On Friday, children in Years 1-4 had the opportunity to have a go at Zumba – a high energy exercise combining drumming, music and movement. The workshops were great fun, and the children brought a lot of energy to the sessions!
Thank you to Miss Watts for organising the day.
On Thursday, the children in Reception took part in a Colour Run in the sunshine, inspired by their learning about the Hindu festival of Holi. As you can see, the children and staff had a wonderful time!
Friday 21st March is Red Nose Day for Comic Relief. Children are welcome to come to school in their red noses, red clothing and PE kits that day.
From Monday 17th March a limited number Red Noses will be available to buy from the School Office for a cash donation of £2.50 to Comic Relief (exact change if possible, please!). Once we have sold out we won't have any more stock, but noses are being sold online by the charity in the Comic Relief Shop.
Thursday was World Book Day and, as always, the children at Tannery Drift fully embraced the day! We were delighted to see so many fun costumes based on such a wide range of books. Thank you to parents and carers for supporting with this.
Hertfordshire Family Centre are running a parenting course for parents/carers of children aged 3–9 years old. This will take place in the Tannery Drift new building from 10am-12pm, starting Wednesday 26th February, for four weeks.
Parents/carers will learn strategies to positively respond to their child’s needs, behaviour and get the best out of family life.
Families will need to register with the Hertfordshire Family Centre to attend this course:
For further information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Ms Kerr, our Family Support Worker, at familysupport@tannerydrift.herts.sch.uk or call 01763 246549.
We are running a competition, to be judged on World Book Day. This will be to create a 'Book in a Box' or 'Book in a Jar', and we will present a £5 book voucher to the winners in each year group, this can be redeemed at our Scholastic Book Fair on 6th and 7th March.
You can include carefully chosen items to represent your book, such as quotes, or clues about its characters or setting. There is no obligation to enter, but if your child would like to do so, please make sure their entry is in school, with their name clearly marked underneath, by Wednesday 5th March.
As part of PSHE, Year 1 have been creating “Stretchy Hands” inspired by flowers. These reflect how sometimes we have to stretch ourselves in our learning to reach our goals. Don’t they look great!
Pelican class have made beautiful Chinese lanterns and even written their names on them using Mandarin characters.
Elsewhere in school, Reception classes learned a small part of the Chinese New Year dragon dance. They had so much fun dancing and wearing the dragon costume.
On Monday we held our first meeting of 2025 and discussed past and future events and the best ways to spend our funds. Last term we raised over £5K which was an incredible achievement!
This term we are hoping to hold a Cake Sale and a Spring Disco. More information and a request for helpers will be announced in the coming weeks.
If you have an idea on how we should spend our funding, or are interested in running an event for FTDS, please do contact us on friendsoftannerydriftschool@gmail.com. Without volunteers we cannot continue to run events to enrich the lives of all our children.
On Monday, our Ladybirds Class got the opportunity to visit Royston Fire Station as part of their topic on people who help us. Thank you to all the helpers that came with us, we couldn’t do it without you.
