Thursday 20^th July

Please ensure that your child is in full school uniform on Thursday 20^th July. Usually, it would be a PE day but as we are going to Church children must wear their school uniform. Thank you.

Water bottles and suncream

With the weather getting hotter as the week goes on, please ensure that your child has a water bottle in school every day. Please make sure that your child has suncream applied before school and if needed they can bring in suncream to top up themselves at lunchtime.

Chance to Shine Cricket Workshop

Please could Year 4 come into school in PE kits on Thursday as they will be taking part in a special Cricket workshop in the morning. This will be in addition to their normal PE lesson on Friday. Please could you also ensure children come into school with a hat and wear sun cream to school when needed. 

Home learning error in crossword:

1 down should say - 'what do you think is going to happen?' (science related)

Thank you

IMPORTANT - Purple Reading Journals

In Mulberry we are having a big focus this term on reading as a number of children are not bringing in their reading journals from home into school each day. The children really want to get onto the R.A.L.F board and to do this they need to be reading daily at home and having their journal signed. Please can you ensure that your child is bringing in their reading journal to school everyday. Thank you. 

We have had a fantastic morning with the author, Karen Greaves. 

www.kdgreaves.com

Telling the time (Tuesday 23rd May 2023)

In maths this week we have been working on telling the time. Today a sheet has been sent home, this sheet is for your child to practice telling the time at home. Please return this sheet after half term. 

Spellings

We would usually do a spelling test on Wednesday but today there was some confusion over the words that should have been learnt. We will be testing the following words on Wednesday 24th May.

1. anticlockwise

2. antiseptic

3. antifreeze

4. antisocial

5. anticlimax

6. antibiotic

Living Lands Show - Thursday 4th May 2023

On Thursday your child needs to be dropped off at the Kent County Showground for the Living Lands Show at 9am. Please ensure that if you are driving onto the site to drop your child off (or others) that you have your 'LANE 1' sign in your window - without this you will not be allowed to drive onto the site. 

All children must wear their school uniform and then a pair of comfortable shoes, please check the forecast and wear wellies if rain is due. 

Children must bring the following items in a backpack:

• Water proof coat
• filled water bottle
• packed lunch (no fizzy drinks/sweets/glass bottles) 
• sun hat
• sun cream (for your child to reapply if needed)

Children DO NOT need any spending money. We look forward to seeing you all there at 9am. 

Living Lands Show – Additional information

Please be advised that if you need to drop off a sibling to school on Thursday 4^th May you will be able to do so from 8:30am on the playground. Enabling you to take your year 3/4 child to the Kent County Showground.

If you are having difficulty sorting travel arrangements for your child, please hand your child’s form in (by Monday 24^th April) and indicate this on the form and we will do our best to sort out travel arrangements with another parent. If you are willing and able to transport someone else’s child, please let us know as this will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance for your support,

Miss Walker and Mrs Rolfe.

Reminders for Tuesdays trip:

We are really looking forward to our school trip to London on Tuesday!

We will be going on the London Eye and will then make our way across the river to see some more of London's famous landmarks.

We are extremely lucky to be able to access Downing Street and have a photograph taken outside no.10. 

Children must come in normal school uniform but can wear trainers or other comfortable shoes suitable for walking.

Children must bring a bag to carry the following items:

• Water bottle
• Packed lunch (usual rules apply, no fizzy drinks, sweets, or glass bottles etc)
• Waterproof coat 
   

Children do not need any spending money, mobile phones, toys etc.

West Malling Library Books

We had a wonderful time at the library and learnt lots of interesting things! 

Some children were able to take books home (if they were registered on the library system). Please ensure that the books are returned to your local library on the date stamped inside the book. These books should not be taken into school and the school is not responsible for the books if they are lost or damaged.

If you would like to take your child to the library or to sign up for a library card all the details can be found here: https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/JOIN

LIBRARY CARDS - Tuesday 
Tomorrow (Tuesday) we are going to West Malling Library. A parent mail was sent out to remind you about making sure your child has a library card. Please ensure that they bring it with them on Tuesday to allow them to take a book out. Thank you. 

School Trip 

We have now received almost all of the permission slips for the trip to the London Eye, thank you! 

Please could we remind you that the voluntary payment needs to be made as soon as possible to ensure that this trip can go ahead. Many thanks.

Maths - Money

In our Maths lessons this week we will continue to look at our topic 'money'. Please have a look at this website for games your child can play to order coins and to also work out the value of 6 coins or more. Maths Games 

Welcome back - Term 4 

Welcome back to school and into term 4. We have lots of exciting things planned this term. Next week is book week where we have an author coming in to visit and the opportunity for the children to dress up as their favourite book character. A class trip has been planned for Tuesday 28th March with letters to follow shortly. 

Home Learning - Friday 3rd February

This week's home learning is another crossword but this week it is based on your child's learning this term! Let them show off all their knowledge to you! 

IMPORTANT

On Wednesday (18th) the children have the exciting opportunity to plant a tree each. Please ensure that they bring to school a pair of welly boots/old shoes in a carrier bag ready to be worn for the tree planting. Children should wear their normal school shoes to school on Wednesday. 

Home Learning Term 3 

This term home learning will be set on a weekly basis rather than a whole term task sheet. On a Friday your child's home learning will be issued and it needs to be returned inside the home learning book on the following Wednesday. This week's home learning is based on our computing topic animation. 

Reading Journals

Please ensure that your child is bringing their reading journal to school each day. It is essential that we have this in school so that we can track reading at home and record reading in school too. Thank you! 

Term 3 

Welcome back to school. We hope you've had a restful and fun break and you are back refreshed and ready to learn!

Our new PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please ensure that your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days. 

School Trip - IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

Tomorrow (Wednesday 23rd) we are going to the Gurdwara in Gravesend. Please may I remind you of the following important information:

Your child needs to bring with them:

• a packed lunch {no meat products} (unless you have request the school to provide)
• a filled water bottle
• a scarf (suitable for using as a head covering)
• a coat
• full school uniform

Your child does not need any money/mobile phones/gadgets/toys etc. 

Please arrive promptly at 9:30am at Snodland Station. 

Your child will be back by 2:25pm to be collected from Snodland Station.

TTRS HEATMAP

On Tuesday your child was given a heatmap from TTRS to show their current times table knowledge. The grey are questions that your child hasn't been exposed to often (if your child uses the app regularly then they won't have many grey boxes).

Green = can answer these questions well

Yellow/Orange = know some of these questions

Red = does not know this question

Spelling test

We didn't do our spelling test today (Wednesday) so we will be doing it tomorrow instead. Thank you :)

Payments for the Gurdwara trip

Please could I politely remind you that the payment for the upcoming trip is due by tomorrow (9th). Many thanks 

Welcome back to school and back to term 2….the lead up to Christmas is upon us! Please keep an eye on the class page for all the latest information. 

ENRICHMENT WEEK - UNIFORM CHANGES 

Wednesday & Thursday, 21st & 22nd September: could you please send your child/ren into school dressed in their P.E kit.

Friday, 23rd September: the children will be taking part in Forest School activities. Please send them into school dressed in clothes that you don't mind them getting dirty! The clothing should include long sleeves and (long) trousers and a pair of old shoes or wellington boots. They should also bring in a pair of trainers or school shoes to change into once their activities have finished.

Thank you for your support.

Meet the teacher

Meet the teachers in Mulberry class on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday the 14th of September from 2.30-2.50pm. This is a great opportunity to see the classroom, to talk with the teachers and to also hear about our expectations etc for this year, especially with the children coming up to ks2. 

2nd September 2022

Welcome back to school and into Mulberry class. We hope you have had a lovely summer holidays and enjoyed the warm weather! We hope you are relaxed and refreshed and ready to start learning! 

Just a few things to note for the first day back:

• PE is on a Monday and Friday this term so if you see this message in time please come to school in your PE kit on the first day back
• Children need to bring to school a water bottle please 
• Your child does NOT need to bring in ANY stationery/pencil cases etc this is all provided and we don't have the space for these in the classroom trays, thank you for your understanding.
• Children in KS2 are NOT given fruit/veg at break time, if you would like your child to have a healthy snack please send this into school.