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DUNSTER FIRST SCHOOL FRIDAY NEWS
In this issue: Head Teacher’s
Blog
Wellbeing
Safeguarding
Key Dates
Fun Things to do at
Home
Awards
Expect the best in everything, then play your part in achieving it
Head Teacher’s Blog
Dear Parents and Carers
Well, the weeks certainly are flying by now! It has been wonderful to see more pupils back
in school and we hope this has been positive for them. We know it is a bit different, but hope
that it has still been nice for them to reconnect with each other, the staff and the school.
As I write this, we have just received the guidance for schools for September opening. This
guidance we are currently reviewing and adapting our plans, so we can be ready to share
these with you next week.
We are also currently working with an external provider regarding summer activities/ sports
clubs, so again watch this space for more details on that. We are not going to run any
summer ‘catch up,’ we want you all to have fun together, play and relax without the pressure
of additional learning. If we do receive any additional actual ’Catch Up’ funding, then we will
use that for our September provision.
At present, schools have no details on how much the ‘Catch Up’ funding might be, so no
details can be shared yet. We have plans for how we would use this based on sound
research on positive impact for pupils, but again, we need to have the final information from
government before we can act upon this.
Take care, stay safe and well. Mrs Naomi Philp
Safeguarding
Please let us know if you are worried about any parent, child or member of the community. Together we can support each other, even from a distance. The safeguarding lead is Naomi Philp and deputy leads are Louise Collins, Helen Hickman and Kate McEntee. They can be contacted on the school number 01643 821254 or on the school email: [email protected] which is monitored by Helen , Kate and Naomi. The Taunton and West Somerset School Nursing Team have created a Facebook page for children, young people and their families to access, with useful links, videos, websites and information regarding health. This page is full of physical and mental health information and may be useful to many children, especially those dealing with anxieties surrounding the current situation. It also provides signposting to other contacts that could also provide support: https://bit.ly/3aKYbQ3
3rd July 2020
[email protected] Tel 01643 821254; 01643 821243
You can look after both your emotional and physical health by keeping active. SASP (Somerset Activity Sports Partnership) have launched their SASP CHAL-LENGES website: https://www.saspchallenges.co.uk. They are piloting challenges in gymnastics, cricket and fitness and will be adding more challenges over the coming weeks, in the summer holidays and into the new school year. You can register and children can take part both at home and at school and gain certificates for completing challenges.
Remember that there is a lot of advice in the Wellbeing section of our website on ways we can look after ourselves and each other during difficult times. There is also information on where to get support:
https://www.dunsterfirstschool.co.uk/wellbeing/
Key Dates 06.07.20—In School Today—YR Group A 8.45—3.25 07.07.20—In School Today—Y2 Group A 9.15—2.45 and Y1 Group A 8.45—3.25 08.07.20—In School Today—YR Group B 8.45—3.25 09.07.20—In School Today—Y2 Group B 9.15—2.45 and Y1 Group B 8.45—3.25 13.07.20—15.07.20 Y4 Pinkery (2 sessions—Groups A and B) 13.07.20—Please note that YR provision for this week will NOT be with Miss Collins 17.07.10—Last day of the summer term 03.09.20 and 04.09.20—Inset Days 07.09.20—First day of the autumn term
AWARDS:
In Year R, Miss Collins has nominated Ralph for an Achievement Award for his amazing knowledge of mini beasts and bugs! Keira is this week’s Kindness Award winner for remembering our rainbow rules and coming up with good ways of being a lovely friend from further away!
In Year 1 Emily has written some amazing acrostic poems, so Mrs Hall has chosen her for an Achievement Award. This week’s Y1 Kindness Award goes
to Dulcie for being happy and cheerful and for being a kind to friend to others
In Year 2 - A Kindness Award goes to Oscar for his amazing pizza and making Mrs Dalby smile with his fabulous photo of his sandcastle city. Achievement Awards go to Layla, for working so hard with her home learning and Oliver for earning in excess of 100,000 TT Rockstars coins!
In Year 3 - Mrs Lancaster has chosen Jackson for an Achievement Award for being “amazing” in this week’s Y3 session. Arthur and Lacey get Kindness Awards for making everybody happy this week by being so excited to be back and so pleased to see everyone.
In Year 4 -This week’s Achievement Award goes to Gabriel for completing all his home learning. Mr James and Mrs Philp have chosen Ruby for a Kindness Award for making them scones—yum!
Our Star of the Week is Dorothy (Y2). We are so proud to tell you that Dorothy won the 5-7 story writing category at the Minehead Literary Festival. Mrs Vickery said that
Dorothy is “an awesome writer and will go far”: https://www.mineheadliteraryfestival.org/under-16s-short-story-competition-winners/
3rd July 2020
Expect the best in everything, then play your part in achieving it
School Bunting Project Make some colourful and fun bunting and be part of our school bunting project. We would like to make some unique bunting to commemorate 2020, something that will be treasured by the school and used on special occa-sions for years to come. So go on to our website: https://www.dunsterfirstschool.co.uk/class-
pages/ for instructions and then get creative and become part of Dunster First School’s history. You can send or hand in your bunting to us here at school, and Aurelia’s mum has kindly offered to stitch it all together. Get your whole family involved—we can’t wait to see your creations!
Our school is about kindness, caring for others, ourselves, and our world. Our school values our history, our location, our community and most of all each other. We aim to instill a life long love of learning.
