Newsletter
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Principal's Message
Welcome to the first issue of Term 2 of the Langley Park newsletter. It has been a busy start to Term 2 with a number of events already taking place this week.
We have begun our open tours for prospective parents for our reception cohort next academic year. They have been giving overwhelming feedback about the positive school climate both in the learning environments and from all of the adults and pupils they saw and met. It is really exciting to begin the journey of welcoming even more wonderful families to our community.
We have also had our PYP Provocation open mornings organised by our PYP Coordinators; Mrs Fernandes and Miss Easdown. A huge amount of effort went in to organising these to ensure they were purposeful, engaging and therefore successful. It was so wonderful to be able to have parents coming in to the school to share in such excellent learning experiences with their children. Thank you to Mrs Fernandes and Miss Easdown for making this possible.
On Thursday 11th November, we joined the nation in marking Remembrance Day with a short assembly and 2 minute silence at 11am. To also mark the day, those who belong to clubs like Beavers, Cubs, Rainbows and Brownies wore their uniform in to school. They certainly wore it with pride. Remembrance was also the theme of our assembly this week and we made links with the Learner Profile Attributes of being caring, reflective and principled. The assembly has been shared on your child's Google Classroom as they can then have the opportunity to continue to engage with it by adding comments in the Google Stream.
Next week we will be recognising Anti-Bullying Week by wearing something blue on Monday 15th November and on Friday 19th November, we will be wearing something spotty to recognise Children in Need. We will be also welcoming a paralympian to the academy on this date for the children to meet and find out about.
We haven't had much feedback in regards to the interest of starting up a Parents Forum so if you do have a perspective on this, please do let us know. We would like it to be useful to our community in being able to positively support the school.
And finally, we are aware that our wonderful children also do lots of wonderful things beyond school. If you have any good news stories or significant achievements that your children have obtained please do share this with us because we would love to share this with the wider community in our newsletter.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss S Brading
Office Reminders - Parents Evening November 2021 & Wear Something Blue!
Parents Evening is being held virtually using an online system called School Cloud and will take place this month - the exact dates will be confirmed on Monday.
The booking system will be open from 4pm Monday 15th November until 4pm Friday 19th November 2021 and full details will be sent to you via email on Monday.
Anti-bullying week - Wear something blue
Don't forget to wear one item of blue clothing on Monday with your school uniform as it's anti-bullying week! You could wear blue jeans with your school shirt and jumper/cardigan or a blue jumper with your school trousers/skirt. It is not a full non uniform today so please ensure you are wearing your uniform as well.
Contacting the class teachers:
If you have concerns that you would like to raise with the academy, please do so via the school office email address on contactus@langleyparkprimaryacademy.org.uk and it will be directed to the relevant members of staff.
Whole School Attendance:
95.07%
Weekly Class Attendance Award:
Zari with 98.64%
Willow's Corner
What a very busy first week back at school we have had! I hope you all had a restful half term! This week I have been celebrating Diwali with Reception, I even tried to eat the traditional Indian sweets the children made! I just wanted to lick the milk! Next week it is Anti Bullying week. We always think about how we are developing the Learner Profile Attribute of being caring, but next week the theme of 'one kind word' lends itself to this. Have a look at how caring all members of our school community are to me! I give out lots of licks in return!
Seedlings Nursery
Golden Apple
Lauren
Lauren has been an amazing thinker and communicator this week. She has enjoyed talking about and exploring numbers. Here she drew lots of different numbers and used her number names with confidence. Super learning Lauren!
Apollo Class ~ Year R
Golden Apple
Tommy
Tommy has been working really hard on following the class charter this week. He has been showing us how to be considerate of our classmates.
Discovery Class ~ Year R
Golden Apple
Lilly
Being a fantastic communicator this week. Lilly has been asking lots of questions about the Hindu festival of Diwali and demonstrated her knowledge of how people celebrate Diwali by creating her own Rangoli pattern!
Jubilee Class ~ Year 1
Golden Apple
Wesley
Being a principled learner. Wesley always shows enthusiasm to participate in all his learning and this week showed that he is a thinker, when he did a sinking and floating experiment.
Wesley, keep being you!
Enterprise Class ~ Year 1
Golden Apple
Cian
Being caring and reflective; Cian thought carefully about his actions which helped him to complete his best learning. Keep up the amazing work!
Jazzy Class ~ Year 2
Golden Apple
Daniel
Showing such enthusiasm and creativity during our provocation lesson with the parents. Daniel recreating Van Gogh’s ‘A starry night’ using different materials. Super work!
Empire Class ~ Year 2
Golden Apple
Nicholas
For being a great thinker and very knowledgeable in our inquiry this week when looking at different music artist and the music they make. He was very open minded about how the music made him feel and showed his knowledge of different musical genres.
Pip & Bramley Class
SRP
Jacob
Being knowledgeable and caring. Jacob focused hard, using his reading and listening skills, to complete his English work. He then helped his friends to complete their work. Well done!!
Fortune Class ~ Year 3
Golden Apple
Archie
This week, Archie has been an excellent risk taker in all of his learning! We were particularly impressed with his subtraction work this week, he was able to work independently and used his prior knowledge of number squares to support him.
Pazazz Class ~ Year 3
Golden Apple
Mia and Olivia
Being knowledgeable about Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii, we learnt about this in class but Mia and Olivia have continued their learning at home to make information posters about what happened.
Ambrosia Class ~ Year 4
Golden Apple
Olivia
You have shown you are knowledgeable and caring when creating a beautiful and descriptive poster about the five primary sources of power.
Cameo Class ~ Year 4
Golden Apple
Emily
Being a super inquirer in Science this week when researching all about renewable and non renewable energy sources, and asking thoughtful questions about where our energy will come from in the future. Well done!
Melrose Class ~ Year 5
Golden Apple
Noah
Being an excellent communicator when sharing his knowledge of the water cycle and explaining the steps of the water cycle that we observed in our experiments.
Zari Class ~ Year 5
Golden Apple
Amelia
Amelia has been principled in her approach to her work this week, demonstrating her resilience through challenging tasks.
Well done.
Kanzi Class ~ Year 6
Golden Apple
Annabella
Being an excellent inquirer when looking at the difference between dominant and recessive genes. Annabella also took a keen interest in her personal inquiry time, building on her knowledge of genes and how they work.
Forest School Update:
Welcome back to Forest School! Our leaves has browned and our sticks have fallen however we have been able to explore new areas this week.
This week we have been thinkers and finding new ways to create dens using logs and bricks found in the woodland. Year 5 have explored using water and natural resources such as mud to create a sticky consistency used to model. Year 2 have explored new pathways and turned over our logs to see the bugs and insects underneath.
Notices
Group One will have their second session week commencing the 15.11.2021.
Group Two will have their sessions week commencing the 22.11.2021 and the 6.12.2021.
As the weather has changed, please bring in wellies - your child will not be able to attend Forest School without them.
Other useful info:
PTA
The Christmas Fair is on Saturday 4th December from 11am-1pm. The cost is £5 per child with any additional children from the same family £3. Flyers will be handed out in due course, please fill out if you wish to attend and return by Friday 26th November 2021.
Santa is coming to town on Tuesday 7th December! He will be visiting all of the children and will be available for a picture and a present - the cost of this is £3. If you would like to see Santa please return any entries by Tuesday 30th November 2021
All entries to be put in the orange box outside of the main office.
PYP
A HUGE thank you to all of the children, staff and parents for our provocation morning. We have seen some FANTASTIC learning and shared questions and ideas. We hope you as parents enjoyed this provocation as much as the children have.