13th September 2019

Issue 1

Goldthorpe Prrimary School

Goldthorpe

Primary News A MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE HEADTEACHER What a brilliant start to the new year! I feel so privileged to be working with the

Goldthorpe community. After working in the school for a week, I am absolutely sure that

the ‘sky is the limit’ to what we can achieve together this year!

We will be publishing a newsletter every week to keep you fully informed of everything

that is happening across our Primary School. I hope that you have found the text mes-

sages useful. Please do update your number at the office if you are not receiving these

messages. You can also follow us on twitter to see what we are doing every day. See our

link on the back of the newsletter.

It has been great to meet many of you on the gate and at our Magic Breakfast this week.

Please do come and chat to me on the gate. I welcome feedback, as we all work together

to ensure that our school community is the very best it can be for our children to really

flourish.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend. The weather is forecast to be sunny!

Kind regards,

Mrs. T Swinburne

A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEAD OF SCHOOL Thank you for making us feel so welcome to school. The first two weeks of the Autumn

term have been filled with learning across the school and we have been very excited to

start our new Phonics groups in the younger classes in school. The children have

responded really well to the teaching taking place and we have already seen many

children making rapid progress with their learning. It was fantastic to see so many of you

join us for our ‘Meet the Teacher’ event. We really do hope you found this useful in

knowing more about what your child will be learning this year and how you can support

them at home.

We will be holding a Phonics / Early Reading Coffee Morning for Parents on Tuesday 1st

October at 9.15am. During this time you will find out all about how we teach phonics

and your children to read, you may even get a chance to see some of the phonic groups

in action.

Miss Brook

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Learners of the week

Attendance winners

Foundation to Year 2 news

Year 3 to Year 6 news

Important diary dates

WE ARE PROUD OF

How well our children have come back to school

Children attending school everyday. We are on a real mission to improve our at-tendance this year. The bet-ter the attendance, the bet-ter the learning!

Our community & seeing lots of you at our bagel boutiques and magic breakfasts

Your attendance at our ‘Meet the Teacher’ event

Congratulations to all our class Dojo winners this week who were

rewarded with a fabulous party this afternoon filled with treats!

Well done to;

Reception- Leyton & Freddie

Reception / Y1- Ella-Rose & Jadie

Y1/Y2- Hunter-Lee & Bobby

Y2- Mollie-Jane & Annie

Y3 - Jessica & Evie

Y4/5P - Kenley & Isla

Y4/5W - Aleisha & Alicia

Y5/6 - Ollie & Harry

Y6 - Jack & Courtney

WELL DONE TO OUR LEARNERS OF THE WEEK!

WELL DONE TO OUR DOJO WINNERS OF THE WEEK!

We have been so impressed by the children who have been awarded the

‘Learner of the Week’ certificates from their class teachers for showing

excellent learning attitudes.

Reception - Deacon

Reception / Y1 - Rosalind

Y1/Y2 - Joey

Y2 - Amelia

Y3 - Daniel

Y4/5P - Jensen

Y4/5W - Malayke

Y5/6 - Taylor

Y6 - Lexi

Well done to all of our certificate winners!

READING DRAW

We want our children to

read as much as possible

and will be rewarding

children when this

happens.

In our new reading draw,

children will be given a

raffle ticket for every time

they have read at home

and had their reading

record book signed. On a

Friday, we will then be

drawing out one raffle

ticket from each class who

will then choose a prize.

You have to be in it to win

it!

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Congratulations to all our class Dojo winners this week who were

rewarded with a fabulous party this afternoon filled with treats!

Well done to;

Reception- Leyton & Freddie

Reception / Y1- Ella-Rose & Jadie

Y1/Y2- Hunter-Lee & Bobby

Y2- Mollie-Jane & Annie

Y3 - Jessica & Evie

Y4/5P - Kenley & Isla

Y4/5W - Aleisha & Alicia

Y5/6 - Ollie & Harry

Y6 - Jack & Courtney

STRIVING TO HAVE THE BEST

ATTENDANCE!

This year we are striving to have the best attendance in

Barnsley! Our whole school attendance target this year

is 96.5%.

We have had a great week with attendance with many clas-

ses each day having 100% attendance. This is fantastic and

we now need to keep this going every single week!

Reception - 91.3%

Reception / Y1 - 97.7%

Y1/Y2 - 95.7%

Y2- 94.5%

Y3 - 97.7%

Y4/5P - 98.1%

Y4/5W - 96.3%

Y5/6 - 96.0%

Y6 - 99.2%

Whole School Attendance this week - 96.3%

Current year to date - 96.5%

Well done to Year 6 who were had the best attendance in

school this week. Please make sure that children are in

school every day!

OUR FIRST GOLDEN TABLE WINNERS!

We were very excited to

launch our new Golden

Table this week and were

joined by children who had

been chosen for showing

excellent manners and

attitudes at lunchtimes.

This week, our Golden

Table Winners were:

Reception - Raven

Reception / Y1 - Jacie

Y1/Y2 - Logan & Olivia

Y2- Alfie

Y3 - Charlie

Y4/5P - Kenley

Y4/5W- Amber

Y5/6 - Cherisse

Y6 - Kayleb

All of the children were

joined at the table by

a friend of their choice.

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FOUNDATION STAGE NEWS

YEAR 2 NEWS

RECEPTION & YEAR 1 NEWS

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In Foundation Stage, we

have continued to establish

our rules and routines. We

have had so much fun mak-

ing new friends and explor-

ing our classroom.

Class R-1 have been settling into and observing

their new environment, getting used to the

layout of the classroom very quickly.

Lots of children have chosen to make an

observational drawing, painting or collage the

sunflowers in our art area.

You’re welcome to come in to our classroom, after school to have a look!

YEAR 1/2 NEWS This week we have been doing lots of

practical learning. We matched numer-

als and objects outside, and thought

about the materials used in different

seaside

This week we have been learning about the features of a recount in Literacy and

working hard on our place value knowledge in Maths. Our topic work has

focussed on physical and manmade features.

YEAR 3 NEWS

YEAR 4/5P NEWS

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In Maths, Year 3 have been exploring place value and

making groups of 10 from a given number. We used the

tables to show our working!

Next week we are working on developing our times table

recall speed and will be using Times Table Rockstars to

help develop this. Extra practice at home would really

YEAR 4/5W NEWS

Year 4/5P have been enjoying

being in school this week and

have really enjoyed taking part in

PE. Healthy bodies make healthy

minds!

YEAR 5/6 NEWS

Year 5/6 have been en-gaged in unpicking the key features of the High-wayman poem in Litera-cy. They have also been using active learning to compare and order numbers of differ-ent place value in Maths. They have found

YEAR 6 NEWS

Y6 have got straight on with their learning since returning to school. They have found a new selection of books to read and are finding out all about The

Highway-man in Lit-eracy!

Year 4/5 W have been enjoying reading in their new Viking reading area. Unfortu-nately, today it has been recently invaded by the other Year4/5P class so we are pre-paring our “attack” to win back our books.

ALDI TOKENS- HELP US GET A BRAND NEW SPORTS KIT

Please help us collect as

many tokens as possible

from Aldi by asking your

family and friends to col-

lect them every time

they shop at the store.

Every single token will be

paced onto our sheet in

school and we are really

hoping to fill as many as

possible so that we have

as much chance of

winning the grand prize

as possible.

Please bring all tokens

into school and put them

into the token box at the

Main Reception.

Thank you!

DIARY DATES FOR THE YEAR AHEAD!

Please join us to hear all

about how your children

are learning to read.

During this morning we

will show you how to

help your children read

at home and we will give

you a brief tour around

the phonic lessons

where you will see live

phonics teaching.

Please join us on;

Tuesday 1st October

at 9.15am. Refreshments will be

provided.

Parents Evening

Monday 25th & Wednesday 27th November

Dates for Parents

Read Write Inc. Coffee Morning - Tues 1st October 9.15am

Nursery Christmas Activity Morning - Weds 4th December (9.15-11am)

Reception Christmas Activity Morning - Thurs 5th December (9.15-

11am)

Reception Nativity Performance - Mon 9th (9.30am) & Tues 10th De-

cember (9.30am)

Year 1 & 2 Nativity Performance - Tues 17th (9.30am) & Weds 18th De-

cember (2pm)

Term Dates

School Closes - Friday 25th October

School Opens - Monday 4th November

School Closed - Friday 29th November

School Closes - Thursday 19th December

School Closed - Friday 20th December

School Opens - Monday 6th January 2020

School Closes - Friday 14th February

School Opens - Monday 24th February

School Closes - Friday 3rd April

School Opens - Monday 20th April

School Closes - Friday 22nd May

School Opens - Monday 1st June

School Closes - Thursday 16th July

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we are doing in school @GoldthorpePS