Spring Term 2023-24

Hedgehog Class Termly Overviews

Athlete Visit

We were extremely lucky as basketball player Chris Tawaih came to visit our school. He set us lots of challenges, which were great fun and told us what it was like to be a professional athlete. We also raised lots of money for our school too. Thank you so much for your support!

Tag Rugby

Mia from Stars Rugby came in to teach us how to play tag rugby.

We had a brilliant session and we learnt how to throw and catch a rugby ball.

We played lots of games where we had to try and capture tags from our friends. This was great fun and helped us to practise our dodging.

We were exhausted by the end of the session but had great fun.

Thank you Mia

Parent Reading Workshop

It was wonderful to see so many of you at our reading workshop.

The children absolutely loved sharing their books with you and reading for pleasure helps to develop reading skills too.

There has been a lot of research about the benefits of reading for both children and adults. Reading for pleasure delivers enormous benefits for children of all ages. It builds reading and literacy confidence as well as influencing children’s health and wellbeing, future academic achievement and adult life chances. Evidence shows that families can play a key role in helping develop a reading for pleasure habit, but it’s not always easy to motivate children who lack confidence or enthusiasm for reading.

Why is reading for pleasure important? (Source Parentkind.org)

Currently, 1 in 5 children in England cannot read well by the age of 11. We know that reading for fun improves literacy.
Reading for pleasure is more important to children’s academic success than their parents’ level of education or socio-economic status.
Embedding a love of reading in children can help their wellbeing later in life.
9% of adult readers say that reading stops them feeling lonely.
Studies have found that those who read for pleasure have higher levels of empathy, greater self-esteem and are better able to cope with difficult situations.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.