Newsletter
15th December 2023
Attendance
Golden Ticket Winners
Here are the winners for the £40 Cineworld vouchers for this term:
EYFS and KS1 Winners: Logan - Year 2 & Freddie Year 1
KS2 Winners: Lily F-G - Year 5 & Jorge - Year 6
Congratulations to our winners and enjoy your prizes.
Special Awards
Congratulations to all the children below
Phonics Awards
Oliver Jeffers Class - Kenzie
Julia Donaldson Class - Freddie
Banksy Class - Logan
PE Award
Oliver Jeffers Class - Nellie H
Julia Donaldson Class - Lenny H
Banksy Class - Daisy
Maya Angelou Class - Jackson
Paul O'Grady Class - Joe
Steve Backshall Class - Franklin
Emmeline Pankhurst Class - Izabella
David Attenborough Class - Jorge
Art Award
Oliver Jeffers Class - Lilly
Julia Donaldson Class - Riley
Banksy Class - Sydney
Maya Angelou Class - Franklin
Paul O'Grady Class - Izabella
Steve Backshall Class - Vinnie
Emmeline Pankhurst Class - Cassie
David Attenborough Class - Megan-Lilly
Inquiring Mind Award
Oliver Jeffers Class - Zachary
Julia Donaldson Class - Hudson
Banksy Class - Isabella O
Principals Awards
Oliver Jeffers Class - Sophia
Julia Donaldson Class - Jamie
Banksy Class - Luna
Maya Angelou Class - Evie
Paul O'Grady Class - Ellcie
Steve Backshall Class - Ivy
Emmeline Pankhurst Class - Lexi
David Attenborough Class - Thomas
Special Awards
Speller of the Term - Willow
TTRS - Gold - Savannah
TTRS - Silver - Valentine
TTRS - Bronze - Alex
Best Linguist - Vencel
Our Wonderful Inquiry Work
Year 5
As part of our Christmas Activity Day, Year 5 watched a short literacy shed film called "23 degrees 5 minutes." The children then created their own stories based on this. They had agency to complete this task with some creating posters, books or fully written stories. Scroll down to see some examples!
Please click the link below to watch the story at home.
Reception class Nativity
Reception class were fantastic in their Christmas Nativity. They were very confident in saying any lines that they had and also in singing many different songs. They used all of the hall space, walking amongst the audience and were completely un-phased in doing so. They spread Christmas cheer to all. Thank you so much to the Reception team for supporting the children and helping them to learn all of the songs.
School information
Key Stage 1
Christmas Nativity performance
A huge congratulations to Year 1 and Year 2 for working super hard on their Nativity. We are so impressed with how confident the children performed and remembering their lines.
All of the children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Nativity which we are sure the parents and carers noticed from their sparkling smiles!
Thank you so much for organising their fantastic costumes. They all looked wonderful and very Christmassy - especially the aliens!
Key Stage 2
Christmas Carol Concert
Thank you to all the parents who attended our KS2 Carol concert! The children really enjoyed singing some festive carols and sharing some readings linked to the Christmas Story. A big congratulations to all of the children who took part - your singing and readings were beautiful!
A big well done and thank you to Vinnie (Y4) who wowed us all by playing some brilliant Christmas songs on his violin and another super well done to our lovely choir who sang some solos in the concert too!
We hope we left you feeling really festive and christmassy.
Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner
All the children made us feel very festive wearing a delightful array of bright and colourful Christmas jumpers to school. Thank you to our cooks from Cucina for preparing a festive dinner and Christmas cookies for the children to enjoy. Thank you also to the PTA for providing the children with crackers, the children enjoyed telling the jokes and finding out what gift they had received inside the cracker. The hall was busy with Christmas hats and songs as well as a few singing renditions from Year 6 and Mrs Champ. It was lovely to all celebrate together.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Christmas Activity Day
Reception class enjoyed all of the activities on Christmas activity day which included icing Christmas biscuits, writing lists for Santa and making snowmen. Their writing is fantastic and Santa will be very impressed! What a great day!
Information
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