Term 3 Issue 7
Nelson Primary News
Friday 5th June 2015
Nurturing One Another, Discovering Together, Inspiring All
Learning in Year 1
This week Year 1 have been introduced to the text 'The
Emperor's Egg'. This text tells the story of the birth of an
Emperor penguin using factual information. This has been a
good opportunity for the children to recall learning from the
beginning of the year when they focussed on the Arctic and
Antarctic in our NLC learning. The children used role play to explore what it
might be like to be in the Antarctic. The children looked at various media such
as pictures and video clips of both animals in the Antarctic and Scientists who
live there for parts of the year. This resulted in the children being able to
produce a piece of writing describing the setting of an Antarctic winter.
Learning in Year 2
Year 2 have begun their new Geography learning
challenge, ‘Why do we love to be beside the seaside?’
They listened to sounds of the seaside and used their
senses to try to imagine what they would see, smell
and taste. After, the children began to think about features of coastal areas and
identified human and physical features which then helped them to annotate
pictures of beaches using geographical vocabulary. Children considered the
human geography of coastal areas by discussing the different roles of people
such as tourists or local people such as fishermen, shopkeepers and life guards.
They then thought about whether these people improved or affected the area
and gave reasons for their opinions.
Year 2 are looking forward to learning more about the seaside.
Learning in Year 3
Important dates:
 Year 6 Activity Week,
Monday 15th June – Friday 19th June
 KS1 Phonic Screening,
Monday 15th June – Friday 19th June
 Walking to School Day
(joint event with St Edmunds), Friday 19th June
 Non-school uniform day,
Friday 19th June, bring in
a donation (sweets,
bottle, used teddies) for
the PTA Summer Fair
 Reception & Year 1 Sports
Day morning, Tuesday
23rd June
 Year 2 and Year 3 Sports
Day morning, Wednesday
24th June
 Year 4, 5 and 6 Sports Day
morning, Thursday 25th
June
 Annual Reports sent
home, Friday 10th July
 Golden Grill Football
Tournament, Wednesday
15th July
PTA Events
This half term, Year 3 are focussing on stories from other
 School Disco, Friday 12th
cultures and countries. They started off their learning
June. Reception and Year
1 will dance from 5 to
about a character called Anansi. Anansi is an African
6pm; Years 2 and 3 will
folktale character. He often takes the shape of a spider and
be 6.15 to 7.15pm; Years
is considered to be the spirit of all knowledge of stories. He
4, 5 and 6 will be 7.30 to
8.30pm.
is also one of the most important characters of West
 Summer Fair, Saturday
African and Caribbean folklore.
20th June
They loved having to learn the story off by heart. They used lots of different
techniques in their drama such as: intonation, gestures, facial expressions and
body language. They also had to use key words and phrases from the text along
with a narration in their performance.
Phone
Web
Email
020 8894 9899
http://www.nelson.richmond.sch.uk
[email protected]
@nelsonwhitton
Attendance & Success
High attendance: more successful children.
We set high standards for attendance and
punctuality. Our target for attendance is 97%+. Good attendance is strongly linked to pupil achievement.
Dolphin
97.5%
3B
92.7%
Starfish
95%
3L
95%
Turtle
92.2%
4JC
92.1%
1K
95.2%
4P
95%
1M
100%
5J
98.3%
1S
98.7%
5L
94.7%
2B
92.7%
6M
95.2%
2C
90.1%
6W
97.4%
2D
100%
Whole School Attendance is 95.3%
Well done to 1M, and 2D for 100%
attendance this week.
This is excellent!
They are now using
drama to help them in
their writing; they’re
excited to create a
display of this learning!
On
the
Wednesday
before half term, Year 3
spent the day at Kew
Gardens to develop their
understanding
of
pollination and the life
cycle of plants. They had
a fantastic time taking
part in a workshop
during which they had to go hunting for pollinators
among the colourful array of flowers at Kew
Gardens. They also experienced the view that
animals that live in the treetops of jungles and
forests around the world have by wandering along
the treetop walkway. They also learnt about how
plants can be used as medicine in the Kitchen
Gardens and had fun sketching some of the herbs
they learnt about. They also took part in a work
shop all about pollination. They learned lots of new
plants words including ‘stamen’ and ‘stigma’ which
are parts of flowers.
Learning in Year 5
As part of the 'Shakespeare' NLC unit, Year 5 have
been learning about Shakespeare's plays, life in
Shakespearean times and the Globe Theatre. This
week the children have been carefully designing
their own model Globe Theatre. Alongside their
learning about the Theatre, the children have
studied pictures in groups and created their own
detailed plans and designs. They have begun to
build their designs. We think the final products will
be excellent!
Sophia 5J: 'I liked making the Globe Theatre
because it gave me a better understanding of how it
looked. This lesson was great!'
Brooke 5L: 'I really enjoyed making the Globe
Theatre because it was really fun making the design
and the actual building.'
Riya 5J: 'I loved the Shakespeare learning. It told me and returned to Nelson exhausted, but very
about lots of his plays and the theatre. I found proud.
Well done, and thank you for your
making the theatre really fun.'
exceptional behaviour and determination all day.
Abi 5L: 'I enjoyed designing and constructing my
Globe Theatre as I got to take part in my favourite
subject. Also I got to work with people I work as a
good team with. I think that making the Globe
Theatre was a great way to learn about it.'
Our Values
Humility
In June we are focusing on
understanding the importance of
Humility
 Humility is being humble and modest.

Humility is seeing the importance of everyone.

Humility is being patient and not always putting
yourself first.
Read more about values-based education,
http://valuesbasededucation.com
Borough Sports
On Wednesday 3rd June, some Nelson children
were taken to St Mary's University to compete in
the
annual
Richmond
Borough
Sports
competition. Here we competed against 36 schools
in a range of athletics events. We had an amazing
day of competition and thoroughly enjoyed
ourselves. We did not win any medals or awards as
a team, but individually we exceeded challenges
that we set ourselves. Huge congratulations to
those who performed amazingly in their individual
heat events; Hannah (Yr4) who came 4th in her
400m heat, Liam (Yr5) who came 1st in his sprint
heat and performed exceptionally well at the vortex
throw, Cheick-Kalil (Yr5) who came 1st in his sprint
heat, Zaira (Yr6) who came 5th in her 600m heat
and 1st in her sprint heat. We had a wonderful day
Walking to School Day
On Friday 19 June, along with St
Edmunds School, we are holding a
‘Walking to School Day’ where we really
encourage those of you who currently
drive to school to try walking instead. It
will be great to see how much safer
Nelson Road becomes if the majority of
parents from both schools leave their
cars at home. Not only will the roads be safer, but
walking to school will reduce air pollution, will
improve your child’s overall health and
concentration by getting them active in the
morning, will develop their road safety skills and
gives you an opportunity to have a nice chat with
them too!
So, please see if you can go into work a little bit
later for just one day and let’s see how much safer
we can make the school journey.
School Library Open
A reminder that the library is open
after school on Friday afternoons
to give parents and children the
opportunity to browse the shelves
together. We look forward to seeing you there.
Win up to £5000 for
your school library!
Your school needs you!
We're giving away £5000 of National
Book Tokens to one lucky school. To sweeten the
deal, you'll also get £100 of National Book Tokens before 9 am as tours start promptly)
for yourself!
Please contact Waldegrave to book your place on a
tour as they are by arrangement only.
 Anyone can win £2500 for their chosen school

Got a National Book Token? Enter the card
number below & we'll double the prize to
£5000!
Last year's winners - Milltimber Primary in Don't forget the School Disco next Friday 12 June!
Aberdeen - transformed their library with 448 shiny Nelson children will need to pay an entry fee of £2
new books. Will it be your school this year?
on the night. Reception and Year 1 will dance from
5 to 6pm; Years 2 and 3 will be 6.15 to 7.15; Years
To enter, simply visit the website at
http://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools and 4, 5 and 6 will be 7.30 to 8.30pm.
PTA News
fill in the form (taking less than a minute!). The
competition closes on 31st July 2015.
Nominations for PTA committee for school year
2015/16 All Nelson parents are part of our PTA.
The PTA's fundraising and fun activities are
overseen by a committee. Each year we elect a
committee and officers at our annual general
meeting. Officer positions include: Chairman, ViceChairman Treasurer, Asst Treasurer, Secretary and
Assistant Secretary. Our AGM will take place this
year on Thursday 2 July. If you would like to
become more involved and join the PTA committee
or become an officer, please put your name forward
Recently there have been large numbers of children by Thursday 9 June. For questions and nominations
who have forgotten items that they need for school please contact Meg: [email protected].
(swimming kit, PE kit, water bottles, musical We encourage everyone to join in!
instruments etc), and as a result we have had many
children asking the school office to phone home
and/or similarly large numbers of parents coming in
with forgotten items. While we realise that
everyone forgets something occasionally, can you
please make sure that your child arrives at school Twickenham Tigers is looking for new members!I
with everything they need for that day, as we This is a friendly community football club which has
cannot always guarantee that the office will be able been together for four years and is well established
to phone home or ensure that the items are in the Championship Division of the Surrey Youth
delivered to the children. Thank you for your co- League.
operation with this.
The team finished a respectable 7th last season after
Encouraging independence—
please make sure your child
comes
to
school
with
everything they need for the
day!
Community
Twickenham Tigers
Class and team photos
a slow start – next season we’re really keen to push
on up!
Parents should recently have received proofs of
The boys have been coached to play an extremely
class/team photos, with the opportunity to place an
attractive short passing style and have been
order. Please ensure that any orders are sent to the
commended by many rival managers.
school office by Wednesday 17 June. Thank you.
Boys must be available for early Friday evening
training in Twickenham and for games on Sunday.
Waldegrave School Tours for
Parents of Year 5 Girls
Tours are being offered at Waldegrave.
Dates: Monday 8 – Friday 12 June
Times: 9 am prompt (parents are to arrive just
Any boys interested are welcome to attend a Friday
training session completely free of obligation.
If you would like to know more, please call 07906
951 542 or email [email protected]