Bures C.E. Primary School
Newsletter
Contact us: 01787 227446 [email protected] Date: 4th
December 2020
Big Question of the Week “Who is the closest thing to a saint
that you know?”
#BeLikeStAndrew This week we celebrated St Andrew’s Day in our
assemblies. We learnt all about St Andrew and his desire to share
things and be kind. We watched a short video which
encouraged Scottish people to celebrate St Andrew’s Day this
year by ‘being like St Andrew’ and sharing a small kindness with
someone. It said that in this way Scottish
people could together create something really special. The
children had some great ideas about how to share a kindness. I
wanted to mention this on the front of the newsletter today because
the Bures community this week have proved themselves to be
very like St Andrew. Mrs Manning put a message on Beautiful
Bures appealing for some help to provide a Christmas tree and
within minutes of adding the message the offers
came flooding in. We’d like to thank Mr Probert and his family
with the help of Adam Norton, for the very impressive tree which is
now standing spectacularly in the hall—the children are thrilled
with it. Other families have offered to help us to buy crackers
for all the children for our Christmas Lunch and supply
Christmas tree lights and we have been blown away by the response
to our Christmas Raffle! Whilst planning my
assembly, I found a lovely Snowman resource on the red cross
website which amongst other things encourages the children to make
a kindness advent calendar—why not take a look to help them ’Be
like St Andrew!’
https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resources.
Explore, Believe, Shine
‘The Adventure Awaits…’
The Festive Fun Begins… Wow, you can certainly tell that
December has started, there has been a real buzz in Hundred-Acre
Wood this
week and the children began their festivities at home. This week
our sound of the week is “k”, looking at the book “Kites” and
learning all about weather. The role-playing corner has been
humming with meteorologists, and we have
managed to look at the UK weather forecasts. All week the
children have been keen to create their own kites and send them
soaring into the sky; this looked extra stylish in our King’s
crowns. We continued reviewing of the numbers 1-5 in maths, and
have been working on different representations (ask your child to
show you the number 5
but using two hands). Additionally, we have been learning two
new shapes; square and rectangle. We have looked at their
properties and been on a shape hunt. We’re gearing up for the
Christmas Nativity, and bracing ourselves for
the final weeks of term. This week in Brambly Hedge we have
continued learning about the changes in the season by focusing on
how some animals react to the change in weather and temperature the
Autumn and Winter bring. We learnt about hibernation and migration
as a way that animals escape the cold weather. We learnt about
animals that
hibernate and that birds migrate to and from England during the
autumn and early winter. The highlight of the week was when
Xander's mummy came to talk to us about a Dutch
tradition they celebrate because Xander's Daddy is Dutch.
Sin-terklaas (also known as Saint Nicholas) visits Haarlem in the
Nether-lands every year from Spain in a steam boat and rides
through the
streets on his white horse. Sinterklaas is the patron saint of
children and his Petes (helpers) come down the chimney to put
sweets into the
shoes of boys and girls who have been good, then on
Sinterklaas's birthday December 6th he delivers presents and more
sweets. In the Netherlands they have presents on the 6th December
instead of on
the 25th. Luckily for Xander, Sinterklaas visits Dutch children
wherever they live not just in the Netherlands!! Thank you Mrs
Goudkuil for visiting us, we really enjoyed learning more, and
thank you for our sweets!
https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resourceshttps://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resources
And Continues… This week in Emerald City we have looked at food
chains in science, subtraction in maths and have learnt lots of new
adjectives in literacy. We have begun rehearsing our Nativity and
collating costumes as well as creating Christmas decorations and
cards. This week, Narnia class have been showing a tremendous
amount of confidence in all areas of learning. In English we have
been looking at playscripts and how they are different from
narrative pieces. They have not only been performing some short
plays, but have even written their own scripts! In science the
children investigated how light can reflect off objects which can
help us to see them. In French, the children have learnt how to say
hello, what their name is and how they are feeling. Finally, the
children completed their finger puppets in Design Technology by
adding those finishing touches to make them truly come to life.
Hogwarts class have started to investigate how one state of matter
changes into another-the snow has come just in time! In History we
have researched the Great Pyramids looking at how they were built
and why. We’ve been polishing up our maths word problem skills
using lots of special vocabulary. This week in the Shire, we’ve
continued with our work on Kensuke’s Kingdom, writing to introduce
a new character to the story. In maths, we’ve recapped factors and
prime numbers, and in computing we’ve developed our Excel skills
and the use of different formulas. We’ve also made some fantastic
decorations for our beautiful Christmas tree! In Year 6, this week
we have been working hard at our fraction skills including
multiplying, dividing and finding fractions of amounts. In English
we have completed our persuasive letter to Scrooge using our new
knowledge of the Victorians, Dr Barnado, The Poor Laws and Lord
Shaftsbury's Ragged Schools....'Grabbing, Snatching, clutching, is
that how you would like to be remembered Mr Scrooge?' is the phrase
that Ellie J included in her letter. We start our independent
writes next week and are excited to see the results of our hard
work. In history we have been continuing our learning about Bures
in World War 2 and finding out about those that fought for us as
well as the sacrifices made through lives lost. Our Science work
has included finding out about Charles Darwin and the Theory of
Evolution as well as a little about Carl Linnaeus and his system of
classification of animals. This knowledge will be really helpful in
our forthcoming studies of the Rainforest.
Attendance—Whole School so far this academic year 97.2%
Well done Reception! Miss Moore & Mrs Manning are very proud
of you!
Gold = 98 -100% Green = 95 – 97.9% Red = 90 – 94.9% Purple =
Explore, Believe, Shine
‘The Adventure Awaits…’
Our Learning Ambassadors for this week are:
Etta, James, Hannah, Lily-Bella, Ava, Lillie, Alfie, Cody,
Oliver, Willem, Elaina, Isaac, Jess,
Layla, Riley and Max
Our Staff Ambassadors are:
Mrs Haworth and Mrs Markwood
Bures United FC
Zack (Y7), Noah (Y5), Jack (Y5) and Jamie (Y3) ran an incredible
5K in just under one hour to fundraise for equipment and playing
kit for Bures United Football Club and for a local cancer charity.
They hoped to
raise £500 but raised over £2,000 ! What stars! An excellent
achievement. They should be very proud of themselves. I know lots
of children from school are members of Bures United FC and enjoy
both their training sessions and playing in games. Thanks to all
involved in organising this.
