Micheldever School News for May

All of us at Micheldever Primary School hope that everyone has had a restful (albeit cold) Easter break and are enjoying the spring season we are in now. We are very pleased to be back at school and are looking forwards to the coming term and all the learning that we will be doing.

We are delighted to have all children back at school again. This term our children in Year R/1 will be learning about plants and minibeasts as they look to discover what has been growing at our allotment and in our planters. Children in Year 1/2 will be becoming news reporters and will be learning how to report on different events as they set up their own TV station. Year 3/4 returned on the first day back as archaeologists to begin their discovery of the Egyptians and Year 5/6 have begun to learn about the Olympics and how they have evolved from those begun by the ancient Greeks. We look forward to sharing and showing you our work this term – please read on for more details!

Normally, May would find our Year 6 children busy revising for their SATs exams but with the cancellation of exams nationally this year, they are instead busy preparing for life in secondary school, demonstrating their best writing, reading and maths possible whilst also getting excited for their residential trip which will be happening at the start of June. As a school, we have been delighted with the arrival of new sports equipment. The football goals and mini basketball posts have been a big success and, at the time of writing, we are awaiting the installation of a traversing climbing wall. To all who have donated anything to the school to make these possible, we would like to offer a very big thank you. We have had to slightly delay the start of the work in our front playground but look forward to this being done as well.

We are aware that schools have had to have very closed doors over the past year and are saddened that this has meant that we have not been able to be as open to our community as we would like to. We hope that you have enjoyed seeing some things on our website but we would very much like to be able to open our doors to all to be able to share what we have been doing. To this end, and following the government guidelines in place at the time, we are hoping to have a community open afternoon at the end of the academic year in July, where we will be able to show work that the children have done and give many of you the opportunity to come and visit the school. We will share more information nearer the time but hope that you can mark the 20th July in your diary as the date we aim to do this. Mr T. Johnston, Acting Head,

Micheldever Primary School, 01962 774213