At Deanshanger Primary school we would like to keep you all informed about all the breaking news here at our school. From school trips to what goes on everyday as your children are learning and experiencing so many different adventures.
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Thank you so much for helping us to be able to send £351.93 on Friday 21st January to support a local charity, based here in Milton Keynes, raising funds for research into brain tumours. Your kindness and thoughtfulness, as always, is off the scale!
To find out more about Shay and the tireless work of his family, click here.
Please be reminded that we have an unlocked defibrillator outside the front of school for emergency use by anyone in the school community.
An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) or defibrillator is a life-saving device that can help save the life of someone experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest. It is easy to use, portable, with clear step-by-step instructions so anyone can use them, from a bystander to a trained professional.
Whilst we certainly hope that it will never be needed, it's important that you know that we have one just in case.
Primary Music at Deanshanger takes a cross-curricular approach, with music objectives explored alongside related areas of the wider curriculum. Our 'new' music teacher is offering a mix of exciting materials chosen especially to appeal to each age group.
We are also delighted to have a school choir running again. Watch out for concerts coming up!
In our relentless drive to improve outcomes for all our children, we have chosen Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised as our systematic, synthetic phonics (SSP) programme to teach early reading and spelling in Reception, Year One, Two and beyond...
On Wednesday 5th January, our staff, from across the school, participated in a whole day of training about this approach towards teaching these important and vital early reading and spelling skills. Since then, we have worked hard to implement this programme and children are now engaging with lessons.
We will be hosting a parents information session about this programme soon and also posting lots of resources on our school website. These resources will help you to support your child with learning in this area. There are also some very useful videos about how sounds are pronounced. Please visit this website to find out more: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents
Some of you may have noticed that we have collected in all our reading books in Reception, Year One and Two to undertake a stock check. We would like to thank you for your help and support with this. If you have any more books, please can these be returned to school as soon as possible. Thank you.
A parents' guide is attached below if you would like to find out more.