October Update

Welcome to our second edition of our FPJS Newsletter 2022! It has been an exciting couple of weeks with our elections for House Captains in Year 6, our parent tours for new Year 3 parents beginning and a school trip already for Y5!

Following feedback from parents, we will be trying to add lots of information and useful links for parents in the newsletter so these are all located in one place and cutting down the amount of emails we send home. We have also tried to include information relevant to each year group under each tab- here you will find our new year group curriculum maps for the year which we have been busy updating. Please note, although we will be covering the content and objectives listed on the maps, we may review when things are taught depending on resources and specialist teaching.

Our sad news this week is that we have 2 key members of staff who are moving on to pastures new- Mr Kemp, our sport coach and Mr Welsford, one of our Y3 TA's. More details can be found in later sections of this newsletter.

As you will see, we have a busy few weeks coming up leading us up to half term. We are very much looking forward to welcoming in our first author of the year, Jodie Garnish- see more info below. We also have our annual harvest celebration and will be collecting donations for foodshare and in our final week we have our parents consultations where you can see how well your child has settled into school so far this year!

Anna Clark

Head of School

Website including housepoints update

Curriculum

Lunch Menu

Term Dates 22-23

Well-being

Calendar

Quick Links

Coming up soon:

Mon 10th Oct: Y2 Talk n Tour visit (book via office if you have a child in Y2)
Weds 12th Oct: Jodie Garnish- Author visit- whole school see info below & app message sent 5/10
Thurs 13th Oct: Flu immunisations (app message 22/9- consent forms should be completed by 11th October)
Tues 18th Oct: Parent consultations (3.30- 6.30pm booking required- see app message 6/10)
Thurs 20th Oct: Parent consultations (3.30- 6.30pm booking required- see app message 6/10)
Thurs 21st Oct: Harvest celebration- bring in donations for foodshare- (more info to follow)
Fri 21st Oct: Inset day- school closed for pupils
24th-28th October Half term break

House Captains at FPJS 2022-23

Congratulations to all of our new Y6 House Captains who were voted in this year to represent their houses. All of these children will have a big role to play in leading and organising lots of house events over the year, including sporting events, the Christmas singing house competition and many more! I look forward to meeting with them and planning lots of events this year!

Pictured are our newly elected House Captains:

Romans- Captains: Alice G and Max B ; Vice Captains: Megan J & Viren A

Danes- Captains: Issy & Harry W; Vice Captains: Scarlett W & Alexa

Vikings- Captains: Katie & Phoebe; Vice Captains: Luca & Hashim

Normans- Captains: Will & Scarlett Vice Captains: Eduardo & Zoe D

School Council Representatives 2022-23

Congratulations to the following children (pictured below) who have been chosen to represent their class this year at the school council meetings. They have very important work to do and will be meeting regularly to give their suggestions and ideas on how to make the school even better!

Y3: Maria, Cameron, Finley

Y4: Henry, Amelia, Azlan

Y5: Immy, Dylan, Luna

Y6: Thomas, Harrison, Theo

Real Life Author To Visit FPJS Next Week!

We are very excited to announce our first in-person author who will be visiting the school next week. Jodie Garnish is a playwright and performer, usually based in London. She studied Drama at the University of East Anglia before going on to train at Drama Studio London. She has had plays produced at various London theatres and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which were critically acclaimed. Her career as a performer, including in shows designed for young people, has allowed her to shape the world of The Spectaculars, as well as giving her good insight into what young people love. She's thrilled to have combined her passion for performance and children's literature in her debut novel.

To order a special signed copy, click on the link:

Buy the book here!

Stars of the week - Class Stars & PE Stars

Star of the week newsletter 7th Oct September 2022

Well done to all our stars this week!

Our stars are chosen from following the values of the school: Passion, Well-being and respect.

We also chose children who have made exceptional effort in their work or attitude to learning.

TT Rock stars Update

Well done to all our children who have started using TT rock stars regularly to practise times tables! Here are our top 10 for each year group and those who have made the most progress in the last 2 weeks.

Keep up the daily practise everyone- it is scientifically proven that practising a little and often will ensure you master those times tables as soon as possible until they are automatically recalled from memory.

Staffing Update

We are sad to announce two of our wonderful staff are moving on to pastures new. It is always hard to say goodbye when members of staff have played such a significant role in our school but both our staff are moving on to new adventures, beyond a school setting and we know that they will take the spirit of FPJS with them! We will in due course be sharing news of our new staff recruits that we have already secured who will be beginning their FPJS adventure with us after half term.

Mr Welsford

Mr Welsford has worked on our staff for 8 years and has been a fantastic team member. He has supported many children over his time at the school in his role as a teaching assistant across many different year groups. Mr Welsford has also continued to support many additional activities in school over his time here, including running a very successful photography club amongst other things. We would like to thank Mr Welsford for his dedication to the school and wish him all the luck as he embarks in several new projects outside of the education sector.

Mr Kemp

Mr Kemp joined FPJS in 2017 and very quickly became a very enthusiastic sports coach! He has worked incredibly hard at motivating children in their physical education in many ways including teaching all kinds of sports and going over and above by creating Joe Wicks style videos during lockdown! Mr Kemp is a man of many talents and has ensured that FPJS has taken part in as many competitions as possible- and won many of them! It is going to be very hard to see Mr Kemp leave us, as he really has been such a dedicated, positive and inspiring role model for so many of our pupils. However, Mr Kemp has taken up a brand new challenge, teaching 16-19 year olds BTEC sports as part of Reading Football club. We will miss Mr Kemp's singing, dancing and all round positivity for fitness and sport but we wish him every success with his next challenge.

Sports Update

PE News

As we continue through term 1, PE lessons have been going smoothly with many classes continuing with their netball skills and matches. Not only that, the hall has been used most mornings for very high intense fitness workouts, where each small group work on a particular fitness station such as sit ups, shuttle runs, skipping and many others. Also, we have been fortunate enough to work alongside Maidenhead Magpies in the community who have been coming in to coach football sessions in the afternoon, and who are also giving our pupils plenty of lunchtime opportunities to play football with friends in mini-small sided games.

We would like to thank all the classes and year groups for continuing to develop many different skills during the PE lessons that have been going on over the last few weeks, keep up the hard work, positive attitude and passion for sport!

Just one last thing from me (Mr Kemp), as you may have just read and noticed, I am sadly leaving the FPJS team after several years of being a sports coach and a staff member of such a wonderful school team. It is with great pleasure that I would like to THANK every single person who has supported me throughout my FP journey, truly the list is endless. I have had a wonderful 3 years getting to know the school back in 2014 as I was an external coach, this is when the children would refer to me as just TOM! To then going full time in 2017 and be given the brilliant opportunity to work with every child, every class, and every year group. Thank you for such wonderful happy memories that will stay with me forever. I wish everyone who is apart of FPJS all the best in the future, and I am sure I will be visiting regularly. My last THANK YOU is to the amazing parents who have helped at so many different sporting competitions, tournaments, sports days and many other activities.

Take care, keep smiling and remember to STAY ACTIVE and most importantly STAY SAFE!!

Mr Kemp and Mrs Winter

PE LESSONS & CLUBS UPDATE

With Mr Kemp leaving us shortly, we wanted to reassure parents that PE lessons will continue as normal over the next few weeks before our new PE coach officially begins at FPJS after half term. We do have qualified coaches who have already been running PE sessions for us this week alongside Mr Kemp. Clubs will continue as normal, covered by our own staff. Mrs Clark

FPJS STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS

A special mention to Mr King over the weekend who played a competitive Rugby match for his team Farnham Royals. A convincing win for Mr King's team saw him make several kicks between the white posts, resulting in his team eventually coming out on top and winning 108 - 0!!

Keep up the good work Sir . . .

Also after a tough start to the football season, Mr Kemp and his team Burnham Fc are currently TOP of the league after winning 5 games out of 6 in the September month. Mr Kemp helped his team on Tuesday night by scoring a 20 yard top bins WORLDIE! Meaning his team came out 2-1 winners against a top opposition side.

It just goes to show, FPJS even have amazing and enthusiastic staff members who love sports with a great passion.

FPJS vs Braywick Court

On Thursday 6th October FP hosted the first netball fixture of the season. It was a home match against Braywick Court, a local rival who are always up for a competitive game. The match started rather sharp as both teams moved the ball really well and liked to press on the attack at speed and pace. After the first quarter came to an end, both teams found themselves level with the score at 3-3, with our goals coming from Rosie and Will C. As the second quarter got underway FP again started fast scoring almost immediately through great attacking play which opened up the Braywick defence. Then a further 2 goals were scored to finish the quarter in the lead 6-3, with Liam G adding his name to the score sheet. So far with a comfortable and controlled game, this meant FP made many changes half way through the match in the third and fourth quarter to allow as many members of the netball squad to gain some vital minutes on the court. With each team scoring just the one goal in the third quarter, this still had FP ahead with a 3 goal advantage. This time it was a brilliant pass by Abbie, which was well caught and received by Alice G, who scored beautifully over the Braywick Court goal keeper. Only the last and 4th quarter remained, again with several changes being made in the team it was sure to be a close finish to what was a cracking game of netball to watch. With Rosie once again linking up well with our goal attack and shooting emphatically to score another 2 goals, she bagged a total of 5 goals in her first game, resulting in the final score ending 9-6 to FP!

A HUGE WELL DONE to every squad member involved in the match,

Mr Kemp and Mrs Winter

Year Group Updates

Year 3 News

We have had 2 more fantastic weeks in Year 3 and the children are all settling in so well.

In maths we have been focusing on addition and subtraction and the children have enjoyed using the manipulatives to support this. We are also now up and running on TT Rock Stars which the children are challenging themselves on, and aiming to be in the top 10 on the leader board.

In English we are looking at instruction writing and it was hilarious following the children's instructions on how to make a jam sandwich? The jam even ended up on the table!

The children have thoroughly enjoyed using the magnets in science and investigating magnetic and non-magnetic objects as well as exploring how the south and north poles attract and repel.

We are so proud with the Year 3 start and we know the hard work will continue.

Well done Year 3!

Mrs Barry- Y3 Team Leader

Year 3- What are we learning?

Ask your child the following questions to see what they have learnt over the last few weeks!:

Can you add 2 and 3 digit numbers in a variety of ways?

What key things do we need to remember when writing instructions?

What does Bonne Nuit mean in French?

FPPF Year 3 Curriculum Map 2022-23.pdf

Our current reads we are enjoying in Y3...

The BFG - Roald Dahl

The land of birthdays - a far away adventure - Enid Blyton

I believe in unicorns - Michael Morpurgo

Year 4 News

Another fabulous couple of weeks in year 4!

The children have been busy making clay pots in art. These have been made in the style of Anglo Saxon pottery and will be glazed in colours which also match the time period. These are now in the kiln and will hopefully be ready in a couple of weeks!

In English, the children have published their first pieces of work on Seesaw. These were excellent persuasive pieces - I was so proud reading all of the children's work. If you haven't yet seen them, make sure to read them on Seesaw! Year 4 have now moved on to writing a build up of a story. We have watched 'The Dream' Giver' to help us with this and the children have been practising building up suspense in their writing.

Our place value unit has now finished in maths and the children are now beginning to apply this knowledge to addition and subtraction. This week, we have focused mainly on the written method for addition and will be moving onto subtraction next week.

The children in year 4 have been making a fabulous effort at school. We are seeing such great determination and motivation in lessons as well as work of a really high standard - keep it up year 4!

Mrs Barbosa Y4 Team Leader

Year 4- What are we learning?

How does understanding place value help you to solve this: 546-40?

What are some of the features of a story build up?

What can you tell me about electrical conductors and insulators?

FPPF Year 4 Curriculum Map 2022-23.pdf

Our current reads we are enjoying in Y4...

Skygazing - Anna Claybourne

A Wild Robot - Peter Brown

Zombierella: Fairytales Gone Bad - Joseph Coelho

Year 5 News

We have had a busy couple of weeks in Year 5 which included our second trip to Longridge. We have been so impressed with how much passion the children have shown in all their learning and we hope this continues through to half term. Not long to go now!

In English, the children have published their first piece of work and described a setting description in detail that builds suspense and creates atmosphere. The Year 5 teachers have been proud of how creative they have been with their writing. We have begun our next writing unit that will take us beyond half term. The children will be expanding on their scientific vocabulary in order to write a non-chronological report. We can't wait to see what they come up with!

In maths, we have started our next unit of work which is addition and subtraction. The children will be learning about mental calculations as well as formal written methods for much larger numbers.

Well done, Year 5 for showing your continued enthusiasm and passion for learning in the last two weeks. Keep it up!

Miss Edwards, Y5 Team Leader

Y5 longridge trip

As you are aware, due to the extreme hot weather back in July, our Longridge trip was cut short. Although we managed to keep cool by doing as many water activities as we could for two days, the heat did prevent us from completing our trip to the fullest. Fast forward to October and we were able to finish what we started.
The children really enjoyed a range of activities that Longridge has to offer and I was absolutely amazed at the courage, bravery and team work the children showed, even when tired towards the end of a long day but energetic day.
Some of the activities the children may have enjoyed in their groups were: Jacob's ladder, crate stacking, wall climbing, water orbs, Aeroball, Laser Tag and Night Line.
Finally, a HUGE thank you to the parents who volunteered their time to come with us - without the extra adults, we wouldn't have been able to run the trip so thank you for coming with us! We hope you enjoyed it as much as the children did.
Miss Edwards

Year 5- What are we learning?

What writing features would you use if you were using figurative language?

How would you explain how to work out 157 + 27 mentally?

What can you tell me about how the moon moves?

FPPF Year 5 Curriculum Map 2022-23.pdf

Our current reads we are enjoying in Y5...

Dr Maggie's Grand Tour of the Solar System - Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

The Fart That Changed the World - Stephen Mangan

The Spectaculars - Jodie Garnish

Year 6 News

Year 6 have been doing some fantastic work over the past couple of weeks. They have published some impressive pieces of writing based on an abandoned city. In this unit, we have been thinking carefully about creating a detailed setting description that includes lots of various sentence starters and stylistic devices. We are now focusing on using speech for effect in our writing to help show character and move the story forward.

In science, we have explored light through a series of experiments that have included looking at how kaleidoscopes and periscopes work.

We have enjoyed learning about evacuees and life on the home front during World War II in our history lessons. Our book when the sky falls (set in WW2) is beginning to reach a climax and we are excited to read on and find out what twists and turns this book has in store.

In art, we have begun to create a composition based on Andy Goldsworthy inspired by patterns in nature. We have been experimenting with watercolour and line work to create an abstract pattern.

Well done Year 6 for your continued hard work. It is great to see so many of you pushing and challenging yourself in every lesson. Keep it up!

Miss Morales, Y6 Team Leader

Year 6- What are we learning?

What makes speech effective in writing?

How does a periscope work?

How do Muslims show commitment in their religion?

FPPF Year 6 Curriculum Map 2022-23 (1).pdf

Our current reads we are enjoying in Y6...

Letters to the Lighthouse - Emma Carroll

Goldfish Boy - Lisa Thompson

Coming to England - Floella Benjamin

Useful Information For Parents

Parents workshop- save the date!

On Tuesday 1st November, Mrs Singh will be holding a Parents' Workshop entitled 'Managing Behaviour - providing consistency between home and school'. This will be at 9.15am in FPIS school hall.

This is a repeat of the workshops held in May 2022, which outlined FPPF's Behaviour and Relationships Policy and how it is implemented in school.

Some positive comments from parents who attended in May are:

"I want to congratulate and thank you on building this workshop which is going to touch and make many lives better."

"It is a great initiative as its not just going to help kids for their future but parents too, helping establish emotional connection with their children."

"The workshop was well thought out and extremely positive."

Please sign up here if you plan on attending:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7ErXl7zfKGWwfuSfCQGsDi0jyvWFczu17a3mAcpDV-pXplg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Did You Know That Sleep Helps Children Learn?

For many years, sleep has been linked to energy. However, recent scientific research proves it does much more. Sleep actually helps children learn better, improves their memory and helps them to apply their knowledge to solve problems.

We understand that getting children to sleep isn't always easy. For advice please visit:

https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/

Kids Touch Rugby Camps - Maidenhead (October 2022).pdf

Message From Thames Valley Police

Thames Valley Police is raising awareness of exploitation and county lines.

County Lines is a term used to describe organised criminal networks involved in exporting illegal drugs into one or more areas within the UK, using dedicated mobile phone ‘lines’. A process of grooming is used to entice a child into acts of criminality. This may include promises of something the child needs or wants, such as money, expensive clothes and shoes, power and status or a sense of belonging.

Exploited young people do not always look or act vulnerable and we are asking that everyone looks closer for signs, some of which could be the following:

· Truancy

· Anxious, frightened, angry or displaying other behaviours that are out of character

· In possession of more than one phone

· Having unexplained money or belongings, or buying new things

· Taking drugs or abusing alcohol

· Unexplained injuries and refusing to talk about it

· Hanging around with older people

· Going missing from home, staying out late or travelling for unexplained reasons

· Spending more time on phone and being secretive about who they are calling or texting

If you spot any of the these signs, speak to your child and let them know that help is available.

If you are concerned about a child and think it’s an emergency please dial 999, otherwise please dial 101. If you would rather remain anonymous, you can contact the independent charity crimestoppers online or call 0800 555 111.

More information can be found at childrenssociety.org.uk/lookcloser

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Halloween Swap Shop Poster.pdf