CANARY WHARF COLLEGE GLENWORTH

Friday 26th February 2016 Issue: 19

NEWSLETTER Message from the Principal

Welcome back! I do hope you had a restful half term and settling back into the routine. The children have certainly come back ready to go! Next week is Maths and ICT week and various fun activities have been planned. All children will be taking place in a ‘Bubbly Maths’ workshop on Tuesday at the East Ferry site. Glenvan will walk to East Ferry promptly at 9am on Tuesday so please feel free to still use bikes and scooters to travel to school. The KS1 children have been given a Mathletics challenge for the week so please encourage them to play lots of maths games to earn points and certificates! It will be a Maths themed fancy-dress on Friday! I expect to see some very creative ideas. There will be a huge variety of activities happening over the week...but I will keep those a surprise. We look forward to welcoming you over the next two weeks for parents evening. I would warmly encourage to book a slot to speak to your child’s teacher. It is so important that we communicate regularly and work together to support your children. If you are having problems organising an appointment please do get in touch. Please can we remind you that this is not an event for children to attend. Our Year Two children will go on their first residential trip during the Summer Term so we invite the Year Two parents to attend a presentation on this trip on Thursday 17th March at 8.30am. This meeting should not last longer than 45 minutes. We would publicly like to thank our builders who came to the rescue of a St Luke's parent and child who had received a 'near miss' from a careless driver who mounted the curb. Thank you for your commitment to the zero car policy; your support on this is very much appreciated.

Camp Canary will run during the Easter holidays from 29th March to 15th April 2016, led by Jak Tafadar (P.E. teacher at Canary Wharf College.) Camp Canary is a Sport and Art tuition based school. The children will have two sport and two art sessions a day with breaks in between for snack, lunch and play. We occasionally go on trips and will always take the children outside for Sport (weather depending). Please note, Camp Canary is not run by Canary Wharf College, therefore do not direct any enquiries to Canary Wharf College, they won't be able to help.

Please send all enquiries to campcanarybooking@gmail.com. Hannah Forster will be taking bookings and enquiries. To

make a booking please fill in this form:

https://campcanary.wufoo.com/forms/camp-canary-easter-29th-march-to-15th-april-2016/

CAMP CANARY

YEAR ONE

Year One have had an artistic start to the half term, not only focusing on Monet in the afternoons but creating art in their maths lessons as well! We have talked about lots of complicated vocabulary to do with creating patterns such as ‘tessellation’ and ‘symmetry’. We also practiced our ruler skills on Monday by creating pictures with straight lines. Since the sun was shining we even made some mathematical art outside in the courtyard. Could you complete this repeating pattern?

YEAR TWO

RECEPTION

“Be yourself because everyone else is taken”- Oscar Wilde. This week 2RP performed a magnificent class assembly on our theme for the week, “Self- Confidence”. We understand the importance of having confidence in ourselves in everything that we do, both inside and outside of school! Self-confidence is precious…but it is easily damaged. We must always choose our words and actions carefully as, if we don’t, somebody’s confidence could be shattered! We demonstrated this during a heart-breaking role-play and then showed Year One how it can be built up once more. This week try to remember to “be kind to yourself as YOU are listening” .

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We have had a lovely week back in Reception after the half term break. Our story this week has been the traditional tale of Rumpelstiltskin. We have made comparisons and talked about the features of fiction and non-fiction books and how to find information in them. All the children have written facts and drawn pictures compiling our own class non-fiction book about light and dark. During Maths lessons, we have learnt about odd and even numbers and counting in two’s. The children have also been introduced to the concept of doubling numbers. We are all looking forward to the Maths and ICT activities next week!

Upcoming Dates and Events

29th February – 4th March Maths Focus Week

Wednesday 2nd March Parent’s Evening

Tuesday 8th March Parent’s Evening

Thursday 17th March Year Two Camping Meeting

Thursday 24th March Last Day of Term (mid-day)