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Love Children                          Spring 1 Week 4
                                           05/02/2021         Love Learning

Dear Parents
                 Open Gates
Yesterday at school we remembered Captain Sir Tom Moore
 who sadly died on Tuesday. We talked about his incredible
achievement last year and pupils in year six wrote their
own tributes and shared his uplifting and positive sayings
 with the rest of the school during our Clap for Captain
Tom. They then visited the wonderful graffiti mural and
lay flowers on behalf of the school. I was touched by the
sincerity of feeling shown by the children towards him - as
Katie said, “Thank you Captain Sir Tom, you have inspired us and I’m sure you will inspire many
generations to come!”

There was some ‘Animal Magic’ in the air at Two Gates this week - with pets of pupils in KS1
being invited to join in our live Zoom Ready Steady Learn sessions! The children shared stories
and facts about their pets - Mrs Dodds even brought her tortoise Dooley in to school. We clearly
don’t take any notice of the old adage ‘never work with children and animals’! See photos
below/on Twitter and Check out the Tamworth Herald next week for the full story!

Safer Internet Day (SID) is getting close. On Tuesday, 9 February 2021, SID will take place
across the world, once again with a theme of Together for a better internet - An Internet We
Trust: exploring reliability in the online world.

Please click the picture to find out more.

We will be covering this important topic in our school and home learning activities next week.

Take care everyone and keep up the amazing home learning- we have four more school days
until half term. As Friday 12th is a staff training day we will not be setting any home learning for
this day or the half term holiday. You can, of course, do some of the activities suggested on the
February wellbeing calendar, but we would really like all our families to have some rest and
relaxation time. That’s what we are going to do too; with this in mind we will remind the children
not to post anything on Seesaw and Tapestry - as everyone needs a break after working so hard
this term.

Have a good weekend - I’m certainly enjoying the lighter afternoons
and evenings and loving the signs of spring on my walks.

Mrs Llewelyn-Cook

Year 6 children have been looking at
 digital media and have used computer-
aided technology to draw their own self
      portraits on the computer!
These portraits are by Chloe and Darci.
 This learning has inadvertently been a
nice link to the Children's Mental Health
           theme this week:
                        'Express Yourself'

In Year 1 and 2 we are really
enjoying our daily Zoom calls
with the teachers. We play games,
talk about our learning and have a
daily story time session online too!
We have also had some extra animal visitors to our Zoom
calls and so we thought we’d introduce each other to our
very important pets! It was lovely to see our friends and
pets on Zoom, everyone was really
                 confident to introduce
                 their animals and talk
                 about how we look after
                 our pets. The school are
                 very proud of our home
                 learners.

Children paying their respects to
        Captain Sir Tom Moore
              1920-2021
“We will get through it in the end but it might take time, but at the end of the day we
 shall all be OK again… the sun will shine on you again and the clouds will go away”

                       Rest In Peace

Year 4 children have been researching different styles of
 Roman shields and have used their research to design a
                   shield of their own.
  Well done Jack, Summer, Isabelle and George. We think
   these are awesome! We look forward to seeing more
       completed shields over the next few weeks.

Children enjoying
  screen free
   Wednesday
   afternoons
    linked to
 National Story
  Telling Week

Staffordshire County Council have just opened up nominations for this year’s

              DIGNITY IN CARE AWARDS            ,

                           They opened on Monday 1st February 2021

       People across Staffordshire are being invited to nominate carers, work colleagues,
               young people, friends and family members for a prestigious award.

      The Staffordshire Dignity in Care Awards recognises groups and individuals who care
        for or support the most vulnerable of us, and who treat everyone with dignity,
                               kindness, respect and compassion.

      We welcome nominations from anyone who receives support and care in Staffordshire,
     their families, friends, or those who provide support and care to Staffordshire citizens

                      We want to celebrate the achievements of as many
                    people as possible especially during the current pandemic.

                       If you wish to nominate someone or find out more click here

                                                   Follow us on Twitter @2gatesprimary
                                       We are going to be sharing many more pictures
                                      and videos of the work we are completing online
                                        and in school. You will also be able to watch
                                      the fantastic video from year 6 that is on there

                                                 Next Tuesday is
                                               Safer Internet Day
                                               The children will be
                                                doing activities in
                                               school and at home.