NEWSLETTER 4th October 2019

LATEST NEWS Dear Parents and Carers Harvest Assembly. This assembly is just for the This week has been Safety Week for the whole children in school. school. The children have been learning about fire THURSDAY 10th OCTOBER – YEAR 2 will be safety, stranger awareness, self-safety, e-safety celebrating at St Mary’s Church with St and some basic 999 emergency skills, the PANTS Mary’s Junior School. Year 2 parents and carers rules (from NSPCC), be seen be safe rule, are welcome to join us at the church to celebrate. playground safety and what to do if you get lost. Please note that photographs at the church should To support at home over the weekend you could follow our photograph guidelines – only of your talk to your child about safety in your home, what child and they should be taken in as unobtrusive to do if there was a fire in your house, help them to way as possible – try not to run forward down the learn your phone number and address and talk to aisle in a gang blocking everyone’s view. them about what to do if they were worried about This year we will be collecting for the EAST something. In the past some parents and carers ELMBRIDGE FOOD BANK. The have specifically have said that talking about safety in this way will requested these food items: make their child anxious – experts say that  Tinned meat/meaty meals allowing your child to know what to do in an  Pasta Sauces emergency helps them to feel in control and could  Coffee save lives.  Biscuits On Monday we will be watching a Road Safety The children can bring in the items above to be show to further help the children to learn how to be presented at the harvest table in school and at the safe when crossing the road. church. nd On the 22 October the NSPCC will be talking to the children about their work and how to keep YEAR 2 ONLY will be walking to the Church to themselves safe. They will talk to the children celebrate along with Long Ditton St Mary’s Junior about Childline and showing them fun ways to School on Thursday! remember the number to call if they are seriously worried about things. We will be holding a Weather Preparations fundraising day for the NSPCC after they have As the weather gets colder please ensure your been. child comes to school with a suitable coat, hat, scarf, gloves – all named of course! This week we Harvest Festivals! have had a number of children outside in Next week we will be celebrating Harvest Time and inappropriate clothing for our changeable weather! saying thank you to how lucky we are for all the And now as the weather turns even colder it will be things we have. important for them to be prepared – even in the th WEDNESDAY 9 OCTOBER – in school Year 1, worst weather we try to ensure the children all get Reception and Nursery will be holding a special outside to play!

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Positive Behaviour really appreciate the time and dedication you give The children in our school behave excellently and to our school  we were talking about ways to celebrate this with parents and carers. After some thinking together Thought for the Week we have decided to begin a ‘I am Brilliant Board’ in The new Value of the Month is Responsibility. This each classroom. All the staff will be looking out for links in perfectly with Harvest and celebrating what kindness, politeness, good manners and taking we have while understanding our responsibility to care of each other. When they see an excellent share with those who don’t. example of this, they will write the name of that ‘Responsibility is the realisation that you are in child down on the boards. Then each week the control of every thought, feeling and action that you children whose names appear the most will be make. When you stop blaming others for how you celebrated in the assembly and newsletter. That feel, your life will change.’ North Star Martial Arts way they will get recognition for the things they do every day! Have an excellent weekend! Mrs Paines PE Kits In the next school parliament, we will be talking to the children about how they have come to school in PE kits and whether this is practical, effective Nursery and helpful. I know that parents and carers feel quite strongly about the change we have tried so We have had a very productive week and the please also put forward your views to your class children are settling well into routines, thank you reps who can then feed back to the teachers. We for your support by encouraging your children to be will then decide how to move forward with this in independent and also by saying goodbye at the the best interests of everyone. door.

We have been learning about responsibility when Birthday Books using toys and helping each other share and put Thank you to Finn C and Olivia G for choosing a toys away when we have finished using them. birthday book to give to their classes to celebrate her birthday. We have been an alphabet line to help us practise

the alphabet song and we have been sharing Attendance stories making noises and matching sounds as we The class this week with the most attendance is tell the stories. We have enjoyed singing and Dalmation Class with 98%! dancing to familiar nursery rhyme songs.

Parent Helpers This week we have been learning about Harvest If you would like to help in school this year, please time in preparation for our Harvest assembly next remember to return the completed forms to the week and we have been learning a song. We have school office as soon as possible. Below are the been thinking about where our food comes from time for the reading and library workshops: and how important it is to share our food. Please Reading workshop for parent helpers ask your child about the harvest song we have th  Tuesday 15 October at 9.00am, OR been learning! We would really appreciate a th  Wednesday 16 October at 2.30pm donation. Library workshop for parent helpers  Friday 18th October at 9.00am We have been very busy making our Christmas Ground Force Day card artwork and you will receive a letter about this Thank you in advance to everyone who is helping in a couple of weeks. …cont’d on Ground Force Day. You are brilliant and we

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We have also discussed Pantosaurus with the about me’ boxes with a small group. Please check children and shared the song from the NSPCC the letters that went home to find out which day website (www.nspcc.org.uk) your child should bring in their box.

Thank you to Jose who purchased a class book Home learning ideas: to celebrate his birthday with us. - If you have time over the weekend can you find some signs of Autumn in your garden or at the We are collecting boxes, tubes and bottles for our park. Could you collect some signs of Autumn junk modelling projects, we would appreciate any to share with your class? items - please make sure they are cleaned Reminders: thoroughly and have not contained nuts. - Please bring in any recyclable containers, newspapers and cardboard for junk modelling Reception (please remember no items that have contained nuts) First we would like to say a big well done to all of - If you would like to, you can bring in a non- the children who have come across the playground perishable item of food for our harvest festival and into their classrooms independently this week. collection – please see earlier in this letter for You have all done a fantastic job and should be types of food items to donate. very proud of yourselves! - Please see the ‘All about me’ sheet for This week we have continued our counting practice information and timetable for next week to ten and looking at different ways we can represent the numbers. We have also begun our Have a lovely weekend! phonics learning this week, looking at a new sound Reception team each day and practising the formation as well as listening for the sounds in words we know. The children have continued to explore the different Year 1 areas in the classroom and have particularly enjoyed playing with our dinosaur and under the This week has been Safety Week at school. We sea small world. As part of safety week we have have learnt about staying safe at school, at home had whole class discussions on how to stay safe and in the local community. During circle time, we when crossing the road, the important work that the talked about how to stay safe when using the fire brigade and police do to help keep us safe and internet. We designed a poster with information on how we can stay safe on the internet. rules to follow when using the internet, for example The children have really enjoyed learning about never tell someone where you live online. As part people who help us during safety week. It would be of Safety Week we also learnt about Pantosaurus great to extend our learning further by meeting a and how to keep our private parts private. person who is in the police, fire service or a Pantosaurus and PANTS is a NSPCC programme healthcare profession. If you would be interested in that teaches children about this subject. Please coming in to talk about your job with the children, follow the link for more information please let us know. https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing- abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/ Next week we will begin to look at the different signs of Autumn and using this in our maths This week in literacy, we designed our own learning to measure and order autumn leaves by monster. We then labelled size. We will continue to look at a new sound each the features of the monster day and practise hearing these sounds in words. and wrote sentences to We will also have the opportunity to share our ‘all describe them. In

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handwriting we learnt how to write the letters e, f Friday, it is their responsibly to do this and g in cursive script. themselves. You are welcome to write this on the class messages in the morning and we can In maths, we learnt about grouping objects remind them. together and maths symbols to show more than/less than. In Dance, we continued our dance unit on monsters. Children thought about how Year 2 monsters move and then practised moving like a monster. We also learnt about freeze frames and What a busy week learning all about how to keep thought of four different freeze frames for a ourselves safe! We learnt about keeping safe when monster. using the internet, road safety, stranger danger and how to keep ourselves healthy. We now all Next week we will be reading the book Jack and the Beanstalk. We will be focusing on writing know when and how to call 999 by role playing different emergency situations. Designing our own capital letters and full stops, making sure we pants was great fun and helped us learn the pants include them in every sentence. Children will be rule – that our bodies belong to us and parts of it choosing a picture from the story and then writing are private. The teachers were very impressed with sentences about what is happening in the picture. In maths, we will continue learning about grouping how grown up and sensible we were when discussing this. objects and more than/less than. In geography we During our topic time on Monday we have begun will be learning about features in our local area and to make castles fit for Kings and Queens! The in science about the properties of different materials. We will continue to practise our Harvest children were so creative and worked extremely well in their teams. We will be using next week’s song ready for the Harvest assembly on session to complete the construction of the castles Wednesday. and the following week to paint and decorate them.

Home Learning ideas In Maths we have been continuing to learn about  Draw a map to a monster’s secret lair, can you place value, deciding how much each ten and unit add features to the map? is worth in a number. We have been matching  Re- tell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, can coins to amounts in 100s, 10s and 1s. Next week you make any props to help you re tell it? we will looking at a range of different coins and the  Using junk modelling can you build a cave for best way to pay for things. a giant to live in? Can you label the different areas? On Thursday we went for our first coaching session at Surbiton Hockey Club. The children were all very Vocab we will be using next week focussed and participated in learning the hockey skills demonstrated with great enthusiasm. What a Maths: greater than, less than, equal, more, less, great opportunity to use these fantastic facilities number, group, order and benefit from the skills of the coaches.

Literacy: adjectives, describing words, capital Homework: This week we have asked the children letters, full stops, finger spaces to find out about Queen Victoria and complete a short quiz about her. Please return homework by Show and tell: Giraffes- something that is special Wednesday. to you/why? (one item - not a toy) Next week in Literacy we will be writing a letter to Please make sure you write in your child’s Queen Elizabeth II and creating a fact file about her reading record when you have read with them, majesty. otherwise their books won’t get changed. If your …cont’d child needs to change their reading book before

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Vocabulary cleaners and PVA glue. Please leave these in the Friends containers in the bike sheds. Maths - partition, addition, coins, value, pence, pound Again there will be a sign up sheet to help coming your way soon. Science - properties, strong, hard, transparent, opaque, heavy, light, waterproof, smooth, rough Mrs Santa has been drumming up excitement and we would like to ask you to start looking out for various things you might have around that you School Office don’t want to have around. We are starting to collect items for the Christmas Fair, the biggest

event of the school year for us. Nasal Flu Immunisation Please note that closing date for giving your e- Please leave in the bike sheds at any time the consent for your child to have the flu immunisation following items: is Friday 15th November. Please complete the e-consent form for your  Pocket money toys – small toys, crayon child’s flu vaccination at: packs… little things to go in little bags.  Sweets – penny sweets, chocolate bars, any www.surreyimmunisations.co.uk (your tasty unbaked goods. school’s unique code/URN number is  Glass Jars – clean, washed and label free, SR124966 which you will need to enter on to anything from jam jars to pasta sauce jars. the flu consent form)  Crackers – the pulling kind, not the eating kind.  Unwanted gifts.  Christmas cards – free from writing on the back of the picture or unused. Friends  Wrapping paper – gift bags, tissue paper, small boxes, Sellotape, ribbons, bows….

It feels like Autumn has definitely kicked in now, so A brochure for the Christmas Fair is created and we are looking forward to the Ground Force day sold each year; if anyone has a business or knows tomorrow (Sat 5th) and the Spooky Bounce on a business who would like to buy advertising space Saturday 19th October. in this, please do get in touch with [email protected] You should have had a message from your lovely class reps with a link to sign up to help on the Finally, in the run up to Christmas as you attach Ground force day, even if you haven’t signed up Amazon to your web browser toolbar, please go but find yourself at a loose end in the morning, into it via the GivingMachine.com. If you set up the please come to the school and help us tidy up the school as you chosen charity, a huge number of gardens. If you have signed up, Woo Hoo!! Thank shops will make a donation, its super simple and you - please bring whatever tools you can to use. costs you nothing but raises a fair amount for the school. https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/60B0 B48A8A82AAAF94-groundforce Have a lovely weekend

The Spooky Bounce is being held on Saturday Friends 19th October 10.00am-12.30pm. There will be lots of fun things to do, Face Painting, Ghoulish Gardening, Potion creations, Tombola, spooky games, Bar, BBQ and Café, and lots more as well as the bouncing! The class with the most children bouncing (over the morning, not at once!) wins a treat afternoon!

In the run up to the Bounce, we are looking for donations of: pine cones, paper plates, pipe

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ACHIEVEMENTS

ValueStars: William B Responsibility Erin Oscar G

Nila

Golden Certificates: Emily Sophia S Rayaan

Olivia G

Ella Archie Ava G Dexter

Credit Card:

Isabella - 7 Jose – 4 Troy - 4 Finn - 5

Outside Achievements: Nancy received a medal for completing the 16km London bridges challenge for Diabetes UK Olivia S is Rainbow of the week Michael received a certificate for participating in the North Surrey Karate tournament and was awarded 2 cups for kata and kumite Molly completed 6 laps at the Fun Run and received a certificate

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DIARY DATES

October 2019 Monday 7th Road Safety show Wednesday 9th Yr R, Yr 1 and Nursery Harvest Festival assembly in school (children only) 9.15am Yr 2 Harvest Festival assembly with Juniors at St Mary’s Church – Thursday 10th parents welcome to attend Yr 2 - No hockey Yr 2 Friday 11th Yr 2 hockey – wear PE kit to school, bring spare shoes & socks in case wet Tuesday 15th 9.00am Parent helper reading workshop Wednesday 16th 2.30pm Parent helper reading workshop Friday 18th 9.00am Parent helper library workshop Saturday 19th Friends’ Spooky Bounce 3.30-8.00pm Parent/Teacher consultation meeting by appointment (information Wednesday 23rd on how to book an appointment will be sent out w/c 7th October) 3.30-5.30pm Parent/Teacher consultation meeting by appointment (information Thursday 24th on how to book an appointment will be sent out w/c 7th October) Friday 25th Finish at 3.00pm for half term break November 2019 Monday 4th Return to school at 8.45am  9.15am Open morning for parents/carers of children starting in Reception Tuesday 5th 2020 (please contact school office to book a place)  Fireworks Display at Primary Monday 11th Yr 2 lunch-time clubs start  Anti-Bullying day Wednesday 13th  6.00pm Full Governing Body meeting - please give one week’s notice to Clerk of Governors at [email protected] if you would like to attend 9.15am Open morning for parents/carers of children starting in Reception 2020 Thursday 14th (please contact school office to book a place) 9.15am Open morning for parents/carers of children starting in Nursery 2020 Tuesday 19th (please contact school office to book a place) Friday 22nd Nasal Flu Immunisations (Yrs R,1,2) Thursday 28th 2.15pm Rocksteady concert – parents/carers of children who take part are invited December 2019 Friday 6th Children’s Christmas Production dress rehearsal Monday 9th Children’s Christmas Production – time tba Tuesday 10th Children’s Christmas Production – time tba Wednesday 11th Children’s Christmas Production – time tba Thursday 12th Children’s Christmas Production – time tba Friday 13th Christmas Jumper day for Save the Children

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DIARY DATES

Tuesday 17th 3.00-4.00pm Nursery & Yr R Christmas Disco (run by teachers) Wednesday 18th 3.00-4.00pm Yrs 1&2 Christmas Disco (run by teachers) Thursday 19th Nursery last day – finish for Christmas Holidays  9.15am Christmas Assembly at St Mary’s Church – all welcome to attend Friday 20th  1.30pm Last day of term – school finishes for Christmas Holidays January 2020 Monday 6th Inset Day – school closed Tuesday 7th 8.45am Return to school for start of Spring term

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VACANCIES - School Adverts

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EVENTS / ACTIVITES (outside of school) / School Adverts

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