Ash Class

Beech Class Acer Class

13th March 2020

Grange Academy World Book Week

Acer class were very excited to buy books at the book sale on World Book Day. They enjoyed the magic carpet ride to hear stories from around the world by the story teller. Josh: I liked ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ book. I bought it at the book sale. Gabriel: I liked the story teller

in the library. It was funny because the stories were making me laugh! We were sat on a magic carpet! Max: I bought a ship book and another one at the book sale. Isaiah: I liked the flags. It is cold in Peru. We put our seatbelts on and the magic carpet flew away! I bought a book called ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ and ‘Can’t you sleep little bear.’ Allen: I saw a book called ‘Harry speaks French’ and now I speak French! Bonjour! Ben: I’ve got ‘Winnie’s New Computer’ from the book sale. I enjoyed making the book marks. Lolu: I have got a ‘Funny Bones’ book. It is skeletons and a stick for the dog.

Oskar: I listened to the story teller lady on Friday. The story was about a witch – she was scary but it was a happy ending. Quintin: The story teller got us to choose a flag, then she made the story about that. I chose Russia – it was exciting. Kade: Logan told us a creepy story about 3 adopted children, it was exciting. He’s a good story teller. Alexis: We were in the library listening to the story teller lady. We sat on the floor to listen. Kailey: I have an information book on Egypt. I like reading about that and learning new

things. Dawid: I like reading books about different football players and their teams. I like to find out about them. Logan: I dressed up as Asirif, the good angel from ‘Good Omens’ by Terry Pratchett. I watched the adaptations on Prime first but I liked it so much I bought the book which I have just started reading. Mrs Mielke said she will find me more Terry Pratchett books as she thinks they’re great too. Kyle: I like sports books about football, I like to learn about different football teams.

Learning to read is one of the most important things your child will learn at our school. Everything else depends on it, so we put as much energy as we possibly can into making sure that every single child learns to read at Grange. The ability to read is a key life skill. As a school we use a selection of strategies to enable children to become skilled readers. Phonics is a tool we teach to help children learn to read but it is by no means the only skill children require to be fluent readers. Your child’s reading experience is much

more than the reading book which comes home from school. Reading is happening all the time in the classroom. It is taught in specific reading and English lessons, but children are practising and using their ‘reading’ constantly across all subjects too.

We want your child to love reading – and to want to read for themselves. This is why we work hard to make sure children develop a love of books as well as simply learning to read. Last week at Grange we celebrated a week of reading culminating in a Book day. Events throughout the week were based round reading including different members of staff (office staff, cleaners, LSAs, teachers) reading a variety of stories to pupils across the school. We also had visiting story teller who read cultural stories to all our pupils and to parents/carers and their children at end of the week. Have a read of the wonderful accounts in this week’s newsletter. Please read frequently with your children, asking them questions whilst they read and encouraging them to read things round the house, out in the community etc.

Miss Assink—Head of School

Ash class listened to lots of stories during world book week. We have enjoyed listening to We’re going on a bear hunt and The hungry Caterpillar. We liked seeing our teachers dress up on Friday. Carter: Bonjour!

Elder class have been listening to stories and watching animated stories from around the world. They have enjoyed all the different stories and recognised themes that are common in traditional tales. Thamid: I enjoyed the story teller and how she told the stories more than watching stories on the screen. She made the stories funny. Jazmin: Right now I’m reading a story called ‘The goose that laid the golden egg.’ I read through the whole book, it was funny, I liked the book I want to read it again. The story teller was using her imagination and she was making us use our imagination. When I was listening to the stories it was interesting, our stories took us to Mexico and Bolivia.

Kate: I dressed up as ‘The Cat in the Hat’, I wore a tall hat that was red and white, I also wore a large red bowtie. ‘The Cat in the Hat’ is my favourite book. Ahlima: We listened to the story teller who told us 2 stories, she was so funny, she made some silly sounds, which made me laugh. I liked the magic in the stories. I liked sitting on the magic carpet. Georgina: I liked sitting on the magic carpet, it made me feel like Aladdin, like I was in a movie. I would like to hear more stories from the storyteller. I liked ‘The three sisters’ story more, I also heard another ‘three sisters’ story in the morning in class. The story I heard in class the sisters were not nice to each other, in the storytellers story the sisters looked out for each other. I enjoyed the stories that Ms Idris has been reading to us in class Jo: For World Book day we had to dress up in clothes celebrating our own culture or from a different culture. I dressed up as a smart English lady. At break time I went to listen to a story in Mrs Coles room, I enjoyed listening to Ali Baba and the 40 thieves.

Elder Class

Pine

Class

Alex W: I wrote a character profile on a book called ‘The Railway Cat’. His name was Alfie and he lives at Charter train station. His

interest is volunteering to look after things at the station. I would like to be friends with Alfie because he is joyful. Harry: At lunchtime I told the story of ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson to the primary children on the playground. It was kinda fun! Ewan: On World Book Day I did my own reading marathon. I read 64 pages of a book called ‘Goosebumps’ by R .L. Stine, in 40 minutes and I am so proud of myself. Daniela: I dressed up as a French girl on World Book Day. I wrote about ‘James and the Giant Peach’ and his adventure to New York. Joshua: My friend Harry told a fabulous story about ‘The Gruffalo’ without the book! It came from his memory, he must of read it lots of times to remember it. Irfanul: I went on a magic carpet and travelled to different countries and listened to stories. Alex R: I liked the story called ‘Pipers Boots’. It was gruesome. Andreeas: I listened to Harry read the story of ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson and I cannot believe he remembered the story without reading from a book. Jamie: I thought World Book Day was fun listening to interesting stories on a magic carpet. I love reading stories, it’s one of my favourite things.

Hazel Class

This week we have been celebrating book week. We have listened to stories read by staff at break and lunch times. We enjoyed hearing some very exciting stories from around the world from a storyteller with a magic carpet. We even had our own

storyteller princess when Rebecca read a story during form time on Friday. Callum: I liked coming into school in mufti for World Book Day. I liked the stories some were funny and some were scary. Josiah: I enjoyed doing art this week, I liked coming in in mufti for World Book Day. RJ: I really enjoyed seeing the story teller acting out the adventure on our magic carpet. Abiah: I enjoyed World Book Day because we were allowed to wear mufti, my favourite story was the story told by the storyteller about the Russian witch. Rebecca: I dressed up as a princess, I read the whole class the story ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in form time. Chiara: I enjoyed when the lady told us a story it was interesting and there were funny parts. I enjoyed laughing and smiling. I also enjoyed Rebecca reading us a story in form time she was dressed up. Giovanni: I didn’t really enjoy all of World Book Day because I didn’t want to dress up. I did enjoy coming to school in mufti though. TJ: I enjoyed World Book Day because Mr Eden read us a ghost story and it was really good. Kieran: I enjoyed listening to the stories in the library. The stories were from around the world and they were funny.

Elm Class

Tommy: On World Book Day a storyteller came in, also we were allowed to wear cultural clothing. Jaiden : On Friday we had World Book Day, we came in non-uniform. In the morning we listened to a storyteller that came into school. Chloe: We had to come in cultural clothing theme. We had a storyteller in to tell us a story. Jessica: On Friday was World Book Day, we had to come in cultural clothing, it was really fun and exciting. I enjoyed dressing up and the story telling. Rio: I like coming to School in my own clothes. There were lots of stories told by lots of staff during the week. Leon: World Book Day was OK, It was a bit boring but it was alright to have a different day with some different things to do. Pietro: A lady came in to read us some stories, it was OK but I thought some of the stories were a bit childish. Alfie: We got to come into school wearing mufti which is good. A storyteller came into school to tell us stories, she also brought a carpet or in her words ‘a floating carpet’. Some people thought this was a bit strange, I agree it was a bit.

Sycamore Class

Ashlee: I came to World Book Day dressed as a cowgirl from Texas. I liked Miss Friggens story best as it was about her trip to China. I liked that we got to listen to a real story teller who had a magic carpet. I liked it when she said ‘Rise Carpet, Rise!’ Oumar: On World Book Day I wore my African clothes. We got to listen to a story teller who told us a Russian story

about a witch. Ethan: It was a really sunny day and I liked that we celebrated books and stories and cultures. I liked when the story teller told us about the witch’s house that had chicken legs. Taylon: I wore my suit and bowtie and came to World Book Day as 007, James Bond. I liked the story with the chicken leg house and the witch called Baba Yaga. Bradley: I came to World Book day as a Chinese man and wore my red costume. My favourite part of World Book Day was the story teller and I really enjoyed when we used our imagination to fly on the magic carpet. Sohaib: I liked wearing my school uniform to World Book Day as I represented Grange Academy. I liked it when we used our imagination with the story teller. Mr Kilcoyne was dressed up as an Egyptian. Tamsin: I liked wearing my green Irish Mickey Mouse top because it was mufti day for World Book Day. I liked the different story telling by different staff. My favourite story was about the witch with the chicken leg house. Chloe: The funniest story that I liked was by Ms Charnock who told us a story about a crafty chameleon. The costume I wore for World Book Day was a roman from Horrible Histories. Kirsty: I didn’t come dressed in a cultural costume, I wore my Adidas tracksuit. I liked the story with the magic flying carpet where we went to India and to Russia. Allan: I liked the story about Baba Yaga the witch and I liked coming to school in my own clothes rather than wearing school uniform.

Walnut Class

We came into school in mufti which was cool because Lucas was a Spanish Matador and

Kaschan was a Chinese dragon. During the morning, Elm and Willow Class got to visit Spain and Australia! We heard about the Medio Pollito; a Spanish folktale about the origin of the rooster on a weather vane. He was a half-chick who went on lots of adventures, but because he was too selfish to help others he ended up on a rooftop, being spun by the wind. It is a tale used to explain the origin of the chicken on a weather vane. We had to make sure we were safe when the carpet was flying and we got to join in with the actions and repeated words in the story. What a fun morning! At the end of the day, some of us got to go back to see Terri with our mums and dads to hear a story.

Ben – I loved the carpet and the fun stories. It was overdramatic and it made me laugh. I remember Tidalik and Medio Pollito. Medio Pollito was better because it was about a mean little chick. Harry – I liked when Tiddalik drank all the water because it was very funny. Terri made it funny because she did like

a funny story and danced. I listened to Mrs Idris’ story at break time about something rich man and poor man. I cant remember the name but it was a good story. The poor man got rich because there was all the gold and rubies in the cave. The rich guys tried to get revenge but it didn’t work. Baron – we got on the carpet. We had to pretend to fly to Australia and Spain. We saw lots of pictures. The lady was doing sign language. Jake – we went on a flying carpet. It was a little bit comfortable but it was hurting my butt a little bit! The stories were a little bit funny. I liked them both. Lucas – I liked the Spain. I dress up. Fun. Mummy came for a story too. Kaschan – I liked being in dress up with face paints because my mummy is a good artist and I looked cool. It was fun to go on the carpet and we joined in good. Ashantey – I came dressed as a goth. I wore black leggings and a different coloured shirt. I liked listening to lots of stories but I didn’t like when everyone shouted to join in. Sanah – It was good on World Book Day because I liked it when the lady came to read a story because she was really funny. I liked the Tidalik one because when the lady was telling it I actually fell over laughing. She was like pretending to have her mouth full and then turning around to ignore us!

Maple Class

Max: We saw Mario Perito, that was the chickens. We made a den in class to look at our books in. Kaiden: The lady had a magic carpet, we had to put our seatbelts on. We saw a chicken, frog and goat on the adventure. Tristan: I liked the story of the frog when we were on the magic carpet. Toby: I have heard lots of stories. I looked at books outside. Hannah: The chicken in the story was laughing. I read stories in the den to my friends and the bears. Kajetan: I listened to stories in the den with my friends. Kaleem: Hearing the magic carpet story was fun. I dressed up as a cricket player. Ashlee read us a story in class. Courtney: I made a bookmark and listened to stories. We made dens under the tables to look at books in. Robert: I dressed up as Freddie the Bear. Ruby: One of the stories I heard was about a big giant frog that drank all of the water from the lakes. I laid down in the den and looked at books with my friend.

Willow Class

Kelsey: I came to Miss Assink and Mr Eden’s story at lunchtime. Miss Assink told a story from

South Africa. Mr Eden read us ‘The Lady of Shallott.’ Skye: I listen to Mr Eden’s story as well; it was really good because it was mysterious. James: The story teller who came was quite unique. She did many different stories from lots of different places around the world. One was from Bolivia in South America. Darren-Lee: The storyteller put a lot of energy into the stories. She was acting it out and using different voices. Ben: Mrs Porter read us a story in Food Tech. It was about an enormous turnip. I thought it was a bit daft! Lex: I went to hear Mr Eden’s story one lunchtime. I liked the fact that it was a poem too. April: I really enjoyed having stories told to me. It was good to hear different people reading to us. Liked the one from South Africa about the animals.

Cedar Class

Parvir: we got to see a story teller she told us a story about a mad wizard who stole ladies form their bedrooms. Patryk: I got to sit on a magic carpet and we flew around the world. Tino: we were told a story about Mexico. Alex: we learnt about an armadillo that comes from Bolivia. Daniel: we went into the library and had a story it was good.

Palm Class

Chibunna: The half a chicken story was a little bit mean. It was from Spain. I was (dressed as) a golden tiger. I retold the Mole story. I make some words of the mole and I got a stamp because My writing was good. Ibrahim: I liked the dragon story because he scared the knights and was at the bottom of the palace. France. Ashmit: I for my mum, yeah I liked it. It was silly. Aishah: (I liked) both! Jacob: The dragon one because of the plushee. I was dressed up as Mario. Ryan: The magic carpet story we need to pull the bag. (Ryan got to choose from the sack of flags, he pulled out France.) Noah: (‘My Mum Loves me Best of All’ chant that ended in a raspberry) I liked that part. I was wearing my good shirt.

Oak Class

Naomi: The storyteller had a magic carpet. It took us to different countries. I wore clothes for England. Jasmine: I bought 101 Dalmatians and a story about a kind cat from the book sale. I read the story about the cat to the class. We dressed up but I don’t know what I dressed up as. I designed a bookmark I did hearts, patterns and I think flowers. My favourite story was the chicken one from Spain. Jeffrey: I sat on the magic carpet. We had to use our imagination because we didn’t fly. We had to put our finger in our ear and turned it up (our imagination). There was a story about a dragon and he went ROAR!

Keith: I dressed up as French person and I had a moustache. Everyone was dressing up as French and Mexico and UK and Spain and Japanese. The storyteller told us stories from Spain and French. It was a fun time. Kieran: I guessed the Spain flag. Amy: I dressed as a Rubik’s Cube from London.

Corona Virus Update

The following information is provided by the Department of Education and Public Health. washing your hands often - with soap and water, or use alcohol sanitiser if handwashing facilities are not

available. This is particularly important after taking public transport covering your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throwing the tissue in a bin. See Catch it, Bin it, Kill it people who feel unwell should stay at home and should not attend work or any education or childcare setting pupils, students, staff and visitors should wash their hands: before leaving home on arrival at school after using the toilet after breaks and sporting activities before food preparation before eating any food, including snacks before leaving school use an alcohol-based hand sanitiser that contains at least 60% alcohol if soap and water are not available avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands avoid close contact with people who are unwell clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces if you are worried about your symptoms or those of a child or colleague, please call NHS 111. Do not go directly to your GP or other healthcare environment. You may also find this website useful for explaining Coronavirus to young people. https://e-bug.eu/

Grange Diary Dates

Sign of the Week

Please talk to your children about the articles each week.

Article 25 If you live in care or in other situations

away from home, you have the right to have these living arrangements looked at regularly to see if they are the most

appropriate.

Grange Academy have introduced a British Sign Language sign of the week. Please practice this with your children.

You will find this information on our website www.grange.beds.sch.uk follow the links Our School, British Sign Language. Each week there will be a new link for the sign and a

image and video on who to sign it. The sign for week w/c 13th March 2020 is: lightning

https://www.signbsl.com/sign/lightning

Grange Values

At Grange Academy all staff and pupils celebrate the main values of Belong, Believe and Achieve. Each fortnight the whole school will focus on one of the values under these headings. This term we will be exploring all of the values that help us to feel that

we Believe in the school community. The value for w/c 16th March 2020 is reflection

Tommy (Sycamore): Tommy has been practicing his final assessment dishes in FT, he has been reflecting on what went well and how he can improve his dishes each time he has practiced. Amy (Maple): Amy has shown great determination to solve the

Rubik Cube by watching videos for many hours over the weekend. She can now solve the cube.

Palm Class: Palm class have been reflecting on their personal hygiene routines and their learning and reporting back the

improvements they have made. I am very proud of them. Mrs Blair

Each week a pupil at Grange Academy will give us their thoughts and comments on the Article of the Week.

Kaschan (Elm) You must have water, food, a bed and clothes. The house must keep you dry

and safe.

UNICEF: Rights Respecting Schools Award

Article of the Week

Mother’s Day shop Thursday 19th March 2020

Time to be confirmed

End of Term Friday 4th April 2020

Pupils Return to School Tuesday 21st April 2020

Attendance

The highest class this week was Palm with 98.8% .

Thank you to all parents, students and staff who bought books on World Book Day. We raised

£26.30 which will go to Water Aid.