.