I Hope That You All Had a Restful and Enjoyable Easter Break. We Are Now About to Embark

OLD CATTON NEWSLETTER Tel: 01603 426973 Fax: 01603 424029 www.oldcatton.norfolk.sch.uk e-mail: [email protected] Executive Headteacher: Mrs. A. D. Best-White MA Head of School Mrs. K. Connelly

Issue 26 Monday 11th April Norwich 2016

Dear Parents I hope that you all had a restful and enjoyable Easter Mindfulness Break. We are now about to embark on the Summer Due to a lack of uptake we will not be able to offer the Term! (My personal favourite.) It is already jam packed parent and child Mindfulness Group after school. full of events and things to look forward to. Let’s hope Apologies to those who were keen to start the group. we get some lovely summer weather to help us along the way. Welcome back to all children, parents and Dates for your Diary – Summer Term 2016 staff.  Monday 11th April - Summer Term begins for all pupils. Stars of the Week!  Monday 2nd May – Bank Holiday School Closed Congratulations to the Stars of the Week, who were  Week beginning the 9th May SATs Week for presented with their certificates in Celebration Assembly Year 6. SATs Breakfast Club will run Monday- before Easter. A wonderful array of different reason for Thursday. being brilliant!  Tuesday 24th May – Class Photos. Dylan Miller – 6E  Friday 27th May – Reverend Parsons to take Lucy Moscrop – 6E Assembly. Annalise Mallett - 6G  Monday 30th May-Friday 3rd June – Half Term. Kevin Murray – 6G  Week Beginning Monday 13th June – Year 6 Lola Yeomans – 6S Cycling Training begins. (Parent Helpers Jamie Mallett – 6S needed! Please let me know if you would like Ava De-Cooper Wride– 4E to help out.) Yung Loh – 4E  Week beginning Monday 20th June – Year 4/5 Tom Dann – 4W Cycling Training begins. (Parent Helpers Keira Edwards – 4W needed! Please let me know if you would like Szymon Kurek – 3C to help out.) Lukas Stuknys – 3C  Monday 20th, Tuesday 21st and Wednesday Holly Chadwick – 3H nd Jack Stone – 3H 22 June – Year 6 Whitlingham Trip.  Thursday 30th June – Year 6 Fashion Show, Golden Book 10:00am – 11:00am th th This week the following pupils have had Wow moments  Monday 4 July, Tuesday 5 July, Wednesday th to be proud of, impressing their teachers and amazing 6 July – City Sports at UEA. their peers with special moments of brilliance. Well  Tuesday 5th July - Reverend Parsons to take done! Assembly. Jamie Mallett  Monday 11th July – Sports Day 9:00am – Alfie Hayward 11:30am (the finish time is always flexible as we can never be sure how long the events will take. This is an estimated finish time.)  Tuesday 12th July - Sports Day if we need to cancel due to rain.  Friday 15th July – Old Catton Junior School Summer BBQ and fun evening!  Monday 18th July – Year 6 end of year show, Mrs Wright’s Maths App of the Week! 7pm. Slice It! Begins (Com2u2 USA, Inc)  Tuesday 19th July – Celebration Assembly Game using understanding of fractions to split a shape 9:00am. into required number of equal sized pieces by drawing a  Wednesday 20th July – last day of the Summer set number of lines. Term.

I will do my very best to make sure that these key dates do not change as I know how much notice you need in order to make sure that you can attend. While some dates will undoubtedly be added these key dates should not change.

The Nebula Partnership TALK HOMEWORK &

‘WOW’ WORDS Please do not hesitate to come into school and speak to me or another member of staff if you have any questions Each week we send a Talk Homework or concerns. activity and ‘Wow’ Words home and we would be very grateful for your support. Mrs K Connelly

We are trying to help all our children develop excellent speaking and listening skills, which in turn will help them with their writing. “If a child can’t say a sentence then they can’t write it either!”

Please spend at least 10 minutes talking with your child about the questions below;

One of our themes for Assemblies for the month of April is generosity. I would like you to think of the word generosity. How can you show generosity to other people? Talk about all the ways you can think of that would embody the meaning of the word generosity. Can you think of a time when someone has shown you great generosity? How were they generous? How did it make you feel?

(liberality, lavishness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, munificence, open-handedness, bounty, unselfishness, indulgenc.)

In Big Talk, we use ‘WOW’ Words to improve our vocabulary and ‘big up’ our sentences to make them more interesting! Our ‘WOW’ Word this week is; Generosity

Please encourage your child to use this word, in the right context, as much as possible.  The ‘Talk Homework’ and ‘WOW’ words will be set every Monday in the newsletter; children will then share their ‘Talk’ with their class on a Friday afternoon.  We will encourage the children to use the WOW word throughout the week. Thank you for your support in helping your child. The Nebula Partnership