Well Done to our Amazing Footballers!

Our boys’ football team were really

pleased when we won our group in the

Croydon boys’ football league.

Not only did they do this, but they went

through to the quarter, semi, and then to

the actual final. They are now the runners

-up in the boys’ Croydon league.

They have played brilliantly all through

the season. They won the semi-finals on

Tuesday of this week and then had to play

the finals the very next day!

Exhausted, and with no time to prepare

mentally, or for the school community to

rally and be there to support them, they

went out to win. The score was 2 all at full time, and then the opponents, Wolsey Juniors,

scored another goal in extra time; the boys were devastated.

Juniors: 020 8653 2618 (t) 020 8653 8925 (f) juniors@cypressprimary.co.uk Infants: 020 8653 4203 (t) 020 8771 1792 (f)

Roman Day

Venimus et nos vidi-mus victis

These Romans did come, see and con-quer this week with lots and lots of Rom-anesque fun this week. We had visitors in school, courtesy of PTFA funding, who used role play and great artefacts to take year 4 back in time. Arayah and Summer have written the Cy-press News on this for me; please read their lovely articles. Watch the showcase on the website for updates from classes.

We can all understand

their disappointment,

but we had a big talk

about celebrating what

they had achieved and

how well they had

developed as team. I

made sure that they all

knew how proud the

Cypress Community is of

our boys’ football team.

They were applauded in

assembly today too.

Ms Belle is going to get

the shield updated with

our school name over

the Easter holidays and

then we will display it

proudly on our trophy

shelf.

Important Notice: Monday, 3rd April 2017

Workmen will be cutting back trees on the

pavement side of infant site.

Should your child be attending Easter Club

please take extra care when walking along

Auckland Road on entry to Cypress Road.

Thank you.

Gold Certificates for Reading

Well done to Eve, Bintou, Layla, Mohamed, Michella, Latifah, Nylah, Shaney, Ewelina, Edward, Lexie, and Chadane.

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Goodbye and Good Luck

We say goodbye to Ms Henry-Ledgister

today. We wish her well.

Ms Ebrahim will start her maternity leave

today too and we wish her well and look

forward to seeing her new baby later in the

summer term.

Welcome

We welcome Mrs Dutton to Cypress, who will

be the teacher in Yellow class whilst Ms

Ebrahim is on maternity leave.

We also welcome back to Cypress Ms Tamby,

who left us in 2015. Ms Tamby will teach Oak

Class.

Easter and Spring Performances

and Celebrations

Well done and thank you to all the staff and

children of Little Cypress, reception, year 1

and year 3, who have shared really lovely

spring and Easter performances.

Mr Swaby is busy preparing DVDs of the re-

ception, year 1 and year 3 performances. We

will send out a text to let you know when

these are ready.

PTFA

Thank you to our lovely PTFA for providing refreshments at our performances, organising

and running the discos and for an amazing spring fair.

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Head lice

We have had quite a few cases of head lice

infestations, especially in year 1 and 3. The

best way to avoid infestation is to condition

your child’s hair, and, when it is wet, with the

conditioner on it, comb it with a small-

toothed comb. If you treat your child’s hair

with oil, this also helps. Please check your

children’s hair regularly.

Prevention from catching

infections.

For general good health please keep your

children’s nails short, long hair tied back,

and ensure that thorough hand washing

procedures are firmly understood and

practised. These simple practices are the

best way to reduce head lice, ring worm

and thread worm infections and also to re-

duce the transfer of other common infec-

tions, viral and bacterial. Remedial Tree Works During the Easter break, some tree-felling will

take place for the safety of the community, as

they are all overhanging the public highway

and are dangerous. None of the trees has a

Tree Protection Order.

Voice in a million (VIAM)

Our VIAM children shared some of the songs

they had performed at Wembley Arena with us

in both junior and infant assemblies this

morning

Thank you all our lovely staff for all their

hard work and commitment, our children

for their hard studying and effort, our

parents and carers for all of their great

support and a general thanks to all of our

lovely community for being lovely.

Father John closed our year 3 assembly

with lovely words; he said that the Easter

story is a story that helps us to remember

love and forgiveness.

We join together at Cypress, as always, as

a bonded community with people of differ-

ent faiths and some of no designated faith.

We all have a shared vision of peace and

harmony. Cypress leads the way in

community cohesion and we will lead the

way in love and forgiveness at Easter time

and always.

Have a lovely break from school and we

will see you after the holidays (except for

year 2 and 6 children who are attending

booster classes next week!)

Thank you

Ms Godetz

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Accelerated Reading Update

In this morning's assembly on the infant site, Cillian from Turquoise class was awarded a BRONZE Accelerated Reading certificate for having read 30 books. Bailey and Baba from Indigo class, and Issam from Blue class, were also awarded BRONZE Accelerated Reading certificates for having read 60 books. Well done to Lana in Turquoise class and to Hammad and Alex in Violet class, who were awarded SILVER Accelerated Reading certificates for having read 60 books, and to Kaleb in Blue class who was also awarded a SILVER Accelerated Reading cer-tificates for having read 100 books. A special well done to Kacey, Damian, Cassie and Josiah from Turquoise class, and Thea and Esme from Violet class, who all receivedGOLD Accelerated Reading certifi-cates for having read an incredible 90 books. Special congratulations to Tata from Yellow class, and Ruby from Ruby class, who re-ceived GOLD Accelerated Reading certificates for having read a super dup-er 150 books. Very well done to all of our super star readers! Mrs Hart Head of School

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GROUNDS DAY Sunday, 7 May

9:30am-12:30pm / 1:30-4pm

Meet at the Infant Site Community Room

Grounds Day is a chance for parents, pupils, friends and

staff to come together and help improve the school

grounds, including plan�ng, clearing, and opening up the

woodland areas for outdoor learning and ac�vi�es.

It’s a great outdoors day and a BBQ lunch is provided.

You can join us for the morning (9:30am-12:30pm)

or a.ernoon session (1:00pm-4:00pm) or both!

KS1 UPDATE - INFANTS

30 certificates were earned across key stage 1 over the last week. Well done to Ruby class, who were joint top of the Mathletics leaderboard, earning a total of 9 certificates. Keep up all the hard work at home children! Mrs Hart Head of School

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03–17 Apr-17 School Closed for Spring Holidays

18-Apr-17 INSET Day — School Closed to Children

19-Apr-17 Children Return to School

20-Apr-17 Y1 to 'My First Ballet - Cinderella' at the Peacock Theatre, London.

20–21 Apr-17 Stone Age Workshops for Year 3

21–Apr-17 Year 3 - stone age workshops - in Science Lab Indigo & Hawthorn Class Gardening

24–Apr-17 Outdoor Learning Day for whole school Y4 Outdoor Learning Day at Chua Linh Son Anh Quoc

24–28-Apr-17 Healthy Living Week

27-Apr-17 Y5 to 'School of Rock', New London Theatre Drury Lane.

28-Apr-17 Poplar & Red Class Gardening Rowan Class Cake Sale 3:00PM—4:00PM

01-May-17 School Closed Public Holiday

03-May-17 Year 6 to theatre to see Wicked

05-May-17 Birch & Elm Class Gardening Yellow Class Cake Sale 3:00PM – 4:00PM

08-May-17 Lime Class to Croydon Library 9:30AM – 12:00PM

08-12-May-17 Year 6 SATS

09-May-17 Year 1 to Kew Gardens

12-May-17 Yellow Class Gardening Yellow Class Cake Sale 3:00PM – 4:00PM

15-May-17 Rowan Class to Croydon Library 9:30AM – 12:00PM

19-May-17 Orange & Holly Class Gardening Lime Cake Sale 3:00PM – 4:00PM

22-May-17 Hawthorn Class to Croydon Library 9:30AM – 10:30AM

26-May-17 Non-Uniform Day (Bring a pound) Ruby & Cedar Class Gardening Turquoise Class Cake Sale 3:00PM – 4:00PM

29-May-02-Jun-17

School Closed For Half Term

05-Jun-17 INSET Day — School Closed to Children

06-Jun-17 Children Return to School

09-Jun-17 Violet & Willow Class Gardening

12-16-Jun-17 Year 6 Residential

12-Jun-17 Red Class to Crystal Palace Farm

13-Jun-17 Orange Class to Crystal Palace Farm

14-Jun-17 Yellow Class to Crystal Palace farm

16-Jun-17 Turquoise & Horse Chestnut Class Gardening Violet Cake Sale 2:00OPM – 3:00PM

19-Jun-17 Outdoor Learning Day

23-Jun-17 Green & Sycamore Class Gardening Willow Class Cake Sale 3:00PM – 4:00PM

28-Jun-17 Year 2 to the Churchill Theatre

29-Jun-17 New to Nursery & Reception in September –6PM – 8PM

30-Jun-17 Blue & Beech Class Gardening PTFA Non Uniform Day

01-Jul-17 Summer Fair 12:00PM– 3:00 PM

11-Jul-17 Year 4 trip—Wind In The Willows 2:30

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF

LEARNING

The personal and social learning focus for the whole school in assembly and in the classrooms this week was "Dealing with loss." Children were awarded SEAL certificates for helping someone who is feeling sad or lonely. Children in receipt of SEAL certificates are invited to attend a special, celebration tea party on Wednesday of next week.

KEY STAGE 1:

GREEN REECE, JAHDAISHA & RODWAN

BLUE LILY, YUSUF & MACIE

INDIGO JACKSON, NIHAAL & NICKY

VIOLET ALEX, ALICE & YASEN

RUBY RUBY, MIA & FINN

TURQUOISE TAMIA, DAMINA &

DESPINA

KEY STAGE 2:

BIRCH RUBERT, KELSEA & SOPHIE

CEDAR JUDE, ROCH & MAXWELL

HOLLY

ELM ABIGAIL, AYDIN & TAYANNA

HAWTHORN DEANNE, MAIMI & ARCHER

LIME CAIYAN, SAM & HAJA

POPLAR JAYDEN, SUMMER & ARMANI

ROWAN SHUMAYL, LEROY & MICAH

HORSE

CHESTNUT

SYCAMORE ZION, NATASHA & SUKIE

WILLOW GABRIEL, LIAM & CAIA

BEECH JESS, MAELYS & SHASUN

LARCH ESTHER, ASHLEY & JOEL

OAK AIZA, RAY & TERRELL

Well done to all the

children who were

ATTENDANCE &

PUNCTUALITY FOR

20/03/17 - 24/03/17

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GREEN CLASS

TURQUOISE CLASS

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ELM CLASS

POPLAR CLASS

SYCAMORE CLASS

OAK CLASS

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ELM CLASS

POPLAR CLASS

WILLOW CLASS

LARCH CLASS

KS1

ORANGE CLASS

INDIGO CLASS

TURQUOISE CLASS

KS2

Children earn points at KS2. They earn points

each day individually when they get their

stamp and, in addition to this, points are

earned as a class. Points are awarded to the

class when all the class have their PE kits,

arrive on time, are in school, have completed

their homework, have good behaviour at play-

time, have good behaviour at lunchtime and

behave appropriately in assembly. 3 points

are awarded each time this happens for each

aspect. Points can also be awarded by any

member of staff for good behaviour, effort or

achievement as a class too at anytime. All

points earned go onto a weekly class chart

and are totalled for that week. The winning

class in each year group is read out in Mon-

day’s assembly. This class earns 15 minutes

reward time. As a class, they can then decide

whether to add this to golden time or to play-

time.

In KS2, the classes who earned the most

points in each year group last week

were:

ELM CLASS 939

POPLAR CLASS 944

WILLOW CLASS 1074

LARCH CLASS 798

Which classes earned extra rewards for

great behaviour last week?

KS1

Every day the children in each class have to act to-

gether as a team as well as get their stamp individu-

ally for good Cypress behaviour. When the class

behave well as a group, they earn a daily tick. Ticks

are awarded each day for assembly, play time and

lunch time.

If a class gets all 5 days for good assembly behav-

iour they earn 5 minutes reward time, the same for

playtime and again for lunch time. If they get all 5

ticks for all 3 aspects of school behaviour, that’s 15

minutes, they get a bonus 5! This is called a Full

House. Then then get 20 minutes earned reward

time. As a class, they can decide whether to add this

to golden time on a Friday afternoon or to a playtime.

In KS1, the classes who earned Full

Houses last week were:

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A considerate group of children and Dads met last

Sunday giving the Mums a lie-in for Mother's day

(and the chance to �re out the li7le people so the

a.ernoon could be enjoyed at a leisurely pace).

It turned out to be something of a park crawl with

a circular route which took in South Norwood

Lake and Grounds, South Norwood Country

Park, Maberley Road Playing Fields, Churchfields

Recrea�on Ground, Cator Park, Riverpool Walkway Open Space, Bellingham Play Park, Mayow Park and

Crystal Palace Park....

All in all the circular ride was 15 km (9 miles in old money) in length and took about 2 1/2 hours. More

than most adults could do I'm sure, which

makes the achievement of the Recep�on

boy (Ralph) and Year 1 girl (Tallula) all the

more remarkable. Well done to Ernesto

from Year 2 and Joe and Rupert in Year 3

who also completed this fun ride. None of

the children (or adults) complained of being

�red as there were various treats in the

shape if Haribos and pizza along the way.

There were plenty of pit stops to play on

the parks' swings and climbing frames too.

There was some discussion around increas-

ing the frequency of CCC meets to two per

month with one ride for beginners

which will stay in and around S

Norwood Lake, the other ride for

further afield (Shirley Windmill,

Wandle River...?). The next ride

will be on April 23rd, so get your

tyres pumped up ready for then!

See you soon,

Cypress Cycling Club.

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What’s on in your community

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https://www.shreksadventure.com/london/tickets/

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Clocktower Market South Norwood 1st April 2017 - 10am-3pm Station Road, South Norwood, London SE25 https://twitter.com/ClocktowerSN

Leave 'Em Laughing - A new monthly comedy night at Stanley Halls Sunday 2nd April 2017 - 7pm Stanley Halls, 12 South Norwood Hill, London, SE25 6AB https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EKEKDG

Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation (CYTO) pre-sents Sheridan's The Rivals 30th March - 1st April 2017 Support local young people and have a great evening - at the Shoestring Theatre in Oakley Rd. www.cyto.org.uk

Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation (CYTO) pre-sents Sheridan's The Rivals 30 March - 1 April 2017 Support local young people and have a great evening - at the Shoestring Theatre in Oakley Rd.

Askew Sisters Saturday 8th April 2017 - 7:00pm Stanley Halls, 12 South Norwood Hill, London, SE25 6AB http://www.stanleyhalls.org.uk/whats-on/

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Would your child like to learn the Violin?

Spaces from September at junior and infant

sites.

£8.50 for 15 minute individual / 30 minute

shared lesson.

Leave your name on the waiKng list at the

office, or text Fiona on 07771750157.

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Monday 24th April Managing thought and keeping positive

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