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14 October

2016

Water Street School will be celebrating the 950th Anniversary of

the Battle of Hastings on Friday 14 October 2016.

The day will be filled with workshops and activities related to the

Battle of Hastings.

A letter will be sent home shortly explaining further details about

the day! We are hoping children (and staff too!) will come in

costume. The letter will explain this… (it will be a simple costume—

honest!!)

The whole day should be great fun ! There will be lots of photos

too!

30 September 2016

Wow! What a busy start to the term… As you read the following

pages and class news—you will see just how much we have

packed in already this term.

We are very proud to welcome our new starters this term, who

have settled extremely well into our Reception Class. You can see

their photographs with their Year 6 buddies on the next page.

We also like to welcome Evan, a new pupil in Year 3 and also Miss

Ruth Harker, our new Year 3 teacher.

I hope you enjoy seeing all of the many photographs of class

lessons and activities. If you wish other family members to be

added to our newsletter—please let us know their email address:

admin@waterstreet.n-yorks.sch.uk

Many thanks for your continued support.

Mr S Anslow

Reception: I am really impressed with the way that all the

children have settled into Reception. Well done

everyone! Our half days eased us in gently and

we are now enjoying being together, all 30 of us!

Our first theme was all about ourselves and we

went paper doll crazy (if you haven’t seen the

display on the back wall in our classroom please call in and have a look!) We are

now moving on, thinking about harvest as our provision revolves around the story,

The Enormous turnip. We have been learning a ‘days of the week’ song and get-

ting used to the new routines in school. We had great fun meeting our buddies and

we look forward to many more fun activities with them in the weeks and months to

come. See the photos of us when we met our buddies for the first time!

What an amazing job you have all done with your scrapbooks! It has been fun look-

ing through them and talking about the holidays! Thank you to parents for all your

effort with these. Thank you also for bringing in favourite books from home and we

have been really enjoying listening to all the stories and finding out new information

too. Mrs Roberts

Year 1: What a great start to Year 1 the children have had! It is always a difficult transi-

tion from reception to year 1 with much more restriction on play and the children

are really doing well; we are really proud of them all.

We have managed to fit in so much already as you know from our newsletters.

We have been busy doing PE every week with Mr Mukherjee too and this week

we worked with Year 5 as they learned how to set up the playground squad.

This was just brilliant and all the children worked very well together, listening to

each other and playing loads of different games which meant, of course, lots of

fun! We have the trip to Thornton Hall Farm Park to look forward to next week

too.

Here are some photos of us in and around our classroom ‘exploring’ the areas and also of some of us with

Year 5.

Mrs Munslow & Mrs Barrett

Year 2: We have had a great start to the year and Y2 have settled in brilliantly and

have coped very well with the new routines. They have quickly taken on the

challenge of working more independently not to mention becoming responsi-

ble for changing books and handing in letters!

In English, we have been loving learning about Katie Morag and carried out

some excellent role plays taking on the different characters of Katie, the two

Grannies and Neilly Beag. We have also had great fun reading the stories out

loud and practising our Scottish accents! ‘ Och her and fancy ways!’ We also

had a go at conscience alley and deciding what each character would do.

In art we have been making a display of the Isle of Struay and have produced

a great map of the island complete with the sea, hills and houses. We will be

adding more things week by week.

In maths we have been getting to grips with place value and working with larg-

er numbers. We have been using a variety of ways to represent numbers includ-

ing base 10 rods and cubes, bar models and using bead strings.

In Science as part of our work in the human lifecycle, we had a lovely visit from

Chole’s mum and Baby Alex who was only 14 weeks

old. We learnt lots about what he can do and how

many more things Year 2 can do now they are old-

er. Alex was a model baby and amazingly

slept through the whole thing!

Mrs Rimmington

Year 3:

We have been very busy in Year Three this month. We have

really enjoyed looking at stories by Michael Foreman in Litera-

cy, particularly ‘I’ll take you to Mrs Cole’ and had some fab

versions of this story written by our class.

We spent a whole afternoon, covering the hall in straw and

hay whilst in the process of creating our ‘Stone Age to Iron

Age’ display, which was great fun (although it took a lot of

clearing up!) and will look great on our display board once we

have got it finished.

We have had the opportunity to participate in two sporting events out of school this month. We had 18 of

our class members compete in the Cross Country competition at Aireville park, two of whom managed to

get placed within the top 6 runners in their race and so will go on to compete at Giggleswick in the near fu-

ture- good luck to those boys. We have also taken part in an inter-schools orienteering activity where every-

one took part and had a great afternoon finding clues and reading maps.

Miss Harker

Year 4:

Well it has been a busy start to Year 4. The children are settling in nicely and get-

ting to grips with the new routines and expectations of Year 4.

In English the children have been reading a story called ‘Sam’s Duck’ which is a

story with a dilemma. The children have been involved in drama to get to know

the character of Sam and the dilemma he faces. We

have also had two very special visitors in the class (Mrs

Smith’s ducks) for the children to write about and de-

scribe. This week we have written a descriptive piece of

writing using paragraphs, adjectives, similes and con-

junctions. In our spelling work we have been focussing

on suffixes such as -ing, -ed and –s, -al and –ary. Gram-

mar has involved using a range of conjunctions to extend our sentences.

In Maths the children have been learning about place value of 4 digit numbers. They have been learning the

value of each digit and how to compare them using < and >. We also took those 4 digit numbers and

learned how to round them to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000, knowing which digits changed and which

stayed the same. The children really enjoyed learning about Roman Numerals up to 100. We have just started

looking at addition using a column and the inverse operation.

The topic in Science is Sound and learning about how it is created. We have studied how

our ears work and we are creating an experiment to show which material is best for sound

proofing.

In History the children have been learning about the Anglo-Saxons. This

started by revisiting the Year 3 Roman topic and learning about why the

Romans left Britain and what problems were faced by the people that

were left. We then went on to learn who the Anglo Saxons were and

where they came from, why they left their homeland and what difficulties they may have

faced.

This year we have started learning how to play basketball and a coach has been in to develop the skills of

the children and teach them the rules of the game. The children are all working very hard and we are im-

pressed with their attitude and effort in class. Mrs Bownass & Mrs Smith

Day During School After School

Monday 3 October Netball @ Sandylands

Tuesday 4 October

Wednesday 5 October Booster Swimming Session Bricks for Kids Lego Club

Thursday 6 October

Friday 7 October Year 6 Football @ Sandylands

Year 5:

Year 5 have made a super start to their year

and have settled into their new classroom fan-

tastically well. We have a 100% success rate on

the return of homework, an impressively tidy

cloakroom (mostly!) and classroom learning be-

haviour to be proud of!

We are very close

to the end of our first Science topic on Forces

and have thoroughly enjoyed a host of practi-

cal, investigative tasks as pictured. Tug of War

games, water filled syringes, giant sheets of

cardboard, washing up liquid covered tables,

tongs, tweezers and nail clippers have been

the order of the day so that we can grasp the

complex physics behind our everyday lives.

Advice to the children at the start of the topic

was to take themselves off to a playground

and experiment with as many forces as possi-

ble on the swings, slides and round-abouts…

it’s not too late yet to spend a happy Saturday

engaged in this complicated learning task!

In addition, Year 5 have designed Christmas

cards, had fantastic success at the Cross

Country event and begun their training to be

Playground Squad leaders. Time will tell which

of us is voted onto the School Council…

Miss Longman

Pushes and Pulls

Air resistance

Gravity

Friction

Penny’s

Kitchen

Monday 3 October:

Beef Chilli & Rice

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Jacket Potato

Carrot Cake & Custard

Tuesday 4 October:

Roast Pork Dinner

Sweet Lentil & Rice

Jacket Potato

Krispie Cereal Bar

Wednesday 5 October:

Minced Lamb & Dumplings

Spinnach Spaghetti

Jacket Potato

Peaches & Icecream

Thursday 6 October:

Chicken Korma & Rice

Cheese & Potato Bake

Jacket Potato

Chocolate Mandarin Sponge

Friday 7 October:

Battered Fish

Chickpea Burger

Jacket Potato

Rice Pudding & Jam

Fresh Fruit is available every day

Yoghurts are available very day

Year 6:

So what have Year 6 been up to this Sep-

tember? As usual it has been a jam-

packed month which has included: the

inter-school cross country -which a record

number of Y6 pupils took part in this year;

starting our World War 1 local history topic;

taking on lots of new roles and responsibilities in

Year 6 and of course meeting and getting to know

our reception buddies.

Children have been working hard on their book

flags which reflect different types of genre which

they enjoy reading. We have just started some

great creative writing focussing on a fantasy land

of sweets! In our ICT work

we have learnt how to

create word clouds ‘all

about us’. Year 6 and Mrs Booth have also

been busy in the new cookery room creating

their own biscuits creations which we sold at

our coffee morning.

Can we say a huge thank you to everyone who attend our Macmillian

Coffee Morning. It was a great success. (We will let you know how much

we raised next week). The children made great waiters, waitresses....

and washer uppers!! and made some pretty good cups of tea too.

Many thanks to everyone for their kind contribution of cakes and raffle

prizes. The sales of our homemade biscuits went really well. We certainly

have some members of Year 6 who would could replace Mary Berry in

the Bake Off!

Next month we are looking forward to continuing our WW1 topic, doing

some WW1 inspired art, carrying out heart rate experiments and begin-

ning work on our class novel “Private Peaceful”

Don’t forget our class assembly is Friday 21st October @2.30.

The winners for

September

2016 are: 1st Prize of £22 Helen Jackson (Number 42)

2nd Prize of £12 Jamie Howarth (Number 1)

3rd Prize of £5.50 Wendy Ashley (Number 137)

Thank You and Congratulations! If you have any questions or would like to join the club

please email Jo Nixon (jo@philandjo.co.uk)

Our new website has

now gone live!

www.waterstreetschool

.org.uk

Please go and have a look!!

Before School 8.45am:

A gentle reminder… keeping our children safe

Please may I remind parents that there should be no unsupervised children on the school site before

8.45am. If children are here before that time they are parent’s responsibility, any older children who walk

to school independently should not be at school before 8.45am—when a member of staff is then on duty.

Thank you for your help with this important matter.

Mr Anslow

Healthy Packed

Lunches…. As a healthy school we strive to have

healthy packed lunches…

Please may I gently remind parents that

sweets and bars of chocolate should not

be in your child’s packed lunch.

Chocolate biscuits are fine! Well all

things in moderation!!

Thank you for your help.

Mr Anslow

We have got off to a flying start once again this academic year!

PE lessons: All pupils have received at least 2 hours of PE each week.

FS and Year 1 and Year 2: Athletics with Ji, Dance with Miss Reed

Year 3 / 4: Basketball with Mark Gunn and OAA with class teacher

Year 5/ 6: Athletics with Ji plus a class PE slot

** Booster swimming lessons for some KS2 pupils.

Inter-school Competitions/ festivals

* Some Year 6 pupils have been attending weekly netball sessions at Sandylands alongside

pupils from other local schools. We have been learning the rules of High Five Netball ready

to compete later in the year.

*KS2 cross country. An amazing 83 pupils from Water Street competed in the cross country

event at Aireville park. The pupils all did amazingly well to complete the race and should

all be very proud of themselves. I was shattered just watching you all!

*13 pupils came in the top 6 position in their age group and so will go on to Giggleswick

where they will represent Skipton Schools in the next round (October 6th). Watch this space

to see how they get on. Good luck to you all!

*Year 3 attended an orienteering event at Sandylands where they worked alongside pupils

from other local schools to solve a range of orienteering challenges.

*Year 5 (with some help from Year 1) have completed their playground squad training with

Caroline Moorehouse. Playtimes will be more active and organised from now on with pu-

pils being offered a range of activities and challenges to join in with.

After school clubs this term:

KS1: Basketball club with coach Mark Gunne (Tuesday)

Y3/4: Hockey club with Mr Mukherji (Thursday)

Y6: Football at Sandylands (Friday)

Still to come: Watch this space for the results.

*Y4 football tournament

*Y6 football tournament

* Y5/6 Sports Hall Athletics at Sandylands

*Sports leader training for some Year 5 pupils.

AUTUMN

TERM 2016 Tuesday 4 October PTA Meeting @ 7.30pm

Thursday 6 October KS 2 Cross Country Finals @ Giggleswick

Friday 7 October Yr 3 & 4 Football Competition

Monday 10 October Open Week for prospective pupils

Sports Hall Athletics 4pm

Friday 14 October Year 5 & 6 Football Competition

Monday 17 October Parents’ Evening 3.30pm—7pm

Wednesday 19 October Reception Class Parents’ Evening

Thursday 20 October Parents’ Evening 3.30pm—7pm

Friday 21 October School closes for half term

Monday 31 October School re-opens for pupils

Wednesday 2 November Football Finals

Tuesday 8 November Individual School Photographs

Thursday 17 November Year 3 & 4 Visit to Murton Park—York

Tuesday 22 November Year 5 Sports Leader Training

Thursday 1 December Christmas Discos

Monday 12 December Key Stage 1 Nativity—Dress Rehearsal

Key Stage 2 Carol Service Rehearsal

Tuesday 13 December Key stage 1 Nativity 2pm & 6pm

Wednesday 14 December Key stage 1 Nativity 9.30am

Key Stage 2 Carol Service 2pm

Key Stage 2 Carol Service 6pm

Key Stage 1 Christmas Party—pm

Thursday 15 December Year 3 & 4 Christmas Party—pm

Friday 16 December Year 5 & 6 Christmas Party—am

School closes for Christmas Holiday

Tuesday 3 January Staff Training Day

Wednesday 4 January School re-opens for pupils