LARMENIER & SACRED HEART CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER December 2011

Issue no 93.

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IMPORTANT DATES

January

4th Return to School for the Lent Term

Years One and Two Nativity Play ‘Prickly Hay’ On Thursday we did our Christmas play called "Prickly Hay". We dressed as Cowboys and Cowgirls and we did a barn dance at the start. We sang lots of songs with actions and we had dances too. At the end all of the parents clapped for us! Olivia de Cabral and Harriet Elphick (Class 1B)

Year 6 visit to the Dr Who Experience On Thursday 13th October 30 children from Year 6 went to the ‘Doctor Who Experience’ at Olympia where we saw wax models of all the Doctors and the actors’ and actress’ costumes! It was great! We even got to see replicas of some of the monsters and aliens and a replica of the Tardis. We also went through a series of missions and adventures and even got to go inside a special room where there was a 3-D screen! You could literally see the monsters jumping out at you. At one point two scarecrows came and chased us while the camera men from ITV were filming us. Some of us even got interviewed! Those who missed the Daybreak LIVE pro-gramme, which contained footage of the new Larmenier celebrities, can still watch it on: http://www.doctorwhoexperience.com/news-and-reviews.php?id=21&story=36 There was so much to do and we all had lots of fun! This was a once in a life time opportu-nity and we all recommend this event to anyone who wants a good fright from Doctor Who!!! Kira Bacchio-Panic and Alice O’Brien - Class 6B

THE CHRISTMAS FAIR A cold but beautifully clear day was a great background for our 2011 Christmas Fair. The hot chocolate and cakes were fabulously popular and the gingerbread decorating also went down very well. Lots of children took part in the new craft activities in the Year 2 classrooms and made some fabulous Nativity sun-catchers, glass tealight holders, snowflake spinners and Nativity necklaces The hamper raffle was an even bigger success than last year and the tombola and the snow-globes as busy as ever. A big thank you to everyone who helped out with donations of goods for hampers/tombola or cakes for the best cake stall ever and to those who generously gave their time and energy! All that hard work allowed us to raise a truly amazing total of £2250 Michelle Townsend (PTA)

Christmas Fundraising Thanks to everyone who took part in our first foray into Christmas trees and wreaths. It was highly successful. Everyone has now collected trees and wreaths and we made almost £600 from the scheme. A fantastic effort. (PTA)

School Choir Singing Competition On 5th December the School Choir visited Westfield to take part in a Carol Singing Competition. Mrs McGonigal and Mrs Teverson have worked so hard with the children from Years 3—6 and the resulting carols were beautiful! The children sang their hearts out and looked festive in their Santa hats, white scarves and gloves. We were runners up in the Best Performer Category. An excellent result. Well done! Sarah Fox

The School Choir singing at Westfield

New School Governors Two candidates have been newly elected as parent governors for our school. They are Mrs Kate Farmer and Mrs Jane Saw-yer. Many thanks go to the four runners up Mr Gadd, Mrs White, Mrs Lucas and Mrs Coke. Sr Hannah

Year One and Two performing Prickly Hay

The Christmas Fair

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MERIT CARDS Weeks ending 25 November and 2 December

Willow Casmir Tillette de C Tonnerre

Peony White

Acorn James Fradgley Marina Garrido

1B Karma Charles-Whitton Olivia Garrido

1G Francesca Aste Daniel Gomez-Miranda

2B IsabelleaPelosi Matthew Deloughery

2G Andre Peters-Osei Basile Fauchier Delavigne

3B Zaira Barakat Sofia Streltsova

3G Louis Elphick William Fradgely

4B Matilda Downes Hugo Rodriguez-Campo

4G Gideon Hanibal Jessica Farmer

5B Sophie Rodriguez Aelyssa Marquez

5G Hope Brooke Aidan Brickley

6B Sidney David Davina Charbel

6G Sholto Hayes-Justice Scarlett Langfrey

Best Attendance

Week ending 25 November, Willow with 99% attendance.

Week ending 2 December, 1G and 3G with 98.8% attendance. Week ending 9 December, 3G

with 98.5% attendance

Willow Timothee Brian Alberto Vergani

Acorn Salome F Delavigne Arthur Raven

1B Diego de Thomasson Camille Lamblin

1G Julieta Beals Lyon Nathanael Negri

2B Pyper Lee Raphael Matti

2G Klaudia Rybczyk Emma Chambers

3B Meadow Molloy Celine Choueiry

3G Madalene Rider Rachael Ireland

4B Stephen Doherty Jordan Varney

4G Elaura C Darbeau Louis Delavelle

5B Lucy Craughwell Franks Patrick McWeeney

5G Dylan Keane Emily Sawyer

6B Jenziliano President Valentina Esposito Rodriguez

Maksymilllian Rybarczyk

6G Cristina Vernazza Diena Assal

Dominic’s Guide to Being Head Boy

• Always be on your best behaviour

• Make good friends with everyone in the school. If you have a brother or sister at the school you can ask them to help you with this.

• Finally enjoy every moment of it. This may be the only chance you ever get to be Head Boy!

Dominic Enright (Class 6G)

Year 1 and Year 2 Multiskills Competition On Wednesday 23rd November we all got our House colour bibs on and went to the hall. We did three challenges to get points for our Houses. We had to do throwing carefully, throwing as far as we could and travelling and balancing. The Year 4 children added up all of our points and the win-ning House was Water. We had great fun and can’t wait until our next House competition. Denis McMorrow (Class 2B) Year 1 and 2 Multiskills

Competition

Willow Johnnie McFarlane Rocco Marella

Acorn Emma Lucano Jake Hewitt Sullivan

1B James Amihyia-Marsden Jay McMillan

1G Ana Valeriano Dazo Grace MacPherson

2B Abbi Aslin Ella Downes

2G Albie Hibberd Xavier Back

3B Sacha Newbegin Lisa McCormack

3G Marie Lamblin Elizabeth Naylor

4B Camilla Neffy Jack Hart

4G Maximillian Beautyman Peter Omari

5B Jakub Lizka Nathan Hosain

5G Ellie O’Driscoll Grace Fradgley

6B Elizaveta Nedostuperko Drew Daly-Black

6G Raymond Neffy Kayjah Thomas

MERIT CARDS week ending 9 December

Class 4G’s visit to the Degas Exhibition On Tuesday 6th December Class 4G went to visit the Royal Academy with Mrs Rauh, to see the Degas Exhibition. One thing we learned was that Degas was really interested in movement, light and the ballet. He painted lots of dancers, some resting, some waiting and some dancing. We had two guides at the gallery who told us everything about Degas and ex-plained the paintings to us. I really loved Degas’ little dancer. I liked how much detail he put into the sculpture. When we got back to school Mrs Rauh did a workshop with us. We used charcoal and chalk pastels and did drawings of ballet dancers like Degas. We had a great day and we all learned so much about Degas. Niamh Gadd and Penelope Batts (Class 4G)

By Emily Peebles

Artwork produced by 4G

By Palesa Weeks Franklyn By Shannon Martin

Vote for the Larmenier Choir in Hammersmith Lon-don’s Christmas Choir 2011. Go to hammersmithlondon.co.uk

Year 6 Trip to Chelsea Football Stadium During November both Year 6 classes went on a trip to Chelsea FC Stadium. This was organised to complement our History topic on World War II. While we were there we met Michael Foreman, the illustrator of ‘Billy the Kid’ - the book we have been studying in class. He talked to us about his childhood and what it is like to be an illustrator and author, it was amazing. We went to the Chelsea museum to play games and to learn more about Chelsea’s his-tory. Then we went on a tour of the stadium and 6G saw Torres, Frank Lampard and JUSTIN BIEBER!!!! We went up into the press conference room and the press box. We also went in the changing rooms and got to see all of the players’ shirts, their kitchen and massage lounge. We noticed that the Chelsea players had many more things in their changing rooms than the visiting teams. They had a TV, music and 6 massage beds, while the visiting teams had none. We were really amazed by the stadium and especially the pitch. It was all clean and had no bits of grass sticking out. We hope that our school will be able to organise this visit every year. Charles de Thomasson (Class 6 B) and Danielle Greig (Class 6G)

Michael Foreman at Chelsea Stadium

Year 4 handball tournament From the start of the year we have had handball training. Last Monday Year 4 had a House handball tournament. The Houses were split in half and played each other twice. Earth won with 26 points, Fire came 2nd with 16 and Water and Air finished 3rd and 4th. After, Miss C Davis and Mr Garvin announced which House had won and Earth were amazed when they heard the result. The teachers were especially proud of everyone for trying their best and demonstrating excellent teamwork. The Year 3 children also had a House handball competition and the Year 3 champions were Air. Dipo Idowu and Camilla Neffy (Class 4B)

Sports Update The Girls and Boys Football teams played against Avonmore Primary on 18th No-vember. The final scores were:- Girls Larmenier and Sacred Heart 1 Avonmore 0 Boys Larmenier and Sacred Heart 10 Avonmore 0

CNED Support at Larmenier (CNED=centre national d’enseignement à distance) This is a government organised system which is recognised in all schools in France. Support is currently being given to 13 Larmenier French speak-ing pupils who are following the French curriculum in parallel with their English studies. It is very hard work for these chil-dren to combine the English and French systems and these extra classes give an opportunity to increase their knowledge. These lessons also provide vital help to the French community at Larmenier and we feel they do much to enhance the interna-tional vision of the school. Thank you Sr Hannah for all your support. Clarisse Motais de Narbonne

Reception Nativity Christmas Concert The children in Acorn and Willow class made their parents and teachers proud on Tuesday, 13th December when they performed their Christmas Show. For most of the children it was the first time they had performed on stage to an au-dience and their thoroughly enjoyed themselves! The chil-dren told the story of the birth of Jesus through words, music, song and acting. Sr Hannah commented on their beautiful costumes and their even more beautiful smiles. The children baked some mince pies to offer to their par-ents after the performance. It was a lovely end to their first term at school. Miss S Davis and Miss Flaherty

Reception performing their Christmas Concert

Year 3 Advent Service at Westminster Cathedral On 6th December Year 3 set off to Westminster Cathedral to watch the Christmas Advent Carol Service and the re-enactment of The Christmas Story from Joseph’s perspective. We had been practising hymns for the Service for a few weeks and enjoyed the thoroughly experience of singing in the beautiful Cathedral. What made the afternoon even more memora-ble was that there was a real donkey that neighed its way down the aisle. It was a lovely way to prepare for the birth of Jesus.

Sign in for a full colour newsletter. Send your details to admin@larshrc.lbhf.sch.uk. Many thanks to the following people who have contributed to this issue of the newsletter:- Elizabeth Lamblin, Sarah Fox, Miss Flaherty, Mrs Rauh, Miss S Davis, Miss McGinty, Miss Teresa, Sr Hannah, Michelle Townsend, Ewa Janus, Charles de Thomasson, Danielle Grieg, Dipo Idowu, Camilla Neffy, Clarisse Mo-tais de Narbonne, Denis McMorrow, Dominic Enright, Olivia de Cabral, Harriet Elphick, Kira Bacchio-Panic, Alice O’Brien. If you would like to contribute an article or some photos for a future issue of the newsletter please contact Lucy Goulding (lucygou@tiscali.co.uk).

Year 3 at Westminster Cathedral