April 2006 - Mayoral Visit

We were very pleased to welcome the Mayor of Bury to our school this week. He came to open our nature trail and to visit each class.

The Mayor toured the school and was asked questions in each class. These ranged from queries about his work, his chain and his duties to questions about his favourite flowers (!).

He has written to me since the visit saying how much he enjoyed the morning at Unsworth. He commented on the excellent behaviour of the children and said how we should all be very proud of our school.

You will have noticed that we have started to plant in our gardens again. We would be very grateful if you could add to our planting by adding an extra plant to your shopping for your own gardens.

Please send in any child-friendly plants with your children and we will help them to plant them in different areas of the school grounds.

By the way, for those of you who are curious… the Mayor’s favourite flower is the tulip!!

Class Assemblies

Thur 18th May Y5
Thur 25th May Y1
Thurs 15th June Y3
Thurs 22nd June Y4
Thur 6th July Y2 - This is a change from previous date.
Thur 13th July Y6

Staffing for September 2006

Mrs. Farrar has decided to take early retirement at the end of this school year. She will have completed her sixteenth year at Unsworth in July. We will mark her contribution to the education of the children of Unsworth in some way at the end of term and make sure she enjoys her final term at the school!

In September Mrs Woodman will be the Year 1 class teacher. The governors will be appointing a new Year 4 class teacher for September shortly.

French News

Bonjour!

Since September Years 3 and 4 have been learning French and have studied various topics including greetings, the alphabet, the weather, numbers, colours, food, shapes and more recently, the family.

The children have been developing all four of the main language skills—reading, writing, listening and speaking, with a particular emphasis on the most difficult skill—speaking.

Both year groups are progressing very well with their vocabulary, simple sentence building and pronunciation. They are all highly motivated.

Of course, as adults, we realise that the earlier you start to learn a language the easier it becomes. We try to incorporate different subjects and activities into the French lessons such as PE, geography, art, music and Numeracy. We promote ideas about language, culture and teamwork.

Finally, I would like to say that I enjoy teaching the lessons as much as the children enjoy taking part in them and I am sure this will continue to be a success.

Merci and au revoir!
Madamoiselle Binns
French teacher

Sports News

Well done to those boys and girls from Years 5 and 6 who represented the school so well at the Prestwich and Whitefield Cross Country event at Heaton Park.

The team has been training throughout the school year at lunchtimes and were a credit to our school in terms of their team spirit and effort.

On the Saturday following the cross country we all turned out again to see our Year 5 and 6 girls play in the Prestwich and Whitefield netball rally at St Bernadettes. The girls played really well and everyone was delighted with their efforts.

Thank you to all those parents, grandparents and staff who give up their lunchtimes and Saturday mornings to ensure our children have the opportunities to play competitive sport for the school.

Health and Safety Notices

Hopefully during the summer term the children will be able to play outside most days. We would be grateful if you could send in some sun cream and a hat both labelled with your child’s name.

Please remember that children should have appropriate footwear for school. Shoes or summer sandals should be worn appropriate to a school uniform. Please avoid buying fashion shoes or boots which hinder your child when running about at playtimes.
Jewellery should not be worn in school.