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St John’s C.E.V.A First School Frome Website: stjohnsfrome.co.uk Uniform webshop: pmgschoolwear.co.uk Issue 18 Finance/Lunches: [email protected] Friday 5th February 2021

HEAD TEACHER’S AWARDS

Learning at Home Learning at School TOP 5 INDIVIDUAL TOP 5 SPELLING SPELLERS GROUPS Reception - Lana Reception - Kayla-Mai Year 1 - Ashton Year 1 - Thea 1 Gabriel (Rowan) 1 Rowan Year 2 - Edward Year 2 - Sienna 2 Leo (Rowan) 2 Sycamore Year 3 - Rio Year 3 - Patrick 3 Genny (Maple) 3 Maple Year 4 - Romilly Year 4 - Cleo 4 Alicia (Willow) 4 Willow 5 Sophia (Maple) 5 Beech

ZOOM STORY TIME SESSIONS A BIG THANK YOU Thank you to everyone for joining in with our first two Zoom …to Jaina and her mum and dad for the surprise goodie box for story times this week. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as Mrs the staff team today. Mrs Marsland delivered them to everyone Marsland did! first thing this morning and we all started our Friday with a treat!

At home and in school, children in Key Stage 1 listened to ‘The Invisible String’, which has become one of our all-time favourite WORLD BOOK DAY books here in school. We are asking the children to vote for the Click this link for extra special free live digital events, from March story they would like to hear next week - see below. 3rd - 5th, to celebrate World Book Day on March 4th: worldbookday.com/events/ Children in Key Stage 2 listened to the first 3 chapters of ‘The Ickabog’ by JK Rowling. Mrs Marsland will record all 64 chapters, and links to chapters 1 - 8 have already been uploaded to Seesaw. DATA PROTECTION POLICY AND PRIVACY NOTICE If children miss any sessions, or want to hear any chapters again, The school’s Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notices have been or listen to the next ones, they can keep up with the story. Next recently updated, in line with Somerset’s model policy. week’s session begins with chapter 9, so children will need to listen to the next few chapters over the weekend. All parents have been emailed the updated ‘Privacy Notice for Pupils/Parents’, which explains what data the school holds and Please check your inbox for the invitations for next week’s sessions: how it is used. If you would like to see the updated Data Protection Policy, it is available on the school website here: KS1 Weds 10th Feb 2.30pm - ‘The Children’s Choice’. stjohnsfrome.co.uk/key-documents KS2 Tues 9th Feb 2.30pm - ‘The Ickabog’ - Chapter 9. SOMERSET BOARD’S ‘PRO CHALLENGE’ Here is the link to the second ‘Pro Challenge’. This week it’s with WHICH BOOK? Somerset CCC’s and . Children in KS1 can vote for the book they would like Mrs Marsland SCB ‘Pro Challenge’ Week 2 to read, so we have sent out a form on Parentmail for them to

choose one of these titles. The one with the most votes wins! The creative challenge this week is in partnership with Somerset CCC who would like children to send in pictures of (they can be drawn, painted etc, be as creative as you like). During England’s Test Matches against India over the next month or so, every time Jack takes a the club will use one of the pictures on their social media channels! Please email them to [email protected] with your name, age and school written on it. You may also send him any videos of children practising the challenge, or tweet them if you like - @somersetcb using #scbprochallenge.

LEARNING AT HOME LEARNING IN SCHOOL Ella, Roman, Buddy and Rowan designed and made Roman Year 4 drew dragon’s eyes and made a collage of Sir shields; Lissi, Elsabeth, Romilly, Josh, Leo A, Ruby, Lily and Year Tom Moore; Year 2 made Pop Art; Reception made bugs, making 4 cooked with their parents; Benicio, Edward, Astrid and Seb sure their legs were in matching pairs; Year 3 designed and made made Pop Art; Imre made pairs with letters and their capitals; Roman shields, then conquered the front playground… Olive made a superhero smoothie; Romilly practised her boxing; Jasmine measured and compared the heights of things…

LEARNING NEXT WEEK Reception Phonics - Blending and segmenting CCVC and CVCC words. Maths - Numbers 9 and 10; estimating; patterns and Chinese numerals. Theme - Superhero story writing; celebrating Chinese New Year.

Year 1 Maths - Place value to 50. English - Continuing with the story ‘Beegu’.

Year 2 Maths - Measuring length. English - ‘A Planet Full of Plastic’ - descriptive writing.

Year 3 Maths - Multiplication and division. English - Retelling Roman myths and legends - ‘Romulus & Remus’.

Year 4 Maths - Multiplication and division English - Work based on ‘How to Train Your Dragon’.

LEARNING TOGETHER We love seeing what you are doing at home and including updates here each week. Please keep sending stories, photos, drawings, quotes etc. to the school facebook group, Tapestry, SeeSaw or to your Year Group email.

At St John’s CE VA First School the health, safety and wellbeing of every child is our top priority. We expect all staff, governors, parent/carers and visitors to share this commitment to safeguarding our pupils.