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Welcome to Vauxhall's Newsletter:
Welcome to Vauxhall's Newsletter:
Summer 1 , Week 6: Friday 24th May 2024
Remember- All newsletters can be found on our school website, which includes links to archived newsletters.
In this issue...
In this issue...
PGL - Year 5/6 Residential
Beautiful Butterflies
Learning in EYFS
Parent Café - Contextual Safeguarding
May half term Tech Camp
#WakeUpWednesday -
Guess the Teacher - The Reveal!
...+ our regularly updated Diary Dates, Term Dates, our weekly Headteacher Awards, Weekly Attendance & Punctuality figures.
PGL
PGL
This week, Year 5 and Year 6 returned from their residential trip to Windmill Hill Activity Centre. The children spent the weekend engaging in a wide range of activities and team-building challenges.
They had a fantastic time abseiling, raft-building, and climbing. The highlight for many was the thrilling zip wire experience! In addition to these activities, the children made lifelong memories around the campfire, singing, dancing, and playing football with their friends.
It was a weekend filled with fun, adventure, and camaraderie, creating unforgettable moments for everyone involved.
Learning in EYFS
Learning in EYFS
Outside in EYFS, the strawberries are ripening! The children have been fascinated by observing the life cycle of the strawberry plants. They have enjoyed watching the strawberries grow from flowers into delicious, red fruits. This hands-on experience has sparked their curiosity and provided valuable learning opportunities about nature, growth, and the importance of patience. The excitement is building as they look forward to tasting the fruits of their labour!
Learning in Reception
In Reception Class, the children have been learning about ‘The Three Little Pigs’. The children created wonderful pieces of writing about the characters and objects in the story. We have some award-winning writers!
The children in Reception had a competition to build houses for the pigs out of junk-modelling materials. The winners received a tub of playdough each.
The children have been exploring construction using Mobilo; They used Mobilo to construct: a dump truck digger, plane, helicopter, truck and an aeroplane.
Learning in Nursery
As part of their PSED learning, the children in Nursery have been drawing their pictures of things that they might be scared of or worried about. The children fed their worries away to the 'Worry Monster' to gobble up their worries to go away. They then made worry dolls to take home - to talk too if they ever feel scared or worried.
Some of the children shared their worries with the class...
"Scared of the new house, because I don't want to go there."
"I'm worried about the children hurting me with the ball."
Beautiful Butterflies
Beautiful Butterflies
Over the last couple of weeks, Early Years and Year 1 have been observing caterpillars - learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. The children started with tiny caterpillars and watched them form a chrysalis, then the children observed them turning into beautiful butterflies. The children then released the butterflies into the school garden.
Parent Café
Parent Café
#WakeUpWednesday
#WakeUpWednesday
The 'WakeUpWednesday' guides empower and equip parents, carers and educators with the confidence and practical skills to be able to have informed and age-appropriate conversations with children about online safety, mental health and wellbeing, and climate change.
Each week we will post a relevant guide to support our school community's knowledge and understanding of how to keep safe online and new things to be aware of.
This week is a mental health and wellbeing focus with information about 'School Avoidance'. Please click on the PDF to enlarge it.
Parent Zone resources:
You can access a number of free resources through Parent Zone Local. Resources include free access to their library, where you can find out more about specific platforms such as Snapchat and TikTok, and a 20 minute virtual training session designed to help you nurture your child's digital resilience.
Parent Zone release monthly short videos that cover topics parents are interested in, click here to see what is on offer.
Article 17 (access to information from the media) Every child has the right to reliable information from a variety of sources, and governments should encourage the media to provide information that children can understand. Governments must help protect children from materials that could harm them.
school-avoidance.pdf
Guess the Teacher- The Reveal!
Guess the Teacher- The Reveal!
Ms D
Mr Narotra
Mr McQuillan
Ms Coombes
Miss Pilgrim
Mrs Darteh
Miss Edwin
Did you guess correctly?
Weekly Awards
Weekly Awards
Headteacher's Award
Headteacher's Award
Congratulations to the pupils above who received the Headteacher’s Award this week. Keep up the good work!
Going for Gold Champion
Going for Gold Champion
Congratulations to this week's 'Going for Gold' recipients, it's a delight to see our wall of fame growing. Well done to all of the children who reached gold this week!
Attendance & Punctuality
Attendance & Punctuality
This week’s Attendance Award Cup goes to Year 2 with 98% of pupils attending in their class!
Well done!
Punctuality Owl goes to Year 2 with 97% of pupils attending school on time this week.
Fantastic!
Fantastic!
Authorised and Unauthorised Absence
The school can only authorise any absences in the following circumstances:
Genuine illness
Dental/medical appointments (these should be made out of school hours where possible)
Close Family bereavement
Recognised religious observance
Examination
What is NOT acceptable?
Caring for a parent or sibling
Going shopping
Day trips
Birthdays
Bad weather
Family holidays will not be authorised
This is not a conclusive list.
Article 28 (right to education) Every child has the right to an education.
Dates for the Diary
Dates for the Diary
🏫First day of term - Monday 3rd June
🚘Implementation of School Streets- Monday 17th June
✖️Year 4- Multiplication Check - Monday 3rd June - Friday 14th June
🐸Year 1- Phonics Screening Check - Monday 10thJune - Friday 14th June
☕Greenhouse Sports Parent Café - Tuesday 11th June
🚌Year 4 Trip- Wednesday 12th June
☕Parent Café (Contextual Safeguarding) - Tuesday 18th June
🗳️ School closed - Polling Station for the General Election - 4th July
Oval Learning supports as many people as they can within their school communities including children, young people, parents and carers. Click here to find out more and for low cost no cost family activities this weekend
Article 31 (leisure, play and culture) Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
Term Dates
Term Dates
TERM DATES FINAL.pdfContact Us
Contact Us
Vauxhall Primary School, Vauxhall Street , London, SE11 5LG
Call us: 020 7735 4535
Email us: office@vauxhallprimary.org.uk
Website: https://www.vauxhallprimary.org.uk/
Any queries should be directed to the School Administrator
Any queries related to SEND please contact Queene Darteh, school SENCO.
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