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Sunflower and Lupin class created 3D reindeers from recycled materials for the Christmas lights switch on in Long Eaton. The reindeers are now on display in Long Eaton Tesco.

Welcome to friday's update.

Another busy week here at Dovedale!

The key stage 1 performances were brilliant-all little stars. A big thank you to the team and Mrs Howell and Mrs Bird for the costumes-once again they looked very professional!

A full governor's meeting was held this week for governors to review the school's self assessment and policies; we are grateful that we have such a committed team working behind the scenes.

Today of course was Christmas panto and Christmas jumper day. The children all looked resplendent in their jumpers and there was certainly a lot of 'Look behind yous!' Big thank you to our wonderful PTA for supporting this once again.

Don't forget to complete the parent questionnaire-we value your input and the more responses we get the better overall picture we can form of action points and things we are doing well.

The December newsletter is now in newsletters.

Next week

On Wednesday Lorna Cooper is in school in the morning if anyone needs to book an appointment to see her. This is a free confidential family support session.

The KS1 Christmas party is Wednesday afternoon; Lower Juniors on Thursday and Upper Juniors on Friday.

We break up on Friday 21st.

 

Last week was a particularly busy week in school with the Reception performances, the year 3 and 4 Bazaar; parent's evening and Christmas dinner!

The reception children were all little stars and we were so proud of them; they were so confident!

The year 3 and 4 bazaar was very well organised and attended; lots of goodies to buy and brilliant singing! Well done to the team and the children.

We gave out our first 3 Ambassador badges on Friday during our well done assembly - well done for starting us off year 6.

The book fair collected £800 in commission which will be fed straight back in to school with a selection of lovely new books.

We are still endeavouring to get the new classroom build off to a start after the building company pulled out at the last minute in the summer. Once this is done we will benefit from new spaces for the year 6 classroom and a nurture space as well as a library/meeting room space! We can't wait.

This week we will be treated to the year 1 and 2 Christmas performances and the christmas jumper and Panto day on Friday.

We were delighted to welcome all of our Governors in to school day. They spent time in the classrooms; learning about our THRIVE programme and participating in Forest schools. We thank them for giving up their time to support our school.

The children were very excited to welcome Pudsey bear in to assembly this morning! Lots of great costumes and a big thank you for all the cake donations!

Don't forget tomorrow we are going dotty for Children in need! Children to wear non uniform/spots for a £1.00 donation. There's also the cake sale-20p a cake.

Donations of cakes for the sale will be very gratefully received.

Thank you again for all your support!

Here is our engraved trophy from the Long Eaton Carnival for best float in show!

We are delighted to announce that our year 3 and 4 Football team won the Erewash school sports partnership football winning against 9 other local schools. Well done! 

A huge thank you to all our parents and children who helped us raise an amazing £726 for Macmillan.