1 gfdgdfgdg 2016 Friday 7th July, 2017 FROM THE HEADMASTER’S DESK SCHOLARSHIPS Parents of children who will enter Year 3 and Year 7 in September 2018 are invited to apply for one of our scholarships. There are five scholarship areas: academic, art & design, drama, music and sport. Scholarships are worth up to 25% fee reducon. Pupils sit verbal and non verbal reasoning tests and (apart from academic) a praccal assessment too. The deadline to apply is Wednesday 18th October and the assessments will take place on Friday 17th November. Please speak to Julie Bradley if you would like to apply or if you require any further informaon. As we arrive at the end of the final week, let me wish everyone a well- deserved break. It has been an exceponally busy term and I hope that all the pupils will look back on some wonderful experiences. As I said in my address at Speech Day, it has been a huge privilege to lead the school this year and I have thoroughly enjoyed working with pupils, parents and colleagues as we seek to provide the very best of educaon to all the children at Saint Nicholas. I must thank the many parents for their posive feedback about Speech Day, it is a special day for the school and I was incredibly impressed with the way pupils, parcularly our youngest, coped with what was a fairly long ceremony. Having launched our new school video at Speech Day we will be embedding it onto our website next week. I hope that you will agree, it really does sum up what a super school we have at Saint Nicholas and I am grateful to all the pupils who were, as always, the true stars of the show. May I take this final opportunity to wish you the very best for the summer break. I look forward to seeing you all back safe and sound in September!
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fhgfdgdfgdg 2016 Friday 7th July, 2017
FROM THE HEADMASTER’S DESK
SCHOLARSHIPS Parents of children who will enter Year 3 and Year 7 in September 2018 are invited to apply for one of our scholarships. There are five scholarship areas: academic, art & design, drama, music and sport. Scholarships are worth up to 25% fee reduction. Pupils sit verbal and non verbal reasoning tests and (apart from academic) a practical assessment too. The deadline to apply is Wednesday 18th October and the assessments will take place on Friday 17th November. Please speak to Julie Bradley if you would like to apply or if you require any further information.
As we arrive at the end of the final week, let me wish everyone a well-deserved break. It has been an exceptionally busy term and I hope that all the pupils will look back on some wonderful experiences.
As I said in my address at Speech Day, it has been a huge privilege to lead the school this year and I have thoroughly enjoyed working with pupils, parents and colleagues as we seek to provide the very best of education to all the children at Saint Nicholas.
I must thank the many parents for their positive feedback about Speech Day, it is a special day for the school and I was incredibly impressed with the way pupils, particularly our youngest, coped with what was a fairly long ceremony. Having launched our new school video at Speech Day we will be embedding it onto our website next
week. I hope that you will agree, it really does sum up what a super school we have at Saint Nicholas and I am grateful to all the pupils who were, as always, the true stars of the show.
May I take this final opportunity to wish you the very best for the summer break. I look forward to seeing you all back safe and sound in September!
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SPEECH DAY We hope you all enjoyed our annual Prize Giving and Speech Day on Saturday and agree that our pupil speakers spoke with precision and confidence. Congratulations to everyone who won prizes on the day. Below are a few pictures.
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INDUCTION DAY
Report by Amelia, Year 6
On Wednesday 28th of June, Year 6 pupils had an induction day. A company called Wise Up Team Building came to the school to run the day and we participated in a game called the hub challenge. One person from each group had to go to the hub board and pick a game. My group (the competitors) did four games. My favourite game was the stepping stones - this was a real teamwork tester. We had to pass down the steps keeping one foot on a block each time or we lost that block. This session lasted until lunch, after which we had lessons. All the new pupils, joining in September came to the induction day and it was nice to get to know our new class members. I thought this year’s moving up day was a really fun day and I went home having tons of things to tell my mum as it was so jam-packed. I was so tired I fell straight to sleep.
ALEXANDER GLEN SWIRE MEMORIAL DAY The Swire family has long been closely involved with Saint Nicholas School. Second Lieutenant Alexander Glen Swire of the Essex Yeomanry was the younger brother of Sir John Swire. At the age of 17 he enlisted at the start of World War I. Less than a year later, on 13th May 1915, he was killed in action, aged just 18, at the Battle of Frezenberg Ridge near Potijze, Flanders.
May 2015 marked the centenary of the loss of Alexander Glen Swire. Saint Nicholas School, supported by the Swire family, recorded and remembered the loss through the introduction of the ‘Alexander Glen Swire Memorial Day’. The school has now established this memorial as an annual event. It is aimed at
providing pupils an opportunity to take part in a range of different activities, encouraging them to work together to explore new skills, knowledge and understanding.
This year pupils who will enter Year 6 and 7 in September participated in team building activities with Wise Up and really enjoyed meeting and bonding with pupils who will be new to the school in September.
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YEAR 5 ASSEMBLY
SAVE THE DATES Please see below some ‘save the dates’ for the first two weeks back after the summer holidays: 6th September - First day of the new school year
8th September - Year 1 History off the Page
15th September - Year 9 3D art pupils visit to Harry Potter
Congratulations to Year 5 for a superb final assembly. All of the lower school staff and pupils, plus the Year 5 parents, thoroughly enjoyed the show, entitled ‘Lights, Camera, Action!’, which was full of songs and laughter. What an excellent way for Year 5 to end their time in lower school.
From all the staff at Saint Nicholas, have a wonderful summer holiday.
We’ll see you on Wednesday 6th September for the new term!
YEAR 5 CINQUAINS On moving up day, Year 5 pupils (soon to be Year 6s) wrote cinquain poems about ordinary objects:
Rubber by Louis Rubber Mucky, bumpy Removing, wiping, sleeping Keeping enemies from secrets. Useful
Stapler by Lizzie Stapler Crocodile-like, serious Closing, snapping, clicking Don't staple your fingers! Dangerous.
Sellotape by Rose Sellotape Robust, frail Entertaining, joining, rolling It is sleek; sticky. Revolutionary!
Sellotape by Oliver Sellotape Sticky, smooth Rolling, Sticking, joining Useful in many ways. Long.
Stapler by Tara Stapler Quick, slick Punching, freezing, clicking Me: I like staplers! Distracting....
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WEDDING BELLS
BABY CHADWICK There is a home-grown romance at the school. We wish Adam and Shana, who both work in the school catering team, all the best for their forthcoming wedding. They are tying the knot on 15th July and we look forward to seeing the photographs!
We are pleased to announce the safe and healthy arrival of Esther Jayne Chadwick born on 15th June at 4.28pm, weighing 7lb and 15oz. Congratulations Mrs Chadwick!
ALUMNI COMMUNITY The Alumni committee continues to work hard to establish contact with former pupils and ex-staff members from Saint Nicholas. If you know of anyone who does not currently receive news from the school then we should like to hear from you. With your help we will contact these individuals to confirm if they would value receiving updates from the school.
We would also like to share much more news of former pupils from Saint Nicholas within the wider school community. With your help we can reconnect old friends with each other and we can show our current pupils the diversity of paths that may be taken after leaving the school.
Please email [email protected] if you have any questions about the Alumni community or if you have any contacts or news you are willing to share. Please be assured we always seek the permission of the ex pupil/member of staff before adding them to the Alumni database.
SAFER CYCLING Essex Safer Cycling are offering a free-of-charge two day ‘Bikeability’ course (formerly known as cycling proficiency). This is for local Year 5 children (going into Year 6 in September). It will be on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th August in Harlow. Places are available on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested in signing up your child, please email Nathalia Lugg asap on: [email protected]
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RECEPTION SNAIL FUN For their final week of mini beasts, Reception children have been learning about snails. They went on a snail hunt around the grounds and found two in the muddy kitchen shed! The children enjoyed looking closely at the snails and observing how they moved. They discovered their mouths are underneath their foot and they have hundreds of teeth! Who knew?...
YEAR 1 MOON BUGGIES Form 1N pupils have been making moon buggies following their design. They had fun folding, measuring, cutting, painting and gluing things to create them.
UNIFORM REQUEST If you have any spare Reception aged uniform and PE kit that your child has outgrown we would be extremely grateful to have it.
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SPORTS REPORT
TEAM GB TESTING SUCCESS Congratulations to Max, Beau, Neha, Ellie and Easton who have all been selected for the next round of Team GB testing at the Lee Valley White Water Centre on the 15th July. Impressively, their bleep test scores were in the top 5% of all pupils tested in Essex!
