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Terrific Tree Planting!
26th March 2015
and teachers have lots of plans to use the
wildlife area over the next term. NB.
Reading at Colman
Last week, a small group of children from each
class in the school helped to create a new
woodland on the school grounds. The Junior
School and Infant School both took delivery of
a total of 60 trees and 60 hedging plants,
donated by The Woodland Trust as part of
their ‘Free Trees for Schools’ campaign. With
the kind help of Emily Chittenden, the children
have planted the beginnings of a small wooded
area at the far end of the playing fields, as
well as filling in gaps in the hedging around the
wildlife garden. As you will see from the photo,
the children had a fabulous afternoon in
glorious sunshine. For all involved, it was quite
magical to be part of creating something which
will hopefully be enjoyed by generations of
Colman children for years to come. Those
children not involved in the planting, will have
chance to go and see the newly planted trees,
Readathon - Thank you!
We would like to say a
massive thank you to
everyone for completing
their readathon challenges.
We have been overwhelmed by the children's
commitment and enthusiasm in achieving the
goals they set themselves. As well as promoting
a love of reading, the event aimed to raise
money for Clic Sargent and Roald Dahl's
Marvellous Children's Charity. We are
delighted to have raised a massive £1,838 for
these worthy causes. All of this money will go
to charity but Scholastic will provide the
school with books for our school library to the
value of 20% of this total, so look out for some
exciting new books coming soon!
World Book Day
World Book Day 2015 was a huge success in
school with teachers sharing favourite stories
with each of the classes in a giant school story
time. We were also visited by Norfolk
Children's Book Centre, giving children the
opportunity to redeem their World Book Day
tokens and browse a huge range of children's
literature. Again we would like to thank you for
your support of this event.
Library Drop-in Sessions
After Easter parents and carers are invited to
drop into the school library on a Friday after
school (3.15-3.45) if you would like to spend
some time browsing books with your child or to
support your child in changing their library
book. Classes will continue to visit the library
at least once a week but we hope this will be a
valuable additional opportunity to visit our
well-stocked library. KH
Start getting your passports up to date.
Graduation is in June and Norfolk CU need
to know your hours after the Easter
holidays.
Norfolk Libraries
Children can earn one hour for every two books
borrowed and read.
Norfolk Museum Service
CU passport holders can gain FREE entry.
Find all the Norfolk Children’s Learning
Destinations at
http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/Childrens_services/
Acitivities_for_children_and_young_people/C
hildrens_University/Learning_Destinations/NC
C152989
If you are travelling out of Norfolk, check out
the map for learning destinations across the
UK.
4DG Dance Show
4DG are excited to be taking part in the
Norwich School Sport Partnership Dance Show
on 20th May. They have already begun the
hard work to prepare and will be performing
'School’s out for Summer' in line with the
beach party theme of the evening. The show is
taking place at Open in the city with two
performances at 4pm and 7pm. Tickets cost
£5.50 for the matinee performance and £7.50
in the evening. A letter will be issued to pupils
shortly, but for more information and to book
tickets see Open's website:
http://www.open247.org.uk/gigs-andevents/norwich-school-sports-partnershipdance-show-may2015.aspx
Mathletics
Congratulations to Florence Robinson, YosiJunior Quayson & Mohammed Hamisa who have
all amassed over 15,000 points each in
Mathletics this term, a fantastic effort. Every
week, as part of your child’s weekly homework,
your child will be set tasks on Mathletics. This
work is specifically set by teachers to support
and consolidate their understanding of work
completed in the classroom. If your child has
lost their log-in details their class teacher
would be happy to reissue a new log-in card.
There are also Mathletics & Spellodrome
lunchtime clubs for Lower & Upper School, on a
Monday & Friday, should you be experiencing
any difficulties logging in at home.
Red
Nose Day
Thank you to all the pupils, parents and staff
who baked for our cake sale on Friday 13th
March. School Council ran an upper and lower
school cake stall during break-time, raising an
amazing £181.78.
Governors’ News
As many of you will be aware, Nick Southgate
the Headteacher at Colman Infant School is
leaving in December. He has been at the
school for 12 years, and provided leadership
and a sense of stability over that time. There
will inevitably be a period of uncertainty whilst
their governing body finds a suitable
replacement. We will be working to ensure the
good relationship between the schools is
maintained, which is clearly in the best
interests of the children.
The benefits of the curriculum changes
introduced last year by Mrs Sandford are now
clearly showing in the progress the children
are making in both English and maths. In
particular progress in writing, raised as an
issue in the previous Ofsted inspection, is now
significantly improved showing the benefits of
introducing Big Writing. The changes being
made to a more interesting theme-based
curriculum, a major undertaking for the
teaching staff this year, together with the
improved progress are really positive signs for
the future.
Liam Dolder Chair of Governors'
attached a copy of the revised menu. All
menus, including school packed lunches and
jacket potatoes can be found on our website.
Attendance Cup
Our school attendance cup is awarded to the
class with the highest average attendance in
the previous half term.
Norfolk County Music Festival and
Central Area Schools’ Music Association
Congratulations to children in Year 4 who
performed at the NCMF recently, receiving a
commended
plus
certificate?
Also, children in Year 5 who sang in the
CASMA concert at St Andrew’s Hall - your
performances were amazing! Mrs Denton.
Korfball update
After school training has now started and
children are working towards The Norfolk
Schools Summer Tournament in June. Before
then, I hope to organise some friendly games
to give players some competition experience
Please note:
There will be no Korfball week beginning
Monday 13th April.
Year 5 and Year 6 training restarts on Monday
20th April and will end on Monday 8th June,
restarting again in September.
Year 4 Korfball restarts on Wednesday 22nd
April and will end on Wednesday 3rd June,
restarting again in September. SC
New Summer Menu for CJS
The school has been monitoring the new
summer term menu provided by Norse. After
consultation with our children, the Norse Area
Manager and the ladies in the servery (who
have been keeping records of wastage), it has
been decided that a few alterations to the
menu are necessary whilst still adhering to the
new School Food Standards.
Please find
Our winners of the attendance cup for the
first half of the Spring Term are 4KJ. This is
the second time in a row that 4KJ have had
the highest average attendance in the school,
this time with an excellent average attendance
of 97.3%.
Well done, 4KJ! You clearly love coming to
school!
Attendance
The following children came to school every
day last half term (First Half of Spring Term).
Well done!
3JR
Georgina, Fallon, George, Carla, Irmak, Amie,
Vinny, Reuben, MJ, Maddy, Uri, Maggie, Sarah,
Katie.
3SH
Saraya, Ewan, John, Alfie, Josie, Grayce,
Bethany, Tallulah, Harrison, Tru, Kai, Kyle,
Nathan.
4DG
Elise, Joseph, Oona, Billy, Mason, Mack,
George, Max, Milly, Imene, Poppy, Logan.
4KJ
Yasser, James, Jaycee, Olivia, Riley,
Mohammed, Megan, Tyler, Yosi-Junior,
Georgina, Alex T., Tayla, Alex W.
5RE
Harry, Caitlin, Martina, Eve, William, Lennan,
Mabel, Jaden, Anna, Farhan, Henry, Tom,
Morgan.
5SB
Stanley, Emilia, Owen, Fabian, Aston, Millie,
Eleanor J., Elsie, Zak, Eleanor P., Grace,
Emilee, Caleb, Tye, Logan, Marcie, Shania.
6KH
Jorj, Ted, Cassie, Lenny, Alejandro, Kieran,
Eric Ptr., Bradley, Ben, Asha, Yaman.
6SF
Leon, Tyra, Jazz, Bethany, Jacob, Matthew,
Joshua, Dylan, Arman, Robyn, Connie.
After-School Clubs
A new list will follow after the holiday.
Posted on the website recently:
• Puppet making
• Henri Rousseau studies
• Crazy Hat and Hair Day
• Red Nose Day
• CASMA
and much, much more.....
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Instrumental Tuition
Instrumental tuition starts again on Monday
13th April until Friday 17th July. Invoices will
follow in the new term. There will be no
lessons for any pupils during the week
beginning 11th May due to the Year 6 SATs
tests, also no lessons for Year 6 pupils
attending CNS transition from 6th - 17th July.
Headlice
Following a recent outbreak in school, please
ensure that you check your child’s head
regularly for nits and head lice as these spread
very easily. Follow the link below for NHS
advice:
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Headlice/Pages/Introduction.aspx
A few reminders...
Polite Notice
Parents have commented recently about
smokers lighting up by the school gate. Whilst
we appreciate that this is not on the school
premises we feel that it sets a poor example to
the children about healthy lifestyle choices. If
you do smoke can we politely ask you to do so
away from the children coming to & from
school?
Lost Property
There is a very large amount of lost property
in the basket in the school hall. Please have a
look at the end of any school day for your
child’s lost items.
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We are collecting:
Active Kids Vouchers
School Council are collecting Sainsbury's
Active Kids vouchers which will help us buy
more indoor and outdoor play equipment for
the school. We would be grateful for any
vouchers you may have and a box is
situated outside the library for collection.
For your information please see:
[email protected]
Used inkjet/laser cartridges
Unwanted mobile phones
Clean clothes and rags in the outside
collection bin
Dates for the Diary
April
15th Year 3 visit to Bewilderwood
May
11th - 14th
Year 6 SATs week
th
th
11 - 15
No instrumental tuition
13th
Luke Wright, poet, with 5SB
15th
Year 6 visit to John Innes
th
20
4DG Dance Show 4pm at ‘Open’
st
21
Mobile Planetarium in Hall for Y5 & 6
nd
22
Luke Wright, poet, with 5SB
Year 4 visit to Harry Potter Studios
June
3rd
Luke Wright, poet, with 5SB
th
4
Team photos
th
9
Luke Wright, poet, with 5SB
Orchestra and Recorder concert 7pm
th
11
Year 6 transition evening at CNS 7pm
19th
Korfball Tournament at UEA
July
3rd
PTA Summer Fete 3.30pm
th
6 - 17th
Year 6 pupils transition at CNS
(if transferring there)
Name..................Class...................
Mr Robert’s Maths Challenge
Welcome to our final Maths Challenge for this term. Altogether there has now been over 200 winners of Golden Raffle tickets, who will all have the opportunity to win a fantastic 7” white Android Tablet. As always, children who correctly answer either of the two challenges will receive a raffle ticket. Please hand your complete solutions in to your class teacher. Flowers in a greenhouse There are seven pots of plants in a greenhouse. They have lost their labels.
O F and G have wide pots.
C, E and F have just one flower.
B and D have tall pots.
B and E have blue flowers.
Maze 100 In this maze there are
numbers in each of the cells.
You go through adding all the
numbers that you pass. You
may not go through any cell
more than once.
Can you find a way through in
which the numbers add to
exactly 100?
Can you help label the plants?
Can you do it?
Eggs-cited about Science!
Eggs-plore the Eggs-traordinary Inventions and
Discoveries from the most famous Scientists of all time!
Scramble to be involved in this Eggs-tremely entertaining
Day crammed with Hands-On Eggs-periments!!!
Be part of our Eggs-clusive, members only, Mad Science event.
For only £20 this is a fantastic opportunity to learn all about the wonders of science in a
fun packed day.
Each day camp is suitable for children aged 5-11 and will be held at the following venues:
Monday 30th March
10am - 3 pm
Southery Primary
School
Downham Market
Tuesday 31st March
10am - 3pm
NCFC Study Centre
Norwich
Wednesday 1st April
10am - 3pm
Alderman Swindell
Primary School
Great Yarmouth
For more information please contact us:[email protected],
01603 218757, www.facebook.com/cunorfolk
Mad Science - Easter Event
To book a place on this exclusive event please complete this slip and send with an enclosed £20 cheque
(made payable to Norfolk County Council) to:
NCFC Study Centre, Norfolk Children’s University - Mad Science Event, Carrow Road, Norwich, NR1 1JE.
Once we have received your slip and cheque we will then send (via email) your tickets to the event with
further information. Please send one slip per a child.
Student
Name: ............................................
Age: ...............................................
School: ..........................................
Venue Choice: ..............................
Parent/Carer
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