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Week ending 9th June 2023

The Monksmoor Park PTA Summer Fair

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Non-Uniform Days

The Monksmoor Park PTA are hosting our Summer Fair. The fundraising event of the summer takes place on Saturday 1st July from 12:00-2:00 p.m.

To ensure the event raises as much money as possible to enhance our school environment and the learning of all our children we need your help please.

The PTA need prizes for stalls, so we are holding two non-uniform days on Friday 16th and Friday 23rd June. All children (and adults) are welcome to attend school in non-uniform for a small donation of sweets on 16th June and a bottle donation on 23rd June. Due to the warm summer weather please donate sweets and not chocolate items.

There will be collection stations available at all school entrances on the mornings of the 16th and the 23rd June.

 

We need people like you!

We need lots of different people to fill a variety of roles to help the event be a success.
If you would like to help behind the scenes in the days leading up to the event or on the 1st July please contact Claire by email: monksmoorparkpta@gmail.com  

Your help would be most welcome!

 

Class Hamper Raffle

We are also honouring our creative tradition of having a hamper raffle at the Fair. Over the next few weeks each class will create a picnic hamper that we hope you will want to win! Please see the poster below for more information on how you can help your child's class. All donations can be delivered directly to your child's class until Monday 26th June.

Thank you in advance for your support!

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Nursery News

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This week we have focused on the colourful story 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear' and have explored colour mixing, sorting and going on a colour hunt around the school.

Have a look at our photos and read more of our news on the school website.

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Reception News

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The Hedgehogs children have enjoyed some exciting learning about food groups and healthy eating including how food groups help our muscles and bones. We also made fruit smoothies - yummy!

We are fluent in describing an insect now and Mrs Ellison is amazed how much we know!

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Year 1 News

Year 1 have been talking about the food we eat and where it comes from. We talked about how food either comes from plants or animals.  We then explored using different tools to prepare foods including slicing, mashing, peeling and grating. We discussed the different textures of the food and found the right tool needed to prepare each food type. 

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Year 2 News

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Year 2 had an amazing day on Wednesday with their beach themed fun day! We started the morning learning about how the coastal town of Whitby has changed in the last 100 years. We enjoyed learning about the bathing machines and Whitby's 199 steps, and found the swimming costumes very funny!

After break we completed a range of exciting activities including making rainbow fruit skewers, playing in the sand, throwing the frisbee and making paper plate fish! We also enjoyed taking photos using the photo board! 

In the afternoon we were fortunate to have a visit from Alison Snelling from the RNLI who spoke to us about water safety. We learned how to float and shout for help and the best actions to take in an emergency around water.

We finished our fun day by tasting our fruit skewers which were delicious! What a memorable day!  View more photos here

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If you haven't seen our butterfly release photos take a look here on our website.

Year 3 News

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Cricket is the new unit in PE and we've been developing our throwing and batting skills. In DT the children began to make plans to apply their knowledge of cam mechanisms to a practical project. They learned about automata and produced plans to make a child's toy including a cam mechanism.

Click for more news and photos

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Have you seen our Athletics photos and Pentecost news?  You read that and more here.

 

Forest School

Read all about our Forest School News here.

Notice for Reception to Year 4:

As the weather warms up it would be helpful if children could bring a sunhat for their Forest School sessions as we are outside for a long time. We also ask that the children wear long sleeves to protect them from the sun and any prickly plants so a long sleeve t-shirt is ideal.

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Gardening Club

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At the end of last term we planted the vegetables in our allotment, they have grown quite a bit since these photos were taken!

See more photos in our gallery

Dancing Schools UK Competition

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On Sunday 14th May a group of Year 3 children took part in the Northamptonshire qualifier for the Dancing Schools UK competition. They performed the American Smooth Viennese Waltz and the Cha Cha! The children danced on the stage in the Derngate Theatre in front of a large audience. They were all amazing and did our school proud. 

The final result: We just missed out on being in the top three by 1 point! Well done to all our dancing stars! Photo gallery

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Stars of the Week

 

Well done to all our stars for being a shining example
in faith, love, self-control and patience.

PTA News

My Childs Art have extended the deadline to use the 10% off discount code, it can now be redeemed until Friday 16th June.

All purchases made raise money for our school! If you have any queries or need support placing your order don't hesitate to contact My Child's Art by telephone 01530 887650 or email customerservice@mychildsart.co.uk

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Support our PTA fundraising by purchasing your name labels from Woven Labels UK. Despite their name, they have a variety of label types and we will receive a huge 30% commission for each purchase that uses the code MONKSMOOR. 

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Wellbeing

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Key Dates

Year 4 - Multiplication tables check
All Day
From 05 Jun until 16 Jun
05
June
KS1 - Phonics screening check week
All Day
From 12 Jun until 16 Jun
12
June
NMPAT tuition for strings, piano and ukulele pupils
All Day
From 07 Jun and on Wednesday each week until 06 Jul
14
June
Collective Worship with Rev. Dawn
10:10am – 10:25am
From 07 Sep and on Wednesday each week except for 05 Oct, 26 Oct, 21 Dec, 28 Dec, 04 Jan, 25 Jan, 15 Feb, 29 Mar, between 05 Apr and 12 Apr, 26 Apr, 03 May, 10 May, 17 May, 31 May, 21 Jun, 05 Jul, and for 12 Jul
14
June
Archery After School Club - Super Star Sport
3:30pm – 4:30pm
From 07 Jun and on Wednesday each week until 19 Jul
14
June
KS1 and KS2 Gardening Club
3:30pm – 4:25pm
From 03 May and on Wednesday each week until 20 Jul except for 31 May
14
June
Choir Club - Reception to Year 4
3:30pm – 4:15pm
From 08 Jun and on Thursday each week until 29 Jun
15
June
Non-uniform day for a donation of sweets
All Day
16
June
Year 4 Swimming Lesson
8:45am – 10:30am
From 21 Apr and on Friday each week until 15 Jul except for 02 Jun
16
June
Gymnastics After School Club - Super Star Sport
3:30pm – 4:30pm
From 09 Jun and on Friday each week until 21 Jul
16
June
Reception intake evening for new families
All Day
21
June
NMPAT tuition for strings, piano and ukulele pupils
All Day
From 07 Jun and on Wednesday each week until 06 Jul
21
June
Archery After School Club - Super Star Sport
3:30pm – 4:30pm
From 07 Jun and on Wednesday each week until 19 Jul
21
June
KS1 and KS2 Gardening Club
3:30pm – 4:25pm
From 03 May and on Wednesday each week until 20 Jul except for 31 May
21
June
Year 1 Twycross Zoo Trip
9:15am – 4:00pm
22
June

For more key dates and information, please click on a date above to be taken to the calendar on our school website.