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Enabling all children to learn and grow

Friday 3rd February 2023

Dear families,

Thank you to those who attended the curriculum workshop today to find out more about our art, history and geography curricula. Please find the slides here. These have been constructed very carefully with research about how children learn at the forefront of our minds. As you will have read in previous weeks about 'The Forgetting Curve', it is important that children build on previous learning so that they can learn the new knowledge and skills being taught. Revisiting is vital for knowledge to go into our long term memories which then mean the children know more and remember more.

The children were very proud to show you their learning this afternoon in the open classroom event. We hope you enjoyed the time and feel more involved with your child/ren's learning as a result.

You will have noticed that key vocabulary is being added to the year group information pages. These words have been carefully chosen and are important for your children to know. It will help them be geographers, historians, artists etc if they can speak using the correct vocabulary. Please spend some time discussing the words with your children at home from time to time.

Thank you to our community for the support you have shown our teachers on Wednesday when some of the classrooms were closed. The issues they are striking over are extremely important to all in education around pay and conditions. I would also like to thank all teachers for the advanced warning about whether they were going to strike or not. They didn't have to do this, but this allowed the school to make plans and give you advance warning.

Next week is Children's Mental Health Week. Please see below for more information. On Tuesday it is also Safer Internet day and all the children will do a session on staying safe online.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend.

Best wishes,

All at Vineyard Team

Attendance

A big well done to year 3 and 4 for superb attendance this week! We didn't get to announce it in assembly today do please do share the below with the children.

Parent Volunteer Training- 08.02.23 at 9am

In order to volunteer at The Vineyard, parents need a Vineyard DBS and to have attended the visitor safeguarding training. If you have not attended the training please do sign up here.

Parent Workshop- 22.02.23

This will be run by the Children’s Well Being Service from CAMHS. This is on the hot topic of managing Big Emotions and links fantastically to our behaviour managements and emotion coaching approaches. Sign up here.

Children’s Mental Health Week ’23 – let’s connect!

Next week, each class will be taking part in wellbeing activities. Some classes will be receiving FREE mindfulness sessions run by Little Tweaks, wellbeing discussions based on select books, breathing exercises that can help us feel calm, talks on the benefit of healthy exercise and diet and practising gratitude. Smileforfive assemblies will be taking place on Monday 6^th and all children can wear their smileforfive badges to school (bought last term) during this week. They will also be available to purchase from the school office if a family would like to with the proceeds going to The Vineyard Mental Health funds.

Children's Mental Health week Logo

Parking

After half term, we will be losing 16 car park spaces due to building works for the Specialist Resourced Provision (SRP). If you have a driveway not in use or a parking space our staff or visits could use. please contact Alice McArdle.

Adult Second Hand Bike

One of our very hardworking members of staff had their bike stolen from the school site during the Summer holidays. Does anyone have a second hand bike they would be willing to donate? If so, please contact the school office.