COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD
Lavender Class have really been enjoying our
book ‘The London Eye Mystery’, which is about
how a brother and sister duo solve the mystery
of the disappearance of their cousin, Salim. This
week, we have been developing our own
theories on what happened to Salim and
following the various lines of enquiry. To help
us in our investigation, we have been trying to
‘get into the minds’ of the characters by writing in role. Our favourite activity was
writing haikus as Salim’s mother, Gloria.
In science, we have been learning about forces. This week we made links with our
history topic ‘crime and punishment’ by exploring what forces were at play when
criminals were stretched on the rack – very gruesome indeed!
Childrens’ Centre News
In our science lessons this week, we have been
researching different scientists and the impact they
have had in their particular field. The children have
thoroughly enjoyed looking into Stephen Hawkins,
Steve Jobs, Mary Leaky and Alexander Fleming and
producing their own presentations. We are looking
forward to having an afternoon where each child can
present and wow us with what they have
discovered.
We are also in the final stages of preparing for our
SATs (which start next Monday). We've worked really
hard throughout the whole of Year 6 and are ready to
show what we can do. We also can't wait for our end
of SATs Pizza Party next Thursday!
This term, in year 2, we are basing a lot of
our learning around the text ‘The
Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ because our
topic is ‘out to sea’. In design and
technology, we have been evaluating
different lunchbox designs. This week we
have identified the problems Mr Grinling
had with his lunchbox and came up with
our own designs to solve his problems. We
look forward to making them in our next
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the centres
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May
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10/05/2019
Kelvingrove
Newsletter Issue: 132 18/19
DIARY
HEADTEACHERS MESSAGE
I had a meeting with the new parent class representatives last week and hope that as many of you as possible will join the class WhatsApp group so that you can share information from the school and better improve our communications with you.
Please make sure, however, that if you have concerns regarding your child you speak directly with the teacher or a member of the senior leadership team, especially if it is to resolve a situation. This is not the role of parent class representatives.
It is SATs week for year 6 next week. They have worked incredibly hard in the build up and we wish them well.
Year 6 children must arrive at school on time. We will have a special free breakfast club running from Monday to Thursday next week for our year 6 pupils. Even if your son or daughter is unwell, if it is at all possible they should attend school, complete their test then go home afterwards. There is no option for children to complete tests on different days.
The following week some of our year 6 children are off to France for the week. We love to give our children an enriched experience where they can learn together in new and exciting ways. We know that all the children who go will represent the school in the best way possible and have a fun time. Thank you to the staff who give up their time to ensure this trip is a massive success.
CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS
What a picture, what a school photograph!
Our school photographer Vancols visited us on Wednesday to take class group photographs. The photos make wonderful souvenirs of your child’s happy memories of school life, as well as fabulous presents for family members.
The mounted or framed photos came in various sizes ranging in price from £7.75 to £12.50. We will be sending out order forms shortly with news of the ordering deadline. You will be able to pay with cash, card or cheque. Please note that you should enclose EXACT CASH ONLY as we are unable to provide change.
13
May KS2 SATs week
14
May Blue class to
Horniman Museum
17
May Year 6 to Wells Park
20
May
School journey to Chateau du Molay,
France
21
May Rising Stars to
Horniman Museum
22
May Reception pirate
picnic at Wells Park
23
May
Magenta & Orchid closed - polling
station
24
May Last day of half
term
03
Jun Children return to
school
14
Jun Year 6 transition
workshops
25
Jun
Jade Class to the Black Cultural
Archives
03
Jul
Reception to Year 1 transition meeting
9.10am
05
Jul School Journey to Nethercott Farm
10
Jul Year 6 play 2pm
11
Jul
Year 6 play 6pm (children to arrive
at 5.15pm)
16
Jul
Parents’ open evening 3.30-
6.00pm
18
Jul Year 6 disco 5pm - 7pm
19
Jul Year 6 leavers
assembly - a.m.
19
Jul
Last day of term Sch closes 2.30pm
NO CLUB XTRA
Preparations are underway for the summer fair on Friday 12th July. We are always looking for volunteers to help on the day and/or during the lead up. Let us know if you are free to help in any way. We are looking for bouncy castle operators and face painters; if you know of any please drop us an email. If you would like to run a stall drop us
an email with your ideas and we will get in touch with you. If you think your company can match fund please get in touch, and don’t forget to give your name and address to the office if you are new to the school and can have an estate agent board. Every board earns the school £10 and is zero cost and effort to you.
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This week Cobalt class has been learning about the Anglo-Saxon way of
life. We began by exploring the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain,
identifying how over time the Anglo-Saxons took control of most of
Britain. The children enjoyed sorting a range of historical events in to
chronological in order to create a timeline to understand the Anglo-
Saxon invasion in relation to other historical periods in time. We have
found it interesting to learn that we can still see the Anglo-Saxon
influence today with words such as cow, milk, cheese and the name of
places such as Essex, Banbury and Oxford. In art the children have
created fantastic sketches of insects from the work of Levon Biss.
As part of our ‘under the sea’ topic, we have been finding
out about pollution in the ocean. The children have made
some interesting comments about how we can look after
our seas. As part of the project, we have collected all of
the plastic used in our classroom over one week. The
children have used this plastic to make sea animals. Look
at this huge jellyfish!
We have also been reading the book ‘Tiddler’, and thinking
of inventive reasons as to why we were late to school, like
“Sorry I was late to school, I was eaten by a giant octopus!” In maths we have
used Bee-Bots to explore positional language. We then took this learning
outside on a giant obstacle course.
We have been very busy welcoming our new
friends in Scarlet class, who are all settling
in well at nursery. We have been reading
lots of stories by the author Eric Carle, especially
enjoying the stories of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy
Spider and The Mixed up Chameleon! We have looked at the life cycle of
the butterfly and the beauty of spider webs!
In Amber Class we are learning all about extraordinary
explorers and travel. The children have been learning
how to programme Bee-
Bots. They’ve had lots of
fun using step-by-step
programming to move
their Bee-Bots from one
place to another on their
maps.
This half term Jade class have been really enjoying our
topic ‘lights, camera, action’. We have loved writing
our hilarious and magnificent stories related to ‘It was
a Dark and Stormy Night’. We’ve also been doing well
in science learning about the sun’s light beams. Here
are some glasses we made.
By Ossian Tait
In Rising Stars we have started our
new topic in English, based on
Roald Dahl's 'George's Marvellous
Medicine'. So far we have looked in
detail at the wicked character of
Grandma, who is horrid to George
the moment he's left alone with her.
We came up with some truly horrid
adjectives to describe her: mean, ugly, nasty, rude, selfish, grumpy, grizzly...
We also had fun re-enacting the horrible things she says to George: "Fetch
me a cup of tea, now!", "You should eat more cabbage!", "Don't grow up,
grow down instead!" Later in the week we will find out how George plans to
get his own back!