Attendance updates:
Class Name
Class
% Attendance
Mins
Late
No. children
Peru
R
99.1
10
1
Spain
1
96.3
Panama
2
94.6
5
1
Canary
3
98.0
Venezuela
4
96.7
Cuba
5
97.8
Mexico
6
95.3
Islands
Education Welfare Service are monitoring any pupil
under 90% as this is considered to be Persistent
Absence. Please be aware that we will need to ask for
evidence, such as doctor appointment cards, to present
to EWS should medical advice be sought.
Please remember we are unable to authorise any
absence from school due to holidays during term time,
and that this is Government Legislation not an individual
school or Federation decision. The Fixed Penalty
Notice for unauthorised absence during term time is
£60 per parent per child.
Whole School Target 2016/17
96.5%
Whole School last week’s Attendance 96.7%
News from Nettlestone Primary School and across the Federation
Executive Head teacher Miss K Howarth Head of School Mrs A Jacobs Office Administrator: Mrs C Lucy
Friday 16th June 2017
Value of the week: HAPPINESS
Country Dancing Festival
Celebrating this week…
Key Stage celebration assembly we said well done
to …
Year R
Peru Class
Amelie
Year 1
Spain Class
Harley
Year 2
Panama Class
Jessica
Also in assembly we celebrated out of school
achievements for: None this week.
Don’t forget to bring in all your achievements for
us to share in your next Key Stage Assembly.
Thank you to all parents for support Key Stage
Assemblies with our Invite Only Policy.
For winning a Headteacher’s certificate.
Well done to Year 1 Class for having the tidiest
classroom and to Isabelle J for being nominated
for the Caring Sharing Cup.
In school Stick Card Achievements: Marni, Poppy
T, Kobi, Lily C, Mia G, Elena, Harli, Archie, Ruby,
Elliott, Lucas, Eziari. Cruz, Rosie F, Alexa, Astrid,
Rio, Oscar
Lunchtime Menu — Chartwells for week beginning Monday 19th June 2017
Reminder: All Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 Children are entitled to a free school meal.
Price of a meal = £2. 1 5 per
Monday: Tomato & Basil Pasta with Coleslaw & Sweetcorn/Roasted Vegetable Pizza with ½
Jacket Potato(v), Coleslaw & Sweetcorn, Raspberry Ripple Cake
Tuesday: Chunky Chicken Bite/Cheese Spinach and Red Onion Quiche(v), Pasta & Various
Salads, Ice Cream Pot
Wednesday: Roast Pork & Gravy/Baked Bean and Cheese Bubble & Squeak(v) with Roast
Potatoes, Seasonal Cabbage/Red Cabbage & Carrots, Oatie Apple Crumble with Custard
Thursday: Beef Lasagne with a Garlic Bread Wedge/Roasted Cauliflower and Chickpea Korma
Lunchtime
Menu
— and
Chartwells
week beginning
January 2017
(v) with Rice
and Green
Beans
Roastedfor
Vegetables,
Fruit 30th
in Jelly
Friday: Salmon Fillet with Chips/BBQ Quorn and Bean Wrap with Chips, Baked Beans & Peas,
Chocolate Crispy
School Policy - Can I politely remind our site visitors that we are a non-smoking environment (this includes
the use of electronic cigarettes). We are also a pet free zone, please ensure that all animals are left off-site.
Parking Etiquette—small note to remind you all to park safely at all times. Please ensure that we leave our
neighbours driveways clear and are respectful to all. Many thanks for your continued support.
This year Panama Class attended the
Country Dancing Festival at
Havenstreet. They danced alongside
approximately 20 other Island
primary schools. It was an amazing
sight to see so many children
enjoying dancing together. Our team
danced various dances including the
Maypole, Pat- a-cake Polka and Oxo
Reel, which they had been practising
every week.
Although the children loved dancing together, I think the highlight was having family
and friends share this experience with them!
Flower Garden
The world’s most prestigious flower
show, Chelsea Flower Show, has
nothing on our new flower garden
here at Nettlestone. I am very
proud to announce that Zack, in
Year 6, has finally completed his
challenge of planning, preparing and
planting the flower garden. I know
that he also had assistance from
Logan, in Year 6. Both boys
presented me with a very clear
costing list, chose particular plants
(Bedding plants, Pansies, Osteospermum, etc.) that would last the summer and gave
me a timeline for its completion. A big ‘thank you’ goes out to t/both of them for
successfully achieving this challenge—let’s make sure we remember to water them
now boys!
This weeks fixtures:
Wednesday 21st June — Year 5 Sailing – Group 2
CORRECT PE KIT—It has been noted that random sports
gear is coming into school. Please ensure that only your
child’s school PE kit is in school for PE lessons as well as
all clubs. Many thanks for your support.
This week’s Maths problem form Mrs
Jacobs:
This week’s English challenge form Miss
Beale:
Make 200
Think of 4 words instead of ‘said’, and use
them in 4 different sentences involving
speech.
123456789
Choose four of these digits.
Each one must be different.
Put one digit in each box.
Our Young Governors would like to continue the good work from
This makes two 2-digit numbers reading across
Anti-Bullying week by sharing a weekly community challenge:
and two 2-digit numbers reading down.
New Recruits:
We will be starting to think about our new Anti-Bullying Ambassadors shortly—is this a job for you?
In this example the total is
100.
12 + 47 + 14 + 27 = 100
Summer Term
Tuesday 20th June—Year 5 and 6—Baylink Games
A little insight into the pupils’ learning this week:
Wednesday 21st June—Year 3 and 4—Baylink Games
Wednesday 21st June—Reserve date—Year 2 Country Dancing Festival
Friday 23rd June—Play and Stay session—New Intake
Tuesday 27th June—1pm KS1 Sports Day (In school)
Thursday 29th June—Reception Class Assembly
Friday 30th June—Move Up Day for all pupils
Monday 3rd July—KS2 Sports Day—Seagrove Pavilion– 1pm
Tuesday 11th July—UKS2 Performance—6pm—more information to follow
Wednesday 12th July—UKS2 Performance—1.15pm and 6pm—
more information to follow
School closes at 1.15pm
on Friday 21st July for
the summer holidays and
re-opens on
Tuesday 5th September
at 8.35am.
Thursday 20th July—Year 6 Leavers Trip
Friday 21st July—Leavers assembly 9.15am—Year 6 parents
only
BACK TO SCHOOL TUESDAY 5th SEPTEMBER at 8.35am
PLEASE NOTE:
School closes for Summer holidays on Friday 21st July 2017 at 1.15pm
Monday 24th July 2017—Development Day No.4
Tuesday 25th July 2017—Development Day No.5
“I don’t want to get out of bed,” grumbled Ben.
Add up all four of the numbers.
How many different ways of
making 200 can you find?
Key Dates for this term:
e.g.
Don’t forget to use your speech marks and
punctuation correctly – use the above example
to help you!
Peru Class—Peru class have had a brilliant week learning about the creatures that live beneath the sea and how
they move. They have been reading stories about the sea, in particular 'The Fish Who Could Wish' which inspired
them to decorate their own fish before thinking about the wishes that their fish could make. In Maths they have
been learning to recognise and order the numbers 10-20 and think about one more and one less. They have also
been learning to estimate the amount of objects as well as guessing what would be heavier or lighter, before
checking with the scales. There has been lots of role play and den building with the boxes from our new furniture.
Yesterday we had a Police Station and a bus stop designed by some of the children.
Spain Class—This week the Year 1s took their phonic screening tests. The children worked hard and should be very
proud of themselves. Well done to all! Results will be published for parents alongside end of term reports.
As part of our 'Commotion in the Ocean' topic the children have been finding out about sharks and making models/
pictures out of different materials. We have also read the 'Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' by Ronda Armitage and will
continue to explore this story in English lessons next week.
Panama Class—Wow! What a wonderful week!
This week we have made thumbs pots from clay and joined two pots together to create a trinket holder. We have
been learning about China and the Eden Project. We have been learning about addition and subtraction in Maths and
researching Anthony Browne to create an Author Profile.
We spent the day at Havenstreet Railway on Wednesday at the Country Dancing Festival. The children performed
brilliantly and remembered all their moves. Their behaviour was impeccable.
Well done Year 2.
Canary Islands Class—Year 3 always seem to amaze. This week, the children have been working on some complex
division. They have been using multiple methods to divide two/three digit numbers by one digit numbers. In literacy,
we have focused on our class book, Queen of the Falls, and have planned and wrote letters to Annie's manager,
Frank Russell. In science, we looked at seed dispersal and pollination. It has been an interesting area. Finally, in
topic, we have used our ICT and geography skills to use compass directions and locate areas relating to Queen of
the Falls.
Valenzuela Class — Another busy week for Year 4. In Literacy we are continuing to read our class text; Swallows
and Amazons. We read chapter 3 and then made a quiz about it to see how much we understood. In Numeracy we
have been learning how to convert different units of measures. This week we have focused on units of length. We
found this quite tricky. In Topic, we learnt about counties and labelled a map of the UK with all it's counties. Well
done year 4, keep up the hard work.
Cuba Class— Year 5 are thoroughly enjoying the new Shakespeare topic. We have started with 'Midsummer Night's
Dream' and we have already had lots of drama with; frieze frames, reading soliloquy's and acting out scenes. The
children have even started to create their own play scripts. In Maths the children have been working on finding
missing lengths and angles of triangles and rectangles. They have also been working on learning the songs for the
end of year production of 'Shakespeare Rocks'.
Mexico Class—This week in Mexico class, we've been enjoying investigating fair tests. We started by investigating
whether boys or girls could throw the furthest -which ended up as a rather fun competition on the playground with
beanbags. We also explored the impact of music on pulse rate. The majority of us discovered that listening to calm
music lowered our pulse rate but that listening to pop music raised our pulse rate. We had to be careful to play
both types of music at the same volume and for the same amount of time -so that our test really would be fair.