Y In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:6

Dear Parents and Carers,

The weather has been kinder to us this week! It has been good to be able to get out to play once more, and to

finally see that Spring is on its way.

Our children have been hard at work, with everyone enjoying their learning in a whole range of subjects…

We are all looking forward to sharing our learning with you in our class assemblies, which got underway this

Friday. Please note the change of date for the Year 3, 4 sharing assembly, which has been changed to Monday

12th March at 3pm.

THANK YOU…

All the children have enjoyed thinking about our mums in assemblies this week. They have thought of so many

things to say ‘Thank you’ for, and they are all looking forward to spoiling their mums this weekend! We hope all

our mums have a very special weekend.

Friday 9th March 2018

Issue 22

SPORT UP-DATE

This week, our Sport Captain and Sports Crew have started planning events linked to Sport Relief, which takes

place in the week commencing 19th March.

We have also had a Table Tennis tournament with other schools, and Ethan has reported on this event for us:

“Everyone performed extremely well. I was proud of everyone’s performance and the sporting values they

showed, such as resilience, respect and great team-work. We were surprised and so pleased that we finished

third.”

Well done to our team of Ethan, Isla, Oscar, Emma S, Milo, Sophie, Elsa and Freddie.

MUSIC

On Wednesday, the Brass Recital Group came into school to perform for our children. This was a part of our

National Curriculum music syllabus, and it also entertained and inspired our children. Connie A and Isla have

reported on the recital…

“It was really fun to listen to and we really enjoyed that we were involved in it, too. We learnt about the brass

instruments, and we found out about how to play them. Some people went up and played a hose pipe with a

mouth-piece! I really enjoyed it when they played ‘Can’t stop the feeling’. The whole performance was

captivating and inspiring. We felt like we were involved the whole time.”

It has been a week full of hard work, and some excellent performances. Thank you to everyone for all your

efforts.

S.Ettridge and V.Bull

E- Safety Corner

Social media enables users to share information and images at the click of a button. Sending

messages, keeping in touch with friends and relatives, posting pictures are all common and

accepted practice, but according to research by Parent Zone, ‘the average parent will share their

child’s image online nearly 1000 times before their fifth birthday’. The attached article discusses this

further, exploring both the positives and negatives of what is now referred to as ‘sharenting’

http://parentinfo.org/article/should-you-share-pictures-of-your-children-online

Attendance Attendance in school last week was 67%. Well done to Maple class who had the

highest attendance at 68.4%.

Upcoming Events

Pizza and Praise – Sunday 18 March 2018 at 4.30pm There’ll be lots of singing at the United Reformed Church (Chapel) and we’ll be enjoying

pizza too. If you plan to attend please text Paula on 07826 335553 or just turn up.

Everyone’s welcome

A big thank you to everyone who supported the PFA Curry Night last month as it raised

£760.00

Headteacher’s Awards The class teachers have selected the following children this week:

Reception – Juno Trend for being very helpful around the classroom and being kind to others

Year 1 – Isabelle Pawlowski for her attention to detail in Literacy and Maths

Year 2 – Asher Hodson for a positive attitude to his learning and for trying hard to revise and edit his work

Year 3 – Emi McGuire for preserving and not giving up when learning column addition

Year 4 – Acacia Ovenden-Coe for a fantastic description of a Sci-fi setting, using the power of three, smiles and prepositions!

Year 5 – Ruby Eyre for pushing herself in division work. Well done for calculating the answers with a

remainder and then converting this to a fraction

Year 6 – Connie Andrews for clearly showing her working out when completing excellent volume work

Awards and Certificates outside of school

Well done to Charles Nall for achieving his Learn to Swim Stage 2

WILLOW CLASS

This week, the children in Reception have had a very busy, fun, creative week. There are lots of beautiful surprises

being created for one very special person.

We have also created a little garden outside where each child has planted a sunflower seed. We are going to have

a competition and see whose seed grows the tallest. Who knows, we may even grow a sunflower as tall as Mrs.

Ettridge!

In Maths this week, the children have been learning about time. They have been ordering events that happen

during their day and thinking about which part of the day they happen; in the morning, at lunchtime, in the

afternoon, in the evening or at night time. We have also been learning about the 7 days of the week and the 4

different seasons. The children are getting really good at spotting different signs of spring; the beautiful snowdrop

or daffodils, the lambs, chicks and ducklings that are being born and the fact that we can finally learn outside

without having to be wrapped up in our coats, hats, scarves and gloves!

In Phonics the children are getting very good at using the new sounds they are learning in their writing. It is lovely

to see so many of the children writing independently for so many different reasons.

MAPLE CLASS

This week in Literacy we have based our writing on a story called the Chimpanzees of Happy Town, by the same

author as Giraffes Can’t Dance. The children have used comparative and superlative adjectives to write a letter of

complaint about the town before it became Happy Town, namely Drabsville and they have written about it being

the dreariest and bleakest town. They have also written a newspaper report about when the main character in

the story a chimp called Chutney was put into jail. The children have all worked really hard.

In Maths we have been working hard on Number and Place Value and have been looking at a number square,

number lines and arrow cards to help us to understand the values of numbers.

We had a wonderful time on Wednesday when the NMPAT Brass Quintet visited and the children learnt all about

trumpets, trombones, French horns, and tubas. Some of the children even got to play a tune with a hosepipe

(including Mrs Williams), it was great fun and the children all joined in with the final performance.

CHERRY BLOSSOM

Another busy week has flown by. We have continued looking at Science-Fiction stories this week and have been

describing settings. The children have focused on trying to use ‘the power of three’ which is 3 adjectives

separated by commas and have also been using prepositions to help them add more detail.

In Maths, we have been using a written method to add. It was tricky to get our heads round to start with but

everybody worked really hard and didn’t give up. We also talked about why we use word problems and why it’s

important to show they can learn a skill and apply it.

On Wednesday morning, we have the Brass Quintet in school which was so much fun! Some children had the

opportunity to play a garden hose pipe – yes, a hose pipe. We learnt the names of the different objects and how

they work. Lots of the children were very enthusiastic about wanting to learn a new instrument afterwards.

We have also been getting ready for our class assembly which is on Monday 12th March at 3pm, we hope to see

you there!

OAK CLASS

On Wednesday, the Brass Band from NMPATrust entertained us. It was so lovely to see the children so focused and immersed as well as seeing them enjoying the information and music that was being shared.

We made our own rhythms again during our Tuesday session with Gideon.

In literacy this week we have written an introduction to a non-chronological report thinking about the 5 W’s that we need to include as well as a range of sentence types. We also explored the use of apostrophes in plurals and possessive words. In maths we have completed another session on the volume of 3D shapes. The children then enjoyed using a protractor and we moved on to revise calculation methods at the end of the week. Science involved some very large words and in-depth theories. The children learnt about the geocentric and the heliocentric models of how our solar system works and discussed the various thinking’s of historical scientists. In RE our focus has been the Easter celebration. The children created freeze frames this week dramatising a part of the Easter story. We read excerpts from the bible relating to each frame and discussed the true meaning behind the celebration.