Important Information to parents Please note that the risk of coronavirus is currently low and the advice is changing regularly. We are ensuring that pupils follow the advice regarding their hygiene in school and will keep

you informed of any further advice that we receive. We do not plan to close the school.

Dear Families, We have had a busy week, which included a fantastic trip to Colchester Zoo. The children had a fantastic time and behaved brilliantly which was lovely to hear. Looking ahead we have many exciting things planned to enhance what we offer our children at Waterman. The swimming pool will soon be opening and we will be providing weekly swimming lessons for all children. Now would be a good time to start organising swimming costumes and towels! We will also be opening Waterman Preschool on 20th April. Please contact the school office if you have a 3 year old that would like to join and receive free swimming lessons too! Have a lovely weekend, Mr Saunders

Waterman Primary School Newsletter Telephone: 01702 546237 Email: waterman.admin@heartsacademy.uk Website: http://www.hearts-waterman.uk/ Twitter: @WatermanPrimary

Pre-existing injuries

Please be advised that if your child/children have injured themselves at home, you must come to the office

to fill in a form, so that we have documentation regarding the injury.

Lunchtime Table: Siddy, Rose, Archie and Kieran

Reading challenge winners: Acorn – Mr Dowell (Siddy) Chestnut – Mrs Jennings (Rose) Willow – Mrs Truman (Beau) Oak – Mr Dowell (Tilly)

Friday 28th February 2020 Winter Term Issue No.20 Head of School: Mr B Saunders

Important Dates:

5th March: World Book Day –

dressing up

5th March: Celebration Assembly

2.20pm

6th March: Chestnut’s sharing assembly – 2.20pm

9th-13th March:

Book Fair

10th March: Parents Evening

12th March:

Parents Evening

12th March: Swimming pool opening - 10am

13th March:

No after School Clubs

13th March: Sleepover Years 2-5

Arrive 6pm

18th March: Oak class – Braintree

Museum

24th March: Willow class –

Colchester Castle

Attendance information for parents

If children are in school later than 09:20am, it is no longer classed as a 'late' but classed as a missed session and will be an unauthorised absence for the morning. This is to follow guidance from the Department for Education, who have advised all schools recently.

Reading Challenge Prizes

Bronze:

Easter egg Silver:

Easter egg and a hot chocolate

Gold: Easter egg and an

extra forest schools lesson

The swimming pool is filling up with water now! Join us for the grand opening on 12th March at

10am.

Chestnut

Chestnut Class have made a fantastic start back to the Spring Term. The trip on Tuesday was a massive success; they all loved seeing the animals, especially Handsome Hog! The zookeeper giving our African Animals talk complimented the class on the manners and interesting questions. They have also been learning the songs for the Infant Music Festival coming up in a couple of weeks’ time. Wow: Taylor for her improvement in her presentation. Star: The whole class for their behaviour on the Colchester Zoo trip. Golds: Dhani, Taylor, Ronnie, Taylor, Isla, Charlotte, Aleesha-Skyy, Remi, Shanlee, Kendra, Mason, Angel Rae,

Oak In Oak Class, we have investigated our recovery heart rate time and begun to further explore the Industrial Revolution. We have participated in drama lessons exploring scenes and characters from Street Child and examined the early life of Buddha. WOW - Billy Star – Kieran Golds - charity, Riley, Gypsy, Kieran, Malachy Anne-Marie, Francesca, Tilly

Acorn This week Acorn have started a new topic all about mini beasts! We have been looking very closely at our curiosity cube as lots of mini beasts have appeared in there. We have thought of questions we would like the answer to and learnt how to tell insects from other bugs. In maths, we have been looking at subtraction and learnt a new symbol to help us write subtraction number sentences. We have had many readers eating reading beans this week especially from the boys! Wow - Arya - writing every day! Star - Finley for working hard to use his phonics when writing Golds - Arya x3, Violet-Jane x3, Finley x2, Leighton x2, Siddy, Henry-James

Friday 28th February 2020 Winter Term Issue No. 20 Head of School: Mr. B Saunders

Willow We have had a busy first week back in Willow class! We have been reading a new story called Escape from Pompeii and have begun to write our own story beginnings. In Maths, we have started to look at fractions using skittles to help us! We carried out a science experiment to find out if taller people have longer bones and we started to make our mosaic tiles. Wow - Jack Star - Emily Golds – Oliver, Lillie, Beau, Callum x2, Pashee x2

Please be advised that a change of the May bank holiday this year is the 8th May. For more information, please visit

https://www.essex.gov.uk/school-terms-and-holidays. This link will take you directly to the website we follow.

School Menu 2 Monday: French bread pizza OR Potato and Onion Tortilla (Spanish Omelette) Tuesday: All day breakfast OR Vegetarian all day Wednesday: Roast chicken with stuffing and Yorkshire pudding OR vegetarian parcels Thursday: Popcorn chicken OR Macaroni cheese Friday: Beef burger in a wholemeal bun OR Vegetarian sausage twist

Attendance Our attendance this week is: 95.06% Our class of the week is Chestnut. Well Done!

Class Attendance

ACORN 97.53%

CHESTNUT 97.62%

WILLOW 91.07%

OAK 96.33%

School target is 97%

Team Points: Leopards 91 Cheetahs 107 Lion 123 Tigers 125

Total Team Points: Leopards 353 Cheetahs 376 Lion 383 Tigers 436