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Weekly Bulletin Week Commencing 31st October 2016

Headteacher’s News

I do hope you have all enjoyed a lovely half term break. We had a lovely end of half term Harvest Festival assembly led by some of our senior students; Amelie Tadd (Charity Rep), Nina Kreel (Head of School Council), Louie Glanvill (Head Boy) and Olivia Pavlides

(Head Girl). Thank you so much for your very kind donations, you were all so generous and we were able to donate a large variety of food to the and Food Bank. Amelie

Tadd met with 2 representatives from the Food Bank to hand over our donations. We have since had some correspondence from them thanking us for our contributions:

“A huge thank you from the volunteers of the Hangleton & West

Blatchington Foodbank for the generous donations made by pupils and parents of Deepdene School. We support an average of 35 people a week (14 of those children) and your contributions will really help those people in our local community who are struggling to provide food for themselves and their families. For more information about what we do visit www.hangletonfoodbank.org”

Zoe Smith

Co-ordinator

Hangleton & West Blatchington Foodbank

Mrs James has been busy preparing our very own Internet Safety

day which will allow pupils to participate in activities related to

‘Keeping Safe on Line’. The assembly on Monday is relating to this

very important topic, so please do discus with your child what they

have been doing throughout the day and what they have learnt.

Mrs James will also be launching a competition on Monday and we

invite pupils across all year groups to participate! More details to

come soon…

Elizabeth Brown

Headteacher

Reception News A COUPLE OF IMPORTANT REMINDERS! The children in Reception have been looking at the art work of ‘Giuseppe Archimboldo’. We were fascinated by his portraits of Christmas Card Orders people made from fruit and vegetables, with his inspiration we

The deadline for parents to order their children’s Christmas created our very own portraits out of fruit and vegetables.

Cards is 9th November 2016- this will guarantee delivery of the

cards to parents in the first week of December. The children in Reception have had an amazing first half term. We have learnt all about Fruit and Vegetables, celebrated Roald Dahl’s Birthday, been on our first school trip, attended school Canvas Bag Orders assemblies and House meetings and much more!

All money and order forms are to be returned to Ms Taylor We were really excited to share our work with our parents on by Monday 7th November. These bags will make lovely open morning. Christmas gifts for friends and family. After half term we will be looking at the changing seasons and focussing on Autumn, Diwali and Bonfire Night, so if you are on any walks please look out for natural things to bring in to put on Open House our Autumn table. Thank you for coming to our open morning- here are a couple Mrs Stoner of photographs of parents enjoying their children’s work. Our next ‘Open House- come and see your child’s work’ will be in the Spring term. You are of course always welcome to come and see what your child has been up to, you may arrange this with your child’s class teacher who will be happy to suggest a convenient time for you to come into the classroom.

Year 1 News

In science during the last week of half term, we were focusing on another one of our senses. The children sampled a variety of foods and discussed whether the tastes were sweet, salty or sour. There was no surprise when mango and marshmallow turned out to be the favourites! We enjoyed a lesson on rhyming words supported by the story This is the Tale of Georgie Grub. I wonder if the children have mentioned to you about the ending? Our PSHE lesson concentrated on emotions and how we can recognise what our friends are feeling. The children expressed very mature thoughts and were able to relate the emotions shown to their own experiences. For this half term, our History topic is ‘Toys’ we shall be sending home a questionnaire which we would kindly invite you to complete which will be asking you about some of the toys you had as a child.

We hope you have had a lovely holiday. Mrs Moore and Mrs Kent Year 2 News

The children in Year Two have been working incredibly hard in Science, learning about Uranus and Neptune. They have attended ‘Space School’ and have been learning facts and making collages of the planets for our solar system pictures.

In computing the children have been practising their skills using Office (Word) and have typed up captions about themselves that have been stuck with their self portrait paintings in the classroom. Year 3 Stone Age Day We have been continuing to learn about the history of and have been discussing the differences in clothing that Prince Regent What a fantastic day we have had. We have spent time carving our wore compared to the fishermen. We also discussed the way own arrow heads, which was hard work. We talked about how this tourism in Brighton was affected when trains were invented. The would be done in the Stone Age and the different weapons and children drew amazing pictures of a train and labelled it. tools that would have been made. We have created our own cave In Maths we have learnt about measurement and have been paintings, which were a little messy. We have even tried to recreate measuring using decimetres and centimetres. The children were a famous cave painting of red hand prints. We have also taken part guessing the lengths of different objects from around the classroom in a river ceremony and used our imaginations to write poetry and and measuring them using a ruler. We have also been discussing stories. Please do ask your children all about it. Well done Year 3 the properties of numbers and played ‘guess my number’ game. you worked really hard and produced some beautiful work!

In Literacy we have been practising using question marks and exclamation marks and have practised writing sentences using Archaeological Visitors in Year 3 correct punctuation. Year 3 spent an exciting afternoon with a classroom full of In PSHE we have been discussing working together as a team and bones, broken pottery and flint on Monday. Brighton and will continue to practise this throughout our school day. Archaeological Society paid them a visit and told them all about their work. They explained what archaeology is and about the It was lovely seeing you and performing for you at the Open archaeological sites in the local area. The children were able to Morning. I hope you have all had a lovely half term. handle lots of artefacts, sort them and even draw some. After Ms Rosen sending a thank you email I received this -

The BHAS team very much enjoyed the visit to Deepdene and Year 3 said to me. ‘It is always so refreshing to see so many young faces interested in archaeology, and it is wonderful to hear so In Year 3 we have been learning about ‘Growth Mindset’ in PSHE. many questions. We look forward to coming back soon’. This means we believe we can always develop our brains and learn Well done Year 3! more, even when we find our lessons difficult. A ‘Fixed Mindset’ Ms. Hayward believes we are all born with certain levels of intelligence and talent, Head of History and Year 3 Class Teacher and we can’t change ourselves. Year 3 have been showing me they have already started developing a Growth Mindset, and in our PSHE lesson they were able to work in teams to write a statement which illustrates their progress. On the Open Morning if you looked at our classroom door, you would have seen this work displayed.

If you would like to find out more about this fascinating subject, there is a book by Professor Carol Dweck called ‘Mindset’ which I highly recommend. Year 3 enjoyed an exciting week of History with Miss Hayward during the last week of the half term. They had a workshop with the Archaeological society on Monday afternoon and a day of Stone Age activities on the Wednesday. Year 4 Year 6 News

Year 4 had a great time at Brighton Museum where they took part Huge congratulations to our Year 6 pupils who have stepped up in an Ancient Egyptian workshop. They were able to mummify a to their new senior positions of responsibility roles. The House ‘body’, removing the organs and placing them in canopic jars, Captains and Deputy House Captains did a wonderful job at leading wrap the body in bandages and even acted as professional the house meetings on Monday. They all seemed incredibly grown mourners. Finally they weighed the heart and as it was lighter up and I was very proud of them! Our Sports Captains have been than the feather of truth they were allowed through to the working with Mr Adams to keep the Sports Noticeboard up to date afterlife! We all had a great time and learnt much more about our and they have been involved in working with staff and pupils in topic. Next lesson we will be taking part in an excavation in the preparation for sports fixture. Seth Bailey, Head Mentor, has met classroom, I wonder what we will find? with Miss Brown to discuss his plans for his buddying system which Ms Hayward we hope to roll out this half term. Nina, Head of School Council, led Head of History a hugely productive school council meeting with pupils from across the school and she has a number of plans that she will be discussing soon with myself and Miss Brown. You can learn more in this week’s Pupil Column in this bulletin. Finally, Amelie, Charity Representative; MATHS NEWS Louie, Head Boy and Olivia, Head Girl worked extremely hard on this year’s Harvest Festival Assembly. It was a super way for us to finish off the first busy half term of the year. Fastest 77: Luca, 3m 19

Fastest 50: Maya, 3:10

Most Improved Score: Dexter, by 9 Year 6 Entrance Examination Pupils

Most Improved Time: Poppy, by 3m 38 English Entrance Examination tutorials will be taking place every Tuesday lunchtime in the Year 6 classroom at 1.30pm. All Fastest this term: Luca, 3m 19 entrance examination pupils are invited to attend. In preparation for these tutorials, the pupils were issued with a half term English prep pack which included an examination paper for pupils to attempt. Please support your child by encouraging them to stick Year 5 Prefect News to exam style timed conditions (1 hour for the reading section, 1 hour for the writing section). Congratulations to Year 5 pupils Amba Emilianos, Lola Obaweki, Mrs Croucher Luca Sell, Eliana Trosino and Jack Tucker who have been Deputy Headteacher appointed as school prefects for this academic year. The pupils completed the application process, initially writing application cards for the position and then answering questions posed by Sports News Head Girl, Olivia and Head boy, Louie during an interview. I was extremely impressed with the children; they showed great Sports Captain Maelona maturity and commitment throughout the week. During their Invited to a Trial for Sussex Cricket Club U11 Girls interviews, they were articulate and thoughtful and showed such a delightful enthusiasm for contributing to our school community. Sports Captain Albert Gorman reporting on the Shoreham They are going to make a wonderful team. They stood for College Fixture 22/9/16 recognition in the Harvest assembly. Sadly Lola was absent on the day and is therefore missing from the picture below. The match against Shoreham last week was a great start to the season drawing 3-3. We managed to pass the ball lots and create Our Senior Positions of Responsibility team is now complete goal scoring opportunities. The one thing we need to improve on is with both Year 6 and Year 5 pupils on board. We are very much our defending and shuffling toward the ball. It was a very exciting looking forward to working with the children and I anticipate a match and I hope this carries on into our next match. busy and productive year ahead. Congratulations to all of the pupils who have so eagerly pursued and secured these sought Ethan Hanna will be reporting on our more recent fixture we after positions. Well done! played at Shoreham College on 13th October in the next Bulletin. Mrs Croucher Deputy Headteacher Forthcoming events

Student Column Monday 31st October Internet Safety Day Hello, my name is Nina Wednesday 2nd November and I am the newly Football Match at Shoreham College appointed Head of School Friday 4th November Council. On Tuesday Year 3 Trip to Butser Ancient Farm 11th October we had our Monday 7th November first meeting with two Reception Autumn Walk to Church children from each class Deadline for Canvas bag orders to Ms Taylor from year 1 to year 6. Wednesday 9th November We discussed what the Fixture at Shoreham College Council is and what our meetings are for. The Dates for Your Diary children reported the things their classes wanted to discuss, change or add Monday 14th November to our school. We came out of the meeting with many Whole School House Meetings 1:30pm ideas to make Deepdene the best school in Brighton Thursday 17th November and Hove! We all agreed on the introduction of a board Football Match at Lancing College to celebrate achievements and activities even outside Friday 18th November the school (music grades, drama performances, Children in Need Day The Big Spotacular- Non School Uniform Day. amazing experiences). We also liked the idea of mixing Bring a pound - Wear something spotty if you can! classes once a term to give everybody the opportunity Tuesday 22nd November to get to know people they do not know from different School Council Meeting led by Nina Kreel year groups. Another suggestion was to identify a quiet Wednesday 23rd November place in the school where children who do not want Parents Evening from 3:30pm to join the crowd at play time can maybe play board Thursday 24th November games or read. From the younger classes we were Year 6 Art Trip asked for more Sport, more Art, more Drama and more Friday 25th November Singing. A great suggestion from the year 3’s was the Academic workshop at Roedean for Pupils in Years 1, 2 and 3. introduction of a “pet day” when children and teachers Monday 28th November can bring their animals to school! Academic workshop at Roedean for pupils in Years 4,5 and 6. Thursday 1st December We are happy to report that an idea introduced last Parent Voice Meeting 4:30-5:30pm year has really taken off. This idea is the Tree of Friday 2nd December Kindness. When somebody does something nice, you Year 5 and 6 to The Globe can write on a piece of paper what they did and stick Friday 2nd December a new “leaf” on the tree for everybody to see. This is Beach Hut Calendar Event- all invited- Pupils in Years 4,5 and 6 to perform. displayed at the top of the stairs, should you want to Sunday 4th December come and see it. School Christmas Fayre

Monday 5th December I am looking forward to discussing all the ideas with Year 4 Performance of The Bethlehem Star Miss Brown and to see them introduced soon. Thursday 8th December Nina Kreel School Nativity involving pupils in Upper Nursery, Head of School Council Reception and Years 1,2 and 3. Monday 12th December Flu Vaccinations for pupils in Years 1,2 and 3. Not compulsory and will only to be administrated with parental consent form completed.

Friday 16th December www.deepdeneschool.com Last day of Term.