Good afternoon all, Superheroes assemble! Hold on to your seat folks. We had our very own superhero in school today! It was not a bird or a plane. It was ‘FIREMAN DAVE!’ He came into school to explain his role, how he helps others and helped us learn some fire safety tips. He did give us a little bit of homework. As a family, do you have a fire safety plan? Can you remember the first line of your address? Dave explained how these were important to know. I hope you can discuss it calmly as a family over the weekend. Another week, another brilliant set of digraphs have been accomplished, children are now implementing these in words and even sentences. In very exciting news we will begin our vowel digraph sounds next week! When appropriate, books with these sounds will be sent home. In mathematics number composition is key and children have been building towers, using comparative language and combining the towers to make numbers sentences – sounds supeerrr to me! Children recorded this information in ways that were appropriate to them. In our topic work, we had a recap and celebration of Diwali. Children made rangoli patterns outside to welcome you all to school and mehndi art to accompany the celebration. Mrs Davies and I are just in the process of attaching the sounds to the website for you to work on at home. As you may imagine the Nativity swing is in full effect. Children are super excited and I hope you are all seeing that at home. I shall send out roles next week. It will be Christmas before you know it. On a somber note, the children wrote lovely prayers for our Remembrance Day. You could really see children demonstrate great values, love and respect into our world. We then made a poppy for our remembrance class display. Well done team. I am so proud of you all. I hope you all have a lovely weekend as a family. With love, Mr McGill