Dear Parents/Carers,
So here we are, May 2020 and what a few months it’s been.  A short reflection and then I look to the future and our plans for after half-term (as they stand at this point in time).

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Dear Parents/Carers,
Well here we are, in a place that none of us could have envisaged a few months ago. Thank you for the emails, photos and videos that you’ve been sending to the year group emails, including all the rainbows you have been creating and putting in your windows. We can see how well most of you are adapting to the new normal!
 

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​Please find our closure letter. We will continue to communicate with you throughout this time. Thank you for your support.

 Dear Parents/Carers, 
 PLEASE NOTE—THESE WORKSHOPS HAVE NOW BEEN CANCELLED  
Thank you to those of you who have signed up for this term’s parent workshops and classroom visit which we are holding on Wednesday 18th March at 6.00pm and Friday 20th March at 9.15pm, dependent on government advice regarding Coronavirus.
The aim of the workshop is to share with you a couple of teaching techniques that teachers use to aid learning, known as modelling and scaffolding.  These are techniques that I’m sure you already use at home when you are working with your child.

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Dear Parents/Carers, The relationship between home and school is crucial to ensuring that our children make use of every opportunity available to them and are successful at school. I believe that home school partnership is a true strength of Kingslea and would like to thank parents for working with us and supporting the staff and your child. Be it getting them to school everyday and on time, reading at home, building on learning we are doing at school or supporting our expectations regarding kindness to others and behaviour, by working together we can achieve so much. Having been the head teacher of Kingslea for the last 4 years, it makes me very proud that we have such strong partnership with parents/carers. 

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Welcome to the first Inclusion Newsletter of 2020. Being an inclusive school is about ensuring that all children have equality of opportunity and are given the best possible education, so that they can achieve their potential. It might involve providing enrichment opportunities to challenge children, supporting children who do not speak English as their first language, supporting children with disabilities or additional needs, or helping children who are experiencing a period of emotional distress to manage in school. The Inclusion Newsletter will be published every half term. We hope to signpost parents/carers and families to support, opportunities and inclusive events around our school community and the county. 

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Dear Parents/Carers,  
One of the key roles of schools has to be widening children’s understanding of the world around them. Be it through direct teaching in the classroom, day to day conversation, visits the children go on, visitors to the school, the foci of assemblies or a myriad of other ways.
 
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Dear Parents/Carers,  
According to research released by the National Lottery, half of UK adults believe there is a strong community spirit in their local neighbourhood.  The same research found that being part of a community makes 84% of people feel happier, 81% less lonely and 75% mentally healthier. 
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Dear Parents/Carers,  
During half-term I was reading the news and I always enjoy the top ten lists that are produced. 

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Dear Parents/Carers,
At one of our recent leadership meetings we were discussing our ‘curriculum’: something that has been a strength of Kingslea since the school opened in 2006. Obviously the curriculum has developed and changed since 2006 in what we teach, the expectations we have, the visits we go on, the standard of work, the progression from Reception to Y6 etc, but the curriculum has always been at the centre of Kingslea’s work, even if it wasn’t until this September that it became the focus of the government’s education policy.

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