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This Week in the Art Room

What a fabulously final creative week for the Autumn term. Highlights this week have been from Year 2 Polar Bears who

delivered not only a stunning industrial city inspired by Lowry, but added plasticine people into this vibrant installation. Year 3

Sea turtles (in addition to their stunning Christmas illustrative card designs) also couldn't resist adding some more plasticine

people in! Year 4 Tigers fancied themselves as Egyptian pharaohs (or possibly wise men?!), and produced delicate

headdresses created from collage of patterned paper and fabric scraps! They are now gracing the art room walls, as well as

their stunning portraits all framed on display on the stair case leading to their classrooms! Such rich and powerful work, they

should feel very proud! Year 5 have their entries in for the Farmvention competition, titled "Wool The Wonder Fabric" and we are

so excited to see whether they get chosen as finalists to showcase their work at the Houses of Parliament! And to finish off the

season, Year 1 Rhinos and Year 6 also created the most sensational illustrative Christmas card designs, of which on show are

designs by Eva, Spencer, Artur and Verity in Year 6 Orangutans. I wish you all a very peaceful and joyful holidays. Ms Davies :-)

That’s a Wrap!

We have finally made it to end of a very long term. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the staff who work so hard

to make this such a special place for our children to come to every day. I feel very privileged to work with such a dedicated and

talented team.

We are very grateful for all of the time and support that our parents and friends of Heber have given us this year. Any time,

support and encouragement from parents that we receive is so appreciated. The P&F are off to a very strong start in helping us

to achieve our aim of creating a computing suite for our children to benefit from over the coming years.

Our staff have already been working on their plans for an exciting term ahead. We look forward to welcoming you all back on 7th

January. Until then, have a happy and restful break.

Issue number: 14 20th December 2019

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Christmas Box Appeal

We were absolutely blown away by the generous donations that we received for our Christmas box appeal. Thank you to Tiffany

Cole (mum of Jack and Thomas) for approaching us with the idea. Tiffany took the presents to the Lordship Lane Baptist Church

on Monday, where they were given out to local families in need and there were still some left over. Tiffany was able to deliver the

excess gifts to Barry House so that new families arriving before Christmas will have some waiting there for them.

Weekly Music Awards

The following awards were announced in our weekly Merit Assembly.

Key Stage 1: With a song always in his heart and an ear for music, Thomas in 1L is our Key Stage 1 music star of the week

this week. His dedication to singing back our songs and engaging in his Year 1 music learning activities has gone from strength

to strength. Keep up the progress, Thomas!

Lower Key Stage 2: Nathaniel Daniels in 4S blew us away with a note-perfect rendition of Mamma Mia this week. In particular,

his timing showed remarkable control and accuracy, which reflects his huge progress. He worked hard all lesson, and his

performance was a real treat for the end of the term. Excellent job, Nathaniel.

Upper Key Stage 2: It takes an audience to make a performance, and today we celebrate a fantastic audience indeed. After

their engagement during the maiden performance from the Justin Heber band, Farah, Talah, Daisy, Isobel, Freya and Eva from

6K (and ex-pupil and Eva’s sister Polly as well) have all earned the Upper Key Stage 2 music award. The energy, enthusiasm,

and love for music shown by these girls during the Heber Christmas Fair was incredible. Thanks girls!

A Message from Mr. Treen

Christmas has truly arrived! After that fantastic effort by Key Stage 1, it seemed we couldn’t get any more Christmassy.

However, with the Key Stage 2 teachers at the helm, the older Heber children did us proud once again. Our Year 5 and Year 6

children worked so hard on the songs for their play, and with so many solo performances and harmonies sung to the audience;

we couldn’t have been more thrilled with the musical outcome. When it comes to Year 3 and Year 4, we cannot overlook the

instrumental input of the children, as well as their angelic singing. Several children approached me about performing

instrumentally in the performance, and I was so pleased with the feedback about these energetic musicians and their efforts.

With a multitude of instrumental skills being displayed, it has been a fittingly strong end to the year in music at Heber.








Stars of the Week

Every Friday staff pick their Stars of the Week

from each class. The children can earn this

prestigious award for demonstrating one of our

core values; Responsibility, Resilience and

Thoughtfulness. Congratulations to the following

children who were chosen as the Star of the Week

in Merit Assembly this week:

Reception – Luca (Rec C) & Gia (Rec E)

Year 1 – Bridget (1H) & Sam (1L)

Year 2 – Ethank (2B) & Rudi (2J)

Year 3 – Ella (3A) & Kevin (3P)

Year 4 – Violet (4P) & Ibrahim (4S)

Year 5 – Chantai (5C) & Felicie (5M)

Year 6 – Charlie (6F) & Nidal (6K)

Christmas Fair Fundraising Update

Thank you to everyone who visited our Christmas fair last Sunday. We

hope you and your family had a great time.

The stunning Santa’s grotto, the raffle drawing suspense and fun games

offered great family entertainment. As a major focal point this year, the

main hall really brought people together around food, drinks, a tombola

and live music! ‘Justin Heber’, a band consisting of teachers and parents

rocked the hall with their first-ever performance.

Thanks to the many visitors who generously supported the event the fair

has raised £7,090. This is almost the double than last year’s fair. And this

is the amount before matched fundraising. We will give you another

update in January, letting you know how much money we raised in total.

As you can imagine, the organisation of such an event requires lots of

preparation and attention to detail. In addition to everyone who helped on

the day and the mysterious Santa, we’d like to thank the following parents

and sponsors for organising the event:

Main fair organiser: Harriet McAuliffe

Coordinators: Katy Haile, Helen Wilkinson

Raffle: Harriet McAuliffe, Annie Tirante, Regina Kahl

Beverages: Louise McClay, Clare Duggan, Andrew Shove, Rada Danilovic

Catering: Phillip Eeles and the Honest Burger Peckham team, Marc, Vik,

Dominik, Lizzy and Ricardo

Arts and Crafts: Frankie Davies, Claire Dartington

Santa’s salon: Kasia Swierzyna, Jo Wynyard, Ali Fellows

Games: Kirsty Leslie, Suzie Atkinson, Natalie Woodger, Vanessa Franks,

Rob Westaway

Bouncy castle: Jay Ost, Pauline Goetz

Santa’s Grotto: Vicky McLellan, Katherine Quin, Jo Conrad

Music: Andrew Treen and band

Token banks: Kate Gaskell, Aubrey Brandt, Sam McAuliffe, Jenny

Fernandez

Christmas market: Rachel Barlow

Tombolo’s, jolly jam jars, game, pocket money stall: Emily Quinton, Helen

Wells

Signage: James Reeve

Main event sponsor: Pedder Estate Agents

Food and beverages sponsor: Honest Burgers

P&F Fundraising

If you like to know more about how you can support

and fundraise for our school’s new computer room,

please visit

www.heberprimaryschool.com/students/fundraising

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Ideas and Feedback

If you have any ideas for future events, feedback or

general comments about the Parents & Friends

charity, please email us at [email protected]

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January All diary dates are available on the school website calendar.

Tuesday 7th Children return to school

Wednesday 15th Deadline for applying for Reception 2020 intake

Monday 20th (9:15am and 5:30pm) Maths workshop – How to support at home

Monday 20th (2:15pm - 3:15pm) 3A Animation workshop

Wednesday 22nd Perform drama workshops for Nursery – Year 3

Wednesday 22nd (pm) Year 6 The Big Lecture at Alleyns

Thursday 23rd Young Voices concert at O2

Monday 27th (2:15pm - 3:15pm) 3A Animation workshop

Friday 31st Riot Act theatre performance for Years 5 & 6

February Monday 3rd Monday 20th (9:15am and 5:15pm) Maths workshop – Times Tables

Monday 3rd (2:15pm - 3:15pm) 3P Animation workshop

Monday 10th (2:15pm - 3:15pm) 3P Animation workshop

Tuesday 11th Safer Internet Day

Friday 14th Last day of half term – finish at normal time

Half Term Holiday: Monday 17th – Friday 21st

Monday 24th Children return to school

Wednesday 26th Year 4 to Tate Britain

March Monday 2nd – 6th Heber Book Week

Monday 2nd The Tempest storytelling sessions by Shakespeare’s Globe

Thursday 5th World Book Day

Tuesday 10th and Thursday 12th Parents’ Evening

Wednesday 18th (8:15am) Year 2 SATs meeting for parents/carers

Friday 20th (8:00am) Year 6 SATs meeting for parents/carers

Monday 23rd – 27th International Week

Friday 27th International Evening



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