Whitgreave Primary School

🎄⭐️ Wishing all our pupils, families and staff Merry Christmas. Well done to our pupils for a fantastic Autumn Term - you have all worked incredibly hard. Thank you to our parents/carers for your support, and also to our staff for their hard work. ⭐️
We hope you all have a wonderful break and look forward to seeing you in the New Year. ✨

🌟 Reminder - TOMORROW:

Nursery & Reception parents are invited to our Nativity tomorrow, 10am, in the EYFS Hall. ⭐️🎄🎶✨

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Thursday is a non-uniform day for all pupils.

Pupils break up from school on Thursday 15th December and return on Wednesday 4th January 2023.

Tomorrow is 2s & Nursery’s Christmas parties. Children in 2s and Nursery can come to school in their party clothes 🎄🎶✨⭐️

🌟 Reminder - TOMORROW:
9.30am - Y1, 2 & 3 Christmas Carol Concert, in the KS1/2 Hall. Due to health and safety, only 1 parent per pupil may attend this carol concert, thanks for understanding. 🎄🎶

Tomorrow is also Reception’s Christmas Party ⭐️🤩. Reception children can come to school in their party clothes 🎄✨.

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🧐✍🏻 Family Science Projects ⭐️
Before half term, Mrs Barrett sent out a Family Science project for children to try out at home with their family members.
It was all about Light Refraction and we had some fantastic observations and drawings!
If you look carefully at some of the photos, you’ll see that something as simple as a glass of water can flip a picture back to front! It was lovely to look through all the photos and comments that were emailed in.

✨ Well done, and thank you, to the following children and grown-ups for taking part:

👏 Kelseyleigh, Lime 1
👏 Giovanni, Lilac 2
👏 Tanveer, Green 2
👏 Suhaavee, Purple 2

Every half term, another Family Science activity will be sent out. Each one uses things you can usually find around the house - nothing expensive or unusual!
If you'd like to have a go at one of them, I'd love to hear about it - all the details can be found on the Family Science letter (the next one will be out before the Christmas break 🙂).

Mrs Barrett ⭐️
Science Lead

UPDATE: Years 4, 5 & 6 Carol Concert will now be taking place in our KS1/2 Hall.

We are really sorry for the inconvenience, but due to health & safety and the capacity in the hall, only 1 parent per pupil can attend, thanks for understanding.

🌟 Reminder - TODAY:

11.00am - Y4, 5 & 6 Christmas Carol Concert in the KS1/2 Hall 🎄🎶

2-3pm - Year 6 Parent Christmas Craft, in the KS1/2 Hall

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🌟 Reminder - TODAY:
9-10am - 2s/Nursery AM Parent Christmas Crafts
2-3pm - 2s/Nursery PM Parent Christmas Crafts

in the EYFS Hall
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Year 1 are having a brilliant day at Lower Drayton Farm 🎄. We’ve decorated cookies (and eaten some!) and Christmas decorations, seen the animals, watched a Christmas show, made reindeer food, met Father Christmas 🎅 and had tons of fun in the playbarn 🛝😃. It has been wonderful to see the children so happy and having so much fun with their teachers and friends.

🌟 Reminder - TODAY:
2-3pm - Reception Parent Christmas Crafts

in the EYFS Hall.
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🍽️🎄✨Thank you to our parents for joining us for a Christmas dinner today or yesterday. We had over 230 parents/carers attend - we know your children loved having you join them for a festive lunch 🎄.

⭐️ Reminder: Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 Parent Christmas Lunches are today, in the KS1/2 Hall. 🍽️🎄

Please refer to your tickets for timings, as we have allocated slots. If you have misplaced your ticket, please contact the school office 😀.

⭐️ Reminder: Reception, Year 1 & Year 2 Parent Christmas Lunches are today, in the EYFS Hall. 🍽️🎄

Please refer to your tickets for timings, as we have allocated slots. If you have misplaced your ticket, please contact the school office 😀.

🪩 Pupils have thoroughly enjoyed their Christmas discos this evening. There has been dancing, laughing, singing, congas, pass the parcel, musical statues, sweets, snacks and fun!!
A great start to our Christmas festivities 🤩.
A huge thank you to our amazing staff who stayed after school to party with our pupils ✨.

🪩 Reminder: Year 1 - 6 Discos are tonight, for those who have returned their letters.
Years 1 & 2 - 3.15-4.15 (bring party clothes to school)
Years 3 & 4 - 4.30-5.30
Years 5 & 6 - 5.45-6.45

Drop off to the school office and collect from Goodyear gate. 🪩

🌟 Reminder - TODAY:
9-10am - Year 1 Parent Christmas Crafts
2-3pm - Year 2 Parent Christmas Crafts

in the KS1/2 Hall
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Our Sleigh is visiting Low Hill in Wolverhampton this evening with Wolverhampton Santa Claus .

The Sleigh will start its visit at 4:45 near 37 Whitgreave Avenue and will then stop at near to 37, Whitgreave Avenue; 11, Neve Avenue; 27, Perry Avenue; 87, Perry Avenue; 43, Hill Crest Avenue; 97, Hill Crest Avenue; 18, Hammond Avenue; 40, Walker Avenue; 2, Walker Avenue; 31, Wingfoot Avenue and finish at Whitgreave Primary School on Goodyear Avenue.

You can help Tettenhall Rotary to support the work of local good causes throughout the year by donating by text to Santa's Sleigh appeal:

text SNOWMAN 1 to 70480 to donate £1
text SNOWMAN 2 to 70480 to donate £2
text SNOWMAN 5 to 70480 to donate £5
text SNOWMAN 10 to 70480 to donate £10

or donate securely online at https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/campaign/wolverhampton-santa-claus

Massive thanks to Team Whitgreave for supporting Black Country Women’s Aid this Christmas. And thanks to Mrs Taylor for organising the event, what a lovely thing to do! ###

Super work Year 1, Year 3 and Year 5 ✨

Well done Year 4 ⭐️

Year 4 Green 1 at Whitgreave Primary followed their podcast plans to perfection yesterday, recording and editing their own shows in Ferrite from . Fantastic work Green 1! 👏👍 🎤🎙️

National Centre for Computing Education

🌟 Reminder - TODAY:
9-10am - Year 3 Parent Christmas Crafts
2-3pm - Year 4 Parent Christmas Crafts

in the KS1/2 Hall
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Look what we won 🤩🎅🎄 Thanks Party Box - Wolverhampton our pupils will love it!

More Reception fun at Lower Drayton Farm
We’ve held/stroke/seen lots of animals 🐖🐄🐏🐇🐍 and had lots of fun in the playbarn 🛝! We’ve had a brilliant day 😀

Reception are having a fab time at Lower Drayton Farm. They’ve watched a Christmas show with the elves, made reindeer food, decorated a cookie, had fun doing Christmas crafts and have met Father Christmas in his grotto 🎅🎄.
We are going to have more fun this afternoon seeing the farm animals, playing in the huge play barn and having faux snow fun! ❄️ ⛄️

Stay & Play is tomorrow! ⭐️ Come and join us 2-3pm.

✨ Stay & Play is back!!
Everyone is welcome 🤗
Every Friday 2pm-3pm
EYFS Hall

Bring your little ones along to play, have fun, sing, explore, meet others, or just for a cup of tea!

**YEAR 5 PARENTS**
Reminder: Christmas Parent Crafts is today in the KS1/2 Hall 2-3pm. 🎄

Wow! What an amazing afternoon! Thank you for coming to our Christmas Fayre 🎄. We hope you enjoyed coming along. Thank you to Mrs Hyett who has spent weeks planning and organising such a fantastic, successful, jam packed Christmas Fayre ⭐️!
Team Whitgreave ⭐️🎄

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We’ve got bouncy castles, slushies, sweeties, light up toys, hot food, face painting, drinks, popcorn, tombola, games, wreaths, candles, balloons, raffles and of course, 🎅Santa himself!
Please be prepared to wait for our Christmas Fayre to begin at approx 3.30pm as we have to ensure our EYFS children have been collected safely first 😀.
See you later 😀

🎄🎄🎄Don’t forget to join us for our Christmas Fayre tomorrow (Wednesday) at approx. 3.30pm, in the EYFS Building.
➡️ Please give staff time to get to their stalls and for EYFS children to have been collected 😀.

The external doors that will be open are the main EYFS office doors and the EYFS external hall door.

🎅 Santa’s Grotto will be in the Time for Twos building and the queue will be outside – please make sure you wrap up warm! 🧣

🍟 The queues for refreshments and the bouncy castles will be outside by the external doors leading into the EYFS hall.
The queues for these attractions will be outside in order to ease congestion in the corridors and prevent overcrowding. If the queue is rather long, please feel free to visit other stalls and wait for the queues to become a shorter.

Come along for:
🎅 Santa’s grotto
❓Tombola
🍭 Sweetie cones
🎈 Balloons
🎨 Face painting
🍟 Refreshments
🦆Hook a bag
🙃 Bouncy castle fun
🦄 Glitter tattoos

And lots more!!
See you tomorrow 🤩🤩

⭐️ This weeks sports achievement goes to Ingrid in Year 4. Here we can see Ingrid earning a trophy in a Karate competition. That’s fantastic work Ingrid.👌🏻👍🏻💪🏻 Keep up the good work!

Has your child made any sporting achievements? Please feel free to send in a pic or 2 at any time. Children should be in kit and showing off a certificate, medals or trophies. Children will also get a place on my competitions display in school. They will appear each week in the order that I receive them.

Mr Albutt

Pupils can wear a Christmas jumper with their uniform on Friday 9th December 🎄

Our uniform Swap Shop is open today from 3:15-6pm.

As well as uniform we have coats, hats, scarves, some wellies and Christmas jumpers.

Photos from Hyett Education's post

⭐️ Reminder: Tomorrow is a non-uniform day (donations of £1 for our Christmas Fayre please).

It is also Children in Need - children can come to school with crazy hair 🤪. There are still some Children in Need headbands on sale for £2.50 in classrooms, which is all donated to Children in Need.

Year 1 had a great afternoon visiting St Peter's Church Wolverhampton, for our RE Christianity topic. Thank you to Father David at St Peter’s Church and well done Year 1 for your super behaviour today!

💫💫 REMINDER! Stay and Play is running tomorrow afternoon (Friday) from 2.00PM until 3.00PM.

Please bring your child along for some fun and games. It’s a great opportunity to meet other families and our staff, plus, there’s free tea and biscuits! 💫💫

Parents and guardians of children who will start school for the first time in September 2023 are being urged to apply for places online now at www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/admissions.

The window for applications for reception class places at infant and primary schools is now open, and families have until 15 January 2023 to register their preferences.

Councillor Chris Burden, Cabinet Member for Education and Skills said: “The application process is straightforward and should only take a few minutes to complete. Please note that, even if your child is in nursery provision at either primary or infant school, you will still need to apply for a reception class place for them, and please get your applications in before the deadline, as applying after this time could have a detrimental effect on your chance of securing a place at one of your preferred schools.”

Please click https://orlo.uk/xK68O to read the full story.

🎄🎁🎅❄️Christmas Dates for your Diary!
We have a very busy few weeks 🤩🤩🤩

30/11/22—Christmas Fayre 🎄
1/12/22—Reception Lower Drayton Farm Trip 🚌
1/12/22—2-3pm—Y5 Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
2/12/22—9-10am—Y3 Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
2/12/22—2-3pm—Y4 Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
5/12/22—9-10am—Y1 Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
5/12/22—2-3pm—Y2 Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
5/12/22—After school—Y1-6 Christmas Discos 🪩
6/12/22—Reception/Y1/Y2 Parent Christmas Lunch 🍽️
7/12/22—Y3/Y4/Y5/Y6 Parent Christmas Lunch 🍽️
8/12/22—Year 1 Lower Drayton Farm Trip 🚌
8/12/22—2-3pm—Reception Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
9/12/22 - Christmas Jumper Day 👚
9/12/22—9-10am—2s AM/Nursery AM Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
9/12/22—2-3pm—2s PM/Nursery PM Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
12/12/22— Y4, Y5 & Y6 Carol Concert 🎶
12/12/22—2-3pm—Y6 Parent Christmas Craft ✂️
13/12/22—9.30am—Y1, Y2 & Y3 Carol Concert 🎶
13/12/22 - Reception Christmas Party (come in party clothes)
15/12/22—10am—Nursery & Reception Nativity 🎶

⭐️ Pupils break up for the end of Autumn Term on Thursday 15th December 2022.
Pupils return on Wednesday 4th January 2023. ⭐️

Letters will be going home this week with more information, locations and permission slips.

⭐️ This weeks sports achievement goes to Dylan in Year 4. Here we can see Dylan earning his green belt in Taekwondo. A great achievement. Well done buddy! 👌🏻👍🏻💪🏻 Keep up the good work!

Has your child made any sporting achievements? Please feel free to send in a pic or 2 at any time. Children should be in kit and showing off a certificate, medals or trophies. Children will also get a place on my competitions display in school. They will appear each week in the order that I receive them.

Mr Albutt