Week 35 30.06.23

Memorable Learning

Contents of the Newsweb and Website

School Content:

Owl Assembly
Sports Day
Sports Week Assembly - Matt Ward - British Duathlete
Learning Talks
Leavers Survey
Eco Forum
Year 4 Sailing
FOLG
Key dates and messages
Community Messages - now a separate linked button below:

Community Notices

School Blog: www.littlegreen.herts.sch.uk

Girls National Football Final
Sports Awards 2023
Year 4 Making Ancient Greek theatre masks
St Oswald's Donut Club - Supporting new Year 7 pupils
Year 4 Sailing

Owl Assembly T'wit T'wow!

Last Friday, the children were treated to the most amazing Owl experience. The open-mouthed wonder, whispered gasps and 'awww' of seeing real owls sore across the assembly hall was a truly inspiring and unexpected experience for all of us. Thank you so much to Miss Shah, our Geography Lead, for organising the event and giving the children and staff such an incredible and memorable learning opportunity!

Matt Ward, British Duathlete

Matt is also a parent at Little Green and we were honoured to have him share his experience of recently competing at the World Championships in Ibiza. He was able to share how he approaches taking on challenges and ensures he has good habits to succeed. Key messages included:

Set yourself goals.

Make time to put the time in.

Focus on your better - try your better!

Thank you to Matt for an inspiring talk and some excellent messages which we can apply to all of our learning.

SPORTS DAY 2023

We were treated to a wonderful day of sporting excellence on Thursday. The weather gods were with us and the delayed start still allowed us to get through both the new carousel approach to the morning - allowing ongoing active sport; the family picnic - a personal highlight; and the traditional track races. Thank you to all the families who were able to come and support the day. Thank you also for understanding the huge logistical challenge in making decisions on whether to go ahead or not. Finally, we are also keen for your feedback so do share any ideas for how we can make the sports day even better. One obvious focus will be the slight overrunning which impacted on Malvern Way parents - we do apologise for this and will calculate out timings more carefully for next year! Special thanks go out to the indefatigable FOLG core team who step up to key events. We are hoping to encourage more parents to join the FOLG team and help share and support the workload moving forward. More information to follow!

Finally, congratulations to the Red Rhinos who narrowly pipped other houses to the Sports Week win. Congratulations also to the Yellow Hippo House for taking home the Sportsmanship Award.

1045 and the children begin to march to their starting activities.

The weather held of and the picnic was a lovely community occasion.

Children and parents lined the tracks to make it a truly exciting experience for every child.

FOLG team supporting us all to be the best for our children. Thank you!

Learning Talks...

On Wednesday, Miss Sedgwick and I were very happy when we actually were able to make time to be in class learning with children. We used the opportunity to trial a complimentary approach to our Learning Walk monitoring - where we walk around the school observing and supporting staff. Instead, our learning talks set up more of a whole class dialogue and reflection on a range of school approaches and systems. We began with two Year 3 classes and will be working with the rest of the school before the end of term. One way of starting the conversation was to get children to rank some of the core activities and processes, and support available in school, within a diamond (most positive at the top, least positive at bottom). A few examples show the individual perceptions of our children. We will get all of the information in, analyse it and then consider the results in shaping our school development plans moving in to 2023-24.

Schools Eco Forum Council

Miss Reile and I have had the pleasure of working with colleagues at York House and Croxley Danes to create an inaugural Eco Forum this year. The Eco Forum is a coming together of Eco Councils from local schools. The aim is to learn together; celebrate and share good practice; and make an even bigger difference to our environment. We were very lucky to be able to host the Forum at Cassiobury Farm/Zoo, thanks to the support for Steve and Ashley, the directors. The children shared their school projects with each other; learnt about some endangered animals observing their feeding; and voted for a favourite school project. With sustainability becoming a statuary school agenda item, watch this space for how the Eco Forum, Student Council Forum and Miss Reile and the Year 5 Eco Council, drive Environmental projects, actions and changes across the school community and curriculum.

Year 4 Sailing

One of the highlights of the Year 4 calendar is our sailing lessons at BLYM. Mr. Whitelaw's class had the pleasure of starting this last year with Ms. Brauka next week and Mr. Flint the week after. A wonderful and memorable learning experiment for everyone involved.

FOLG second-hand sports kit marketplace

Stationery sets

Save yourself the summer stationery shopping stress and buy now! Sourced by Mr Flint so all of the equipment in the packs is school approved!

The flash sale price has unfortunately finished so packs will now be priced at a very competitive £10 (still far cheaper than you can source on the high street!) and can be ordered via: www.pta-events.co.uk/folg. The pack contains 2 writing pens, a green pen, 2 HB pencils, a pair of scissors (you can specify right or left handed), Pritt Stick, eraser, Boogie sharpener, 30 cm ruler, whiteboard pen, highlighter all contained in a clear pencil case. These can then be sent straight to your child's classroom or be held at the school office for you to pick up.

Second hand uniform

Good quality second hand uniform can be ordered from Faye via folg-uniform@littlegreen.herts.sch.uk - most items are just 50p. Send an email outlining the items you wish to order - remember to include sizes and your child's class - you will then receive an email to let you know when your items are ready to collect from the school office.

Upcoming events

Next meeting: 13th September 7.45pm FOLG WELCOME AND WINE MEETING in the

school hall

Key Dates:

Mon 03/07 - Fri 05/07: Year 4 Sailing
Tue 04/07: Year 3 trip to Hazard Alley
Tue 04/07: Year 5 trip to Hertfordshire Agricultural Society, Food & Farming day
Wed 05/07: Year 3 trip to Hazard Alley
Wed 05/07: Year 6 Swimming at York House
Wed 05/07: Year 6 Stay Active session
Fri 07/07: Year 6 Dress up day

NOTES:

Please do show kindness to everyone when using all of the paths to and from school. The end of the day is always a busy time and, as requested by parents, we do have a 2-way system.

Many thanks for supporting the community.

CAR PARK REMINDER

Just a polite reminder that parents should not be driving into the car park for any reason.

Only Blue Badge holders should be accessing the car park. Thank you.

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