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Important Dates for Diary

Friday 20th December - Last day of term

Friday 10th January - Reception Tour 25/26

Monday 6th January 2025 - Return to School for everyone

Maths Workshops:

Monday 20th January - Ms Tighe & Ms Sinclair's Maths Workshop

Tuesday 21st January - Mr Crook's Maths Workshop

Wednesday 22nd January - Ms Keceli's Maths Workshop

Thursday 23rd January - Miss Helman's Maths Workshop

Free Sanitary Products – available to all pupils that need them, and we would like to help support them where we can. Please tell your daughter to see Mrs Truong in the welfare room or, for more information, please contact the office.

Ambassadors - The ambassadors would like to cheer up the outside area with some winter plants and encourage more wildlife. If you can help with donations, this would be very much appreciated.

Year 1

‘Tis the season to be jolly… This week the children in Year 1 have had great fun designing and making a 3D decoration as part of their DT lesson. They used their own ideas for the design, mixed the salt-dough,  then cut and painted their decoration. Finally, the children decorated their ornament and evaluated it, saying what they liked and how it could be improved.  G commented “It’s beautiful!”

Year 2

This week the children have been crafting and creating Christmas based items such as Christmas cards and salt dough decorations. To create their salt dough the children measured out the flour, salt and water, mixed the elements together. After then the rolled the dough, flattened it and created a winter or festive shape. Once they were baked the children decorated them. They also used their cutting skills to make trees to make a card to give to someone.

Year 3 

What a great term!

Year 3 have started their time in Key Stage 2 brilliantly. They have transitioned well to the Sketty Road building with maturity and a determination to learn. The whole Year 3 team have been so impressed with their efforts this term and wish them a lovely break. 

To conclude our learning from this half-term, we completed tasks in Humanities to show how much we now know. In Geography, we have been learning about Mountains and in History we have been exploring the Cradles of Civilisation. The children have thoroughly impressed us with their impressive recall of key vocabulary and their ability to connect to past learning. 

Year 5 

Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed their final week of term. We have been busy writing and performing our Shakespeare playscripts for a missing scene, where Miranda tries to plead her love for Ferdinand to her father Prospero. The pupils have truly embraced the Shakespearean language and used a few 'Thous' and 'Thees' within their writing. The children are now fully immersed into the story and the traits of the characters. We have enjoyed analysing the language and discussing the dramatic scenes of betrayal, love, revenge and manipulation of The Tempest. 

In PE this week we enjoyed creating our final 'Bridge' sequences. The children joined with another group to explore and perform bridges from different levels and perspectives.  The flexibility, invention and poise shown was outstanding! A bridge too far...definitely not!

Year 6 

This week Year 6 finished off their unit in RW. They thought about what values they would include in a Code for Living and explained why they chose these as their most important values. They then went on to write the Ten Commandments for the Community. They did exceptionally well to list ten values that they feel individuals should abide by to make a successful community. They then explained what actions would represent these qualities. Well done Year 6. You displayed a mature approach to the notion of values and expressed your own values beautifully.

As we approach the Christmas holidays, we would like to remind you about the Oxford Reading Buddy app that your child has a login for. It is in their reading record and it has been sent home with them from your child's class teacher.

What is Oxford Reading Buddy?

Oxford Reading Buddy is a digital reading service to help your child to develop important skills in reading and to encourage them to read more. It contains hundreds of digital books from Oxford University Press’s well-known reading series including Project X and the Biff, Chip and Kipper stories from Oxford Reading Tree – all matched to your child’s reading level. It offers special Coaching eBooks to develop comprehension

Each week, we celebrate the children who have been reading books through this app. This term, Xavier in Year 2, has read 167 books through the Oxford Reading Buddy. He was awarded in assembly with a certificate and a new book to read at home. Fantastic work, Xavier!

Courses for parents

Enfield Council and the NHS, in collaboration with inourplace.co.uk, are delivering a host of courses for parents. A parent from Year 2 attended one of these courses and gave us some very positive feedback. Please see the posters and contact them directly if you would like to book a place on one of the courses. They have courses which are for families with children of all different age groups. 

Sports2Inspire

Please see below for after-school activities taking place from Monday 13th January. Spaces are limited so please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. To book, please use the following link:

https://bookwhen.com/sports2inspiregeorgespicer#focus=ev-sb7r-20241107153000

Sports2Inspire will be running a half-term camp in the school during the February half term. Please see below for more information and use the following link to book.  https://bookwhen.com/sports2inspiregeorgespicer#focus=ev-sb7r-20241107153000