October 10th

2019

Pupil of the Week

Certificates Our Pupil of the Week is:

Jacqui and Sophie

Congratulations Sofia and Regina

This week’s

Is Isobel and Lola-Rose

Mathlete of the Week

Althea Well done for reaching 1330 points

Bronze Maths Certificates Congratulations to

Rafael, Jacquelin & Althea

Congratulations

Karolina and James for your writing this week

What a busy week we've had!

On Monday morning, we learnt that

our SIAMS inspection had been

postponed. This will now take place

at some point in the very near future

however we do not know exactly when

this will be. On Monday afternoon, Jen

joined us for collective worship. She

asked us to think about what we will be

giving at harvest. Jen told us the story

about the two loaves, five fish and the

picnic lunch that fed at least 5000

people! Children always love the songs

Jen teaches us. Mrs Stanley has

managed to get the latest song:

Stand Strong so we can sing it when Jen

isn't with us! On Wednesday, Michelle

came into school to lead us in collective

worship. She asked us to think about the

role of the church in its community.

Oak Class had learnt about this last year

and is was great to see them using

their knowledge to answer lots of

questions! Thank you Michelle for also

joining Oak class for RE. They have been

learning about Islam and she was

amazed by what they could tell her when

Mrs Stanley asked the children to recap

their learning. Michelle also ran her craft

club this week. After being in the Oak

Class when they were learning about

prayer, we'd asked Michelle if she could

make some little crosses with the children

- she came fully prepared and the

children enjoyed making their own little

crosses covered in wool.

Mathematicians of the week are

Maison and Lola-Rose

Tom

97.7% attendance

this week Every child that had 100% attendance this week has been entered into the Autumn prize raffle.

Please ensure your child attends school as much as possible.

School Improvement Adviser Our school improvement adviser came into school this week. She interviewed KS2 children

about their learning in RE. She was very pleased to see children speaking so confidently and

passionately about their learning and the obvious pride they have in their learning - she

commented that their books were beautiful and she was pleased to see children making links

with what they have learnt. Mrs Stanley was very proud of the pupils and of the

staff in what we have all worked so hard to achieve.

this week goes to

Annabel, Sophie, Aaron - well done

CHAMPION is Aaron

What a busy week we've had! (continued)

On Wednesday evening, Mrs Watson

and Mrs Stanley, ably assisted by some

of our pupils, showed round several

groups of prospective parents and

pupils. Our pupils spoke so passionately

and eloquently about our school the

teachers felt very humbled! They were

great ambassadors for our school!

On Thursday evening, we held our

parents/carers' evening. Thank you for

the great turn out and for taking the time

to fill out the questionnaires. We are

sorry we overran a little - we hope you

enjoyed having time to really read

through your child's books and

see all the fabulous learning

that takes place here!

Silver Maths Certificates Congratulations to

Jaquelin

Sumdog Certificate This week’s certificate

is awarded to

Kieron

Kaci & Isobel has been awarded this certificate

This week’s certificate goes to

Leo

This week’s certificate of

goes to Annabel

October 10th

2019

If you would like a hard copy of this newsletter sent home please contact Mrs Bentley in the school office.

New School Year - Autumn Term 2019

October

Friday 18th - 9am

Y5/6 3rd residential trip (Carlton Lodge) payment due Achievement assembly, parents invited

Friday 25th 9am 3.30pm

Harvest festival, parents invited School closes for half term

November

Monday 4th 8.55am AM

Children return to school Flu vaccinations for children with parental consent

Friday 8th 8.30 onwards Photographer in school

Wednesday 13th 12 noon Family lunch

Friday 15th - TBC

Y5/6 4th residential trip (Carlton Lodge) payment due Children in Need fundraising day

Friday 29th 9am Achievement assembly, parents invited

December

Wednesday 4th 12 noon Family lunch

Tuesday 10th PM Christmas production

Wednesday 11th 12 noon 6pm

School’s Christmas lunch Christmas production

Thursday 19th TBC Christmas party

Friday 20th TBC 3.30pm

Carol Service at church – parents invited School closes for Christmas

PE Kits Please can you make sure that children bring their PE kits into school EVERY Monday morning and leave them here

until Friday afternoon.

Oak Class Oak Class have done some great learning in RE, finding out about what different people believe about God. We are taking a break from RE now

and moving onto Geography. Next week, and for the next few weeks, Oak class will be learning all about England. This will include learning about: the cities that are found here and being able to accurately locate them on a map; knowing some main human and physical features found in key

cities; naming and locating the major rivers in England and knowing the name of the river that runs through each of the major cities; knowing what is meant by a county, being able to name some and locate them on a map; finding out about mountains in England and where they are

located; and understanding what is meant by 'climate' and being able to describe the climate of England. In addition to this, children will learn about longitude and latitude and be able to talk about hemispheres. They will use this to describe the location of Leeming Bar. There's lots of research to be done and precise use of maps. Judging by the children's enthusiasm for our new way of working in RE,

I'm confident they are going to love being immersed in geography - I'm certain they are up for the challenge! It's great to know that we've inspired our pupils (which is what we set out to do in our vision). We want inclusive, independent and

inspired learners. Judging by the comments at Parents' Evening, where many of the grown-ups said, "My child has been talking to the family all about this at the dinner table!" We think we can say that we've inspired the children to share their learning at home!

Mrs Stanley has been really impressed with all children's work ethic throughout school over the past few weeks - she's seen many independent learners, even from our youngest members. Well done children.

New Website

Our new website has finally gone live! From now on, we will be back to updating our blog pages. Please check these out. Mrs Stanley will try to make the blog pages link to

the closed Facebook Group so that she doesn't have to post things twice! There will

be Dojos for pupils who leave comments on our blog (or if their grown-ups do too)!

Sumdog At the end of a week long North Yorkshire

Sumdog online maths contest Oak class finished in 35th place with the school

champion being Kieron.

Water Polo With this newsletter is a letter

from a Water Polo Head Coach. Any interested parents please let Mr Hodgson know and he'll contact her.

Don’t Forget World Squash Day at Bedale. Saturday 12th

October 2019, 10.30am to 2.30pm

Acorn Class In the Acorn class we are learning about what it means to be part of a faith community.

We are looking at how special we are and what things we are part of such as clubs and our school family. We are going to be investigating Christian symbols and how Christians believe God cares for us. We will also be looking at Muslims and how calligraphy is important to them as well as how the

prophet teaches them to be part of a community. After that we will explore elements of the Jewish religion and how Jewish people come together each Friday to celebrate. Finally we will be exploring baptisms and marriages looking in particular at similarities and differences.