Micklem Newsletter

Learning in Classrooms

What a fantastic start to our final half-term of the year. We can't believe it is only six weeks till your children will be moving up to their next classes! Have a read below to find out what your children have been getting up to in the last two weeks of their learning.

In Reception, before the half-term, the children learnt all about the wonderful artwork of Vincent van Gogh. They looked at his many sunflower paintings and then were inspired to create their own beautiful versions. These are now displayed outside Reception and they look fantastic. The children were then lucky enough to plant their own sunflowers in the Reception garden. I wonder whose will grow the tallest? Continuing their outdoor learning and enrichment, the children have been creating some creepy, crawly minibeasts out of clay. Take a look at Leia, Aurora, Eden and Juno's creations.

In Year 3, the children have been working really hard with their Science. They drew and labeled diagrams of a flower. The children's knowledge was fantastic and they were able to clearly explain what the different parts were for and use some super scientific vocabulary. Well done Year 3! Take a look at Fatima and Yunice's wonderful work.

In Year 4, Miss Courtnell and Mrs Lopez were so impressed by the children's French work this week. They were busy preparing the phrases and vocabulary for the French cafe next week. Ordering food is always a good motivation to learn French, especially when they are getting crepes, pain au chocolat and croissants on French day! Take a look at Seb and Rhiannon's work this week.

We are so proud of our writers in KS1 this week! At the end of last half-term, Year 1 and 2 were writing up their final versions of their English work in their independent writing books. Year 1 designed their own monsters and then wrote instructions for how to look after them. Year 2 had been writing a sequel for a well-known fairytale. Well done Theodore, Eva, Charlotte, Scarlett and George. You are all amazing!!

Year 1 has also been doing some fantastic Maths this week. They learnt all about directional vocabulary and then were tasked with directing their partner using this language... whilst blindfolded!

Experiences and Opportunities

National Numeracy Day

Wednesday 21st May was National Numeracy Day. At Micklem, we celebrated by dressing up in Maths themed outfits. Thank you all those children and families that made such a great effort with this - we had some super costumes such as . The theme of this year's day was money. The children took part in lots of activities linked to money and also joined a live virtual maths assembly with National Numeracy Ambassador Bobby SeagullI.

In the Sunshine Room, the children developed their money skills by creating their own restaurant called 'McSunshine'. They took a trip to the shops and bought all of the ingredients, used their maths skills to calculate the different costs and then created all of the menus, money and food. Staff were then able to visit McSunshine and order different meals and drinks from the children's restaurant. Well done Sunshine Room!

Finally, Mr Frost, announced some super Times Table Rockstar winners across KS2. Take a look at the results from Numeracy Day below.

Hriyaan
Leo S
Iris

Forest School

We had a fantastic end to this half term at Forest School! We made cookie dough, adding the dandelions we collected and cooked them on the fire. They were delicious!

Year 6 at Ferny Crofts

What an amazing week Year 6 has had! Even torrential rain couldn't dampen their spirits. Year 6 have had so many experiences this week including: raft building, zip wiring, archery, crate stacking and meeting Evie Pig at Peppa Pig World! The residential is a chance for Year 6 to spend time together as a group, relax after exams and have experiences that will create memories for life - mission accomplished. We are very proud of how well they have represented our school while away and are looking forward to welcoming them back home. Sorry parents - they are your responsibility again for the weekend!

National Art Gallery

This week, children in Art Club have taken a trip to the National Art Gallery in London. They caught the train early Friday morning, with some detours to China town and the M&M shop and then took the underground to Trafalgar Square.

They were lucky enough to have their session led by the head of gallery education, and she was absolutely fantastic with our children. She told Micklem staff that the children "were amazing, their knowledge incredible for little ones and that she would love to keep in touch with our Art Club."

Well done Micklem Art Club! You are making us all so proud.

Celebrating Success

Highest number of correct answers

1st) Vincenzo (Year 1)

2nd) Charlotte (Year 2)

3rd) Harley (Year 2)

Most minutes played

1st) Alexis (Year 4)

2nd) Luke (Year 5)

3rd) Artem (Year 4)

Class Dojo

This year, we have introduced Class Dojo. A way of celebrating individuals and classes that are following our school rules of:

Be Kind. Show Respect. Aim High.

Children will be able to receive one or two points for these core values from any member of staff. We will keep an eye on which individuals, classes and house groups are being the kindest, most respectful and ambitious over the year.

Blue House

294

Green House

314

Red House

287

Yellow House

328

Safeguarding

Entrance Gates Reminder

In order to safeguard all of our children, if you are entering or exiting the school site via the car park gate at times throughout the school day, you MUST ensure the gate is closed behind you. Please do not hold the gate open for other children or adults.

Upcoming Events

Year 6 Enterprise Week

Monday 9th to Friday 13th June is Year 6 Enterprise Week. The Year 6s have been busy creating a range of fun and engaging activities to sell to other pupils across the school, whilst developing valuable skills in areas such as business planning, advertising, budgeting, and understanding profit and loss. They will will be running daily stalls at playtime, costing between 50p and £1.50, selling sweet treats after school, and running even more events on Friday! Please see Mrs Walker's letter for more details.

French Day

On Thursday 12th June, we will be having our “French Day” and children can come in dressed in blue, white and red if they wish to. Please bring any donations to the school office for the French Cafe on Tuesday 10th June. When bringing in donations, please be considerate of our children who have allergies, i.e. nuts, dairy etc.

For more details of the activities we will be doing, and donations for the cafe, please see the French day letter from Madame Lopez.

Sports' Week

Sports week is taking place the week commencing 16th June. A letter with further details will be sent out to parent/carers on Monday.

Attendance

Nursery

70.9%

Reception

90.3%

Year 1

82.6%

Year 2

96%

Year 3

96.3%

Year 4

99.1%

Year 5

93.3%

Year 6

90.7%

Congratulations to Year 4 for aiming high with their attendance this week. The class will receive bonus Class Dojo points for Aiming High!

Learning of the Week

Every week, we celebrate extraordinary learning that has taken place in classes. It may be that they have pushed passed an obstacle in their learning; worked on their presentation; thought about how to help others amongst other things.

Our Learning of the Week for the last fortnight goes to:

Reception

Leia - Well done to Leia who really took her time and worked carefully with the clay to make her creatures. We are proud of you!
Amelia - Well done to Amelia who has been trying really hard to work out each sound when reading text and writing words. We are very proud of you.
Aurora - Well done to Aurora! She has written some brilliant sentences this week and enjoyed our story, ‘Dear Zoo’. We are very proud of you.
Reggie - Well done to Reggie! Reggie wrote a great sentence about a stinky rat and enjoyed our book, ‘Dear Zoo’. We are very proud of you!

Year 1

Christopher - For writing a brilliant set of instructions on how to look after his monster that he had created. Christopher took time and care with his work and made sure that he went back to check. Well done Christopher, keep up the hard work!
Alessya - Alessya is always coming up with amazing ideas for her writing in English, This week she created a not so scary monster and wrote some amazing instructions on how to look after her! We are all very proud of you Alessya!
Wyatt and Alessya - For working well together in maths to direct each other around the garden safely, they used all the key vocabulary that they were asked to and were able to trust each other. Amazing work, Keep it up!
Charlie - For working really hard in maths this week, being resilient and keeping going even when things might be trying to trick him. Keep it up Charlie.

Year 2

Bella - Bella has been working hard in the past couple of weeks in English, perfecting her new fairytale story. Great work Bella.
George - George has been working hard in Art and has created a wonderful animal portrait in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Amazing work George.
Fatima - Fatima has been working hard and has made good progress with her phonics sounds. Great work Fatima.
Jasmine - Jasmine was finding our time topic in Maths tricky, however she persevered and didn’t give up. Great Job Jasmine!

Year 3

Amy - Amy really impressed Miss B on Wednesday during Maths when Year 3 were telling the time to the minute. Well done, Amy!
Tyler - Tyler’s attitude towards learning as a whole over the last couple of weeks has been amazing. In English, he was able to include dialogue, adjectives and verbs in his description of a scene from the Last Bear book. Well done, Tyler!
Alex - It’s been a great first week back for Alex. All week, he has shown a positive attitude towards his work and presentation. Well done Alex, keep it up!
Tyler - Tyler has been aiming high this week in Maths. He has been able to solve difficult problems involving time and using resources to help support his learning. Well done, Tyler!

Year 4

Jamie - Jamie worked hard in tennis lessons. He was a great umpire and scored fairly using the correct scoring (15, 30, 40, game)
Cillian - Cillian has been working hard over the last 2 weeks to create his own poems. He has edited them and thought carefully about which vocabulary to use. He then illustrated his work. All of this was done during his break, lunch and home time.
Sofia - Sofia has been working hard learning about money this week. She has learnt to estimate, add, subtract, change to pound and back to pennies and solve problem using money. This has been a hard week, but Sofia has aimed high and kept pushing through. AND- in January Sofia knew how to spell 23 of her spelling words… this week she now knows how to spell 64!!
LJ - LJ aimed high this week. He has been using his strategies to help him get started straight away and to stay on task.
Eliza - Eliza has been aiming high and not giving up when learning about time. She has learnt to read a digital and analogue clock and is beginning to solve problems involving time.

Year 5

Jessica - For fantastic use of speech to show character in her writing this week. You conveyed Brendan the bully's character fantastically!
Leo - For great determination and effort when writing a story this week. You were able to use lots of powerful vocabulary and made sure to reread your sentences.
Sophia - Sophia showed fantastic knowledge in Science this week. We were learning about the life cycle of plants and she was able to use lots of scientific vocabulary including pollination and seed dispersal.
Brooklyn - Brooklyn is such a hard worker! She always tries her best in every lesson and is making great progress as a result. This week, Brooklyn produced a detailed diagram of the life cycle of a plant and was able to add lots of scientific information.

Year 6

Sofia - Sofia has made a great start to her fantasy story and has worked well to follow the instructions. Well done Sofia - can’t wait to read the rest of it.
Luka - At the beginning of the week we were looking at narrative poems and Luka worked hard to use a poem to help start to write his own poem about The Three Brothers from Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. Well done Luka!
Stivan - Stivan, you have been so helpful with the afternoon Sunshine Room group. We have loved seeing your smile this week!

KS1 Sunshine Room

Thomas - Thomas, you have been trying so hard to use your words. You are learning new things everyday! Keep it up!
Toby - Toby, you were so brave doing your jumping yesterday in our obstacle course. You even went on the ropes by yourself too! Well done for showing resilience.

KS2 Sunshine Room

Everyone! - Miss Jolly and all of the other Micklem adults were so impressed with how amazing all the children were at their ‘McSunshine’. They all worked so hard and aimed high. Have a great half term!
Luka - Luka, you have had a great positive attitude this week. You have got all your work done on time and shown respect to all your peers and teachers. Keep up the good work, we are proud of you.

Well done to everyone who worked so hard this week, it is fantastic to see so many positive learning experiences!

Pupil Leadership

School Council

Watch this space for further updates.

Letters

Please find all of our latest letters here: https://www.micklem.herts.sch.uk/letters/ . If you have any questions regarding anything coming up, do not hesitate to ask.

PTA

Deadline to order your Krispy Kreme doughnuts for Sports day is Monday 9th June at 12pm. Please order now on Arbor-School Shop to avoid disappointment.

If you are able to help the PTA in anyway then please get in contact: pta@micklem.herts.sch.uk

Facebook page: Micklem Primary School PTA

Upcoming Dates

13th June - 'Marvellous Men' Gift Sale

W/c 16th June - Sports Week

16th June - Sports Day

17th June - Year 4&5 at National Archives

26th June - PTA Summer Disco

5th July - Summer Fayre

W/c 7th July - Transition Week

8th July - KS2 Production

10th July - Transition Day

16th July - Year 6 BBQ

17th July - Leavers' Disco

18th July - Last day of term - School CLoses at 1:30pm

Good Shepherd Booking

Good Shepherd Club - to book spaces at After School Club, please visit

https://goodshepherdclubs.co.uk/

SEND and Family Support

DSPL8's summer newsletter for parents/ carers is available on their website now. We've picked out a few upcoming events that particularly stood out to us, but click on the screenshot below to see everything that's going on!

SEND Mental Health Support Team Survey

The SEND Mental Health Support Team works in schools to support with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. They are an early intervention service, meaning they try to offer support as difficulties emerge. They offer 1:1 and group sessions for parents/carers and children or young people, as well as workshops delivered to children/young people, parents/carers and school staff on a range of mental health and emotional wellbeing topics.

They have put together this parent/carer questionnaire with Hertfordshire Parent Carer Involvement (HPCI) to gain feedback about mental health and emotional wellbeing support in schools. This will inform how they deliver future support to children, young people and parents/carers as well as how they support schools. Click on the picture or scan the QR code to access the survey.

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