Hello everyone and I hope you had a lovely extended weekend and spent some wonderful time with your families.
This week at Copthorne
Reception Circle Time
Over the next couple of weeks, our Reception classes will be carrying out a special Circle Time topic. This is the time where the classes will be reflecting on personal views and opinions and staff will be encouraging children to express their feelings. The classes will be looking at baby pictures of children and how they look and develop over time. We would be grateful if parents could bring their child’s baby pictures into school so that we can share this with all the children and reflect on how different children develop. Please could you bring the pictures to school on Wednesday 6th May. Thank you.
Year 3 trip to Saltaire
On Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th May, Year 3 will be going on a trip to Saltaire to learn about the history of Bradford. The children will be travelling on a train and then spending the day walking around Saltaire identifying the historical and geographical features of the village. This trip is linked to the children’s current Copthorne Curriculum theme: the history and geography of Bradford. I am sure this will be an enjoyable and learning-filled day out for the children. Have a lovely time Year 3!
Nursery trip visit to St Leonards Farm
On Thursday 7th and Friday 8th May, Nursery classes will go on their annual visit to St Leonard’s Farm. This visit has been arranged in order to support the theme of work carried out in Nursery. This is always an enjoyable day for our young children, where they can learn, first-hand, about the range of different animals that they hear so much about in nursery rhymes and stories. I know that our children and staff are really looking forward to it. I am waiting in anticipation to hear all about their adventures.
Cannon Hall Farm Trip – Reception Classes
As part of their topic “Doing the Animal Bop!”, our Reception classes will be visiting Cannon Hall Farm on Thursday 7th May. Children will be looking at the different kinds of animals, learning about the noises they make and about how they change as they grow. Each child will also be having an ice-cream! This is always a lovely trip for the children and I know they are very excited about it. I lok forward to seeing the work they do about this visit on their return to school.
Under 9’s DRAX Cricket Competition
We are delighted to be able to offer our children the opportunity to play in the Under 9’s DRAX Cricket competition against pupils from other primary schools in Bradford. The DRAX cricket competition will be held on Thursday 7th May. The competition will be held at Great Horton Church Cricket Club and we will travel to and from the venue in the school minibus. We feel this is an opportunity for our pupils to put their sporting skills into practice and interact with pupils from other primary schools in our area.
I hope you have a lovely week.
Mrs Shepherd