Newsletter Spring Term 2025

Newsletter Spring Term 2025 - Week 10

Dear Parents,

😊

This week’s topic was “St. Patrick’s Day’’.

It’s a celebration of Irish Country, three-leaf clover, or shamrock, is the symbol. Traditionally the food is the pancake.

Children made shamrock card and they watched a video on St. Patrick day.

We talked about this day at group time and continue with our animal and colour exercise. We also introduced numbers from 1 to 10 for maths.

On Monday for Italian lesson we learned the words Mani, Piede and Testa (hands,foot, head)⭐️ 🇭🇺

On Tuesday at cooking we prepared pancakes to celebrate St. Patrick day. 🥞

On Wednesday for Forest school the children collected some leaves and painted the shamrock.☘️

On Thursday for computer science we practice how to use the mouse colouring a virtual drawing. Children are working on using eye movement to control the mouse. 🖥️

On Friday for Drama we learned a new song called Shake and move, pretending to use maracas. 🪇

NOTES:

Reminders & dates:

-Monday 10 o clock is Bubble Church Puppet Show. You are welcome to participate with your child also if he doesn’t have school

-We need to collect empty actimel boxes to create our maracas.

-Parent meeting is on Tuesday 1st April. Don’t forget to book your appointment

-Wednesday 2nd April Easter Egg Hunt at 10 o clock

Have a good weekend

Linda

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