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Kew Gardens

Wednesday 25th April 2018

Musical Chinese Assembly with

KW

Wednesday 25th April 2018

School Photographer

Tuesday 8th May

Key Dates and Events

Friday 20th April 2018

Welcome Back

A warm welcome back! It seems that lots of you had a relaxing break over the holiday period; it’s been really great catching up with the children to hear about what they had been up to. We’re now in the final term of the academic year; we are looking forward to a productive and eventful term as well as getting the children ready for the next academic year which will soon be upon us! Curriculum information (for all classes) and the homework grid (for Y1) can be found on our website:

Curriculum can be found here

KS1 Curriculum can be found here

Summer Weather

This week we have had some really hot weather – Summer is finally arriving! Please ensure that your child has: had sunscreen applied before coming to school

a sunhat to wear when outside

a bottle of water each day

wears the summer uniform

Class Photographs

A reminder that the photographer will be in school on Tuesday 8th May (the day after the Bank Holiday) to take class photos. Can you please plan to have your child in their summer uniform for this event. Thank you.

School Rules and Making Good Choices

This week in assembly we reminded ourselves of our school rules and how it is important to follow them as then we can be ready for learning. We also discussed how it was important to make good choices regarding our behaviour so that it didn’t interrupt our learning or that of others. We also talked about how to make a poor choice better by reflecting on what we had done and doing something different next time. We will be keeping an eye out for those children who are continually making good choices and letting them know how proud we are of them. You could ask your child about the good choices they have made during the week, too.

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Rooftop Garden

We are looking for a group of volunteers to help us make the garden on the roof a nicer place to be. There is some work needed in removing soil and designing what is to be planted into the beds. If you are interested in helping us to improve this space, please let me know.

Nursery Places at KPA

For those of you that have applied for a Nursery place at our school, if you have been successful in gaining a place can you please complete and return the forms to the School Office by today Friday 20th April 2018.

Reception Places at KPA

For those of you that have applied for a Reception place at our school, if you have been successful in gaining a place can you please complete and return the forms to the School Office by Wednesday 25th April 2018. You will also need to confirm with the Council that you are accepting the place. If you have any further queries regarding Reception Places you will need to contact the Local Authority directly.

Summer School wear

All pupils must now be coming to school in there summer school wear.

All girls must now wear the striped version of our summer dress, if you have not already done so you can purchase this summer dress from Sogan’s uniform shop.

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Nursery—Matisse Class

This week we have begun our new topic ‘Animals and their Babies’. We have learnt how some animal babies have special names such as cat/kitten. Our core text this week has been ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell. Children now know that an owl baby has the special name of an owlet (little owl). We have watched film of owls in their natural habitat and have learnt how they hop from branch to branch as they learn to become independent and literally fly the nest!

For literacy, we have been thinking about the littlest Owlet, Bill, and imagining how he felt when Mummy Owl was away and what he might have said to her when she came back. For phonics, our sound this week has been ‘ow’ (like owl) and we have continued to explore voice sounds and oral segmenting and blending.

In maths we have been looking at bead strings as children have become really interested in what 100 looks like.

For our core knowledge learning we have been making our own owlets on a branch using hand-prints in paint. We have also learnt about the sad story of the dodo (parents please research this, they didn’t die out the way you might think!) and how palaeontologists have researched to find out what the dodo really looked like. It’s very different to pictures you may associate with this bird. Please take a look at Nursery’s core knowledge board if you’d like a bit of a surprise.

Special note: This term we are hoping to begin regular visits to Holland Park playground on Monday mornings. We need parents to assist as if we don’t have enough adults we won’t be able to offer this essential physical development opportunity. Please let us know if you’re able to offer your services.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

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Da Vinci—Reception Class

This week in English we have been reading ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle. The children have been sequencing the text and deciding what the caterpillar would eat if they wrote their own hungry caterpillar story. As a class, we then created a storyboard and wrote some speech bubbles for the caterpillar.

In our Maths lessons, we have been reviewing our addition and subtraction unit from before the holidays. The children have been practising using counting on and courting back to solve addition and subtraction number problems.

In Core Knowledge this week, we have begun our half-termly unit on Growing and Changing. We looked at what growing means and discussed what does and doesn’t grow. We also learnt about the human life cycle and created one in our class using teachers, children and a toy baby.

Thank you to those of you that have brought in a photo of your child as a baby. Please do so if you haven’t, as we are hoping to play a guessing game in our Core Knowledge lesson. Have a lovely weekend!

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Year One — Picasso Class

Year 1 have enjoyed a wonderful, sunny first week back at school! In English, the children have been working on writing recounts of their Easter holidays. It has been a joy to read all about the eventful and exciting things that they have been doing over the break! We have begun a new unit in maths exploring ‘numbers 50 to 100 and beyond’ and the children have been working hard to expand their understanding of place value. We are sure the children will love showing you their new Science and Humanities Knowledge Organisers (sent home in home learning books). The Organisers will tell you all about what we will be learning in our new topics of ‘Plants’ in Science and ‘Kings and Queens’ in Humanities. We are all ready for the busy term ahead, full of learning and fun! We hope you are too!

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Attendance this week

Well done Da Vinci class!

Nursery Reception Year 1

Matisse 59% Da Vinci 75.8% Picasso 82.1%

Scholar of the Week

We would like to congratulate all our scholars this week. Well done!

House Points:

Children have been working hard to make the right choices to earn points for

their houses. The scores this week are:

Olympians 110

Spartans 114

Corinthians 116

Athenians 114

Matisse Lorenzo Da Vinci The Whole

Class

Picasso Daro

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Star homework this week is Areg, who created a fantastic collage

of our planet.

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Star Writer

Star writer is Sophia G, who wrote a wonderful description

of our new book character using adjectives.

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Matisse, Da Vinci and Picasso classes are keen to fill their reading areas with wonderful foreign language books! If you have any story books or information books in your mother tongue language to donate, please speak to Miss Wilkinson. We thank you for your continued support.

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Gentle reminders for this term:

Please remember if your child has been vomiting or has diarrhoea they need to stay

at home for 48 Hours.

Snacks: could all children only bring in fruit and vegetables for their snack

(no nuts due to allergies within the class). Please do not give your child biscuits,

sweets or fruit roll-ups.

Labelling: could you please ensure all clothing is labelled (sew in labels are a bit

time-consuming but will easily last the lifetime of your child’s clothes).

Spare clothes: could you please ensure your child has spare clothes in a named bag

on their peg (not in their book bag) so children can access them independently.

Nursery Parents

Uniform: could you please send your child to school in elasticated, Velcro or bar

shoes rather than lace-ups as we are encouraging children to be independent. Loose

jogging bottoms also help with this as they are easier for children to manage when

using the toilet.