Newsletter 28: 5th May 2017

‘The best that I can be’

SATs Tests

Year 6 SATs take place next week. Please ensure that your child is in school every day, that they have had a good night’s sleep and that they have had a good breakfast. Thank you for your support with this.

Class Dojo

If you have not already signed up to class Dojo, please do so. Teachers are increasingly using Dojo to communicate messages, so please check daily if possible.

A Message From the Church.

There will be a wedding at St John’s next Wednesday 10th May afternoon.  Please could you seek parking elsewhere in the village as it will be very busy around the church at 3pm-ish.  Thank you.

Commendations

Congratulations to these children who received commendations this week: Harry Newman and Mikey Snow, for showing compassion to others at rounders club; Ava Shorter, for writing an invitation independently; George Viney, for finding the inverse and explaining how to do it; Katie Percival, for a well written letter about Mr. Toad, concentrating on spelling; Jaeden Aberdeen, for scoring the most Dojo points in his class; Paul Olusegun, for making an amazing effort with his handwriting and Zachary Teshola, for excellent contributions to discussions in RE lessons. Well done, everyone!

Work of the Week

Reception: Kayan Pokar- completing his first Fast Maths activity independently.

Class 1/2: Katie Snow- independent writing using her phonic knowledge and some great ideas.

Class 3/4: Lexi Webb- a fantastic piece of work on parallel and perpendicular lines.

Class 5/6: Fibian McKenzie- an amazing WW1 trench model.

Headteacher’s Award:

Congratulations to Joy Akinyemi who received the Headteacher’s award for living out our core Christian values.

Attendance

Reception: 97.92%; Class 1 and 2: 94.05%; Class 3 and 4 : 97.22% ; Class 5 and 6 : 87.65%

Classes 1/2 and 5/6 need to do a lot better next week !

Dates for the diary:

  • Monday 8th May- KS2 SATs week begins
  • Friday 19th May- Friends Quiz Night (letter to follow)
  • Thursday 8th June- School closed to pupils- General Election
  • Friday 16th June- Secondary Transfer Meeting for Year 5 Parents

Mrs. Kathryn Waters

 

The Christian value we are learning about this term is ‘Respect’