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Summer Term 2 Week 4

Head of School News

A bilingual school for everyone Dear Parents, Carers, Staff and Children;

This has been a very exciting week for our year 2 children! On Wednesday they performed an extraordinary musi-cal ‘The Ballad of John Silver’, learning all the verses off-by-heart as well as all the pirate songs to accompany it! The performance reflected all the creative topic-learning the children do, for ex-ample: in literacy – memorizing poetry off-by-heart, in music – playing the re-corder and singing, in art – making pi-rate chains and swords, in German – singing songs in German. A massive well done to all the children for their extraordinary performance. We would like to thank all the staff, in particular, the Year 2 team and Miss Nemiah. We would also like to thank all our families for supporting us with costumes and attend-ing the show.

On Thursday, Year 2 participated in a multi-skills event at Southwark Park alongside other KS1 chil-dren. They learnt various skills as demonstrated in the pictures below:

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On Monday, Miss Julia announced the beginning of Art week at JKPS. We welcomed some students from Dulwich College to partici-pate and support our children with the various exciting art projects going on in the school this week. On Friday, we exhibited all our work outside and welcomed all our friends and families to see our extraordinary work! We would like to thank our amazing volunteers and Miss Julia for organising such a fantastic art week.

More Art week photos on the last page of the newsletter!

We are always very eager and proud to share our children’s fabulous extra-curricular achievements. Elena, in 3B, ran the 5km run at Peckham Park on Saturday and set a new under 10s girls’ record of 21:47. This is an adult race, but this didn’t stop our little runner from finishing in 47th place! Remarkably, Elena’s age grading (which tracks individual performance against the world record time for his/her age) was 83.17pc which ranks Elena’s performance in the top ten of all athletes’ performance in the park runs at Peckham Park. Congratulations Elena for your extraordinary achievement.

http://www.parkrun.org.uk/peckhamrye/results/latestresults/ http://www.parkrun.org.uk/peckhamrye/results/agegradedleague/

results | Peckham Rye parkrun

www.parkrun.org.uk

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Next week on Wednesday 5th July, we will be having our sports day at..

We would like to ask that all families drop off the children at school at the usu-al time for registration. Families wishing to spend Sports Day with us, can meet us at The Griffin Sportsground, SE21 7AL for a 9:30am start. We will be having a picnic at the venue; you are more than welcome to join us bringing your own

picnic and picnic blankets. Please ensure your child has the correct house colour t-shirt, sun cream (depending on weather) a hat, lots of water and a packed lunch for the whole school picnic.

Sports Day Schedule:

Sports Day commences at 9:30am. Family picnic 12:30- 1:30pm. Early finish if parents want to collect at 2pm from the venue. Children can return to school with staff for clubs as usual.

Music News The children in Years 3, 4 and 5 have been working very hard in preparation for the upcoming Summer Music Concerts with Miss Nemiah. Times and dates are as follows: Wednesday 12th July 2017 at 9:30am Thursday 13th July 2017 at 2:15pm Tickets for these concerts will need to be purchased at the school office so that we don’t go over our hall capacity. All the funds raised through ticket sales will go towards the School Music Fund for the purchase of more in-struments.

After School Care officially started our potato harvest this week and there is more to come! The children have been busy picking plenty of pea pods, counting and eating the peas straight away. But it is not all about harvest-ing: After School Care children also continue

sowing seeds, so we will have new plants to put in after the summer break. In the meantime, our pump-kin plants grow and grow keeping the soil around the sweet corn plants moist and shady. If you are interested in finding out more about the garden, please get in touch with Anke (anke@dotmail.co.uk).

We would like to wish our families, staff and children a lovely weekend,

Best regards, Miss Marta

Head of School

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What have we been learning this week?

Reception

In maths, we have been reasoning and solving addi-tion problems based on our new number story that we made up together. We used different creatures and their number of legs to make our own number stories. We used play dough to make different num-bers and we also drew pictures to show how to make different numbers.

Year 1

This week, as part of 'Art Week', Year One worked collaboratively to produce large-scale art works in-spired by the New York graf-fiti artist, Jean-Michel Basquait. They employed a range of techniques to cre-ate their pieces, which will be displayed in the school's grounds in the very near future.'

Year 2 This week, we have been learning about Anne Bonny and creating leaflets for museums, explaining what her life was like. Did you know that she was one of the first women pirates? She dressed up as a man and was renowned as the most fearsome fighters. Finally, did you know that her final words to her pi-rate husband were: “If you’d fought like a man, you need not have been hanged like a dog.”

Year 3

Year 3s have had an amazing arts week. We produced nice tin totem poles and wrote a cool story related to our book "The Great Kapok Tree". In Maths, we start-ed to work the difference between 2D and 3D shapes.

Year 4 This week we have had a lot of fun creating our class project for Art Week. On Monday, we learnt how to tie-dye fabric; on Tuesday, we studied the work of Robert Rauschenberg and on Tuesday and Thursday, we used our inspiration from the artist to create some amazing prints. On Friday, we put all our print-ing skills together, as well as other techniques, to create our masterpiece! Our finished piece is a huge canvas to be displayed in the outside area.

Year 5

This week in Year 5, we have been getting really ex-cited about different structures and… geodesic domes! We looked at the work of engineer/ archi-tect/ artist Buckman Fuller, researched differ-ent building structures, designed are own build-ings, and then had a go at building model domes. Once we had built them, we used our fan to check if they could stand up to a strong wind and they all stayed standing!... well, at least, almost all of them.

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Writers of the week:

1B Nian 2B Sophia 3B Berti Y4 Kiah

1G Thea 2G Nya 3G Caleb Y5 Aaron

Mathematicians of the week:

1B Friedrich 2B Sofia 3B Zahra N Y4 Ranveer

1G Iggy 2G Morgan 3G Oskar Y5 Maya

German stars of the week:

1B Ruby 2B Remiel 3B Matthew H Y4 Clara

1G Mica 2G Harper 3G Yoshi and Isaiah Y5 Jeta, Teni and Eden

Stars of the week:

1B 2B Mary 3B Mariana Y4 Amisa

1G Ella SS 2G Stephen 3G Lili Y5 Katie

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Save the date!

Wednesday 5th July – JKPS Sports Day – whole day event, details to follow. All families wel-come to attend.

Wednesday 12th July – KS2 Music Morning Con-cert – all families welcome to attend at 9:30 am (tickets for adults)

Thursday 13th July – KS2 Music afternoon Con-cert – all families welcome to attend at 2:15pm (tickets for adults)

Friday 14th July – End of year reports sent home to parents.

This week’s birthdays:

This week and last week we would like to wish a happy birthday to

Finley, Theo, Amelie Z, Joshua, Noemi and Cameron.

Attendance figures:

This week’s attendance figures are:

RB 94%

1B 97.5%

2B 98.8%

3B 98.7%

Y4 95.9%

RG 96.8%

1G 97.6%

2G 98%

3G 98.26%

Y5 99.1%

This week’s top attendance was awarded to Y5, well done to all the children who were at school every day! Our combined weekly attendance was 97.47% slightly above National average. Please continue to support the school to ensure we reach outstanding attendance at JKPS.

Punctuality figures:

This week’s punctuality figures are:

RB 98.4%

1B 98.75%

2B 99.2%

3B 99.1%

Y4 98.6%

RG 98.4%

1G 99.2%

2G 98.8%

3G 99.5%

Y5 99.58%

This week’s top punctuality was awarded to Year 5. Well done to all the children for getting to school on time. Please continue to ensure the school’s punc-tuality rates improve. If your child is late in the morning, they will miss a reading session as this happens first thing in the morning across the school, therefore affecting their reading performance.

We are also very proud of Zoya in Year 2 who will be performing at the London Coliseum this Christmas. If you would like to attend this ex-traordinary performance, you can purchase tickets via the website.

https://londoncoliseum.org/whats-on/nutcracker-gala/.

Cancer Research Donations:

This year's Unity Bands and 'We're Beating Cancer Right Now' badges to raise money for Cancer Research are available in the school office for a suggested donation of £2 and £1 respectively.

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In-year admissions:

At Judith Kerr Primary School we have a waiting list for children who would like to join our school, in any year group, should a place become available. This waiting list is regularly updated and new chil-dren are welcomed to our school throughout the year.

If you know anyone who would like to join our school and be added to our waiting list, please refer them to:

Tel: 020 7738 6481 or via sending an email to: admin@jkps-cfbt.org

Our website also contains important information about applying for a place at JKPS:

Sports Day: 5th July

Sports Day will be a whole school event for a day. We will be emailing more details this week. If you are joining us to support your child, please be mindful that this will be a whole day and children may be taken home after sports day. Children who need to return to school, can be collected at the usual time. If your child has clubs on that day, they can also remain with us in order to attend these.

Duolingo: Well done to the 10 children who have already completed their assignment for this term. It is not too late to join! Please find below a reminder of the duolingo classroom codes: Year 1 go to http://duolingo.com/o/njcncq Year 2 go to http://duolingo.com/o/wjxkxf Year 3 go to http://duolingo.com/o/vpfzzy Year 4 go to http://duolingo.com/o/xjbcux Year 5 go to http://duolingo.com/o/whzwfq

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Art Week at JKPS

We would like to say a big well done to all the children for their terrific artwork this week! All our Art work will be showcased outside in the playground next week! Thank you to all the staff and Miss Julia for organizing.