Friday 29th November 2024

Next week, Ellingham's Christmas celebrations begin! Please book your child's ticket for the Christmas Fair and Grotto. All tickets are available from Arbor.

Our Christmas hoops and Christmas tree will be going up on Monday. On Friday 6th December we start with our Christmas Fair, which will run during the day in school time. All classes will be taken to join in the fun to have a go on the tombola, and game stalls to win prizes, plus a session creating some Christmas crafts. Raffle tickets will be drawn on Friday 13th December so don't miss out on the prizes. There's a prize for the class that sells the most tickets.

On Thursday 12th December, Santa's Grotto will be open to help the children celebrate Christmas Jumper Day and the Christmas lunch, with crackers, decoration and pudding provided by Friends of Ellingham. Thanks so much to Friends of Ellingham for organising this. Any further volunteers for the day, please let FOE know: FriendsofEllingham@outlook.com

Don't be disappointed; book your tickets for the Christmas performances. Reception, Year 1, 2 and 3 will perform their Christmas play at 9.15am and 2.15pm, Wednesday 11th December - link. Year 4, 5 and 6 will perform a Christmas Concert in Chessington School Theatre at 6.30pm, Thursday 19th December - link. Two tickets per family will be allocated for both events.

The choir will be visiting various venues - Star and Garter, Chessington Garden Centre, Hook Library and John Lewis - delighting audiences with their lovely singing.

Road Safety Poster Winners

Thank you to all the children who entered the poster competition, we had a whole class entry from Year 2 Oak so they have been awarded some extra playtime.

Congratulations to the children who have won and will have their posters placed around the school and will receive another prize soon.

Year 1 Maple - Freddie Negri

Year 2 Oak - Tosia

Year 3BP- Rio

Year 4CS- Matilda

Year 5S- Khaula

Year 6Q Taylor

Thanks to Bright Light shutters for purchasing reflectors for all the children to put on their bags and coats and Flowers Day Care for donating some hi-vis jackets and prizes for the poster competition.

Early Years Classes Learn to Cross the Road Safely

The children in Nursery practiced what they had learnt about road safety in the garden by crossing the road. They also did a traffic light matching activity.

Reception went on a little trip to Ellingham Road to practise our road safety. We all knew that we must only cross the road with an adult. It was tricky to find a safe place to cross because of the packed cars. We saw an electric car turn the corner, we could not hear it! We learnt to look left, then right, then left again. Most importantly we learnt to keep looking and listening as we cross.

We would also like to thank Specsavers for their very kind donation of new high viz jackets for us to wear when we go on a trip.

LEARNING TOGETHER

Nursery Escape the Ice Age

We have been exploring the cold and one morning the children found some dinosaurs trapped in ice and needed to rescue them. They used hammers and worked together to get them all out.

Year 1 Geographers!

Maple class got out and about this week to explore the area around Ellingham to help them with their geography topic 'Where is our School?'

The children went for a local walk and took note of all the things they saw in the local area. They saw a church, barbers, doctors, shops and lots of houses including some of their own!

Year 2 Christmas Journey

On 21st November Year 2 went to the Kings Centre to take part in their Christmas Journey experience. We learnt about the Christmas Story through a show, drama and songs. Thank you to Insight-we thought it was brilliant!

Year 4 Light Up for Diwali

This term, Year 4 have been learning about the Hindu religion. Last week, we learnt about the story of Rama and Sita and how this is connected to the Hindu Festival of Diwali. We discovered that it is the start of the Hindu New year and a celebration of light defeating dark and good overcoming evil. The children were able to make their own celebration lights.

Year 3 Exercise For A Healthy Heart

This week, Year 3 investigated what happens to our heart rate when we exercise in Science. There was a lot of huffing and puffing but everyone was able to identify the benefits of exercise for a healthy body and mind.

Y6 History Playdough Wars

Year 6 have been exploring what happened during WW2 and the impact it had. We used playdough to represent the axis countries. We then had to listen carefully and move the playdough according to what happened in the first part of WW2. We were surprised to see how quickly countries were invaded across Europe! We finished our playdough war after Germany took over the Channel islands, because on the 10th July the Battle of Britain began and the fighting took to the skies.

SAFEGUARDING, HEALTH AND SUPPORT

2024_25- Helping children series flier.pdf

This is the full safeguarding team in school. They are all trained to Level 3 and everyone in the school received the annual update of Safeguarding Level 2 training at INSET.

Contact details: 020 8397 3864 or email: office@elp.rbksch.org to request a safeguarding call back. For pupil support, contact 020 8397 3864 or email: pupilsupport@elp.rbksch.org