A Good Start

We have hit the hive buzzing! Lots of enthusiasm and hard work going on in Room 3.

Our inquiry time this week is all about fire; what it is, how we use it, how to be safe around it and how to get ourselves out safely if there is a fire (have a safe meeting place for the whole family, go low on hands and knees if there is smoke and get out as quickly as possible, call 111). It would be wonderful if you could talk to your children about where your safe family meeting place is if there is a fire in your house, talk about your escape routes from different rooms and talk about how we call 111.

Just a reminder that library day is a Wednesday afternoon. This is also homework day - so if any parents are used to testing spelling on a Friday this has now changed to a Wednesday morning. Hopefully parents will still be able to help out with this.

Another reminder for anyone with lovely, long hair: please make sure that this is tied up. Tying up long hair significantly reduces the risk of contracting and passing on nits and as we all know this is very difficult to get rid of once it starts in a class.

One important thing to note is about Fridays. On a Friday I will have some time out of the class as CRT (Classroom Release Time). These days will be covered for me by Phillipa Lord, who I think most of you will be familiar with. If not do pop in to say hello to Phillipa on any Friday, she will be most happy to chat to you. Sometimes I will be around working on assessments with the children: checking their maths and reading. Other times I will be doing professional development. One area I am working on this term is improving my art skills and am undertaking an Art for teachers course on a Friday afternoon. Not my area of expertise - so watch this space....