Newington Community Primary School

Ambition, Achievement, Aspiration

The One Hundred Club centurions met for their treat last week. Mr Paul Incredible from the Kinetic Valentine’s Maths Challenge—We Love Maths Circus entertained the children with tricks and magic, including, by the look of the photo, of trying to eat a school chair! 170 children have earned 100 tokens this year by making the right choices in This half term, every child in the school will take home a Valentine's themed maths challenge full of lots of

their learning as well as being true Newington Role Models in all aspects of their school lives. A puzzles and games. It is also a great opportunity for you to continue your learning at home, focussing on one particular well done to the children in the following classes: Phoenix, Supernova, Great Bears, Mars, times table or number bond each day. Please return all challenges to Miss Coleman by the end of the first LIbra, Gemini, Jupiter, Earth, Pegasus, Neptune. week back of term 4 to win a badge. One worthy winner from each key stage will also be awarded with an

extra prize for going above and beyond with their maths learning out of school, showing they are a true Newington Sport 10:00 Year 3 1km 10:20 Year 3 1km Newington Winner! We look forward to beating our record of 250 challenges back! Good luck and have fun! Cross Country Girls Boys This year we have had the 10:40 Year 4 1km 11:00 Year 4 1km largest numberof entries Girls Boys for the Cross Country 11:20 Year 5 1.5km 11:40 Year 5 1.5km event taking place on Sat- th Girls Boys urday 24 February 2018 12:00 Year 6 1.5km 12:20 Year 6 1.5km at Quex Park. All 70 runners will take part in Girls Boys one of the largest events in the Primary Thanet Sports calendar. As part of this event, pupils will not only be representing Newington Community Primary School but will also be demonstrating what it takes to be a Newington Winner! We look forward to celebrating their success and wish them Good Luck in their race. It’s not too late for your child to add to the strength of our team, if you are interested please contact Miss Bowyer Parents’ Evening Parents’ evening will be taking place for children in Nursery to Year 5 on Tuesday 6th March from 2pm until 7pm, which means that the school will close on this day at 2pm. Please note, Nursery Parents’ Evening will take place over two afternoons: Lon- Monday 5th March from 1pm – 3pm don’s Wednesday 7th from 2pm – 7pm Afternoon Nursery will continue as normal on MONDAY and will close at 2pm on the WEDNESDAY Burning! Fire, Fire!! To book your appointment times, you will need to navigate to the ‘Parents’ Evening Bookings’ tab on our school’s website; a link The Great Fire of London became a raging inferno and engulfed buildings in moments – right in front of the will also be provided on our school Facebook page and via text. You will be able to book your slots from Wednesday 7th February eyes of children from Newington Community Primary School in Ramsgate. until Wednesday 28th February. Please note, if you have more than one child in school, it is important that you sign up as soon The historic scene was recreated by Year 1 pupils as part of their history and literacy learning. They created as possible to ensure that your times are close together. Tudor style homes out of paper and card, and decorated them to create a typical street scene of homes, If you have any questions, please ask at the office or alternatively, you can speak to Alison or Mrs Bailey in the office. Parents’ businesses and warehouses from London of 1666. Evening is a crucial meeting and it is expected that EVERY child is represented at these meetings, as it will be a chance for a To simulate the great fire, the houses were laid out on the playing field and set alight. As the flames spread discussion regarding how your child has settled into their new class. the pupils sang the historic rhyme London’s Burning. Term 4 Dates for your diary: The flames and smoke billowed above the rooftops as the children watched just how quickly the fire spread Next term, each year group will be hosting an art exhibition, for parents, to showcase the children’s fabulous art projects which through the closely-packed miniature homes. the children have undertaken so far this year. Please see dates for each year group below. Further details will be sent out in next Year 1 teacher Tim Knight said: “This is a great way of getting the children involved – they could feel the heat term’s newsletter. from the fire, smell the smoke, hear the crackling flames and see how swiftly the buildings they had made Year 4 – Friday 9th March were engulfed in the inferno.” Year 3 – Monday 12th March Head Teacher Cliff Stokes added: “This is a fantastic way of taking teaching out of the classroom and creating an event to really underpin what our children are learning.” Year 2-Wednesday 14th March The pupils, who are being time travellers to historic world events for their learning programme this term, are th Year 1 – Thursday 15 March also writing their eye witness accounts of the great fire in the manner of diarist Samuel Pepys, whose work Year 6 – Friday 16th March they are also studying. Year 5 – Monday 19th March Fire Facts: The fire began on 2 September and lasted just under five days. One-third of London was destroyed and about 100,000 people were made homeless. The fire had a devastating effect on the lives of Londoners Reception – Wednesday 21st March from all parts of society. It took about 50 years to rebuild the ruined city Nursery – Wednesday 21st March (am and pm)

Book Week Monday 26th February Year 1 Newington Community Primary School

Princess Margaret Avenue, Ramsgate, Kent. CT12 6HX 2018 Tuesday 27th February Year 2 Ambition, Achievement, Aspiration Year 3 Tel: (01843) 593412 Fax: (01843) 850323 Monday 26th Feb- Thursday 1st March Nursery AM (11.15 – 11.45) Headteacher: Mr. C. Stokes. M.A. B.Ed ruary marks the DRESS UP AS YOUR FAVOURITE Nursery PM (2.45 – 3.15) start of this year’s ROALD DAHL BOOK CHARACTER! Reception exciting Book Year 4 Week. This year Roald Dahl Evening Year 5 we are going to be 3:30—5:00 Year 6 celebrating the successful life of Roald Dahl. On Thursday 1st March we would like the children to dress up as their favourite Roald Dahl book character. Throughout the week you will be invited into your child’s class for an exciting Dahl’s detectives afternoon. You will be able to spend some time Dear Parents, reading with your child and learn some tips on how to support your child at home. We understand We are now at the end of term 3 and, unbelievably we are at the half way point in the school year. Our job in school is that many of our parent/carers have children in different year groups, if afternoons do clash you to make sure your children can read, write and use numbers to the best of their ability but we can only do so much. may spilt your time between classes. Please see below for details and if you would like to attend You are equal partners in the education process so I would ask you to encourage your children to take part in the please book online on the ‘Events’ and ‘Parents’ evening booking’ tabs. Valentine’s Challenges during the holiday, as well as encouraging your children to sit and read quietly for a few We ‘Wanna’ Live Like Counting People: minutes EVERY day. There are also a number of other reminders in the newsletter regarding Parents Evenings, Cross Country, Internet Safety and Book Week; all ways that you can and should support your children. Last week saw the internet release of our brand new ‘Times Table Song’ which celebrates the number ten. The song is in the style of Pulp’s classic Britpop anthem ‘Common People’ and the video is an affectionate tribute to the band As well as teaching the children formal elements of learning, we also teach them to be kind caring and compassionate and the style of pop videos of the mid-1990’s. human beings. As part of this we will be holding a WEAR RED non uniform day on Friday in order to support the British Heart Foundation’s Wear Red Campaign. The charity wants to raise awareness of how to keep our hearts healthy Mr Masters and Miss Appleby were roped into the video and Mr Brough- through eating healthier foods and getting everyone moving more. Sadly heart disease is the biggest killer of people in ton and Miss Coleman represented the maths department admirably. Mr the UK. The children have been completing skipping challenges in their PE lessons through the week. So let’s eat more Eldred got to experiment with a new piece of animation software and the of the healthier food options and get out and about in our local area. A donation of 50p towards this worthy cause result has been much loved by our pupils from reception all the way up would be much appreciated. Another option will be to compete in the Cross Country at Quex on the 24th Feb! to Year 6. We also got a lovely endorsement from Nick Banks, the drummer from Pulp who was kind enough to Tweet the following mes- The school will close on Friday at 3.15pm for the half term break. The school will open again on Monday 19th February sage. at 8.50am. I would like to wish all of you a happy, restful and enjoyable week off.

You can find all of our Times Table songs Newington Community Primary School Governing Board on the school’s YouTube channel and on NCPS Governors met on the 24th January for the third full Governing Board meeting of the year. our homepage, under the banner ‘Learning The governors were taken to the Nursery and then a Reception classroom for a learning walk led by the ever Songs’. Please use these as part of your enthusiastic and inspirational Miss Wheatley. Governors looked at the organisation of the rooms to ensure the very home learning to help your child master best learning experiences for each child and at a selection of the children’s books which were amazing! Mr Beech gave a presentation on raising the profile of gender equality. This is one of the objectives on the current their Times Tables in a fun way. Look out School Plan that governors are monitoring through the year and governors were pleased to note the actions and for more Times Tables songs in the near future. outcomes so far. A new pay policy was agreed. This closely matches the policy recommended by Kent. Valentine’s Reading Challenge! Updates on the strategic direction followed with Mr Arundel reporting on a meeting with Paul Carter, Leader of KCC. This half term challenge yourself with a good book and complete Mrs Andrews and Miss Heaton led on the latest curriculum developments at the school which sound to be really our Reading challenge! Our author of the term will be Roald Dahl so see what you can find out! Take a look at the positive changes to support learning. activities and complete them on your own, with friend or family member. There are prizes for the best challenges The meeting closed at 7.00pm. and badges for everyone who gives it a go! There will be an extra special prize for the lucky winner as well! Lesley Gallagher Good luck and have fun! Chair of Governors

Safer Internet Day Tuesday saw us celebrate Safer Internet Day as a school. The day helped to educate the children around being safe and kind to others on the internet, but also what they should do if something does go wrong online. Our special guest PC Prentice spoke to the children about filters and how they can report any content they don’t like. ‘Create, connect and share respect’ is the motto for this year’s campaign; a motto the whole school now knows by heart. Please direct any internet safety question you may have to Mr Rigden at [email protected].