How Do You Spell Success? Frettenham Primary
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Message from the Executive Headteacher Issue 6 July 2017 THE SCHOOLS IN OUR PARTNERSHIP How do you spell success? Frettenham Primary Hainford Primary "The secret of success in life is the cornerstone to success. success by how high he is for a man to be ready for "The real secret of success is climbs but how high he Horsford Primary his opportunity when enthusiasm." bounces when he hits it comes." - Walter Chrysler - bottom." Old Catton Junior School - Benjamin Disraeli - "Success is the ability to go - General George S. Patton - How you spell success de- from failure to failure with- Finally, we need c-o-n-f-i-d-e- St. Faiths’ Primary pends on who you ask. Suc- out losing your enthusiasm." n-c-e; cess, it seems, means a lot of - Sir Winston Churchill - "Self-trust is the first secret White Woman Lane Junior different things to a lot of With enthusiasm on our side, of success." different people. Benjamin there’s not much we cannot - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Disraeli seemed to spell suc- achieve. Enthusiasm encour- Success can certainly mean a cess p-r-e-p-a-r-a-t-i-o-n, re- ages us to go farther, push lot of different things to a lot The Executive: minding us of the importance harder and reach higher than of different people, but one Miss Anatola - Executive Deputy of being ready when oppor- ever before - it’s hard to spell thing is for certain. The only for EYFS tunity presents itself. Henry success without place in the world where suc- Mrs Pellatt - Executive Deputy Ford, concurred, say- e-n-t-h-u-s-i-a-s-m. cess comes before w-o-r-k is for School Improvement ing, "Before everything else; Dr. Joyce Brothers says that in the dictionary. Mrs Porter - Executive Deputy getting ready is the secret of "Success is a state of mind. If Want to be super successful? for SEND success." you want success, start think- Then roll up your sleeves and Dr. Schweitzer spelled suc- ing of yourself as a success." get to work! And always re- cess h-a-p-p-i-n-e-s-s; She emphasizes the im- member this: God gave us Heads of School: "Success is not the key to portance of holding a power- two ends. One to sit on and Mr Paul Cross - happiness. Happiness is the ful, positively charged picture one to think with. Success key to success. If you love of yourself succeeding in your depends on which one you Hainford Primary what you are doing, you will mind; s-e-e-i-n-g yourself use; heads you win — tails, Mr Gyles Longhurst - be successful" suggesting that succeeding – in your mind – you lose. Frettenham Primary pursuing our passions in life – paves the pathway to success. Here’s wishing you a super doing the things we love to do Here are a few more ways to successful day – every day – Mrs Tanya Kirton & – is the true path to prosperi- spell success; surely we need for the rest of your life. Miss Tracy Anderson - ty and achievement. When p-e-r-s-e-v-e-r-a-n-c-e; Horsford Primary you’re actively engaged in a "Many of life's failures are project that stirs your soul people who did not realize Mrs Kate Connelly - and makes you come alive, how close they were to suc- Old Catton Junior you're much more likely to cess when they gave up." Miss Lesley Rix - throw your entire heart into - Thomas Edison - the effort. And it’s precisely And d-e-t-e-r-m-i-n-a-t-i-o-n; St. Faiths’ Primary that type of all out commit- "Always bear in mind that Mr Daniel Richmond & ment to excellence that ulti- your own resolution to suc- mately insures your success. ceed is more important than Mr Nick Johnson - David Frost agreed, he any one thing." White Woman Lane Junior said, "Don't aim for success if - Abraham Lincoln - you want it; just do what you O-v-e-r-c-o-m-i-n-g a-d-v-e-r-s love and believe in, and it -i-t-y is also an important will come naturally." contributor; Ashley Best-White Others argue that enthusiasm "I don't measure a man's Executive Headteacher The Nebula Partnership Racing Goblins … On your marks, Get set, Go! Pupils from 17 Norfolk primary Greenpower Education Trust ran the Viner, Tanisha Raviraj. Assemblers: schools raced in 25 cars in the coun- project to spark children’s interest in Connor Hanworth, Ashleigh Bunn, ty’s first ever Formula One-style engi- STEM subjects (science, technology, Aleta Castelino, Keira Edwards, Tom neering event on Wednesday, June 7, engineering and maths). The trust’s Dann, Johnny Edwards. including pupils from Frettenham Pri- chief executive Jeremy Way said: “The mary, Horsford Primary, Old Catton project has seen the most rapid Frettenham Primary Junior and White Woman Lane. The growth in Norfolk of anywhere in the Staff - Gyles Longhurst, Roxy Mason children were racing their single-seat UK.” and Pete Leggett electric ‘Goblin’ cars at Scottow Enter- The project is a really innovative way Pupils - Class 3. The drivers were Ruby prise Park; the former RAF site was to get children to develop their sci- -Mae Whittaker, Luke Spencer, Evan transformed into a children’s race- ence and technology skills and as you Budd, Sophie Banning and Rosie track for the day and can see from the pictures, they had a Plane. up to 200 10 and 11-year-olds drove lot of fun doing so. the cars they built at school, with the White Woman Lane budding engineers and racing car driv- Teams: Staff - James Savage and ers competing in slaloms, drag and Old Catton Junior Richard Queensborough sprint races. Staff - Stephen Pritchett and Pupils - Anya Aldous, Eve Bailey, Through participating in this project Katie Richardson, Fran Morgan and Rhiana Tibbs, Clark Concannon and the children have got hands-on experi- Jason Gunton Oliver Leggett. ence of engines in the classroom. They Pupils - Drivers: Sienna Price, Fay had to both build the car from Bridge, Bradley Copping, Luke Cop- Horsford Primary scratch, design the body and decorate ping, Harley Carolan, Joshua Legg, Staff - Tim Patient and Shayney Blythe it and then drive it in the races. They Joseph Sanderson. Designers: Ella Pupils - Lewin Razzell, Jamal Sohna, also learned how to work as a team, Murray, Jayden Beattie, Anna James Leveridge , Alanna Wright, to problem solve, demonstrate and Langeskov. Artists: Eli Wilshaw, Ava de Harry Betts and Xander Didwell. develop leadership skills, and build up Cooper Wride, Madeline Bunter, Daisy their confidence. City Sports - July 2017 Well done to all the children who rep- want a gap in results on the trophies resented their school and the Nebula so they came up with a scoring system partnership at City Sports this year; based on Monday's results they were ALL brilliant! and Tuesday's races. This included a There were twenty two schools who weighting for the Field event winners competed in this annual event; the and the quickest children in the heats. City Sports Event takes place over All children who qualified for the finals three days. There is a field event that were awarded points. takes place after school where chil- All the children with the quick- dren compete in the high jump, long est recorded times for each event will jump and throwing events and usually be receiving medals. See the table the track events take place over two below. afternoons; during the first afternoon the heats take place and the second Yr 3 Girls Sprint Old Catton afternoon is when the semi-finals ( for Yr 3 Boys Sprint Woodland View the relays) and all the finals take place Yr 4 Girls Sprint Falcon Yr 4 Boys Relay Drayton with the addition of the 800m. How- Yr 4 Boys Sprint Taverham Yr 5 Girls Relay Old Catton/Taverham ever, this year, the second afternoon Yr 5 Girls Sprint Cringleford Yr 5 Boys Relay White Woman Lane was a wash out with heavy rain and Yr 5 Boys Sprint Angel Rd. Yr 6 Girls Relay White Woman Lane thunderstorms. This is the first time Yr 6 Girls Sprint Bignold Yr 6 Boys Relay Drayton I have ever known a complete cancel- Yr 6 boys Sprint St. Francis lation of the finals and I have been Girls 70m Hurdles Harnser The trophies were awarded to: involved or entering for the past 20 Boys 70m Hurdles Sprowston Drayton - Overall Winners years. Let's hope its at least 20 years Yr 5 Girls 150m Old Catton Drayton - Boys Shield before it happens again! Throughout Yr 5 Boys 150m Angel Rd Old Catton - Girls Shield the children competed enthusiastically Yr 6 Girls 200m Bignold Drayton - Relay Cup and supported each other. Yr 6 Boys 200m Drayton Cringleford - Small School trophy The committee met straight after the Yr 3 Girls Relay Old Catton Cringleford - Small Schools Relay event and decided that they didn't Yr 3 Boys Relay Drayton/White Woman Lane Congratulations everyone! Page 2 ISSUE 6 Page 3 ISSUE 6 Page 4 SING UP Frettenham Primary On Friday 16 June, the Sprowston ‘The Time is Here’, ‘Just One Person’, Lauren Bates, Elspeth Brown, Rosie Plane, Jessica Burrows, Maisie Redgrave, Fraya Bishop, Lily Cluster proudly presented ‘Sing Up’ ’Put a Little Love in Your Heart’ (which Herring, Elspeth Murray, Ryan Bates, Sia Bishop, once again. Pupils and staff from was also signed by pupils from the Hayley Bradford, Martha Brown, Jacob Clow, schools across the partnership came Hall School) and ‘Believe’ - the ‘Sing Jasmine Herring, Poppy Joy, Skye Meekings, together to perform at the Festival at Up’ anthem.