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Thursday 19th October 2017 Term 1, Issue 1 Message from Miss Hewett

Contact Information Dear Parents/carers Shorne Church of England Primary School This has been another busy and successful term and I would like Cob Drive to thank you all for your continued support. Shorne Nr Gravesend Ofsted Kent DA12 3DU I am delighted that the hard work and dedication of staff and pupils, along with the contributions from parents and the wider Fax: community have resulted in another grading of GOOD from Of- 01474 822312 sted. The detailed letter provided feedback from the Inspector Telephone: and was incredibly positive and really does reflect the “caring, 01474 822312 nurturing school” that we are. I will carrying on working closely with Mrs Tunnicliffe and the Trust to ensure that improvements Email: continue. The staff at Shorne are an incredible team and have [email protected] worked fantastically hard this term to provide the best educa- tion they can for your children.

Curriculum Accelerated Reader has been a huge success so far in KS2. Moni- toring has shown that our pupils have made progress in reading and they talk about it with excitement. We can always improve further but we need to be proud of all our success too. Thank you for your support in encouraging your children to read. Daily reading at home can accelerate progress and this builds confi- dence and enjoyment across the rest of the curriculum too. If we keep up this trajectory of improvement all the children of Shorne Church of England Primary School will be set for great things.

Attendance and Behaviour Attendance is a key area of focus and we are striving for all classes to be 97% or above. This is an Ofsted requirement and as a school we are judged against this.

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Thursday 19th October 2017 Term 1, Issue 1

As part of a school council meeting I discussed attendance with the children and weekly rewards are already in place. School Council suggested the class with the best attendance for each term should be rewarded with wearing their own clothes for one day. We are going to put this in place and this term's winner is Class 5. They will be allowed to wear their own clothes on Friday 3rd No-

vember 2017.

Below are the attendance figures for each class.

Rabbits 98.2% Hedgehogs 96.4% Badgers 97.5% Eagles 97.4% Dolphins 98.4% Pandas 99.1% Tigers 96.9%

Friendship Week and Multi Faith Week As a Christian school we promote tolerance and understanding of other faiths so that our children grow up in a loving and respectful society. During the week of the 13th-17th November we will be celebrating this further during Multi Faith week. Alongside Multi Faith week we are holding Friendship week where we will focus on friendship, kindness and respect. We will be encouraging children to play with someone they have not spent time with before thereby hoping to create new friendships.

We would like you to support this ethos at home and join in with our celebrations. If there are any parents or carers who would like to share their knowledge of their faith in the form of an activity, talk, cooking or even just sharing your experiences please contact your class teacher.

Security and Procedures To improve the security of the school I am currently researching options for this which I will present to governors in due course and of course keep you informed of the outcome.

All that is left to say is to wish everyone a safe and happy half term and to see you all again on Monday 30th October 2017.

With kind regards

Tara Hewett Acting Head of School www.shorne.kent.sch.uk

Class Teachers Thursday 19th October 2017 Term 1, Issue 1 The class names and teachers for the school year 2017/2018 are as follows:

Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2

Class Class Teacher Class Class Teacher Name Name Class R Rabbits Mrs Thornley Class 3 Eagles Miss Baker

Class 4 Dolphins Mr Woodcock Class 1 Hedgehogs Miss Whitbread Class 5 Pandas Miss Flood

Class 2 Badgers Miss Chantry Class 6 Tigers Mrs Taylor

Class R Reading Cafe Class 2 trip to

Chatham Dockyard Class R have been busy getting ready for their Reading Cafe. On Friday 22nd September, Class 2 visited The His-

torical Dockyard in Chatham as part of their 'Pirates' On Wednesday 18th October they topic. They had a very busy day with lots of activities made their very own homemade bis- including a tour of HMS Ocelot (a submarine), a sci- cuits and then on the afternoon of Thursday ence workshop investigating the properties of materi- 19th October they invited their parents/carers als, meeting 'Pirate Tracey' and learning all about into school where they shared a book and home- Grace Darling. The children thoroughly enjoyed their made biscuit together. trip and are looking forward to the rest of their topic,

including a visit from Pirate Palmer! When asked Afterwards everyone was invited into Rabbit about her favourite part of the class to come and see the work and fun activities day Indigo said “My favourite they have been doing during their first term at part of the day was everything. school. Rabbit class would like to say a big thank I loved the submarine and the you to everyone for joining them and hope to be acting about Grace Darling". able to repeat this activity at some point next term.

Term 6 RAP Awards

YR R R Riley Hall A Remy Diprose P Henry Watts YR 1 R Poppy Winslade A George Reason P George Cuckoo YR 2 R Isobel Atkinson A Sophia Lavender P Toby Scott YR 3 R Emma Scott A Toby Atkinson P Reece Chase YR 4 R Joe Clarke A Isabella-Rose Winter-Nolan P Harry Lynds YR 5 R Libby Watts A Thomas Kilgour P Joel Stone YR 6 R Paige Geiss A Franky Thomas P Joshua Khela Respect Achievement Perseverance www.shorne.kent.sch.uk

Family church service Thursday 19th October 2017 led by Class 5 Term 1, Issue 1

On Sunday 1st October, 10 members of Class 5 joined Miss Flood Harvest Festival and Miss Hewett at St Peter and St Paul's church in Shorne to assist Thank you so much to every- with the harvest service and a one who very kindly donated christening. food to our Harvest Festival and to those of you who came During the service the children, to our church service on Tuesday 10th Oc- including Harry, Olivia, and Fran- tober. cesca, were asked 'what is love?', some of them thought of chocolate, football and On Thursday 12th October our Head Girl their mother's patience. Father Ted then dis- and Boy, Grace and Max, accompanied Mrs cussed the importance of love and reminded us that Bull to the Gravesham Food Bank to deliver God loves each and every one of us. Daniel, Jude the donated food. This charity exists to and Joe presented a reading from the bible, Amy provide emergency food for 3 days to and Isabella read a prayer and all of the children those in real need. The donation from our presented hand-made flowers to Father Ted to school donation weighed 106.4kg. help celebrate the harvest and these brightened up the church. Finally, Ella and Libby helped with the collection for the church and then the children gave their food donations for the harvest collection.

A big thank you to everyone who was able to attend the service including the family and friends of Class FOSS Picnic on the Green 5. FOSS recently held a “Picnic on the Green” to welcome the new Reception families to Shorne School. Warren Farm very kindly opened up their farm and gave trac- tor rides to the children. Thank you to everyone who came along to join in.

Class 6 trip to Dover Museum

Class 6 recently visited Dover Museum for a WW2 themed day as part of this term’s Cornerstones topic, A Child’s War. Ac- tivities included making a rationed plate of food from clay and a 'Goodnight Mr Tom' drama workshop. The children and staff really got into the spirit of things and dressed up in wartime costumes. www.shorne.kent.sch.uk

Sports News Thursday 19th October 2017 Term 1, Issue 1 Football  On Saturday 30th September a team of Class 5 & 6 boys took part in the Visit to Stone St Mary’s Early Season 7’s Football Tournament at Riverview Park Junior School. Our Church of England school team played fantastically well Primary School and we are pleased to announced that Shorne School won the tournament for Two members of Shorne the third year in a row beating St Jo- School Council recently seph’s 1-0! Congratulations to the whole team. visited Stone St Mary’s Church of England Primary School with Mrs Taylor to take part in a Learning Walk. Summer Reading Challenge 2017 Stone St Mary’s is part of the Aletheia Anglican Academies Trust and they were joined by other pupils You may remember that back and teachers from the Trust. in July we welcomed into school Nicola Tubbs, a repre- The aim of the walk was to look sentative from Gravesend around the school to note positive Library. Nicola came into behaviour, look at displays and to see school to present a whole if the children were engaged in their school assembly on the Sum- learning activities. They were given a mer Reading Challenge 2017. feedback form to complete which was We are now extremely pleased to report that Shorne School given to the Headteacher together came in third place in the challenge with 26% of the children with any comments or suggestions in our school taking part. that they may have.

Medical Needs

Please can we remind all parents/carers of the following:

 It is your responsibility to inform us of any changes to your child’s health/ medical needs (this includes broken bones where additional paperwork needs to be com- pleted and ensuring epipens, inhalers plus spares are not out of date).  You follow the guidance sent out via Parentmail regarding the Administration of Medicines dated September 2017.  Please remember that if your child has suffered from sickness or diarrhoea, they must be clear for 48 hours before returning to school.

Many thanks for your co-operation. www.shorne.kent.sch.uk

Head girl and boy Thursday 19th October 2017 Term 1, Issue 1 We are very pleased to announce that for the new school year we have appointed Grace Wood as our Head Girl and Max How- House Captains ard as our Head Boy. We are confident that both will be good role models for the rest of the The House Captains for the 2017/2018 children in the school and hope that they enjoy the school year as unanimously chosen by the responsibilities involved in their new positions. Well pupils are as follows: done Grace and Max!

Havisham Nickleby Poppy Colquhoun Chloe Palmer Mason Lock Connor Sherress

Class 6 Roles for 2017/18 Copperfield Pickwick Caleb Amuzu Caitlin Thomas Each September as our pupils move into Class 6 Keagan Horlock Shay Whelan they are awarded with different roles to carry out during the school year. The pupils enjoy the responsibility that these positions involve, taking them very seriously and carrying them out with en- thusiasm, often doing more than one at a time. Young Leaders Class 6 Buddies This year the roles are as follows: Sophie Taylor Another role that all

Libby Watts of the Class 6 pupils

Digital Leaders Faith Council Caitlin Thomas take on is being a Ollie Warner (Head) Sophie Taylor Leah Hill Buddy to our new Re- Scarlett Cook Lois Nichols Chloe Palmer ception children. This Connor Sherress Caitlin Thomas Grace Wood is an excellent way to Caleb Amuzu Summer Vickers Connor Sherress help our new children Shay Whelan Anika Randhawa Mason Lock settle into school Libby Watts Lois Nichols Leah Hill Elisha Graham Sports Ambassadors Sofiya Smiltniekaite Poppy Colquhoun Tallulah Barham Summer Vickers Nathaniel Willis Tallulah Barham Librarians Ethan Nash Sofiya Smiltniekaite Benessa Edusei (Head) Lois Nichols Benessa Edusei Keagan Horlock Libby Watts Summer Vickers Connor Sherress Grace Wood ECO School Sofiya Smiltniekaite Sofiya Smiltniekaite Caitlin Thomas Jaya Grewal School Council Chloe Palmer Libby Watts Caleb Amuzu Summer Vickers

www.shorne.kent.sch.uk Cornerstones Curriculum

Each class would like to tell you about this term’s topics and what Thursday 19th October 2017 they have been learning about and also we would like to share Term 1, Issue 1 with you the new topics for next term.

Class 2 Year 2 have had a fantastic Class R Class 1 start to the year and have Rabbit Class have settled into school Class 1’s topic has been thoroughly enjoyed their topic brilliantly! 'Memory Box'. They started 'Land Ahoy!'. There off the topic with a family Their topic this term was 'Are Carrots have been lots of picnic. They shared photo- Orange?' They read the book exciting learning graphs of themselves when 'Supertato' and enjoyed opportunities dur- they were babies and they making their own ing their topic, no- thought about how they 'Supertatoes'. They tably their fantas- have changed as they have received a letter from tic trip to Chatham grown up. They have looked the evil pea telling them Dockyard and their fascinating at different members of that he had kidnapped visit from Commander Blunt. their families and have dis- all the fruits and vegetables from the The children have enjoyed covered different things school kitchen so they made traps to finding out about real-life pi- their parents and grandpar- catch him! They also made their own rates such as Anne Bonny and ents did when they were evil peas from playdough. Mrs Bond Blackbeard, writing pirate po- younger and what they helped them make their own playdough. etry and reading lots of pirate looked like when they were It was very messy with lots of measur- stories. They have also been babies. They have looked at ing and mixing required! They enjoyed learning about lighthouses and a range of traditional tales, printing with different vegetables and acted out the story of Grace including Goldilocks and the even writing with carrots using paint. Darling whilst at Chatham Three Bears, The Ginger- Dockyard. During topic les- bread man and The Three They have designed, made and tested sons, they have Billy Goats Gruff and dis- bags to carry vegetables in. This was used atlases to cusses the characters and very tricky but in Rabbit Class they find out about what happened in the sto- persevere! countries around ries. To finish off the topic, the world as well they all made memory boxes as design pirate that included some precious flags, hats and memories they already have treasure maps. The children and a safe place to store have taken part in all aspects items from future adven- of this topic with great enthu- tures! . siasm!

Class 3 Year 3 have loved the Tribal Tales topic. They have been collecting lots of rocks and stones. They had a wonderful day at Kent Life, where they met a Stone Age man called Claw who taught them about hunting.

They made coil pots inspired by the Beaker People, with simple geometric patterns.

www.shorne.kent.sch.uk Class 4 Class 5 This term year This term Year 5 have had an exciting time Thursday 19th October 2017 4 have been learning about earth and space. At the beginning Term 1, Issue 1 learning all of their topic they investigated the size of the about the Ro- planets with a fruit solar system and the dis- Class 6 mans in their tance between the planets using sheets of toilet This term, Year 6 have thoroughly topic "I am war- roll. They learnt about Galileo 'the father of enjoyed their Cornerstones topic - rior". They took observational astronomy' and the crew of Apollo 'A Child's War.' They began their part in a great 11 and their mission to the moon. They have research over the Summer holidays battle between tested soil samples for salt and felt their con- where they imagined leaving home the Romans and sistency to see which one could have potentially for an unknown period of time, the Celts. In come from Mars. As space engineers they built packing their belongings in a small their English lunar rovers and created a spacecraft which box and pretended to be evacuated. work they have would absorb shock when the astronauts landed Some children stayed with grand- written stories on the moon. Oreos helped them learn about the parents, aunts and uncles and family about Boudica phases of the moon and their own mnemonics friends overnight. During their the warrior helped them remember the order of the 8 plan- first week, the children used their queen, found out ets in our solar system. The best part of this experiences to write a letter home about gladiators topic was the trip to Greenwich observatory and to their parents focusing on how and even written planetarium, where they were able to explore they felt and understanding the a letter from the Milky Way (the galaxy which contains the heartache children incurred at Ancient Rome. solar system) and find out about some of the these times. All the children wrote planets. Did you know Jupiter has a volcano the about their different experiences, size of the UK? from cooking a war time dinner to

even making a dress.

The children were also fortunate enough to have two visitors come and share their stories of WW2

and enable them to experience a different perspective. Christophe Bull (local historian) spoke about his mother's time in Germany and New topics next term Norun Parkins (Mrs James' mother) spoke about her childhood in occu- For your information the new topics for each class pied Norway. The children used next term in the Cornerstones Curriculum are: these encounters to form the basis of some incredible diary entries. Class Topic This engaging topic has led to many Class R Why do squirrels hide their nuts? other exciting opportunities such Class 1 Big Lights, Big City as: planning a WW2 tea party to re- Class 2 Street Detectives enact the celebrations of the war Class 3 Mighty Metals ending, designing their own propa- Class 4 Road Trip USA ganda posters, learning the Jitter- Class 5 Scream Machine bug and singing wartime songs. Class 6 Frozen Kingdom

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Multi Faith Week and Thursday 19th October 2017 Friendship Week Term 1, Issue 1

Next term the whole school will be taking part in Multi Faith Week. From Monday 13th November to Samaritan’s Purse Friday 17th November, each class will be looking at an individual world faith, where they will have the Shoebox Appeal 2017 opportunity to explore different aspects of each faith such as the festivals. Leaflets have today been sent out for this year’s Samaritan’s Purse Detailed below is a list of which faith each class Shoebox Appeal. Samaritan’s Purse will be exploring throughout that week. UK is an international relief and de- velopment organisation that works through local Year R - Christianity churches to proclaim and demonstrate the love of Year 1 - Sikhism God amongst communities in need. Filled shoe- Year 2 - Hinduism boxes help to change a child’s life and your sup- Year 3 - Islam port is greatly appreciated. Year 4 - Buddhism Year 5 - Hinduism Please note that if you find that you cannot fill a Year 6 - Judaism whole shoebox, we will still be very grateful for any donations that you can send in. Alongside Multi Faith Week we will be holding Friendship Week with a strong emphasis on the All shoeboxes and donations need to be sent in to importance of being friendly and kind to each school by Thursday 17th November. other.

Members of our School Council will be leading events each day of this very important week.

Children in Need 2017

Family Bonfire and Fireworks Please make a note in your

diaries that Please make a note in your diaries that Friday 17th on Saturday 4th November there will November is Children in Need 2017. be a family bonfire and firework dis-

play at St Mary’s Woodland, Chalk (by Children are invited to come into school the church). Gates open at 5pm, with the bonfire being lit wearing their own clothes with a spotty at 6.30pm, followed by the firework display. theme in return for donating £1.00 for

the Children in Need charity. Admission prices are £4.00 per adult and £2.00 per ac-

companied child. Refreshments available. Everyone wel- Please take the time to dig out your old come. £1.00 coins as the charity has said that

they are happy to collect the ‘old’ £1.00 Please note that this year parking will be available at the coins. crematorium nearby.

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Forthcoming Events Thursday 19th October 2017 Term 1, Issue 1 October 2017 20th—Last day of term, school closes 3.20pm 30th—First day back to school 31st—Individual school photos Family church service dates November 2017 1st—Accelerated Reader Parent Workshop, During the forthcoming school year each 2.30pm class will be leading a family church ser- 7th—9th—Travelling Book Fair vice at the Church of St Peter & St Paul. 7th—School nurse in, flu vaccinations, Each service will start at 10.00am and

Classes R-4 the dates are as follows:

13th-17th—Multi Cultural and Friendship week th 17th—Children in Need Sunday 5 November 2017

21st—Parent Consultation evening Sunday 7th January 2018

23rd—Parent Consultation evening Sunday 4th February 2018

Sunday 4th March 2018 December 2017 Sunday 6th May 2018 11th—Nativity, pm Sunday 3rd June 2018 12th—Nativity, am

12th—KS1 Christmas party We hope that as many of you as possible are able 13th—Christmas lunch to come along to support your children at their 15th—Christmas Jumper Day 15th—KS2 Christmas party, pm class service.

20th—Church service, Church of St Peter & St

Paul, 10.00am, all welcome School website 20th—Last day of term, school closes at 1.30pm January 2018 Please remember to always 4th—First day of term take the time to look at our new and revised school website www.shorne.kent.sch.uk.

Please make sure that you do regularly check this for updates, detailed information about curriculum areas and important dates for your diaries. Class 3 Bake Sale

On Tuesday 31st October Class 3 are School Photos Reminder!!!!! holding a Bake Sale after school to raise money for the RSPB. This idea was sug- Please remember that individ- gested by Emily Bridges from Class 3 ual school photos are taking who thought it would be appropriate as place on our second day back they are an Eagles class! to school, Tuesday 31st Octo- ber. Any pre-school siblings to be included If any other children would like to bake cakes to do- in photos need to be at school by 9.00am. nate to the sale they are more than welcome.