Author: Mrs Kenny

If you need any visuals for your child to help them with their daily routine you can log onto widget online and subscribe to their 21 day free trail. We use widget at school so the symbols will be the same and they will be use to them.

Please do email Miss Nesbitt or the office if you need some support with ideas for visuals to help you.

https://widgitonline.com/account/new

Good Afternoon Copper Base,

Just a quick check in to let you know that I had a go at some of these baking recipes this weekend. They were easy to follow and great fun for children . You could have a go if you get a chance?

Hope you all had a restful Easter. 🐣

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/easter_baking_with_kids

Good Morning Copper Base,

Happy Easter!! Have a lovely time with your families. Enjoy your Easter eggs and yummy chocolate. Take care and see you soon.

Mrs Kenny, Mrs Godfrey, Mrs Berry, Mrs Lawford, Miss Norris, Mrs Gore and Mrs Gardiner.

Have a very happy day. We are all singing happy birthday to you. We thought you would love this cake as it has some of your favourite things on it.

Mrs Kenny, Mrs Godfrey and everyone in Copper Base.

Please visit your class blog for some exciting Easter activities – These include an virtual Easter bonnet parade, Easter quiz, a virtual Easter egg hunt and an Easter bingo which you can log into live next Thursday! Have a restful Easter everyone!

Mrs Kenny and Mrs Godfrey

Guess whose egg!

Can you guess which egg belongs to which grown up at Damers? 

Email your answers to easter@damers.dorset.sch.uk

 before Thursday 9th April for the chance to win an Easter egg. 

Please mark the email ‘KS2 whose egg’

A	B	C
D	E	F
G	H	I
J	K	L
M	N	O
P	Q

Need a clue? These are the egg owners!

Mrs Coker

Mrs Farrall

Mrs Norris

Miss Nesbitt

Mrs Thorpe

Mrs Green

Mrs O’Donnell

Mrs Godfrey

Mrs Simmonds

Mrs Cooke

Mrs Kenny

Mrs Scott

Miss Barnes

Mrs Bearwish

Mr Bracey

Mrs Smith

Mrs Huelin

Guess whose egg!

Can you guess which egg belongs to which grown up at Damers? 

Email your answers to easter@damers.dorset.sch.uk

 before Thursday 9th April for the chance to win an Easter egg. 

Please mark the email ‘KS1 whose egg’

A	B	C
D	E	F
G	H	I
J	K	L
M	N	O
P	Q	R
S

Here’s a clue if you are stuck…. You can check what we all look like on the school website!

Mrs Scott

Mrs Keys

Miss Baker

Mrs Jackson

Mrs Prendergast

Miss Nesbitt

Mrs Kenny

Miss Goodridge

Mrs Bracey

Mrs Godfrey

Miss Norris

Mrs Baillie

Mrs Wray

Mrs Farrall

Mrs Beasley

Mr Misun

Mrs Huelin

Mrs Smith

Mrs Watts

Message from Mrs Smith:

Good afternoon everybody!

You have once again filled my heart with joy this week with your transformation tales. You may know that Mrs Smith is a keen gardener so to spend my evenings hearing about your new planting and the moments you have ‘stood and stared’ at the beauty of nature all around us has been an absolute treat. You have told me about  …

• The joy of lying on a bed of buttercups
• Children planting a patch of grass they had grown with Mrs Goss last year
• Planting new life that will attract bees, butterflies and birds
• Children designing their own allotment planting
• Old planter renovation projects
• A Christmas tree that has been planted in preparation for the festive season …
• Turf laying and stone transportation
• Beautiful sunsets
• Tales of the joy of previous lettuce planting experiences
• Planting of edamame beans (as a favourite restaurant is no longer an option!)
• The recreation of beach scenes in garden plots
• The signs of blossom and new life that you have seen all around you
• Children growing plants for their cats
• The learning that has emerged about  life’s natural cycles
• And families sharing their seeds and pots, inspiring others to start planting too … (thank you Flora for the lovely packages that appeared in our garden bank!)

So, time to enjoy the green fingered achievements of Damers First School this week. You may see a few grown ups that you recognise in here as they have been busy ‘transforming’ too …

I have included two stories for you this week. The first is one that I have shared in assembly before so you may recognise it. It fits beautifully with our theme and shows how we can turn ‘grey’ situations around using the power and colours that emerge from planting … 

I felt the second story of the week was a great one for us to start the Easter holidays with as it reminds us how through our imaginations and the beauty of nature we can travel to many exciting, far and distant lands, even during a lockdown! (See if you can spot the badly behaved chicken. My audience were nowhere near as good as you are in assembly!)

See if you can find a magical place where your imagination can run wild, either in your home or in your garden over the next few weeks and do tell me about it during the holidays if you like (your grown ups can help you to send a message).

Stay focused on those green shoots and new beginnings everyone and enjoy your Easter break . Your Headteacher is genuinely lost without you!

With warm wishes for a happy holiday.

Mrs Smith ☺️ 

Here is some information for the adults about a new login…

Children can now use their TTrockstars account to access a new activity called NumBots. https://play.numbots.com/#/account/search-school

NumBots is an online game and playing little and often (5 minutes a few times a week) will significantly improve your child’s recall and understanding of number bonds and addition and subtraction facts. 

They might need some help navigating to the website and entering the details but once they’re in, they just need some quiet space to get on with the games for 5 minutes.

Important: please don’t allow siblings or family to answer for them but do support your child if they’re stuck.

Game Types 

1. Story Mode – the emphasis is on learning the ideas and concepts behind addition and subtraction so it features more diagrams, shapes and question styles. 

2. Challenge Mode – the emphasis is more on speed of recall of key facts, like number bonds to 10, doubling small numbers or adding & taking away in your head