N osce Te Ipsum 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 Hangleton and West Blatchington 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 Brighton 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 Hove 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.