Flu Vaccination E-Consent

Vaccination UK, who are commissioned by the NHS to provide child immunisations within schools, will be attending our school to deliver the Flu Nasal Spray’s or IM alternative (porcine free injection) on Wednesday 4th October.

Vaccination UK are obliged to offer 100% of the eligible school aged population from Reception – Year 11 a flu vaccination. This year, the window of time that they can deliver the flu vaccination programme has been significantly limited. In previous years, they could vaccinate from October until the middle of February. However, this year, NHS England have put a ‘hard stop’ on the end date for offering the flu vaccine of December 15th in order to ensure that children are vaccinated by Christmas and the chance of flu circulating in the community is reduced.

It is really important that they receive a consent form back for every child, even if you do NOT wish for your child to receive the immunisation, there is an option to decline. Failure to complete a consent form, may result in our call centre making contact with you to obtain it verbally. Please complete the link below to state whether you wish to consent or decline. 

Vaccination UK Immunisation (schoolvaccination.uk)

It is important that all consents are completed no later than 1 week prior to the school session, links will not be accessible after this time. Clinics are available for children who miss the immunisation at school, please contact the Vaccination team on 01527 390030 to find out more. 

*If you have submitted a consent form but take your child to an alternative location to have the flu immunisation, it is YOUR responsibility to let the Vaccination Team know, please contact them directly and immediately as they DO NOT get notified automatically. 

If you do have issues with the E-consent link, please contact Vaccination UK on 01527 390030 or you can request paper consent forms via the below email address. 

For any other information, please contact them on 01527 390030 or via email on Worcestershire@v-uk.co.uk.

Key Stage 2 children.

Over the next few weeks we will be holding football practices at lunchtime for children interested in representing the school on the Year 5-6, Year 3-4 or Key Stage 2 Girls football team.  As these practices will take place on the field, which is getting increasingly muddy due to the rain, it would be a good idea for the children to have a spare pair of old clothes and either football boots or sturdy trainers which can stay in school.  Unfortunately, due to the variable weather the day of the practice may change each week.  Thank you for your help

We have had a lovely week in Wrens despite the rainy weather.  The children are getting much more familiar with our class routines and it has been lovely to see them grow in confidence.  This week we have been thinking about the season of autumn and we looked at some lovely photographs of colourful autumn leaves.  We then explored colour mixing using primary colours to create an autumn palette.  We are hoping to turn this into a fantastic autumn display in our classroom.  Our story this week was "The Gruffalo" and we enjoyed making our own versions of Gruffalo tea and cake in the mud kitchen at Forest School.

In maths this week we have been looking at sorting and putting objects into sets.  We extended this by looking at some sets of objects and spotting the odd one out.  We used lots of great mathematical language relating to shape and size to describe our thinking.  We have been putting our knowledge to good use at tidy up time sorting all our toys into the correct boxes. Perhaps they can show you their skills at tidy up time at home!

In RE this week we learnt that the cross is a special symbol for people who believe in God and Jesus.  The children made some fantastic crosses in the classroom and we were impressed by their creativity and fine motor skills.  In PSHE we have been talking about how we are all different and enjoy different things.  The children will be taking it in turns to bring home the "Marvellous Me" box so they can fill it with 4 or 5 items that our special to them for a "Show and Tell" session in class.

Our phonics lessons are continuing to progress well and next week the children will be bringing home their first reading books.  They will be issued on a Friday and are due back in the following Friday alongside the library books.  The children will have already read these books in school with an adult and the idea is that they are bringing them home to celebrate their reading skills with you.  I hope you enjoy them!

This week in Skylarks, the Year 1s have got into full swing with their Little Wandle phonics. It has been great to spend time reading with lots of children this week. Year 2s have been writing expanded noun phrases to describe. They have also learnt about alliteration and have had a go at writing their own alliterative sentences.

In maths, we have continued working on place value. Year 1s have been focusing on identifying one more and one less, counting backwards, comparing groups and finding fewer, more and the same. Year 2s have been practising writing numbers to 100 using words, partitioning numbers flexibly, writing numbers in their expanded form and identifying 10s on number lines.

In RE, the children have been learning about the creation story and what God made on each of the seven days. 

In art this week, the children created a composition of natural objects with a partner. They needed to think about the focal point of their composition and where they wanted the viewers' eyes to be drawn to before sketching it. They also had a go at 'backwards forwards drawing'.

This week we have been consolidating our place value knowledge in maths. We have introduced numbers up to 1,000 and different ways that they can be represented. We have used partitioning to show that numbers can comprise of different values. 

In English, we have developed our character descriptions and we are moving towards writing our own descriptions. We have focused on what our character might think and feel and how we can use similes to enhance our descriptions. Towards the end of this week, we began the process of planning our description ready for next week.

In music, our topic is Stone Age. We looked at different rhythms and performed short patterns while maintaining a steady pulse. We have looked at rhythm notation that uses quavers, crotchets, minims and semibreves.

In English this week, we have continued to read Krindlekrax and use it as the focus of our writing. Ruskin has learned all about the crocodile who lives in the sewers and is determined to see it. Rehearsals for the school play have started and it turns out that Elvis Cave is definitely not an actor! We have been learning how to write a formal letter and the children have used these skills to write a letter to Mr Lace (the class teacher), explaining why they think he has chosen the wrong person for the role of hero, their reasons for this and their thoughts on who should have been given the part.

In maths, we are coming to the end of our topic on place value. The children have been comparing and ordering 4-digit numbers as well as practising finding 1, 10, 100 and 1000 more or less than numbers as well as counting in 10s, 100s and 1000s.

This week in Merlins class we have been writing our alternative endings to The Highwayman poem. The children have been using their storyboards to help construct an ending which deviates from the original. Their poems should follow the structure, rhyming pattern, and language of the original poem by Alfred Noyes. I have been very impressed with the creativity and perseverance shown by many.

In maths, we have continued our topic of place value. This week we have been learning about where numbers belong on number lines to 10 million, we have compared and ordered integers of up to 8 digits and we ended the week with practising our rounding skills.

This week in science we have explored further life processes that all living things must perform. We looked in more detail at the nutrition and growth to adulthood and introduced the concept of the life cycle of a living thing. 

In history, we have looked at how we know about the Stone Age and what evidence we have to inform our thinking about this period of history. We analysed some artefacts from the Stone Age and what impact they would have had on the lives of stone age people.

In history this week, we were learning about World War 2 and the blitz. The aim of this lesson was to evaluate significance of the blitz and why it affected people so much at the time and in the years that have followed. The children had the opportunity to compare the Coventry blitz of 1940 with the siege of Stalingrad in Russia, the bombing of Dresden in Germany and the Hiroshima atomic bomb in Japan. They were then able to draw out the similarities and differences between these significant events.

In computing, we were learning to be internet secure and how we might protect our 'stuff'. We explored what makes passwords vulnerable and the most used passwords today. The children had the opportunity to generate a password with a partner that would be very difficult to crack. This involved the integration of symbols, numbers, capital letters etc.

In RE this week, the children had the opportunity to create an informative poster or leaflet to educate people about how a Christian might live their life inspired by Psalm 8.