Newsletter

Dear Parents,

The first Teacher-Parent meeting will be held between 24-28 November 2008. At those meetings, you will be given 30 minutes to gather and or convey information about the development of your child in private. We advice you to note down the questions you would like to ask your child's class teacher during the meeting. Please try to come to school on time on the day of the meeting in order not to disturb the time schedule.

THANK YOU

The Nursery, Reception and Kindergarten students are enjoying studying POCKETS a lot. As you all know, we are sending the workbooks home every Friday and we are receiving all of them worked on neatly. We would like to thank all of you for your cooperation about POCKETS.

HALLOWEEN PARTY

We had amusing Halloween Parties in every classroom. The children visited our rooms to frighten us for Trick or Treat after their parties. We would like to thank all of you for the creative costumes and accessories you sent to school for that very special day. You can visit our web-site to check the photos about Halloween in the photo gallery.

THE WEATHER and LABELLING

It is nearly December now and the weather is getting colder and colder each and everyday. Please be sure that your child has warm clothes in their spare cloth boxes in their classrooms. As you will be sending new, warmer spare clothes to school please check their labels again.

Although we can not go out to the garden as often as we were going on the previous days, we still try to take them out when the weather is fine. If you send in woolen hats, scarfs, mittens or gloves please do not forget to label them. If you do not want your child to play in the garden, please inform your child's teacher.

HEALTH

This is the period when the children are getting ill easily. We would like to remind you again that when you are sending in medicine, please do not forget or hesitate to fill in the "Over the Counter Medication Form" and label the bottles with the proper time and dosage your child will take because it is important to apply the proper dosage at the proper time.

If your child is on "Antibiotics", avoid sending him her to school at the first 36 hours for the good of their classmates' health. It is better for your child to have a rest at home in a cosy environment..

ALL AROUND THE WORLD: POLAND

This month, we have been working on "Poland". We will be glad if you can send in any materials, such as brochures, little souvenirs, Polish food recipes, Polish children games or anything you think would be useful, related to Poland.

USEFUL WEB-SITES

www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php

LAST WORDS

We would like to remind you that our school is closed between 08 December 2008 and 12 December 2008 due to the Bayram holiday. Gence team wishes you a happy and enjoyable Bayram holiday.