IMPORTANT DATES Please see the calendar on the school website. Dates for the first week back: Monday 11th April Obby the Clown visiting Reception Wednesday 13th April Yr 2 to Horton Kirby

TERM AND HOLIDAY DATES School will be closed to children for staff training on Mon 16th May and Mon 6th June 2016 . Summer Term Mon 11th April - Wednesday 20th July 2016 inclusive Half term: Mon 30th May - Fri 3rd June Parent Drop Ins 3:30pm Thursday 5th May Thursday 2nd June

24th March 2016

Edmund Waller WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

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Book Talk

Jasper and Bakari in Year 1 think books

are interesting and would like to share a

couple of their favourites with you in this

week’s Book Talk. Jasper has been

reading You Choose by Nick Sharratt

and Pippa Goodhart. In the book you

have to make a few choices like: Where

would you go if you could go anywhere? (Jasper

chose the forest.) Who would you want to be your

friend? (Jasper chose a vampire, because he likes to

go to scary places and thinks the vampire would like

this, too.) Which pet would you like? (Jasper chose the dragon to guard

him from his brother!) In class, Jasper and his friend have made an

information book about butterflies. In the holiday, he would like to

choose an information book to find out more about busy bees.

Jasper noticed that Bakari is always reading Little

Miss Birthday by Roger Hargreaves in the book

corner. Bakari loves birthdays and can not wait to

be six in May. In the book, Little Miss Birthday is busy

trying to find the perfect present for her friends.

Bakari thinks she is good at buying presents. For

example, she buys a sledge for Mr Wrong to use in

the snow.

Calling Edmund Waller budding artists!

Youth Art Competition - Telegraph Hill Festival 2016.

The theme for this year is Local History, people, places! Work will be judged by the vis-

iting public. Show of entries will be held on the 24th April 2016 at the Old Library Tele-

graph Hill.

For an entry form please go to http://telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/

Kids_Art_Rules_2016.pdf

Parent Pay

Please note that dinner money

balances on ParentPay are up-

dated on Friday each

week. The balance shown will

be either a positive or a nega-

tive amount. A negative

amount means you owe the

school. A positive amount

means you are in credit. For ex-

ample, £20.50 means you are

£20.50 in credit, whereas, -£20.50

means you owe the school

£20.50.

Class Assemblies Wednesdays at 10:20am Rosen Hall

20th April 5F 27th April 1G

Sox Appeal

Last week, the Head of Fundraising at the 999

Club popped into school to collect the remain-

ing socks donated by our school community.

He also presented us with a certificate, recognis-

ing our contribution to the community. The Sox

Appeal has now met its target of 15,000 socks!

This means we can now end our collection at

school. Well done for everyone who made the

effort to help others less fortunate than

themselves.

You can read about the success of this year’s

winter shelter here. It is brilliant to hear that the

£953.07 we have raised this year is having such a positive impact on

the community.

School Meal Price Increase from

May 2016

The price of school meals is due

to increase from £1.90 to £2.00 per

meal with effect from 2nd May

2016. The price rise will have no

financial

impact upon

Free School

Meal

recipients.

In this final week of term, a number of classes have

showcased this term’s learning in a Memorable Event.

It was brilliant to see so many parents and carers

visiting Year 2’s Toy Museum where the children

showed off their learning, including their marvellous moving monsters,

poisonous potions and teddy bear artwork. The Year 4 children

demonstrated their knowledge of Mexican culture with a Carnival on

Wednesday afternoon. The Year 5 children have been designing and

creating their own computer games, which the Code Club children

trialled on Thursday afternoon. This week, a number of Year 5 children

reflect on the process of printing their own tiles this term.

Tyree: “At first I chose to draw a piece of ivy, because I like the pattern

of the light and dark green on the leaf. I also like the shape of the ivy

leaf, which was triangular with curved corners. Afterwards, I made a

square out of black card, which I used to zoom in on a piece of my

drawing. I chose blue and pink ink for my design, because they are

contrasting colours.”

Leon: “In art we have been printing different kinds of

flowers on tiles. We rolled paint onto our flower

drawing and we turned and then rolled them in the

other direction. This made sure that the drawing

transferred onto the paper. My finished tile looked

like it was 3D, this was good even though it is not what

I planned in the beginning.”

Zakaria: “We took some ink, newspaper and

rollers. We put newspaper over the whole

table. We drew on a polystyrene tile with a

pencil, which was a bit difficult. After that, we

rolled the ink onto the tile. We used a clean

roller to press our design onto a clean piece of

paper. We had to think of how we were going

to place our design and had to roll over it five

or six times.”

India: “We have created press

prints in art, inspired by William

Morris. My favourite part of

making my print was rolling the

red, purple and turquoise inks

onto the tile. I had to make sure I

did not put on too much ink, so I

could still see the lines I had

carved. This was essential to

making a clear design.”

Sazed: “In Year 5 we have been making our own

computer games, using Scratch, as part of our Inventors

topic. First, we played Pac-Man for ideas and broke it

down into small sections (decomposed it), to understand

the different techniques used in the game. Next, we

made a background stage and a sprite for our own

version. After, we created the code for our sprite to

make it move and so it can’t go through the walls of our

maze. To make sure that it worked we had to test the

game and debug it by making changes if it didn’t work

the way we wanted it to. Finally, we made new sprites

for the character to eat and get points.

This week we are evaluating our games as a year group,

for our memorable event, and you can see them all by

visiting the Year 5 blogs on the school website.”