Friday Flier Number 574 25th September 2015 http://www.deansfield.greenwich.sch.uk/
Year 6 kicked off our Educational
Visits Programme with a visit to the
Science Museum on Monday. The
children enjoyed their visits
to the Energy
Gallery and
Launchpad
Exhibition as
well as attending a Science Show called “Smack
Bang Wallop!” full
of ‘live’
experiments—
plenty of
explosions, smoke and colours! Josh told
us “they showed us how many
different materials could be used
to make fire—even flour!”. Josie
liked “the hands on ac vi es best
and how they taught us a lot
about energy and other subjects”.
Rohan “loved the Science Museum and how they taught us new
facts and I liked the interac ve
things”. A very educationally rewarding time for everyone involved.
We hope you have made a note in
your diaries for the visits we have
planned throughout the year. Our
next trip out will be Year 3’s visit to
the Eltham Environmental Centre
on 6th October where children become ‘soil detectives’ for the day.
This visit is followed by Year 5’s visit
to the National Maritime Museum
at Greenwich to attend a Vikings
Workshop. This visits takes place on
12th October. Please ensure you
return the permission slip at the bottom
of your trip letter to the school office
which authorises you child to participate in our Educational Visitors / Visits
programme. As you are aware, we
need your financial support to ensure
the programme proceeds as planned,
so please make a payment as soon as
possible. We thank you if you have already made a payment in respect of
your child’s trips. Please also remember
that children need a drink as part of
their packed lunch whilst on trips.
Secondary school visits by Year 6 children are in full swing. Please remember
to let the school office know when your
child will be absent from school making
a school visit. Please also remember
that your child’s secondary school application must be made online to the
borough in which you live. This must be
made by 31st October otherwise your
child’s secondary school place will in
jeopardy.
Wales Residential School Journey is almost here for Year 6 children. Children
leave for Wales on Monday 12th October.
Please remember that the Journey must
be paid for in advance. If you have been
asked by Pupil Benefit section to provide
more evidence to enable you to obtain
the grant, please do so without delay as
we need to know you are eligible before
the Journey. If you bring your evidence
to the school office we will be able to
scan and email this across for you. If you
have been asked to do this, please contact the school office to let us know the
current position. Many thanks.
Please look out for letters going out today
about online payments. The system is
currently up and running for dinner payments and will soon be extended to other areas. Watch this space!
Key Dates for your Diary. PLEASE
NOTE CHANGES IN BOLD.
VALUE FOR SEPTEMBER: Respect
and Creativity
12th October: Yr 6 School
Journey to Wales
12th a.m. and 14th pm: Reception
parents meetings—How to
support your child at home
14th October 7pm: DPA AGM
16th October: Inclusion Coffee
Morning
19th October: Learning Review
Week
19th October: Harvest Festival
Assembly
21st October: Prospective
Reception Parents Open Morning
23rd October: HT Coffee Morning
26-30 October: Half Term
4th November pm: Literacy
meeting for KS2 Parents
5th November: International
evening
9th November: Yr 5 School
Journey to Swanage
10TH November a.m. KS1 Maths
Parents Meeting
18th November: Prospective
Reception Parents Open Morning
10th December pm: KS1
Christmas Performance
11th December pm KS1
Christmas Performance
14th December pm: EYFS
Christmas Performance
(No Yr 4 Swimming)
15th December am: EYFS
Christmas Performance
16th December: KS2 Christmas
Performance pm and evening at
St Lukes Church
17th December: Children’s
Christmas Lunch
Maths Challenge! Last week’s puzzle was: Horace
was looking through the family photograph album,
which has a photo of each of his parents, each of his
grandparents, all the way up to each of his greatgreat-great-grandparents.
How many photos is that?
The solution is: 2 parents, 4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents,
32 great-great-great-grandparents
2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 62 photos in all.
Next week at Deansfield:
Monday: Swimming for Class 4L
Thursday: Swimming for Class 3HK
Friday: Coffee morning in the Café
Class Assembly was held this week by Class 5C and followed the story of Daedalus and Icarus, trapped on
Crete by King Minos who threated to feed them to the
Minotaur. Luca told us that “Daedalus and Icarus col-
This week’s puzzle is: Tom asked his Granny how old
she was. Rather than giving him a straight answer,
she replied: "I have 6 children, and there are 4 years
between each one and the next. I had my first child
(your Uncle Peter) when I was 19. Now the youngest
one (Your Auntie Jane) is 19 herself. That's all I'm telling you!" How old is Tom's Granny?
Look out for the solution next week!
Music at Deansfield: We were sad to learn this week
that Holly Cook is leaving us later in the term to develop her playing career. We are sorry to lose Holly but
glad to learn that our current tutors are able to expand their present tuition to take over Holly’s children.
More news about this nearer the time! I am sure you
will want to join us in wishing Holly every success in her
playing career.
Attendance this week: Star Class Attendance Award
this week is shared between Class 3HK and Class 2T
with 100% attendance. Well done Class 3T and 3HK.
Overall attendance this week was 97.7% . Thank you
for of sending you child into school each day—we
cannot stress enough the importance of regular attendance.
More dates for your diary:
The DPA hold its AGM at school on Wednesday 14th October at 7pm— Everyone welcome!
Interested in the Meccano Show? It’s being held at the
Eltham United Reformed Church on Saturday 10th October
between 10.30 and 4.30pm. Adults £3 entry, unaccompanied children £1 and children accompanied by an adult
enter free.
Child Care problems? Please contact Caroline at the
Alpha club on 07939 528678 , who will be happy to help.
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lected feathers from birds and made wings with wax”.
Lola said “Icarus and Daedalus
flew into the sky using their
wings but Icarus flew too near
the sun which melted the wax
in his wings. Icarus fell into the
sea and drowned”. Luca went
on to say “Daedalus had to fly
on as he could not help to save
Icarus”. Both children told us
that they were nervous, but really enjoyed their Assembly. Well
done Class 5C!
Next week, we look forward to Class 2T’s Assembly.
Look out for parent letters on Monday.
Parents may have noticed that we have come away
from Fronter. We are working on its replacement—this
will be password protected and therefore only available to our school community. We are trialling uploading
class assemblies from today with Class 5C. Each week
the relevant class will receive their username and password with details of the website address and instructions. As an e-safety precaution, please remind your
child that usernames and passwords should be kept private. Please bear with us—we will get this information to
you as soon as we can. Thank you for your support.
Parking around the school: we had a call this week
from a very upset resident of Elibank Road who was distraught that if she hadn't have been going so slowly she
might have knocked down one of our children. She
could not see the road clearly whilst going round the
corner of Elibank Road due to parents parking their 4x4
on the corner of the road, making vision impossible.
PLEASE park safely, so that our children can move safely
in the vicinity of the school.