Spring Term

Newsletter 1

Important Dates

10th-14th Feb Years 5 and 6 Bikeability Week

12th-13th Feb FS Parent Consultations

13th February PA Cake and Uniform Sale

14th February PA Non-Uniform Day

17th-21st February Half-Term

27th February Year 6 Assembly

5th March World Book Day

24th-25th March Years 3 &4 Performances

30th March-3rd

April

Arts Theme Week

2nd April PA Cake and Uniform Sale

3rd April Spring Term ends 1:30

20th April Summer Term starts

Head’s lines…

Camp Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 5PG Tel: 01727 851056 Fax: 01727 855959 www.camp.herts.sch.uk

It was quite appropriate that the start of the new

year saw lots of new learning happening in

school. All Year groups have immersed

themselves in their new topics ranging from

Egyptians to World War 2. Nursery and

Reception have also been welcoming in visitors

from the community who all help us in some way

which links to their new topic. Year 3 have

started their weekly swimming lessons at

Westminster Lodge, another new and exciting

experience for them.

Reception parents have been in school for the

next Building Blocks session and Year 2 parents

joined us on Thursday for class assembly. We are

also very grateful to the parents who turn up

each week to hear readers or to cover an early

morning or after school slot in the library. There

are a couple of slots that we need to cover if

anyone else would like to be involved and I am

still looking for a family who are up for keeping

the pond in order—full training provided! Please

do let the office now if you can help and we will

get the necessary paperwork underway.

Art is one of our priority areas this year in school

and it is so lovely for that to be reflected in this

newsletter. The children are feeling much more

confident in their developing skills, in drawing

and painting, and we also have our Arts theme

week at the end of this term to look forward to.

Sharon Barton

Please can we remind everyone that Camp School is a “mobile phone free zone.” Phones are not

permitted anywhere within the school, this is for the safety and privacy of the children and their

learning environment.

Year 2 treated us to the first class assembly of 2020. They shared their photos of themselves as astronauts

reaching their goals, which they created using Purple Mash. They also shared space facts, recited a

poem and sang a funny song about the planets.

YEAR 2 Journey to Space

Chinese New Year

The children in Nursery and Reception have been

celebrating Chinese New Year with some cooking.

Year 1 marked the Year of the Rat by working with

Mrs Downey to produce some Chinese Characters

using gold paint pens.

YEAR 4 ART

The Year 4 children have been focussing on self

-portraits in their art lessons. They have used

different shades of the same colour to express

an emotion. It has been combined with Design

and Technology to build their own frames. All

of the children were able to saw, glue and

paint their wooden frames.

THE BLITZ!

Years 5 and 6 have been very invested in their

WWII topic this term. They have been learning

about The Blitz and how many children were

evacuated to the country side for their own

safety. Year 5 had a very exciting morning where

they re-enacted an evacuation complete with

air raid sirens. A small group of children had to

leave immediately to complete their work in the

safety of the “bomb shelter.” They then wrote a

detailed news report on what happened in The

Blitz from different perspectives.

Thank you again to all of our parents and carers for responding so well to our new system of drop-off and

pick-up for after school clubs. Patience with new arrangements is always very much appreciated.

PASTELS AND WATER-

COLOURS IN YEAR 4

The children used water colour techniques,

pastels and cling-film. Elodie said, “We used oil

pastels to draw the picture, then covered it in

watery paint, then put the cling-film on the wet

paint to make a pattern.”

YEAR 6 GOES TO

VICARAGE ROAD!

The photo above shows Year 6 children

participating in the 2020 Premier League Primary

Stars Tournament. They had a very exciting day

competing against other Hertfordshire Schools in

their 4G training ground in London Colney. It was

a great success, with the team coming 3rd in

their group and they even got a chance to meet

Watford and English National team player

Nathaniel Chalobah.

Sports events have kept lots of the older children

busy in the last couple of weeks—football, indoor

athletics and a cross country event last Saturday.

Year 4 have also been perfecting their speed

stacking skills and are off to compete in a

competition on Wednesday. We wish them lots

of luck!