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Friday, 23rd March 2018

CoMPasS

Registered Charity No: 1141329

The children in RA produced a stunning assembly on Wednesday. They were so confident describing

their highlights of the term. They also sang beautifully and all looked amazing in their costumes. Well

done to RA and to Mr Allen for successfully preparing the children for his first class assembly.

On Thursday 3H performed their rescheduled assembly. Two television reporters introduced the Greek

Gods, describing what their roles were in Ancient Greece to the school. The children spoke confidently

and sang beautifully and all looked amazing in their costumes.

Thank you to Mrs Hopwood and Mrs Hayden for preparing the

children.

Yesterday Mrs Hicks organised an obstacle course challenge in

the Sports Hall in aid of Sports Relief The children all had an

excellent time, thank you to Mrs Hicks for organising this event

and to everyone who contributed so generously. Thank you very

much to everyone for your generous donations to such a worthy

cause.

Today we say goodbye to Alfie Eke, a PGCE student from York St

John who is completing his teacher training this term. He has

worked at Clifton since Christmas. Alfie has been a wonderful

teacher in RA and has enjoyed his time at school and we have

valued his amazing work. My thanks to Alfie for all his help and

support.

We also say goodbye to a valued member of staff, Claire Hulmes

has worked at the school since 2010. She has been quite simply a

truly amazing member of the team at Clifton. She has been a huge support to the teachers, children,

parents and me throughout her time at Clifton. We will miss her and we wish her the very best of luck in

her new job in Leeds. Thank you Claire for all you have done for the children and the school.

This term has been sensational, the children have been on so many inspirational journeys with their

learning. The classroom environments have been stunning and the teaching truly remarkable, creating a

culture of learning, fun and happiness. My sincere thanks to all the incredible staff at Clifton for providing

this exciting environment for our children. Their dedication to their profession was the cornerstone of

the school winning the TES Pre-prep/Prep School Award this term and I can’t thank them enough for

their sensational work.

Finally thanks to you as parents for all your continued support. It is appreciated.

I wish you all the very best wishes for the Easter break and look forward to welcoming you back to

school on Monday 16th April for what I am sure will be another excellent term.

Best wishes

Music Awards

Housepoints Value Champions

Learning

Superheroes

All of RA, Travis, All of 2M, All of 3H,

Poppy, Max, Thomas, Cissy, Will and

Rafe

Elizabeth with Dr Blackburn her heart specialist handing over the 4 portable DVD players for the cardiac unit thanks to the cake sale Elizabeth organised and some generous donations - thanks to all.

Isabella Beattie’s PE hoodie is

missing, please look out for it.

Her name is marked in biro on

the label. Monk

Margherita, Robert, Arthur,

Natalie, Georgina, George, Emily,

Matilda, Henry, Joshua, David,

Joshua, Charlie, Toby and Harriet

(not in photo)

Graded Music and Drama

Awards

Velvet and

Charlie

Henry, Loki, and Huw

Special mention for

Joseph who took his

first steps back to

walking yesterday!

2M have had a fantastic term

learning all about Russia and most

importantly, having fun! Here are

some of our favourite bits!

Wishing everyone a wonderful

break and looking forward to

what next term has in store for us!

What a busy morning in Playgroup! Your baskets looked great, I also liked them worn around the neck too! Fabulous work! We decorated large Easter Egg Biscuits made by Chef Richard, they were yummy then played pass the parcel, it was a very very busy morning.

I hope you all have a lovely relaxing Easter and the Easter bunny treats you to chocolate Eggs. It was great to see Myla, Ralphie and Henry today.

Also A very Happy Birthday to Laura xxx

Have a great Easter

Mrs Deri-Clark

Well the Easter Holidays are finally here and we are all in need of a rest. The children in 1T have worked their socks off this term and have had a very busy and enjoyable theme. We have been Victorians, watched a theatre production, enjoyed STEM week, taken part in obstacle courses for Sports Relief and made models of Dream Country from the BFG, bridges, Victorian rooms, the list goes on… For our final week we have been writing the story of George’s Marvellous Medicine, making

medicine using different ingredients and observing the reaction between bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. I wonder where in the world our new theme will take us next? Have a lovely Easter from Mrs Johnson and Miss Bromley

RB have had a CRACKING Easter week! They have been shuffling sounds to make words in our daily EGGciting challenge, doing EGGcellent painting and even EGGstreme maths, sharing out 20 Easter eggs to 10, 5 then 2 Easter bunnies. On Thursday they did plenty of EGGSercise reading and following phonetic clues to earn a little chocolate rabbit. Have an EGGstravagent Easter RB and I will see you all again soon!

The children had a very energetic day on Thursday supporting Sport Relief 2018 with their very own obstacle course challenge in the Sports Hall. Thank you very much to everyone for your generous donations to such a worthy cause, the children had a

fabulous time as did some of the teachers!

Will the surface of the hill affect the distance that the egg will travel? Let’s go EGG ROLLING!

As a part of celebrating Easter, RA had such a fun time investigating different surfaces for egg rolling. After carefully design-

ing and decorating their hard boiled egg for the challenge, the children went around campus in search for different hills! We

discovered three different surfaces on a hill and explored if the surface of hill had an impact on the distance that the egg

travelled. The children were captivated in this challenge and gave clear reasons behind their thoughts and ideas! After the

egg rolling and checking if our eggs had survived the hills, we decided to take part in a friendly egg and spoon race! Team

work and spirit was shining here for RA here! The children became the audience, the judges and the participants and even

awarded their friends a rosette after each race! What a egg-cellent Easter day we had!

Will the surface of the hill affect the distance that the egg will

travel? Let’s go EGG ROLLING!

As a part of celebrating Easter, RA had such a fun time

investigating different surfaces for egg rolling. After carefully

designing and decorating their hard boiled egg for the challenge,

the children went around campus in search for different hills! We

discovered three different surfaces on a hill and explored if the

surface of hill had an impact on the distance that the egg travelled.

The children were captivated in this challenge and gave clear

reasons behind their thoughts and ideas! After the egg rolling and

checking if our eggs had survived the hills, we decided to take part

in a friendly egg and spoon race! Team work and spirit was shining

for RA here! The children became the audience, the judges and

the participants and even awarded their friends a rosette after each

race! What an egg-cellent Easter day we had!

Nursery have had a lovely last week of term. We had a special visit on Monday from Dr Samiei, who showed us how to bandage and plaster legs and arms, we particularly enjoyed using the syringes to give 'special medicine'! We have made crispy

chocolate nests, which were delicious, and the children did such a good job cleaning up after themselves too! On Wednesday, with the sun out and snow at bay, we ventured out to the Museum Gardens in York...we even spotted the first signs of spring, and decided crocuses are

our favourite spring flowers! We have had a fabulous end to the week with Mrs Hick’s Sport Relief obstacle course. Nursery you deserve a well-earned rest for all your hard work and ‘can do’ attitude

this term, we are very proud of you all.

1J have been finishing

off their Roald Dahl

topic with some

fantastic writing

around George’s

Marvellous Medicine.

The children have

become authors by

creating their own

villain characters to

replace gruesome

Grandma from the

story. We have been so

impressed with their

use of adjectives,

similes and time

connectives.

In Maths we have been

focussing on finding

the difference between

two numbers using

cubes. The children

worked in pairs to

build towers and then

compared them to find

the difference.

With a heavy heart we said farewell to our

Austria students this week, but not before

finding out as much as we could about

Austria. We looked where we would find

Austria on the world map, learnt all about

Austrian traditions and even learnt some

German phrases! See what the children

can teach you in German.

We have also been preparing for Easter

celebrations with Easter craft activities

and making chocolate nests. We hope you

enjoyed them just as much as the children

enjoyed making them!

These children were awarded their Bronze Stage 1 Rookie Lifeguard award. This scheme is headed by the Royal Life Saving Society UK

and is run by our very own in-house instructor Mrs Jones.

Well done children.

!

Silver

Gold

Class winners for 2

weeks running—3P

Well done and thank you to all of the

children who entered posters in our

‘Exploration and Discovery’ themed

STEM competition. A special congratulations to the following

year group winners:

Angus– Reception

Srija– Year 1

Alice– Year 2

Jacob and Lilly– Year 3

Housepoints

Monk

Mattie, Emily, George,

Jack, Juliette, Scarlett,

Margherita and Monty

Alexander, Oliver,

Benjamin and Theo

Our cheerful crew of

Core Fivers!

Another busy week in Year 3 began with a visit from the award winning author, Guy Bass. With his hugely fun and interactive talk, the children even took part in some 'mad science', bringing Stitch Head to life! J1 came up to share the experience with us, it was lovely seeing so many familiar faces!

On Tuesday the children were given the challenge to make an egg catapult for launching a chocolate egg the furthest! The children worked collaboratively to explore the best way to position their lolly sticks and then tested their models! Don't worry, there were no chocolate eggs harmed in the firing of catapults!!

In maths the children have been eggs-ploring multiplication and division and solving word problems left by the Easter bunny!

Finally… Thursday saw 3H perform their amazing assembly all about the Greek Gods! Well done to all the children for speaking so confidently and making us all giggle! The costumes were brilliant, thank you to all the parents who helped put them together!

Have a lovely, restful Easter break and we look forward to welcoming the children back for their final term at Clifton!!

Hoppy Easter!!!

2H finished our fantastic theme of ‘From Russia

with Love…’ this term by visiting the cookery

room at St Olave’s to make and eat Russian blinis

- (aka drop scones!). We spent the 3 weeks

beforehand learning all we could about capacity

and weighing and all of the grown-ups were very

impressed by our careful measuring on the day.

We worked in groups, sharing out the jobs and

then….we ate the blinis!! We chose our

favourite toppings and they all tasted yummy! A

huge thank you to all the adults who helped,

including Mrs Antonov and Mrs Al Asadi.

We also said goodbye to our Austrian visitors,

who have assisted in school for the past two

weeks. They played some traditional Austrian

music for us on the last day and we were all sad

to see them go.

2H- Russia!! On top of all that, 2H have discovered dot-to-dots.! We have been tackling some very advanced ones,

using times tables skills and connecting numbers up to 400…! The silence in Mrs Hall’s class when we

were doing them was golden……J

Happy Easter everyone!!

Alice in Wonderland

Charity Easter Egg Hunt

Venue: York Sports Club

Date: Easter Monday (2nd April)

Time: 10.30-12.30

Price: £10 (includes the hunt, a yummy chocolate egg, a professional entertainer, drinks, and a piece of cake. All money will be given to Candlelighters.

Tickets must be purchased in advance from Rebecca Brown ; 07972575352 or hy4res@gmail.com There will also be a raffle and silent auction; tickets for the raffle are available even if you can’t make the event, we have some very exciting prizes donated by local and national businesses. Details of the silent auction will be shared shortly and bids will close on the evening of the St Olave’s Ball.

After Easter we will be re-starting the Clifton Toe-tappers - a fun "band" for our Year 3 children to experience playing in a music ensemble. It is for all Year 3 children, no experience necessary, the music will be adapted accordingly! Any children who would normally play the piano will be offered a glockenspiel to play instead as we clearly don't have lots of pianos available! The band will be on Wednesdays after school in the Rayson Room and children are encouraged to bring their own instruments if they have them. Our first "gig" will be to perform at the Music Celebration concert at the end of the first half term!

Our School Councillors dismantled their ‘Can you balance a coin on a lemon’

experiment for our STEM week challenge. They raised a tremendous £43.14

for our School Charity Water Aid. The children would like to thank everyone

for their support.