March NEWSLETTER

Dates for your diary

Thursday 2nd

Holywood Arches Library 10.30am– Permission forms on class notice boards for signing.

Tuesday 14th

Community Relations, Education and Diversity programme: Wee folk’ are visiting the nursery 9.30am. We will be exploring traditional Irish stories and music. Parents/carers welcome.

Wednesday 15th

Visit to Ulster Museum. Please let us know if you can volunteer to come with us

Thursday 16th

Mr Hullaballoo

Friday 17th

School Closure

Saturday 25th

As part of the ‘Belfast Festival for

Learning, we are hosting a free event for pupils/siblings of Ravenscroft– (Parents must accompany any children attending) Family movie ‘Ratatouille’ and ‘food from around the world’ tasting– 10.30-12.30. Food/snacks from around the world will be provided but please feel free to bring a food contribution. Please let us know in advance if you wish to attend and/or can bring any snack food, and we can plan accordingly, thank you!

PARENTS COFFEE EVERY TUESDAY AFTER DROP OFF—

7th, 14th, 21st and 28th

SPONSERED SING-A-LONG

Our sponsored sing along will take place on Friday 7th April, and we would love to see you all there at 11am. School finishes that day at 11.30am (no dinners)

EASTER HOLIDAYS

The school will be closed from Monday 10th April and will re open on Monday 24th April.

Eco News

Our ‘Big Spring Clean up’ will take place on Friday 24th March. We are asking for any parents who are

Interested in volunteering to take part to please speak with Mrs McGowan.

Topic this month

This month we will be introducing our Easter/Growth theme. We will be finding out about some of the traditions associated with this time of year. To develop our ’Growth’ theme, we will be planting new bulbs, seeds & plants whilst caring for existing plants both indoors & outdoors. The colour this month in N1 is brown, and the shape is oval. In N2 the colour is yellow, and the shape is Diamond.

Getting Ready to Learn

We are launching the second strand of our Getting Ready to Learn programme and will be sending home Maths resource packs shortly. Strand three of our programme is coming soon when we will hold workshops for parents focusing on fine motor skills.

Parent Teacher Meetings

Childrens Reports will be sent home on Thurs 30th March. Parent Teacher meetings to follow from 31st March. Sign in sheets will be available and you will be able to sign in on your preferred day/time slot

Old Wellies

If you have any old unused wellies we would be glad to have them

Donated. Many thanks!