Thyank you to all your contributions for the Coffee Afternoon. It was great to see so many of you sharing the afternoon with the children and staff at Woodlea. 

Todays Star Baker was Amelie with her 'Endangered Species Cake'.

We are very proud of our children at Woodlea and encourage them all to be confident individuals.

There is a strong pupil voice in school and we have four committees: Eco Committee, Fair Trade, School Council and Food Council. Each class has representatives on each committee. The chilodren decide which one they would like to stand for and design a campaign poster to promote themselves. Following on from this they stand infront of their class and give a shore speech as to why their classmates should vote for them. The children in class then participate in a secret ballot to elect their representatives.

The following children will represent each committee.

School Council

Andrea Yates & Szymon Czaczynski

Amy Hopcroft & Alicia Ball

Riley Bradshaw & Katie Thompson

Summer Tyrer & Emilia Monk

Lucy Williamson & Rosie Holland

Madison Shields & Benjamin Jagger

Brooke Barnes & Alfie Bolton

Harrison Cayton & Mollie Douglas

Eco Committee

Louis Grant

Reece Mashiter

Amelie Grose

Paige White

Finnlay Douglas

Alex Szucs

Matthew Hunt

Rhys Kay

Fair Trade

Cameron Cottier

Scarlett Leivers

Maddie Leigh

Kian Nicholls

Samuel Collier

Georgia Crossley

Isaac Hoyles

Jacob Kenny

Food Council

James Carlisle

Eve-Rose Ainsworth

Riley Vowles

Lily Wiltshire

Poppy Cowburn

Jessica Marshall

Lilly Daggers

Cameron Ayrey

Good Luck Children and we look forward to your work during the next year!

Many Congratulations to our Team Captains. For the first time at Woodlea, children from across the school had the chance to vote for two year 6 team captains per team: Amethyst, Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire.

Amethyst

Brooke Mason-Ridings

Rebekah Sutherland

Emerald

Brooke Barnes

Abigail Ince

Ruby

Emma Gradwell

Lewis Culley

Sapphire

Keaton Langar

Nyah Crompton

It was great to see the children enjoying their 'Bacon Butties'. For the new year 3 children it was a real treat.

Endangered Animal Fundraiser

Friday 8th^th September 2017

Each class have chosen to do a different activity in return for raising money for endangered animals. The money raised will enable the class to adopt their class animal for the year.

The children are asked to bring in £1 donation towards the adoption of their endangered animal.

Each class have chosen to do the following activity:

• Gorillas – Movie and Disco
• Pandas – Wear Black and White (the children come to school in their black and white clothes )
• Tigers – Wear PJs, bring a teddy and a class disco, (change into PJs at lunchtime)
• Rhinos – PJ day, (the children come to school in their PJs)
• Leopards – Fun Run
• Elephants – Rounders
• Chimps – Wear PJs, bring a teddy and a class Disco, (change into PJs at lunchtime)
• Orang-utans – Multi Sports Afternoon / Orangutan art work.

We look forward to a fun filled day and raising money for and awareness of our endangered animals.

Thank you.

Monday 4^th September 2017

Walking Bus

Dear Parent/Carer,

In our continuing efforts to improve whole school attendance and punctuality, we are going to start offering a daily Walking Bus for children. This would entail children being collected daily from designated drop off points from about 8.15am and walking to school accompanied by members of staff. As well as helping to get children into school, the walking bus also promotes an active lifestyle whilst aiming to reduce congestion and pollution in our local area.

We are aiming to launch Woodlea’s Walking Bus on Monday 11^th September 2017. You can find more out about the benefits of a school Walking Bus at http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/what-we-do/projects/walk-to-school-week.

Two routes have been selected each with two pick up points, if you could please indicate your preference on the return slip below. Please can you return the slip below no later than Thursday 7^th September to express your interest in this service, so that we are able to plan routes and staffing accordingly and let parents/carers know?

Yours faithfully,

Name and class of child(ren) in school­­­­

Please tick the appropriate box:

Route 1: Spar Shop on Broadfield Drive, followed by St Mary’s Priory Club

Route 2: Wade Hall Children’s Centre, followed by Fox Lane Cricket Ground

I am not interested in the walking bus

Mobile telephone number:­

Name:­­­­­­­­­­­­

Signed:

Endangered Animal Project Homework

Calling all children and parents!

Each class at Woodlea is named after an Endangered Animal. I would like you to create your first project homework of this new school year, based on your class animal.

For our children in year 3, this type of homework encourages you to work alongside your parents and produce something very unique to you.

You can use any medium of your choice; 3D, 2D, collage, ICT, performance …

In the past we have had paintings, information booklets, sculptures, masks, cakes, models and the list goes on.

Should you require any additional information, please ask your class teachers, who will be happy to help.

These projects must be in school during the week beginning 2^nd October.

Thank you.