Cedar have made a great start to this year’s Class Assemblies. Considering we have only been back for a short while the children have managed to produce a huge amount of work. We were shown their paintings of themselves, computer drawn pictures of themselves, clay mouth models, sunflower seeds that had been counted and bagged after the Sunflower Field Trip and posters they had produced for the Dentist Role Play area in the classroom. Also the children shared poems they had written about themselves. The whole class joined in the ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ story. To finish Mrs King reproduced the bubble activity that had already taken place in class. The bubble represents God and all the people the children have around them to keep them safe and happy. Well done Cedar Class.

This week is e safety week. We will be carrying out a variety of activities to raise your child’s awareness of how to stay safe on the internet. There will also be internet awareness events next week. These are highly recommended, staff were invited to one of these meetings and we found them extremely informative and surprising. You are welcome at any of the venues that you can attend.

Monday 19th October:

 9.20am Rusthall St. Pauls CofE (VA)Primary School or Sherwood Park Community Primary School                                    

 1.30pm St Matthews High Brooms CofE (VC) Primary School or Pembury School

 6.30pm St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School or Bidborough CofE (VC) Primary School

Tuesday 20th October:

 9.30am St Marks CofE Primary School or St Barnabas CofE (VA) Primary School

 1.30pm Southborough CofE Primary School or St John’s CofE Primary School

 6.30pm Langton Green Primary School

Wednesday 21st October:

 9.20am Bishops Down Primary Scholl or St. James’ CofE (VA) Infant School

 6.30pm St Peter’s CofE Primary School 

On Wednesday 7th October all of Year 2 went to Groombridge to visit the field of Sunflowers. We had fun telling each other stories. We imagined that we had shrunk in amongst the flowers. We went on an adventurous walk, climbing over 5 bar gates and walking through nettles! We each chose a sunflower to take home. We did a ‘Bear Hunt’ through the field and even found a bear!! Hide and seek was really exciting in the the tall flowers.

After lunch we returned to school where we measured our sunflowers and even counted seeds. There were 1,338 seeds in one head! We are very grateful to the farmer who owns the field - he would welcome you at his farm shop!

Our theme this term is ‘Ourselves’. Reception are continuing to look at the changes in ‘Ourselves’ using baby pictures. Year 1 are concentrating on Skeletons. Year 2 are going on a field trip, quite literally, as they are going to a field of sunflowers in Groombridge to continue their story telling theme of ’shrinking’.

Thank you to everyone who sent junk modelling into Ash class, we have enough at the moment.

Thank you to those of you who have already sent in your Voluntary Fund donations. Our school uses the Voluntary fund to organise such events as The Visiting Farm and Theatre groups. We suggest £15 per year payable whenever you can.