Thursday 2nd April

Good morning!  

I hope you are all well and staying safe at home.  I can hardly believe we are coming to the end of our second week of working from home - in some ways it's flown by, and in other ways... it really hasn't!

We would normally be breaking up for the Easter holidays tomorrow, and looking forward to a well-earned rest and the chance to spend some quality time with our families!  As it is technically the holidays for the next two weeks, I won't be setting any further school work until term time begins again.  Of course, you can still dip into the resources in the Google Drive if you would like to, but there's certainly no pressure from school for you to spend hours slaving over the books.  As I've said many times, the priority right now is your health and well-being.

With that in mind, you could spend the next two weeks focusing on keeping healthy in both mind and body - try to do some exercise every day and get outside in the sunshine if the weather allows.  You could also try some of the 'Peace Out' children's mindfulness meditations that we use in school (the link to the first one is here), or do some colouring to help you calm down if you are feeling frazzled.  Maybe you could also try out some of the healthy recipes that I've shared on the Google Drive?

One of the activities that I had planned to do with you all in school this week was one of our '50 Things to do at Swan Lane.'  In Year 3, one of our 'things to do' is to write to HM the Queen, and, since her 94th birthday is coming up on 21st April, I had planned for us all to make and send her a birthday card.  The exciting thing about writing to the Queen is that she always writes back!  If you would like to write to her and send her a birthday card, you can send it to:

Her Majesty the Queen

Buckingham Palace

London

SW1A 1AA

As you can imagine, the Queen receives hundreds of letters every day, so it does take her a few weeks to write back - but it is very exciting to receive a special letter from Buckingham Palace!

If you do write a letter or make a card for the Queen, please could you take a photo before it goes in the post, and let me have a copy?  I am planning to put together a special folder of the different activities we do in Year 3, and it would be a shame to miss all these masterpieces! 

Take care and keep in touch,

With best wishes

Mrs Vaqueiro