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KEY STAGE EYFS/KS1 CELEBRATION ASSEMBLY

Headteacher Awards

Year 3-Joshua

Year 4-Esme

Year 5-Mia

Year 6-Angel

Star Reader of the week

Year 3– Kenzie

Year 4-Korben

Year 5-Ruby

Year 6-James

Star Writer of the week

Year 3– Noah PT

Year 4-Skye

Year 5-Bruce

Year 6-Elizabeth

Star Phonics/Speller of the week

Year 3– Addalie

Year 4-Darcy

Year 5-Elliot

Year 6-Harley

Star Mathematician of the week

Year 3– Harry T

Year 4– Brandon

Year 5-Alesha

Year 6-Jack T

I have demonstrated resilience this week

Year 3– Zac

Year 4-Bella

Year 5– Sebastian

Year 6-Olivia B

Lunchtime Menu — for week beginning

27th September 2021

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Choice 1 Cheese & Tomato Pizza with Dough

Sausage & Mash

Roast Chicken, Roast Potatoes & Gravy

Beef Lasagne with Garlic Bread

Fish Fingers & Chips

Choice 2 Vegetable Bolognaise

Oodles of Noodles!

With tofu and

Creamy Vegetable Pie, Roast Potatoes & Gravy

Mild Chickpea and Potato Curry

Tomato Veggie Burger & Chips

Desert Flapjack & Fruit Slices

Peach Shortbread Pudding & Custard

Raspberry Yoghurt Cake

Fruity Chocolate Brownie

Vanilla Ice Cream

News from Nettlestone Primary School and across the Federation

Executive Head Teacher Miss Howarth Head of School Mrs Jacobs Office Administrator: Mrs Ayling

24th September 2021 Value of the week: TOLERANCE

KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY SAFE

We hope that any of our community that went to the IOW Festival last weekend enjoyed themselves and had a great time listening to the music in the sunshine. Lots of the children have been sharing stories of their favourite acts and funfair rides this week.

Speaking with some of our community we are aware that some people are very anxious that there may be a spike in Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases as a result of 50,000+ people congregating in one place at the festival site. This may well be the case and so we felt it sensible to remind everyone of the federation’s current position.

It was made clear in the Government update last week and in their ‘Winter Plan’, that there are likely to be cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) from time to time in this next phase of living with COVID-19 in the community. It was stressed also that we should feel reassured that for most people, COVID-19 will be a mild illness.

As a federation we will no longer be routinely informing our community of individual cases as they occur, as we did previously. This is because, in line with Government guidelines, we will not be restricting the attendance of close contacts who are under 18 years and 6 months or those that have been double vaccinated. If your child is identified as a close contact of the confirmed case, you may be contacted by NHS Test and Trace who will advise you on what to do next. We would also ask for your support in making sure that all children, identified as a close contact, or exhibiting any of the symptoms of Coronavirus take a PCR test. This will enable us to reduce the spread of the virus.

As a federation we will continue to monitor any infection rates in school and will work closely with Public Health England, especially if the number of cases escalates to meet the government thresholds. Only if this occurs will further measures be introduced and you will, of course, be notified of the next steps.

Please don’t forget that there are basic steps that we can all take to reduce the risk of you and anyone you live with getting ill with coronavirus (COVID-19) including:

• book a vaccination – everyone aged 16 and over can book COVID-19 vaccination appointments now and information on Covid-19 vaccination walk-in clinics COVID-19 vaccination walk-in clinic

• wash your hands with soap and water or use hand sanitiser regularly throughout the day

• cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze—put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards

• meet people outside, avoid crowded areas or open windows if meeting indoors.

• wear a face covering when it's hard to stay away from other people .

Thank you for your support.

SPORTS CLUBS ARE BACK!

It's been fantastic to see so many pupils staying after school to take part in our new comprehensive after school clubs programme.

Key Stage 1 have been especially busy with high numbers for football and multi skills and the ever impressive School Choir has been over subscribed again.

We have tried to match up with the competitions that are going on at the moment so we should have a number of football fixtures for upper and lower Key Stage 2 and girls only football fixtures also.

We also have tag rugby tournaments for upper and lower Key Stage 2 before Christmas.

Very busy and exciting times ahead! #gogreenarmy

KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE

It is a statutory requirement that we have two emergency contact numbers for all of our pupils. We have noted that some of the numbers we have on record may no longer be the named person that families would wish us to contact should an emergency situation occur in school.

Please alert the office should you wish to review your emergency contacts and please keep us advised of any future changes.

It has also been noted that we are having a high number of children collected late at the end of the school day. There are times when parents are late collecting their child from school, if this is going to happen we ask that school is kept informed. If this is the case then we will place them in an after school club provision for which a charge will be added to your account. If a child is still not collected, we will follow our Late Collection of Child Policy (a copy of which can be found on our school website).

DO YOU WANT TO WIN A BIKE? Bike to School Week starts on Monday 27th September and we would love to see as many of you as possible biking, scooting, roller skating/

blading, etc. to school each day or just one day next week (don’t forget to wear your helmet). We’re all in this together!

#gogreenarmy

CONVERSATION STARTERS! Want to know what your children have been learning this week? Here are some conversation starters that may help you talk to them about what they have been up to in class!

YEAR R

We have been reading lots of books this week but the best one has been ‘I like Myself’ by Karen Beaumont.

Talk to me about: What I like about myself

Words to use: Kind, helpful, creative, a good listener, a good friend

YEAR 1

Talk to me about... what life was like during your childhood, you could focus on what changes have occurred in your kitchen over time.

Words to use... past, present.

Tips for the week...Can your child remember their number bonds to 5?

We have been reading...The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers

Year 2

Talk to me about… The book The Enormous Potato, the giant carrot, when seaside holidays became popular, the seven life processes, Alive, dead and never alive.

Words to use… tens and ones, partition, part whole model, place value charts, life processes, Alive, dead, never alive

Tips for the week… count in 2s and 10s and practice writing your numbers to 50. Can you partition numbers into tens and ones

We have been reading… The Twits, The giraffe the pelly and me, The Enormous potato, The giant carrot and Grandma Bird

Year 3

Talk to me about… Fossils

Words to use… Organism, sediments, fossilisation, extinct.

Tips for the week… Don’t forget to use capital letters at the beginning of your sentences

We have been reading… Stone Age Boy

YEAR 4

Talk to me about 1 more/less, 10 more/less, 100 more/less, 1000 more/less.

Words to use: more, less, than a number, digit, one, ten, hundreds, thousands column, changes.

Tip for the week: When finding 10 more/less than a number the digit in the tens column changes the rest of the number does not.

When finding 100 more/less than a number the digit in the hundreds column changes.

When finding 1000 more/ less than a number the digit in the thousands column changes.

We have been reading Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman.

YEAR 5

Talk to me about the features of a news report. How is a news report different to a story book?

Words to use: headline, strap, non-fiction text, fiction text

Tips for the week: a strap adds to the headline of a news report; a news report is an example of a non-fiction text; a story is a fiction text.

We have been reading Ada’s Violin.

Year 6

Talk to me about how to be assertive! We discussed assertive behaviours that help us in tricky situations.

Words to use: assertive, confident, apartheid, discrimination.

Year 6 continued:

Tips for the week: watch or listen to the news and talk about what you hear/see.

We have been reading our class novel 'Journey to Jo'Burg'-Naledi and Tiro have found their Mma.

SO, HOW HAVE WE SETTLED IN? This week in Pre School we have as always been super busy. We have been loving our arts and crafts both inside and outside, our painting table outside is always full! We have also being enjoying racing our cars and have even made special medals for the winning car. The sun has continued to shine this week which has led to some lovely role play, we have had ice cream shops and made camps and pretend camp fires. We have enjoyed the book ‘Keith and the Magic Hat’ and been singing the rhyme ‘Five Little Speckled Frogs’. This week Reception class has enjoyed exploring the doctor’s equipment and we have seen lots of role play with doctors and nurses. The children have discussed their own experiences and used this in their play. Some of the children have been keen to discover which bugs live in our bug hotel which resulted in a wormery being made so that the worms were warm! Lots of discussions about how to look after animals, bugs and our environment around us. The boats have been a big hit too and the children have role played being lifeguards and saving people in the water as well as fixing the boats to go sailing! In Year One this week the children have continued their learning about 'Materials'. The children

have used feely bags and tried to think of words to describe different objects. They also enjoyed finding out about what materials were used to make common household objects in the past, before plastic was used. In Geography the children have helped the classroom toy 'Purple Percy' to find out what geographical features he will see if he leaves the school and travels North or South. In Maths, we have been investigating number bonds to 5 and then using this knowledge to solve problems. In English, we finished reading The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers. During the week, the children were very excited to receive a message from the alien and they enjoyed writing their own messages back. Wow another busy this week. We have been busy learning about our local area and on Tuesday we went on a walk around the village identifying natural and manmade features and what facilities our village has. We then created maps of the main road our school is on. We have also created a map of our school too. In Maths we have been using place value charts and part whole models to partition numbers into tens and ones and write addition number sentences for the total. In Literacy we have continued to look at the book The Enormous Turnip but we have also read The Giant Carrot and the The Enormous Potato. We discussed how all 3 books were similar and have gone on to plan our own giant item story in the style of these books. In Science this week we have been busy looking at items that are alive, dead and never alive. The children were good at sorting and classifying items into these groups. In COOL Time we have retold the story of The Enormous Turnip using masks, learnt about when seasides became popular, created moving pictures with wheels and looked at how Nettlestone and Ryde have changed over the years. We have enjoyed listening to our class novels “The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me” and “The Twits” by Ronald Dahl.

Year 3 have had an exciting week, having had a visit from History expert Estelle Baker. Estelle visited our class and provided a History workshop which taught the children all about prehistoric times on the Isle of Wight. During the workshop, the children had a carousel of activities including clay pot making, corn grinding, making a model hurdle, a Bronze Age sandpit excavation and handling replica and original prehistoric artefacts. In Science, we have continued our investigation into different types of rocks, this week we focussed on how rocks are formed. In an experiment, we made each rock formation using sweets, using the rock cycle to help us. In English, Year 3 have been working on their descriptive writing skills using advanced adjectives, verbs and adverbs. We have

used pictures from our book, Stone Age Boy, to help with this. In Mathematics, the pupils have been working on their skills to expand 2 and 3-digit numbers. This week in Year 4, we have planned and written our agony aunt letters as the Princess. They were fantastic! We tried to make the agony aunt feel sorry for us by using emotive language. Then we wrote a reply to the Princess by pretending to be the agony aunt. Some of the suggestions of what the Princess could do were very creative such as installing a lily pad scanner so that if the Frog Prince came into the palace with wet lily pads an alarm would go off. This would remind the Frog Prince to remove the lily pads from his pockets. In Maths, we have been looking at one thousand more and one thousand less than a number and are at the moment using our learning to complete our problem-solving missions. We have been finding out about how living things are classified and have looked at sorting diagrams. Our mission was to follow the diagram and find out if the living things were mammals, rep-tiles, amphibians, fish or birds. In History, we have been trading information on timelines where we

had to find the missing parts of a timeline by asking others in the class for information that they might have. It has been another busy week for Los Reciclados. We very much enjoyed the opportunity to complete our individual pieces of art work relating to the story, ‘Ada’s Violin’. We have also written our own news stories about ‘Los Reciclados’. To help us to do this, we had to find out all about them. We also looked at other examples of news stories and identified their features –including having a headline, a strap and clear organisation in paragraphs. We were able to explain whether

snippets of writing were from a novel or a news report and recognize that where the purpose of a novel is to entertain, a news report is to inform, so needs to be short and factual. We have also planned an investigation into the best material to use to create a canopy to protect children from a leak in the classroom ceiling!

NO SWEET TREATS PLEASE

As part of our curriculum vision, in school, we teach children the importance of healthy choices.

We know healthy choices influence all aspects of our lives and we recognise the importance of having a healthy body with a healthy mind and to look after our own sense of well–being. To that end please help us educate your

child by talking to them about the contents of their lunchboxes and helping them to pick healthy elements for inclusion such as; fruit, vegetables, pasta or rice salads, sandwiches or yoghurts.

This week we have seen some very strange and unhealthy lunchtime items arriving in lunchboxes such as grab bag size crisp packets, chocolate bars and sharing size packets of sweets.

Please remember that we do not permit any products containing nuts as some children in school have severe allergies and excessively sweet products are also discouraged.

Children only have 20 minutes to eat lunch and so please only pack sufficient food that can be eaten within this time. Should children become hungry in school fresh fruit is always available as a snack.

Please also remember when packing a snack for COOLKIDZ that the same rules apply and only one item of healthy food is all that is required.

Thank you for your support.

INTRODUCING OUR YOUNG GOVERNORS

As part of our work on understanding democracy, Years 2-6 engaged in their own hustings process this week to select the class young governor representative. The role of the young governor is to represent the views of the class and ensure that the pupil voice is integral to school improvement. Each of the representatives had to state their case in a prepared speech and why they felt that they could do the job really well in order to secure the votes of their class. Mrs Jacobs and the Pupil Leadership Team are really looking forward to working with them!

Congratulations to

Year 2 Corbin

Year 3 Joshua

Year 4 Beatrice

Year 5 Sienna

Year 6—School Captains

Isabelle U Samuel

Charlie Elizabeth

Amelia Olivia

Curtis Henry

Clerk of Young Governors - Angel