Weekly Newsletter
24th March 2017
Dear Parents,
What a fantastic effort the children made for Red Nose Day today - we’ve raised £48 which will go directly to the Comic Relief
charity. Just a reminder about books donations following on from our ‘ten million minutes’ challenge last week - we’d be really
grateful for any old books that your child no longer reads to help build up our library. We hope you are looking forward to our
Shakespeare performance on Thursday - detailed timings of performances will be sent out separately, but feel free to arrive
from 1pm to enjoy tea / coffee and treats from the FAB bakery, as well as an opportunity to view all the children’s Shakespeare
topic work in our pop up gallery! Bus pick ups: We’ve had a number of children being collected well past our pick up time,
which not only is unfair to our support staff (who are not paid for this time) but we also incur extra costs from the bus company
and this impacts on our club bus too. Therefore, the buses will be returning to school at 3.40/4.40 promptly. If you are not there
to collect your child, your child will return to school with a member of our staff and they will need to be collected by you from
school, where it is safer.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Vicki Briody
Headteacher
Mrs Stephanie Savvides-Howell
Assistant Headteacher
Reception
Hello everyone,
I hope you have had a lovely week? This week in Reception we have continued to learn our turnip soup recipe. We have
been changing the turnip in our own recipes to make it a silly soup. In maths we have been learning about time. We have
discussed different events of the day and in which order they happen, as well as how to tell an O’clock time. We have
made our own paper plate clocks which will be sent home today as part of the homework.
In preparation for making our turnip soup we have been discussing ways to stay safe in the kitchen. We have made super
hero kitchen appliances, with a speech bubble for each one telling us how to stay safe.
Homework and books are being sent home. A quick note to those who have not brought their books back to school. We
are running out of reading books to send home because some have not been returned to us. Please ensure you send back
any old books.
Have a brilliant weekend and see you all soon.
Dates for your diaries
Mr. Owens and Jackie
Comic Relief Joke Corner
What do cows like listening to? Mooosic (Ben, Y1)
Thursday 30th March - Shakespeare performance
(whole school) times TBC
Parent Meetings: Monday 3rd April, Tuesday
4th April
What are sandwiches made from? Sand and witches (Vitas, Y2)
Why did the tomato lose the race? Because he couldn’t ketchup! (Alex, Y1)
Who invented the plane that didn’t fly? The wrong brothers (Zella, Y2)
Thursday 6th April - Sports Festival
What is a cat’s favourite colour? Purrrrple (Naomi Z, Y2)
Friday 7th April - End of term
What do elves learn? The elf-abet! (Margalit, Y1)
Why did the chicken jump in lava? Because he wanted to be roasted! (Zachary,
Y1)_
Year 1
It’s been a busy week in Year 1! We’ve been learning the story of Oberon and Titania, the king and
queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We have been deciding on actions for the story
to help us learn it by heart. We’ve also been plotting the story against a ‘story mountain’, thinking
about the features of the beginning, middle and end.
In maths this week we have been learning to recognise coins and notes and add money together.
Please help at home by giving your child real life experiences of handling change. You could look at
coins and notes together, talk about what they look like and their values. In our topic work we have
been ‘decoding’ text from A Midsummer Night’s Dream line by line, talking about Shakespearian and
modern language. We have also been looking at cowslips (which appear throughout) and we we’ve been experimenting with
colour mixing before we paint them next week.
Year 2
We have had a very busy week in year 2. this week we wrote the whole of our A Midsummer
Night’s Dream story– it was the most we’ve ever written and the children did a great job! We
are now innovating parts of the story before using the structure to invent our own story
based around an argument and a magical spell.
In maths this week we have been revising subtraction and looking at time. Children are confident with o’clock but are finding half-past, quarter past and quarter to more difficult. It would
be fantastic if you could take opportunities to look at the time over the next few weeks with
your child to give them real life experiences of needing to know and read the actual time.
We have been working hard to finalise our showcase next week and really look forward to
seeing you all on Thursday.
Year 3
Hello everyone– another busy week in Year 3.
This week in Topic we learned all about the Sphinx of Giza: who made it, why it is so famous, why it is special to Egypt and why
it was made. We then used clay to make our own version of the Sphinx. Next week will paint them to make them look even better and more authentic.
In English this week we have been inventing our myths inspired by our Egyptian myths and legends. We created story mountains to help us with our writing and thought carefully about what makes a good story. On Tuesday we will complete the final
version in Big Write.
In Maths we have been learning all about quarter, half, three-quarter and full turns in shapes. As well as looking at rotations
both clockwise and anti-clockwise.
We have been working hard to finalise our showcase next week and really look forward to seeing you all.
FAB
Thank you to all our FABulous parents and children for attending movie night last Friday! It
was a great success! Thank you to all the helpers- popcorn poppers, tidying before and after,
decorating and thanks for all the generous donations. The movie night/parent workshop
event was a success! Thank you to the teachers for supporting parents with the informative
workshops.
Gold Stars of the Week
Reception: Lilly
Upcoming FAB events:
Two upcoming Spring Bake sale opportunities
Thursday, 30th March Whole School Shakespeare performance
Year 1: Dillon, Philipp, Logan
Year 2: Mustapha
Monday 3rd April and Tuesday 4th April - parent teacher meetings
We’re looking for parent bakers:-)
FAB will be selling baked goods and serving refreshments for school fundraising in coordination with the performances/meetings. We are looking for parents to send in Baked goods
the morning of the events, or when you arrive for the performances/meetings.** If anyone
would like to volunteer to help man the tables for the bake sales, we’re always looking for
helpers, please contact Mary Sheppard, [email protected] if you can help out on
these days.
Thank you!!:-) We had some brilliant baked goods for Valentines Day, lets get some Easter
baking in to celebrate upcoming Easter Break!!
Year 3: Estelle, Adrian, Janek
Attendance
Target: 98%
Reception: 89%
Year 1: 89%
Year 2: 93%
Year 3: 95%
Well done Year 3!