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  • Celebrating Holi at Woodland View

    Published 20/03/25

    Celebrating Holi at Woodland View

    Last week, children at Woodland View learnt all about Holi in their classes and during an assembly led by Miss Drake, our Diversity Lead. They explored the meaning behind the Hindu festival and got creative by decorating bunting in a variety of different ways. This beautiful bunting has been displayed around the playground and at the front of the school, adding a burst of colour and vibrancy to our surroundings.

    On Friday 14th March, we marked the festival with special Holi activities in Miss Drake’s classroom at lunchtime. Children worked together on tissue paper spring trees, created bonfire art inspired by the Holika bonfire and enjoyed Holi-themed colouring and paper chains. It was a fantastic opportunity to get creative and celebrate together.

    Celebrating Holi is part of our four-year rolling plan at Woodland View where we aim to celebrate different religious festivals each year in a variety of ways. This ensures we recognise and appreciate the diverse backgrounds of all our children, making our school a place where everyone feels valued.

    A big thank you to everyone who took part – we loved celebrating with you!
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  • Headteacher Newsletter No.439

    Published 17/03/25

    17th March 2025
    Headteacher Newsletter No.439

    Dear parents,

    Please read on for details about Comic Relief, Parents’ Evening, FOWV events, Walking Bus Week, Family Learning Courses, Easter Camps, Holi Bunting, Achieve With Me, the Science Fair and The Big Sing.

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  • Year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics – County

    Published 27/02/25

    Earlier today, a squad of Year 6 children represented the school at the county Sportshall athletics competition in Kettering. The squad earned their place at the county finals after a fantastic 1st place finish at the district event in late January.

    Sportshall athletics includes many different events: sprinting, jumping, throwing and working as a team. Throughout the competition, children compete in track and field events to help score points for their team.

    It was a pleasure for Mr Willars, Mrs Walker and Mr Oelrich to attend this event with the children as they showed amazing cooperation, respect and determination during all the events. They are extremely proud of the children too for cheering each other on loudly and enthusiastically in all events. It was a treat for us to be able to see children excelling and giving their all in the field events too!

    After completing all of their events, it was time for the children to find out how they had performed overall. Out of the 10 schools who competed in the event, Woodland View came a competitive 8th overall! This was an amazing achievement in a strong, and closely fought, competition; the squad have performed fantastically in both rounds and we are delighted with all they have achieved!

    We are incredibly proud of our 2025 Sportshall squad as they have achieved a brilliant top 10 finish (out of over 100 schools who have competed at district level) at the county games! We can’t wait to see what other successes they have throughout the remaining academic year!

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  • Headteacher Newsletter 438

    Published 27/02/25
    Dear parents,

    Please read on for information about our new Value, last term's awards assembly, World Book Day, Achieve With Me sessions, Family Learning Courses and Key Dates.

    New Term - New Value

    As we begin a new tem, we focus on a new School Value.This term it’s HONESTY.  In assembly on Monday, I discussed some of the ways in which children can demonstrate honesty this term. This included having the courage to share our views when we think it’s important to do so. It’s not always easy giving our opinions, especially if we think they may differ from others’. However, I’m hoping the children are able to show this trait - be brave and be honest!

    Values Awards Assembly

    At the end of last term we celebrated our Cooperation Value with our special termly Values Awards Assembly. Please select the link below to see some of the action, including our winners! 

    https://www.wvps.northants.sch.uk/news/?pid=11&nid=2&storyid=78

    World Book Day - Friday 7th March

    Next Friday is World Book Day and we would love the children to come to school dressed up as their favourite character from any story or non-fiction book. This could include; The Gruffalo, Alex Rider, a Dinosaur, Percy the Park Keeper, The Iron Man or Neil Armstrong - the options are endless. It is always a great addition if children are able to bring in a copy of the book that their character appears in to share with their classmates. 
    Here are some low-cost dressing up ideas: 
    https://www.worldbookday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/World-Book-Day-2025-low-cost-dressing-up-pack.pdf 

    For more information, please see the communication sent out yesterday via School Ping.

    Achieve With Me - week beginning 10th March - 2.30-3pm

    This is a reminder that our Achieve With Me sessions are fast approaching. If you are able to come along, please arrive at the front of school by 2.30pm on your allotted day. If you have more than one child in the same session, we will be able to facilitate you being with them both/all - just let us know on arrival.

    Monday 10th March (Y1&Y3) 
    Tuesday 11th March (Y2&Y4) 
    Wednesday 12th March (FS) 
    Thursday 13th March (no session)
    Friday 14th March (Y5&6)

    We hope to see many of you there!

    Family Learning Courses

    I am pleased to share that we have been doing some work with North Northants in the hope that we can provide some useful family learning courses. Our aim is to provide FREE courses to Woodland View families, held at school, that are helpful and easy to access. Soon, we will be sharing a Ping message to allow parents to indicate which ones are of interest - so please look out for this. 

    A brief summary of the courses is outlined here: 
     
    Family Resilience:
    Gain useful information and strategies to help support your family, and yourself, with life’s challenges.  Topics include:  what is resilience, the brain under stress, self-confidence and self esteem, changing thinking and using language to promote resilience.
     
    An Introduction to Neurodiversity for Parents:
    Find out about neurodiversity and how to support your child. Topics include: an introduction to neurodiversity, understanding the diagnosis process, communicating with professionals and school, ways to support at home and looking after yourself.

    Family Language  (for parents with English as a second language):
    Develop your English skills and find out how to support your child at school.  Topics include: school routines, supporting reading, phonics, spelling, National Curriculum, healthy eating and online safety.
     
    Support your Child’s Learning – English:
    Find out how to help your child with English.  Topics include: encouraging reading, writing skills, terminology used by children, spelling, phonics and the National Curriculum.
     
    Support your Child’s Learning – Maths:
    Find out how to help your child with maths.  Topics include: how maths is taught in schools today, basic maths functions, timetables, 2D and 3D shapes and money.

    123 Magic:
    Using a tried and tested programme, learn how to stop your child’s challenging behaviour, promote positive behaviour and strengthen family relationships.

    Parking

    We have received some complaints recently from local residents regarding their driveways being blocked by parked cars during drop-off and collection times. If you must drive to school, please be respectful and courteous to our school community by not parking in front of driveways so that residents are able to leave their homes when they need to. 

    To further support the work we are doing on reducing traffic congestion outside of school, we will be having a Walking Bus Week later in the term. This will enable parents who do not live in Grange Park to drop their children at a local point, away from school, so that they can join a walking bus (led by staff) and walk safely to school. More information, including how you can sign up for the walking bus, will be shared soon. 

    Key Dates

    Week beginning Monday 3rd March - Storytelling Week 
    Monday 3rd - Wednesday 5th March - Year 6 Residential
    Friday 7th March - World Book Day (including dress-up!) 
    Week beginning Monday 10th March - Achieve With Me - parent visits to school - 2.30-3pm
    Monday (Y1&Y3) Tuesday (Y2&Y4) Wednesday (FS) Friday (Y5&6)
    Tuesday 11th March - Science Fair after school at CCS (some Y5/6 pupils attending)
    Thursday 13th March - The Evening Big Sing at the Derngate - Y5/6 Choir
    Friday 21st March - Red Nose Day - details to follow
    Tuesday 25th & Thursday 27th March - Parents’ Evening for FS-Y5 (appointments to be shared soon)

    Wednesday 26th March - Brass Concert for parents of 5SB - in school at 1.45pm
    Friday 28th March - MUFTI Day in return for Easter Egg Tombola contributions (details to follow)
    Week beginning Monday 31st March - Walking Bus Week - details to follow
    Monday 31st March - Cinema Club for all classes - 3.15-5pm
    Thursday 3rd April - Easter Egg Tombola - after school
    Friday 4th April - term finishes
    Tuesday 22nd April - Summer term begins

    Many thanks,

    Mr Horsley

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  • Values Awards - Cooperation

    Published 19/02/25

    On the final Friday of this half-term we celebrated one of our six values of COOPERATION. Mr Horsley led the awards - and the dancing - down our famous red carpet. The class teachers had each prepared something to say about the winners of this term's awards and explained how they demonstrated cooperation this term.

    Winners are always encouraged to dance down the red carpet to receive their awards as the rest of the school clap encouragement.

    In addition to Miss Wagstaff's inspirational poem selection about this term's value (see below), Mrs Matsangou - along with some of the Year 5s - had prepared a rap about cooperation, which they performed during the event. Here are the lyrics that they came up with.

    Cooperation is a core life skill,
    It helps you work together - respectfully
    Compromise is what you do
    Collaborate with others and you'll all get through
    If you work together, you'll achieve
    Everyone is equal so just believe
    Teamwork makes the dream work so keep... it... UP!

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  • Headteacher Newsletter 437

    Published 14/02/25
    Headteacher Newsletter No.437  

    Dear parents,

    Storytelling Week (Including World Book Day) - Friday 7th March

    Coming up after half term is Storytelling Week which encompasses World Book Day. This exciting week will be filled with activities which will immerse the children in developing their love for reading. As always, reading to your children as often as possible has a direct link to their educational success, wellbeing and ability to communicate effectively.

    Our Storytelling Week finishes with World Book Day on Friday. Teachers are busy preparing some fun and engaging activities to promote books with the children. This day is also themed as a ‘dress-up’ day so children can come to school dressed as their favourite book characters from fiction books, or they could be inspired to wear clothes based on a non-fiction book.

    World Book Day - Bloxwich Academy

    It's National Story Telling Week! - The Newark Trust for Education

    Achieve With Me - week beginning 10th March - 2.30-3pm

    Our next Achieve With Me sessions are approaching. This is a great opportunity to bring parents and children together in school to partake in some learning. It also gives you a chance to see what they are learning in school and an insight into how content is delivered.

    The focus of these sessions is non-core learning. This means the wider curriculum subjects, such as History, Science, Art, Music, etc. The children will have had some input before you arrive so we are hoping they will be able to take a more leading role with your task and you can assist!

    If you are able to come along, please arrive at the front of school by 2.30pm on your allotted day. If you have more than one child in the same session, we will be able to facilitate you being with them both/all - just let us know on arrival.

    Monday 10th March - Y1 & Y3 
    Tuesday 11th March - Y2 & Y4 
    Wednesday 12th March - FS 
    Thursday 13th March - no session
    Friday 14th March - Y5 & Y6

    Parents’ Evening for FS-Y5 - Week beginning 24th March

    Parents' evening pointers

    This is another opportunity to visit school to see what your child has been learning, look through school books and get teacher feedback on their progress. We will send a further communication after half term so you can book an appointment.  

    Safer Internet Day

    The 11th of February was Safer Internet Day 2025 - a fantastic day to remind ourselves - and the children - of the importance of being safe online. At Woodland View we are always looking for ways to ensure our children are both protected and have strategies for dealing with potential difficulties with the online world. Therefore, we:

    • have half-termly assemblies on different online safety themes
    • have half-termly lessons for the children in online safety 
    • send out our monthly online safety newsletters that we Ping out to you about a variety of online safety themes and issues
    • take part in the yearly Safer Internet Day activities and events.

    The theme of this year's Safer Internet Day was ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘. Therefore, this week at school, the children in all classes carried out some activities and a quiz on this year's theme of protecting themselves from online scams. 

    However, we know that learning is best when it is reinforced by lots of people surrounding the children. Therefore, if you wish to follow up at home with some more discussions or would like to engage your child with more activities about online safety generally or this year's theme please see the following recommended websites:
     

    https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2025/tips-for-parents-and-carers
    A link to the parent's page for this year's theme which includes:

    • Tips for Parents and Carers: Keeping you and your loved ones safe online
    • Top Tips for Parents and Carers of 3-7 year olds

    https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/parents-and-carers

    The UK Safer Internet Centre Parents and Carers Guides to online safety - Lots of tips and advice and guidance on helping children of different ages safely use various devices. There is also good advice about how to start more sensitive discussions with children around their safety online. 

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  • Woodland Times - Spring 1 Edition

    Published 13/02/25

    As we near the end of term, we are excited to share with you our third edition of the Woodland Times for this year! Our new journalists have some fabulous articles to share with you around our themes of Social, Morale, Spiritual, Cultural, Health and Values! We hope you enjoy reading our school newspaper; written for the children...by the children.

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  • Year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics - District

    Published 30/01/25

    Earlier today, a squad of Year 6 children represented the school at the district Sportshall athletics competition. This competition is a Woodland View favourite and we have seen some great success at this event. Earlier in the year, our Year 3 and 4 squad were able to win their competition!

    Sportshall athletics includes many different events: sprinting, jumping, throwing and working as a team. Throughout the competition, children compete in track and field events to help score points for their team.

    It was a pleasure for Mr Willars, Mrs Walker and Mr Oelrich to attend this event with the children as they showed amazing cooperation, respect and determination during all the events. They are extremely proud of the children too for cheering each other on loudly and enthusiastically during the track events! In 12 running races, the team were able to achieve 9 commanding first-place finishes and 2 very close second-place finishes.

    After completing all of their events, it was time for the children to find out how they had performed overall. In a field of thirteen strong schools, Woodland View came first overall!! They scored a staggering 525 points across all the events, beating the second-place school by more than 150 points!!

    We are incredibly proud of our 2025 SHA squad! Because the team finished in first place, this gives them a great chance to represent the district at the county finals at the end of February. We are still waiting to hear whether we have reached this round as there was another competition this afternoon and we await confirmation of the results from that event.

    We keep our fingers crossed for progression to the next round, but applaud our Y6 team for their amazing success so far!

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  • Headteacher Newsletter 436

    Published 29/01/25

    Dear parents, please read on for information about Children's Mental Health Week, the success of Walk to School Week, the Friends of Woodland View, Lost Property and Special Science Assemblies.

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  • Year 3/4 Sportshall Athletics - District

    Published 10/01/25

    Earlier this week, a team of Year 3 and Year 4 children represented the school at the district Sportshall athletics competition. This competition is a Woodland View favourite and we have seen some great success at this event in previous years.

    Sportshall athletics includes many different events: sprinting, jumping, throwing and working as a team. Throughout the competition, children compete in track and field events to help score points for their team.

    It was a pleasure for Mr Willars, Mr Oelrich and Mr Baxter to attend this event with the children as they showed amazing cooperation, respect and determination during all the events. They are extremely proud of the children too for cheering each other on loudly and enthusiastically during the track events!

    After completing all of their events, it was time for the children to find out how they had performed overall. In a field of ten strong schools, Woodland View came first overall!! They scored a staggering 410 points across all the events!

    We are incredibly proud of the team! Because the team finished in first place, this gives them a great chance to represent the district at the county finals at the end of February. We are still waiting to hear whether we have reached this round as there was another competition in the afternoon.

    We keep our fingers crossed for progression to the next round, but applaud our Y3/4 team for their amazing success so far!

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  • The Friends of Woodland View are Recruiting!

    Published 10/01/25

    To find out more about the Friends of Woodland View, please watch this short video.

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  • Headteacher Newsletter 435

    Published 08/01/25

    Dear parents, please read on for information about this term's Value and Curriculum 'C', Walk to School Week, Friends of Woodland View and key dates.

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