Primary Newsletter

Dates for your Diary

Monday 25th September: Meet the Teacher - 8:40am to 9:00am
Wednesday 27th September: Sibling and Individual School Photos
Friday 29th September: Class School Photos
Monday 2nd October: McMillan Coffee Morning - 8:30am to 9:30am
Tuesday 3rd October: Reception Open Evening for September 2018- 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Wednesday 4th October: Yr 1 Phonics Parent Workshop - 8:45am to 9:30am
Thursday 5th October: Parent Empowerment Workshop - 8:30am to 10:30am
Friday 6th October: Parent Empowerment Workshop - 8:30am to 10:30am
Wednesday 11th October: Reception Phonics Parent Workshop - 8:45am to 9:30am
Monday 16th October to Friday 20th October: Bring a Parent to School Week - 9:00am to 10:00am
Tuesday 31st October: Yr 4 Graduation Information Session for Parents - 8:45am to 9:30am and 5:00pm to 5:45pm
Tuesday 7th November: Curriculum Parent Workshop - 8:45am to 9:30am
Tuesday 21st November: Parent-Teacher Meetings
Wednesday 22nd November: Parent-Teacher Meetings 
Friday 8th December: Primary Festival of Lights (time TBC)
Thursday 14th December: Exhibition of Beautiful Work (time TBC)
Friday 15th December: Christmas Jumper Day
Friday 15th December: Child of the Term Assembly - 8:40am to 9:15am
Wednesday 20th December: Last day of Term - 1:00pm finish

Notices:

*SCHOOL PHOTOS ON WEDNESDAY 27TH AND FRIDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER.  ALL CHILDREN MUST WEAR FULL SCHOOL UNIFORM ON BOTH DAYS (NO PE KITS TO BE WORN ON BOTH DAYS)

**We have received complaints from our neighbours about dangerous driving and a lack of consideration when dropping off and picking children up from school.  Driving dangerously and not adhering to road safety rules is ILLEGAL and also puts all our CHILDREN AT RISK.  We would ask all parents to follow road safety rules and parking regulations on roads surrounding the school.
Should you notice any unsafe driving/driver conduct, please note the registration of the vehicle involved and inform the police.

***Please ensure you are sending your child into school with all the equipment they will require for the day.  This includes clothing, drinks and equipment.  The school office will not be responsible for taking items to children's classes as this causes disruption to learning.  Thank you for your continued co-operation.

A Warm Reception...

It has been a very exciting week in Reception as we have welcomed our new children into school for the very first time! We are very pleased that all of the children have settled very well into School 21 and are happily making friends and learning routines. We will be arranging a time in the next few weeks for parents to come in to 'Meet the Teachers' but until then, please speak to your child's teacher if you have any questions or concerns.

Meet the Reception Team

Mr Livingstone (left or top) teaches De Coubertin class.  Ms Ingram teaches in Newton and leads on Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).  Mr Santhanam is the new teacher in Parks class and leads on Primary Art.
From left to right we have Ms Shreeram, Ms Grochulska, Ms Silver and Ms Seedat who all teach and support across the Reception classes.

Fabulous Film-makers from Year Four

Last week in Year 4 we launched our Shakespeare play of Macbeth. As part of this launch the staff made a movie trailer to introduce the story to the children. Once the children had learnt the story and deepened some of the characters, they were tasked with making their own Hollywood worthy movie trailers. The children worked in teams to storyboard, resource, film and put together their trailers using iMovie. They were fantastic!

Two take on the Tudors

This week in Year 2 we have been looking deeper at the characters in Romeo and Juliet.  We explored different characters through hot-seating, role-play and freeze frames. We have described Romeo as he entered the Capulet ball by using interesting adjectives and some exciting adverbs.

In Maths we have been looking at place value in two digit numbers and how we can partition these in different ways. We also went on a number treasure hunt to find two-digit numbers so that we could write the numbers down in words.

During our project lessons we’ve made our own Tudor costumes, investigated Tudor artefacts, learnt loads of interesting facts about William Shakespeare and started to make our puppets for our own Romeo and Juliet puppet show.

That's 1 yummy way to learn Maths!

This week in Maths Year 1 have been using the part-whole model to find number bonds! We have used a range of concrete materials to support our learning, one of them being raisins (we got to eat them too!). Every single one of us have been working extremely hard in our lessons and have shown a lot of our school attributes this week. We love MATHS!!!

Reminder:

Gates open at 8:15am and Classroom doors at 8:20am.  Gates will close at 8:30am, after which children will need to enter through the front office and will receive a late mark.

P.E. Days:

Tuesday: Year 2 and Year 3
Wednesday: Year 4 and Reception
Friday: Year 1

Swimming:

Tuesday: Obama and Seacole
Friday: Nightingale

Macmillan Coffee Morning

We would like to invite all parents/carers to our fundraising coffee morning on Monday 2nd October from 8:30am to 9:30am.  
We would also ask if you could donate baked goodies for this event!  This will be a great opportunity for new parents to meet...and a great reason to indulge in some cake!